Asia recens summa cura delineata / Auct. Henr. Hondio 1641.

Asia recens summa cura delineata
Hondius, Henricus and Jans son, Jan
Copper engraved with hand colour
Auct. Henr. Hondio 1641. Amstelodami apud Ioannem Ianssonium.
375 x495 mm
unmounted

A superb and highly detailed seventeenth century map of Asia, by Henricus Hondius and published by Jan Jansson in his 1641 Latin edition of the Atlas Novus. The plate from which this map was printed was originally one of the celebrated Hondius cartes-a-figure maps, featuring border  vignettes of principal Asian cities and figures in various types of national dress. Because most of these maps were too large to fit neatly into later atlas printings by Hondius and Jansson, the decorative borders were often removed or blocked out, which is why the border measurements on this example only feature on three of the four sides. In the current example, the continent of Asia is shown, with adjoining sections of Africa and Europe, and with the westernmost reaches of North America visible at the top right corner of the map, behind a dedicatory cartouche. The borders and coasts of the various empires and nations of Asia are outlined in _hand colour, and principal cities are picked out in red, as is the path of the Great Wall, separating a slightly truncated China from the lands of Tartaria. An elephant runs across a nver delta to the east of India, roughly equivalent with modern day Bhutan and Bangladesh, while a pair of lions occupy the Libyan desert to the west of the Nile River. The Arabian peninsula is divided into Arabia Deserta and Arabia Felix, and the Persian empire stretches from the Gulf to the banks of the Mahi River. In the far east, Korea is shown correctly as a peninsula rather than an island, a cartographic improvement on the very similar figure card by Blaeu, Hondius' chief commercial rival. Japan, however, retains the horizontal orientation typical of maps of this era, following the surveys of Luis Teixeira, and the map of Ortelius. A number of the islands of the South East Asian archipelago are still unmapped, or only partially depicted, most notably Borneo, Java, and the Celebes. New Guinea is absent, as are any suggestions of the top of Australia, though the island of Ceiram probably represents the northwest Papuan seacoast. The seas of the Pacific and Indian oceans feature numerous sailing ships and sea monsters, the most notable of which is a horned triton, who blows a horn in the sea between Sumatra and the Maldives. At the top left comer, the title is enclosed in a baroque cartouche supported by a pair of northern Asian nomads, possibly Tartars or Bactrians.

Henricus Hondius (1597 - 16th August 1651), often called Hendrik Hondius the Younger to differentiate him from the earlier, and unrelated portrait engraver Hendrik Hondius the Elder, was the son of the famous cartographer J odocus Hondius. Like his father, Henricus was an engraver, cartographer, and publisher. He first came to prominence through his publication in 1606 of a new version of Mercator's 1569 World Map, the plates for which he had obtained from Mercator's grandson Rumold. Following his father's death, Henricus co-ran the family business, eventually partnering with his brother-in-law, Jan Jansson.

Johannes Janssonius (1588 - 1664) was a famed cartographer and print publisher. More commonly known as Jan Jans son, he was born in Arnhem where his father, Jan J anszoon the Elder, was a bookseller and publisher. In 1612 he married the daughter of the cartographer and publisher Jodocus Hondius, and then set up in business in Amsterdam as a book publisher. In 1616 he published his first maps of France and Italy and from then onwards, produced a very large number of maps which went some way to rival those of the Blaeu family, who held a virtual monopoly over the industry. From about 1630 to 1638 he was in partnership with his brother-in-law, Henricus Hondius, issuing further editions .of the Mercator/Hondius atlases to which his name was added. On the death of Hondius he took over the business, expanding the atlas still further, until eventually he published an eleven volume Atlas Major on a scale similar to Johannes Blaeu's magnum opus. After Jansson's death, his heirs published a number of maps in the Atlas Contractus of 1666, and, later still, many of the plates of his British maps were acquired by Pieter Schenk and Gerard V alck, who published them again in 1683 as separate maps. 

Condition: Central vertical fold as issued. Splitting to centre fold professionally strengthened and
backed _with archiv~ tissue. _Paper spli~ting from old green pigment to coastline of 'Nova Zembla'
professionally repaired and 1nfilled. Minor foxing to margins. Latin text on verso.

