Details

Subject(s)

• China—Maps—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Pacific Coast (America)—Maps—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Siberia (Russia)—Maps—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Maps [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Maps—China—1636 [Browse]
• Maps—Pacific Coast (America)—1636 [Browse]
• Maps—Russia—Siberia—1636 [Browse]

Related work(s)

Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594. Atlas. English. [Browse]

Notes

• Relief shown pictorially.
• Shows cities and trees.
• Includes Great Wall of China; Corea as an island; early northwest coast of America; vignette illustrations of nomadic tribe, tents and livestock.
• English text on verso with caption title: The description of Tartaria or the Empire of the Grand Cham ; p. 413-414; signature: 9D.
• Bar scale: "Milliaria Germanica communia."
• Decorative cartouches.
• From: Atlas, or A geographicke description of the regions, countries, and kingdomes of the world ... / translated by Henry Hexham. Amsterdam : Hondius and Iohnson, 1636.

References

Koeman, C. Atlantes neerlandici (New ed.) 8050:1:1A

OCLC

875641599

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