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Auction: 15040 - Antique Maps sale during the International Exhibition
Lot: 43

Maps
China
1655 Quangsi Imperii Sinarum Provincia Decimatertia, 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. The map shows the province of Kwangsi with the Nan Mountains to the north and the Tropic of Cancer as a thick red line. Gucheu (Wuchow) to the east and Nanning to the south. The elaborate cartouche features two archers and two swordsmen.

Usual reinforcement on central fold and some minor soiling. Photo

Estimate
SG$600 to SG$800