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Auction: 15040 - Antique Maps sale during the International Exhibition
Lot: 37

Maps
China
1655 Suchuen Imperii Sinarum Provincia Sexta, by Johannes Blaeu; 19 x 16 inches with border trimmed to about three inches, hand coloured.

Copper engraving on stout wove paper. From "Novus Atlas Sinensis a Martino Martinio Soc. Iesu Descriptus ...", Amsterdam; This map of Szechwan includes the cities of Mahu, Siucheu, Chungking, Chingtu, Xunking and Paoning; the two cartouches feature colloquial characters.

With the central reinforcement and tear in the upper margin. Photo

Estimate
SG$1,400 to SG$1,600