China Regio Asie (Claes Janszoon Visscher), Bacolod in Bacolod, Northern Mindanao for sale

8.5 x 12.3 cm, copper engraving - NO verso text, with some foxing along margins, barely affecting plate. EXTREMELY RARE edition. Map from"Asiae Nova Descriptio [Tabularum libri IV]", f. 13. Asian part from"Tabularum geographicarum contractarum libri quatuor". Second to the last edition, substantially extended edition of Barent Langenes'Caert-Thresoor, published then at Middelburg. This edition is extremely rare as only"one copy known"(per Koeman in British Museum), and has no text, i.e. all maps show a blank verso - collector's item. Reference: Koeman Vis 4 (= Lan 15); Shirley -1h; Tiele 1160; Quirino p. 79 (but Langenes/Bertius edition 1606).
Author
Claes Janszoon Visscher
Title
China Regio Asie
Publisher name
Published in Amsterdam. 1649 [1598].
Shipping time
4 - 7 days
Publication year
1649
Vendor name
Gallery of Prints
Vendor rating
Key words
China, Japan, Philippines, South East Asia
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