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Asiae Descriptio Nova / Seile, Henry
Copper engraved with hand colour
Impensis Henrici Seile. Johan Goddard Sculp. 1652 [London, 1657]
340x440mm
unmounted

A beautiful mid-seventeenth century map of Asia, engraved by John Goddard for Henry Seile's 1657 second edition printing of Peter Heylyn's Cosmographie in faure Bookes, Contqyning the Chorographie & Histon·e of the whole World, and all the Principal! Ivngdoms, Provinces, Seas, and Isles Thereof. The map, one of the earliest English maps of the continent, shows the whole of Asia, as well as adjoining parts of Europe, Africa, and the easternmost part of North America, with the borders of the various kingdoms and nations outlined in beautiful hand colour. The Arabian peninsula is split in two, into Arabia Deserta and Arabia Felix, while 'Natalia' encompasses most of Mesopotamia, Cyprus, Crete and the Dodecanese, and most of the Levantine coast and parts of Syria. Persia stretches to the banks of the Ganges, and China's geographic width is very constricted. An elephant sits above the delta of modern day Bangladesh, and the Great Wall of China is shown pictorially and picked out in red. Korea is shown correctly as a peninsula, though Japan's right angled orientation follows the earlier map of Ortelius, based upon the survey of the Jesuit Luis Teixera. In southeast Asia, Java is only partially shown, Sulawesi's eastern coast is sketchy, and West Papua is unlabelled and poorly
mapped. There is no evidence of Australia, despite the Cosmographie being perhaps the earliest description of the continent. The map is further embellished by a strapwork title cartouche, and a pair of European sailing vessels, a testament to the region's exploitation for the spice trade.
Henry Seile (1595-1660), less commonly Henri Seale, was an English bookseller, published, and printer, who predominantly published works of theology, history, geography, and poetry. His most famous cartographic contributions include a suite of continent maps that accompanied the
Cosmographie of the theologian and geographer Peter Heylyn. His connection to Peter Heylyn brought him into contact with Charles I, and for a time he styled himself 'Bookseller to the King.' Among his other publications are the plays and poems of Sir Fulke Greville, an early patron to John Speed.

Peter Heylyn (1599-1662) was an English churchman and author, particularly well known for his geographical and historical treatises, the Microcosmus (1621) and the Cosmographie (1652). Born in Burford, Oxfordshire, Heylyn attended Hart Hall in Oxford. He was made a Fellow of Magdalen at the age of 18, and lectured on geography, particularly classical and biblical. In his ecclesiastical roles, he was notorious as an anti-Puritan controversialist. This, combined with his former royal patronage, stymied his career during the Commonwealth period. Geographically, his work is significant as being among, if not the, first printed descriptions of Australia, California, and the Tierra del Fuego, and, like others of his era, he objected to the use of 'America' to describe the New World, preferring titles that derived from Columbus or Cabot, rather than Vespucci.
Condition: Central vertical fold as issued. Trimmed to plate mark, as issued, now professionally
remargined. Blank on verso.
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Description: Nice full color example of Ortelius' map of Asia, from Ortelius' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern world atlas. A marvelous misprojection of Japan and Southeast Asia. Very distinct Northeast Passage. Includes sailing ships and other embellishments. The map is based upon Ortelius's wall map of Asia, which in turn draws its cartographic data from Gastaldi and Albufeda.
First edition of Ortelius's map of Asia, having been published between 1570 and 1573. The first edition can be distinguished by the upper case "F" in Farfana at the top right corner, east of Japan, whereas the second edition (1574-1612) has a lower case "f".
References: Van Den Broecke 7.

Online at Antique Maps.
Atlas version online David Rumsey Map Collection.
High resolution image local access [Ortelius-Asiae Nova Descriptio (1570)]

China in European maps : a library special collection / compiled and edited by Min-min Chang = Ditu Zhongguo : tu shu guan te cang 地圖中國 : 圖書館特藏 / bianjizhe Zhou Minmin 編輯者周敏民.
Scale varies.
Originals are kept in Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Library.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

"This catalog contains fifty-five maps held in the Special Collections Department of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Library. The collection 'vividly reflects Europe’s lasting fascination and cross-cultural exchange with China over many centuries.' Many early maps of China were based on Jesuit models, for example, plate 28 by Joan Blaeu after Martini and plate 29 by Nicolas Sanson after Ricci.
Cartography, mathematics, and astronomy were important methods of exchange between the Jesuits and the Chinese literati during the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. In collaboration with Chinese mapmakers, the Jesuits produced maps in which China was represented in greater and greater detail to European audiences. Likewise, Europe, the Western coast of Africa, and the Americas were introduced to Chinese audiences during this era."--Display placard text.

