Lot 13
Lot 13
Tabula Tartariae et majoris partis Regni Chinae. Amsterdam: [c. 1680].

FREDERICK DE WIT (1629/30-1706)

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Tabula Tartariae et majoris partis Regni Chinae. Amsterdam: [c. 1680].

FREDERICK DE WIT (1629/30-1706)

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DE WIT, Frederick (1629/30-1706). Tabula Tartariae et majoris partis Regni Chinae. Amsterdam: [c. 1680].

Double-page engraved map, fully coloured by a contemporary hand, title within rococo cartouche with two putti to upper right-hand side, compass rose in the Arctic Sea, the whole stretching from the Caspian Sea through China and to Japan in the east, with Yedso shown to the north of Japan according to the voyages of De Vries, eastern Russia truncated without Kamchatka, the Great Wall prominently shown, the mythical 'Chiammay Lacus' lying between China and India depicted with its five major rivers, 437 x 545mm. (plate mark), 451 x 570mm. (sheet)

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