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How European maps of China helped paint a picture of the Middle Kingdom during the age of exploration

A new book containing reproductions of 127 printed European maps of Ming and Qing China from 1584 to 1735 reveals how they helped paint a reasonably accurate picture of the Middle Kingdom for the first time.

Kaisei shinpan bankoku meisai zenzu. /萬國明細全圖, 改正新版 / Complete, Detailed World Map, Revised and Updated.: Geographicus Rare Antique Maps

Regni Sinae Vel Sinae Propriae Mappa et Descriptio Geographica.: Geographicus Rare Antique Maps

Antique Maps of China, Japan and Korea. Gallery of authentic historic and rare maps of China, Japan, Korea (Corea) from the 16th to the 19th centuries.

Nouvelle Carte des decouvertes Faites Par Des Vaisseaux Russiens Aux Côtes Inconnues de L'Amerique Septentrionale Avec Les Pais Adiacents.: Geographicus Rare Antique Maps

NouvelleCarteDecouvertes-muller-1766 $1,900.00 Title Nouvelle Carte des decouvertes Faites Par Des Vaisseaux Russiens Aux Côtes Inconnues de L Amerique Septentrionale Avec Les Pais Adiacents.   1766 (dated)         1 : 14000000 Description A beautiful example of 1766 example of Gerhard Friedrich Müller s important map of the Pacific Northwest, Alaska, the Bering Strait and Siberia, here in its rare Dutch second edition. Issued after the seminal explorations of Vitus Bering (1733 - 1743) on the Asia side of his namesake strait, but before the voyages of Captain James Cook similarly mapped the American side of the Bering Strait, this map is a smorgasbord of cartographic speculation – such as the exceptionally fine delineation of Friedrich Müller s Peninsula (Alaska / Aleutians). Centered on the Bering Strait, the map covers from Chinese Tartary to the Hudson Bay, and from the high Arctic, south as far as New Mexico, and Honshu (Japan). There is a stri