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"L'Asie Dressee sur les Observations de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Quelques Autres, et sur les Memoires les Plus Recens", Delisle, Guillaume

Subject: Asia

Period: 1700 (dated)

Publication:

Color: Hand Color

Size:
23.3 x 17.9 inches
59.2 x 45.5 cm
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This is the second edition of Delisle's atlas map of Asia, reduced from his important wall map. The coastline of northeastern Siberia is completed between the peninsula of Novaya Zemlya and Japan including Witsen's mountainous peninsula that juts into the sea, with a notation stating that it is unknown how far the peninsula extends. Hokkaido (Terre d'Yeco) is still attached to Japan, but there is now a narrow strait separating it from the mainland. Only the southern shoreline of Terre de la Compagnie is shown with a reference to the alleged discoveries of Joao de Gama. The map is boldly engraved and decorated with a title cartouche featuring a procession representing the silk road commerce. Delisle's imprint at le Quai de l'Horloge in the cartouche.

References: Yeo #85.

Condition: B+

A crisp impression with contemporary outline color in the map and later color in the cartouches, on a sheet with a Society of Jesus watermark. There is a small hole along the centerfold in India and light dampstaining in the image.

Estimate: $375 - $450

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