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Auction: 15040 - Antique Maps sale during the International Exhibition
Lot: 44

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

Copper engraving on stout wove pape. From "Novus Atlas Sinensis a Martino Martinio Soc. Iesu Descriptus ...", Amsterdam. The map shows the province of Kweichow showing the cities of Kweiyang, Liping and others. Two cartouches, the scale surrounded by two cherubs and the title with swordsman, crossbowman and another.

Usual central reinforcement; fine. Photo

Estimate
SG$600 to SG$800