Foreword / Lorenz Hurni -- Preface : what is a map? / Valerie Hansen -- Introduction / Philippe Forêt and Andreas Kaplony -- Traces of the Silk Road in Han-Dynasty iconography : questions and hypotheses / Nicolas Zufferey -- Visualizing pilgrimage and mapping experience : Mount Wutai on the Silk Road / Natasha Heller -- The mapping of sacred space : images of Buddhist cosmographies in medieval China / Dorothy C. Wong -- Lost in translation : gridded plans and maps along the Silk Road / Jonathan M. Bloom -- Square horoscope diagrams in Middle Eastern astrology and Chinese cosmological diagrams : were these designs transmitted through the Silk Road? / Johannes Thomann -- The intrusion of East Asian imagery in thirteenth-century Armenia : political and cultural exchange along the Silk Road / Dickran Kouymjian -- Comparing al-Kāshgharī's map to his text : on the visual language, purpose, and transmission of Arabic-Islamic maps / Andreas Kaplony -- The Book of curiosities : a medieval Islamic view of the East / Yossef Rapoport -- Celestial maps and illustrations in Arabic-Islamic astronomy / Paul Kunitzsch -- Revisiting Catalan portolan charts : do they contain elements of Asian provenance? / Sonja Brentjes -- Conclusion / Philippe Forêt and Andreas Kaplony -- Appendix. List of geographical nomenclature in al-Kāshgharī's text and map / Andreas Kaplony.

Covers the diffusion and transmission of geographical knowledge that occurred at critical junctures in the long history of the Silk Road. In retracing the steps of four major circuits across the many civilizations that shared the Silk Road, this work traces the ways in which maps and images surmounted spatial, historical and cultural divisions.

Available online via Gleeson Library.
Local access dig.pdf. [Foret-Silk Road.pdf]

Mapping the Silk Road and beyond : 2,000 years of exploring the East / Kenneth Nebenzahl.
Scales differ.
Relief shown pictorially and by shading.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-172) and index.

Reimagining the globe and cultural exchange : the East Asian legacies of Matteo Ricci's world map /  edited by Laura Hostetler.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword: Maps, Missionaries, and the Global Exchange of Knowledge in the Early Modern World / M. Antoni J. Ucerler, S.J.
Preface and Acknowledgements / Laura Hostetler
Introduction: Reflections on Form and Content / Laura Hostetler

Part 1. Jesuit Circuits of Communication and Publication
1 Jesuit Contributions to Global Connectivity and Global Consciousness in the Early Modern Era / José Casanova
2 From Manuscript to Print: At the Origins of Early Jesuit Missionary Strategies of Communication / Robert Danieluk, S.J.
3 Dutch Publications on the Jesuit Mission in China in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries / Paul Begheyn, S.J.

Part 2. Jesuit World Maps in Chinese, from Ricci to Verbiest
4 Parallels, Engagement, and Integration: The Ricci Maps and Their Afterlives in Ming-Qing China as a Case Study of Intertwined Global Early Modernity / Qiong Zhang
5. A Detailed Comparative Investigation of Maps / AOYAMA Hiro’o
6 Ad Maiorem Dei Gloriam: Jesuit Mapping in China by Giulio Aleni, Francesco Sambiasi, Niccolò Longobardi, Manuel Diaz, and Others / Paola Demattè
7 The World Revealed: Science, Mythology, and the Natural World in Ferdinand Verbiest’s Kunyu Quantu 坤輿全圖 (1674) / Mark Stephen Mir

Part 3. Reverberations of Ricci’s Maps in East Asia
8 Representing an Ideal World Order of the Past: The Cultural Function of the Jesuit World Maps in Eighteenth-Century Korean Government / LIM Jongtae
9 Entering Asia: The Repositioning of Japan / Kären Wigen
10 China’s Nine-Dash Line: Cartographic Science and the Adoption of New Map Languages in the Transition from Empire to Nation State / Laura Hostetler

Postlude. Reflections on the Curation of Cartographic Knowledge
11 Writing Technologies and Special Collections: Agents and Arbiters of Change through the Transmission of Knowledge / Marguerite Ragnow
12 East Asian Map Collections in the Library of Congress: A Unique Source for the Study of Cartography and East–West Cultural Exchange / Ralph E. Ehrenberg

"How did Asia come to be represented on European World maps? When and how did Asian Countries adopt a continental system for understanding the world? How did countries with disparate mapping traditions come to share a basic understanding and vision of the globe? This series of essays organized into sections on Jesuit Circuits of Communication and Publication; Jesuit World Maps in Chinese; Reverberations of Matteo Ricci's Maps in East Asia; and Reflections on the Curation of Cartographic Knowledge, go a long way toward answering these questions about the shaping of our modern understandings of the world"-- Provided by publisher.

