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Auction: 15040 - Antique Maps sale during the International Exhibition
Lot: 42

Maps
China
1655 Quantung Imperii Sinarum Provincia Duodecima, by Johannes Blaeu; 19½ x 16 inches with nearly three inch border, old coloured.

Copper engraving on stout wove paper. From "Novus Atlas Sinensis a Martino Martinio Soc. Iesu Descriptus ...", Amsterdam. A map showing the multiple island coastline with the important island of Hainan, showing the Tropic of Cancer as a red line, the major city of Quangcheu (Canton), the Island of Macao with it's church and the peninsula and islands of Hong Kong. The cartouche features a woman walking and a man attending lotus flowers.

With the usual vertical reinforcement; there is some minor ageing, mostly confined to the reverse. A very popular and important map. Photo

Estimate
SG$5,000 to SG$6,000