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[WELLS, Edward (1667-1727).] Present Asia distinguisht into its general divisions or countries. Oxford: [1700 or later].
This striking map of Asia depicts the continent in beautiful detail from the Mediterranean Sea in the west to Japan in the east. Central Asian geography is richly defined with rivers, deltas, cities, lakes and mountain ranges. Lake Chimay, a mythical lake believed to be the source of the river system in Southeast Asia, is located north of Burma. An undefined north-west America is labelled ‘Companies Land’, which is probably as a result of mis-identified mappings of the Kurin Islands discovered by Maerten de Vries and Cornelis Jansz Coen in 1643. The map was originally published in A New Sett of Maps Both of Antient and Present Geography by Edward Wells (1667-1727), who dedicated the atlas to a young Duke of Gloucester, son of the future Queen Anne, then aged 11 and studying at Oxford.
Double-page engraved map by Michael Burghers, coloured in outline by a contemporary hand, dedication to William, Duke of Gloucester to upper left, title and scale to upper right, all three within rococo cartouches, most of Siberia left blank and labelled ‘Parts as yet undiscovered’, coastline and islands to east of New Guinea emerging from the Pacific, the Great Wall shown north of Peking, 590 x 448mm (sheet).
This striking map of Asia depicts the continent in beautiful detail from the Mediterranean Sea in the west to Japan in the east. Central Asian geography is richly defined with rivers, deltas, cities, lakes and mountain ranges. Lake Chimay, a mythical lake believed to be the source of the river system in Southeast Asia, is located north of Burma. An undefined north-west America is labelled ‘Companies Land’, which is probably as a result of mis-identified mappings of the Kurin Islands discovered by Maerten de Vries and Cornelis Jansz Coen in 1643. The map was originally published in A New Sett of Maps Both of Antient and Present Geography by Edward Wells (1667-1727), who dedicated the atlas to a young Duke of Gloucester, son of the future Queen Anne, then aged 11 and studying at Oxford.
Double-page engraved map by Michael Burghers, coloured in outline by a contemporary hand, dedication to William, Duke of Gloucester to upper left, title and scale to upper right, all three within rococo cartouches, most of Siberia left blank and labelled ‘Parts as yet undiscovered’, coastline and islands to east of New Guinea emerging from the Pacific, the Great Wall shown north of Peking, 590 x 448mm (sheet).
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