The Map of China Huang Ming yitong fang yu bei lan -- Comprehensive view map of the Imperial Ming

by China, Samuel Purchas

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14.5 x 11.5 inches 36.8 x 29.2 cm . Minor mend at very tip of blank corners; overall excellent. First issue of the only edition of the first map of China engraved and printed in England. With its illustrations of a Chinese man and a Chinese woman dressed in their traditional Chinese garb, it must have been a remarkable sight for an English audience highly unlikely to have set eyes on an in-the-flesh Chinese person in England before this time. Nor, at

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