ASIAE : NOVA ATLAS SINENSIS A MARTINO MARTINIO Soc. Iesu DESCRIPTVS ET SERENISSIMO ARCHIDVCI LEOPOLDO GVILIELMO AVSTRIACO DEDICATVS

 

The author of the atlas, which was the first atlas of China published in Europe, was the Italian jesuit Martino Martini (1614-1661) who committed a large part of his life to missionary work in China. His atlas was based for the greater part on Chinese sources and was published from 1655 in several languages by Joan Blaeu (1598-1673).

 Atlas  consists of four  volumes each of 100 pages with an index. The total number of pages is around 500 pages in all in different formats and materials. It is built around Blaeu's Atlas Major and atlases by Nicolaes Visscher. It appears to be a contemporary work with the most recent material available: c. 1670 - 1690. The material varies from topographical maps, news prints, prints of sieges, captures, town plans, to pleasure gardens and political issues (many by the famous Romeyn de Hooghe). No mythological scenes, caricatures, portraits, animals or plants have been included. The Atlas gives a wide spectrum on the world, all continents are represented but not into detail. Some maps and print have to be folded out, some maps have been glued in later while there are also some series of prints with two images on a sheet of paper..
Each volume contains an average of a hundred to a hundred and fifty leaves, on to and between which some large single or several smaller prints have been mounted, and into which some complete books and extracts from others have been inserted in a carefully designed sequence. The whole form a comprehensive display of the Low Countries, comprising the United Provinces (roughly equivalent to the northern Netherlands), the Spanish/Austrian Netherlands (roughly equivalent to the modern Belgium plus French Flanders), and Luxembourg, from their earliest beginnings up to the compilers' own time, with additions by later owners right into the nineteenth century.

Both topographical and historical material is used, wether factual, allegorical, heraldic, or in any combination of these, enlivened with portraits of important inhabitants of individual localities, pictures of archeological finds, of a scientific instrument here, a typical or unusual industry there.
for the purpose of non-commercial academic and semi-academic research and study. 

Please Note: This auction is for a Manual/Book archived in Adobe Acrobat PDF format on CD, the auction is not for a book, physical hardcopy of a book or manual, nor equiptment.

Book on CD-ROM present EXACT Copies from original images and for educational purposes. 36 F. Supp. 2d 191 (S.D.N.Y. 1999)

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