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Chungguk-do
Chungguk-do [Map of China] taken from a Korean printed Ch’onha chido [Atlas of all under Heaven] which is a 19th century version of the traditional Korean atlas produce...
Place & Date: Korea, ca. 1820
China Veteribus Sinarum Regio.
Based on Jesuit surveys, the map represents the next major revision in the cartography of China after Ortelius' 1584 map. Korea, however, is still an island, and Japan co...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Carte la plus generale et qui comprend la Chine, la Tartarie chinoise et le Thibet. . .
With a quite elaborately pictorial cartouche, engraved by G.Kondet. Very detailed map of China, Tibet and Korea.Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d' Anville (1697-1782), French c...
Place & Date: The Hague, 1737
La Chine d'Athanase Kirchere de la compagnie de Jesus, illustrée de plusieurs monuments tant sacrés que profanes et de quantité de recherches de la nature. . .
Athanasius Kircher, S.J., (1601 or 1602-1680) was a 17th-century German Jesuit scholar who published around 40 works, most notably in the fields of oriental studies, geol...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1670
Il regno della China detto presentente Catay e Magnin. . .
A rare and decorative Italian map of China and Japan, with Japan closely modelled on the indented Cardim outline and Hokkaido, called Yuppi , shown as an Asian peninsula....
Place & Date: Rome, 1682
Tabula Superioris Indiae & Tartariae maioris. (Modern Map of China, Japan, etc.)
Important map extending from Tartary in the north, to "Prov. Bocat" (Cambodia) in the south. "Tebet" is shown prominently, as is "Zinpangri"...
Place & Date: Vienne, 1541
Chinae, olim Sinarum regionis. . .
The first printed map of China. It is signed by Ludovico Georgio, whose real name was Luis Jorge de Barbuda. He was a Portuguese Jesuit cartographer and besides that a sp...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Het gezandtschap der Neerlandtsche Oost-Indische Compagnie, aan den grooten Tartarischen Cham, Den tegenwoordigen Keizer van China. . .
Third edition of this beautifully illustrated work on China. The first edition was published in 1665.Jan Nieuhof was a "Dutch traveler and adventurer" (1618-72)...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, W. Waasberge, 1693
Chinae, olim Sinarum Regionis, nova descriptio. Auctore Ludovico Georgio.
The first map of China ever to appear in a Western atlas, west to the top. The first state without "las Philiooinas" somewhere in 1587 added to the plate. When ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1584
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Morokoshi Meisho Zue [Illustrated Description of Famous Sites of China].
Published in Osaka, Kawachiya Genhichiro, et al. [8 book sellers], slightly later issue but apparently in Edo period, using all the same woodblocks of original first edit...
Place & Date: Osaka, Edo, slightly later than Bunka 3, year of the tiger - 1806