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JOANNES BLAEU (1596-1673) AND MARTINUS MARTINI (1614-1661)
Theatrum Orbis Terrarum sive Novus Atlas pars sexta. Novus Atlas Sinensis. [Amsterdam: 1655]. 2° (514 x 338mm). Hand-coloured engraved architectural title, 17 hand-coloured engraved double-page maps, Latin text with woodcut initials, partly printed in double column. (Some browning throughout to text block, a few text leaves more heavily browned and spotted, occasional light spotting to maps.) Contemporary panelled vellum gilt, green silk ties, gilt edges (some splits to spine, one tie defective), modern morocco backed cloth box. Provenance: 17th-century manuscript title label on upper cover.
FIRST LATIN EDITION OF THE FIRST EUROPEAN ATLAS OF CHINA. Martini based his highly regarded survey on the Ming revision of the Yü t'u, unlike d'Anville's atlas which used Jesuit surveys. D'Anville notes in his Mémoire: 'Martini made use of the maps which the Chinese possessed at the time. They do great honour to that nation and make them superior in this connection to any other Asian people' (pp. 25-26; quoted in Lust). The hand-coloured double-page maps consist of a general map of China, 15 maps of the provinces, and a map of Japan. This Atlas, published as part VI of Blaeu's Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, also includes Golius' 'De Regno Catayo Additamentum' and Martini's 'De Bello Tartarico Historia'. Cordier 182; Koeman I, Bl 53; Lust 160.
Theatrum Orbis Terrarum sive Novus Atlas pars sexta. Novus Atlas Sinensis. [Amsterdam: 1655]. 2° (514 x 338mm). Hand-coloured engraved architectural title, 17 hand-coloured engraved double-page maps, Latin text with woodcut initials, partly printed in double column. (Some browning throughout to text block, a few text leaves more heavily browned and spotted, occasional light spotting to maps.) Contemporary panelled vellum gilt, green silk ties, gilt edges (some splits to spine, one tie defective), modern morocco backed cloth box. Provenance: 17th-century manuscript title label on upper cover.
FIRST LATIN EDITION OF THE FIRST EUROPEAN ATLAS OF CHINA. Martini based his highly regarded survey on the Ming revision of the Yü t'u, unlike d'Anville's atlas which used Jesuit surveys. D'Anville notes in his Mémoire: 'Martini made use of the maps which the Chinese possessed at the time. They do great honour to that nation and make them superior in this connection to any other Asian people' (pp. 25-26; quoted in Lust). The hand-coloured double-page maps consist of a general map of China, 15 maps of the provinces, and a map of Japan. This Atlas, published as part VI of Blaeu's Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, also includes Golius' 'De Regno Catayo Additamentum' and Martini's 'De Bello Tartarico Historia'. Cordier 182; Koeman I, Bl 53; Lust 160.
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