COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Map Collection
Record
Accession Number:
08809
File Name:
08809-042
Call number:
E705 L147a /1-SIZE
Map title:
Groot Tartaryen Door N. Sanson d'Abbeville Geographe du Roy
Place of Publication:
Amsterdam
Publisher:
Gedrukt by François Halma, boekverkoper
Publication date:
MDCCV.
Map size height:
28 cm.
Map size width:
42 cm.
Item description:
engraved map, hand colored, vol. 3, following p. 86
Geographical description:
Map of Greater Tartary or Russia including present-day China, Mongolia, and Kazakhstan. Also includes the Strait of Jesso, part of the fictitious Land of Jesso, and Korea shown as an island and here called Corey. Includes the Gobi Dessert and the Great Wall of China, as well as settlements picked out in gold and scales. Relief shown pictorially.
Source author:
La Croix, A. Phérotée de, approximately 1640-approximately 1715
Source title:
Algemeene weereld-beschryving, nae de rechte verdeeling der landschappen, plaetsen, zeeën, rivieren, &c. geographisch, politisch, historisch, chronologisch en genealogisch
Source place:
T'Amsterdam: Gedrukt by François Halma, boekverkoper., MDCCV.
Cartobibliographic notes:
Derived from a map by Nicolas Sanson, 1600-1667. Revised and enlarged translation, by Simon de Vries, of: "Nouvelle méthode pour apprendre facilement la géographie universelle", which is a translation of the second German edition, printed under title "Geographia universalis, das ist: Allgemeine Welt-Beschreibung nach neuer Art und Weise, wie diese Wissenschafft leicht zu begreiffen und erlernet werden kan" in Leipzig, 1697, which, in turn, was a translation of the Lyon,1690 French edition. This Dutch translation is an enlarged edition of the German edition which includes a description of America and the founding of New Amsterdam.
Geographic Area:
Asia
Normalized date:
1705
LC bibliographic number:
b77175530
Creator:
Antoine de Winter, ca. 1652-1707
Groot Tartaryen Door N. Sanson d'Abbeville Geographe du Roy
