Author: Petrus Kaerius
Publisher: Cornelis Claesz, translated by I. de la Haye.
Year: 1600 [1598]
Size: 8 x 12 cm
Reference: Quirino, p. 79, but 1606; Koeman Lan 3
China
₱33,900.00
In Stock
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Description
hand-coloured copper engraving. verso: Description de la Chine with French text.
VERY RARE map from an early French edition (only 2 years after the first edition) of ‘Caert-Thresoor’, p. 51/52 (verso). Shows China, its Great Wall, and South East Asia including a complete Philippines, with one of the earliest existing depictions of the non-existing island San Juan, East of Mindanao.
Condition
with minor water stains and foxing, general paper toning due to age but still in very good condition.