Local access dig.pdf [Reimagining the Globe.pdf]

Decorative example of Ortelius' map of Tartary, Japan, and the West Coast of North America, from the 1595 Latin edition of Ortelius' Theatrum Orbis Terarrum, the first modern atlas of the World. The map provides a remarkable early representation of what was then the Tartar Kingdom, extending from the Caspian Sea in the west, to China, Japan and Russian, in Asia, in the east. It also includes a remarkable early treatment of the Northwest Coast of America, California, and the Southwestern US. The map is the earliest obtainable map to name California, and includes the 7 cities of Cibola in the Southwestern US, although only 6 cities are actually shown. The Straits of Anian are also named.
The map includes a very curious early treatment of Japan and marvelous detail in Tartary, Asian Russia, and China, including Marco Polo & Prester John notes, several vignettes, 2 decorative cartouches, sailing ships, and a sea monster. Several vignettes depict the tents of the Tartar kings. The map is richly annotated in Latin, including some of the lengthier quotes, which have translated from Latin to English below:

The Nephalites are named Neptali after one of the 10 tribes with a Hebrew name, and after the Danites, who by way of punishment were called the Danes of the dark North, and they were on account of the claims of Rachel Balbah placed to the side, in the area of the Hudores or Iehudeores; in the year 416 they were victorious in their battle against Perosa. Others call them incorrectly Euthalites.

The Scythian ocean, according to Plinius, has sweet water, and he also says it contains many islands, as M. Paulus [Marco Polo) also says, but neither of the two tells about their number or location. Tabor or Tybur, center of the area of the Tartars, where once the Holy Books got lost, yet they are united under one king, who in 1540 first reached France and king Franciscus, and later, at the initiative of Charles the Fifth was burnt at the stake for his heresy, because he had secretly endeavoured to convert Christian kings to the Jewish religion, about which he had spoken with Charles the Fifth. Here the ten tribes retreated, and changed from the Tatar or Tartar area to Scythia. Since then they are called Gauths or Gauthens, confirming Gods highest glory, and here lies the splendid kingdom of Cathai.

Turkestan. The area from which the 10 tribes as allies living on this side of the mountain range have been called 900 years ago by the Persians to fight the armies of Ismael the Muslim.
The great Khan (which in the language of the Tatars means emperor), the highest ruler of Asia.
Argon. Once there was in Asia a Christian kingdom, known to Prester John, and D. Thomas founded it [this city) in this place, so that it was in contact with the Church of Rome, and was subjected to Rome through Prester John of Africa. Before it was defeated by the Goths, it was known as Orive Romove.
This map contains the area of Tartaria, with the remaining part of East Asia to the Morning Ocean, subject to the great Khan whose might is bounded by the river Ob, Lake Kataia, the Volga, the Caspian Sea, the river Chesel, the mountains of Usson, the area of Tibet, the river Caromora and the Ocean. The isle of Japan, called Zipangri by Marco Polo of Venice, formerly [called) Chrÿse, once attacked by the great Khan in war, but without success.

Dig. [Ortelius-Tartariae Sive Magni Chami Regni tÿpus]

Totius Asiae Continens cum Praecipuis Insulis eidem Annexis / [Heinrich Scherer]

Copper engraved
[Munich, c.1700]
230 x 350 mm

A finely engraved early eighteenth century map of the continent of Asia, from Heinrich Scherer's Atlas Novus. The continent is shown on an interesting isometric projection from the north, so that the Tropic of Cancer and the Equator run in large arcs across the map. China and Tartary are truncated, and Japan features a large northern bulge entitled 'Iedso.' Above this is a partial territory marked 'Compagnie Land.' In the bottom right corner, the northernmost parts of Australia, here labelled Nova Hollandia, can be seen, as well as parts of New Guinea. In China, north of 'Peking,' the Great Wall is depicted pictorially. The map is further enhanced by a large decorative oval cartouche containing the title, and a scale in German, Gallic, and Italian miles topped with the IHS Christogram of the Jesuit order.

Heinrich Scherer (1628-1704) was a German cartographer, geographer, engraver, and publisher. A Professor of mathematics at Munich University, Scherer was also a devout Catholic, a facet of his life that is immediately apparent in his published works. His most famous publication was the Atlas
Novus, an eight volume atlas produced between 1698 and 1710, which featured 187 plates depicting all of the known world, with particular reference to the activity of the Jesuit Order and the spread of Christianity around the world.
Condition: Central vertical fold as issued. Minor creasing to margins, not affecting map

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