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Asia Continent Map

l’Asie divisée en ses principaux Etats. With large title-cartouche. Continent map by Jean Janvier. Engraving colored in outline. Paris, Lattré, c. 1770. 31.4 x 45.9 cm.

Continent  map. – In the center Beijing, a little west of the center

Tibet (Detail of continent map of Asia)

“Petit Tibet” + “Grand Tibet”.

In the center Beijing, a little west of the center “Petit Tibet” + “Grand Tibet”. Otherwise with Arabia – Turkey – Persia – Turkmenistan – Uzbekistan – Siberia – Mongolia – China – Japan – India – Indonesia – Sunda Islands – Borneo – Sumatra – Moluccas . – Relating to the Philippines with the interesting, but erroneous note

Philippines (Detail of continent map of Asia)

“ Ces  Isles  ont  etée  decouvertes  par  Magellan  en  1520 ” 

instead  of  March  1521 .

More eastwards the entries “I(sle) Guan sans eau” and “Isles vues par Magellan”. – Westwards up to the Red Sea. – Typographic watermark.
Offer no. 15,224 / EUR  345. / export price EUR  328. (c. US$ 457.) + shipping

Japan - Kamchatka - Bering Island (Detail of continent map of Asia)
Japan – Kamchatka – Bering Island


„ Danke für den wunderbaren (Ridinger-)Scan … der meine Argumentation zur Verwechslung in der Staffierung der Porzellane dokumentarisch bestens belegt. Darf ich um Ihre Zustimmung bitten, ihn in meiner Arbeit zeigen zu dürfen? “

(Herr J. R., 7. Juni 2004)