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Auction: 15040 - Antique Maps sale during the International Exhibition
Lot: 33

Maps
China
1655 Xansi Imperii Sinarum Provincia Secunda, by Johannes Blaeu; 19 x 15½ inches with border trimmed to about three inches, old coloured.

Copper engraving on stout wove paper. From "Novus Atlas Sinensis a Martino Martinio Soc. Iesu Descriptus ...", Amsterdam; This map of Shansi province shows the Great Wall running along the upper segment, the city of Taiyuen (Taiyanfu). The scale cartouche with astronomer and globe, the title cartouche with ornamental surround.

Central reinforcement and some minor soiling. Photo

Estimate
SG$800 to SG$900