Map
Verso of Map
- Blaeu, Willem Janszoon, 1571-1638
- Blaeu, Joan, 1596-1673
- J. et C. Blaeu
- between 1643 and 1650
Joan Blaeu's attractive map of China, Japan and Korea was first printed in 1635. This impression was taken from the second French edition, "Le Theatre du Monde, ou, Nouvel Atlas" (1640). It includes a dedication to Theodore Bas, a Director of the Dutch East India Company. This is the first of two maps of China published by Blaeu, later superceded by the Martini map in the "Atlas Sinensis" in 1655.
- Scale [ca. 1:11,750,000]
- Relief shown pictorially
- Map first printed in 1635
- Dedication to D. Theodoro Bas signed "Guiljelmus et Johannes Blaeu"
- Appears in the authors' Le theatre du monde, ou, Nouvel atlas. 2nd ed. A Amsterdam : chez Iean & Corneille Blaeu, 1640. Vol. 2, p. 6
- Cartouches: title in upper right corner with 2 figures; dedication in lower right corner with coat of arms
- G7820 1643 .B55
- China
- Japan
- Korea
- East Asia
- 中國
- Latin
- 1 map : hand col. ; 43 x 51 cm
- 10.14711/spcol/b535871
- https://digitalcollections.hkust.edu.hk/Detail/objects/b535871