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150 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY 10016
United States
The Old Print Shop, Inc. was founded in New York City in 1988. Specialist art gallery in American art including painting, drawing and printmaking from 1700 to contemporary, antique maps and atlases, artist's books and reference books. Our staff and owners are experts in American art, assist in colle...Read more
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- Lot Description
Japonia Regnum.
By Joan Blaeu. Published in Amsterdam by Covens and Mortier. 1655-c.1700.
Copper plate engraving.
Image 16 3/8 x 22 1/4" (41.7 x 56.6 cm) plus margins.
The first map to correctly show Korea as a peninsula. This is the rare Covens and Mortier reissue of Blaeu's important map of Japan and Korea. This map is based on the work of an Italian Jesuit, Martino Martini. It first appeared in 1655 in Blaeu's "Atlas Sinensis," the first European atlas of China. The plate was obtained and reissued by several cartographers with this issue being the last. A very nice impression. Blank verso.Condition
Good condition. Original outline color.
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