China nebst Corea, und den benachbarten Laendern der Tartarey : Aus denen Karten genommen, welche die Jesuiten von dem Jahre 1708 bis 1717 davon entworfen haben / Nicolaus Belin.
Copper engraved with hand coloring.
Cf. Sanders 27264.
Dig. file [Bellin-China 1755]

Acquisition is made possible by the Thomas J. Klitgaard Endowment at the Ricci Institute.

Imperii Sinarum Nova Descriptio / [Philipp Cluver].
Scale [ca. 1:14,300,000].

"Based on the important Martini/Blaeu map of the Chinese Empire. Originally part of the publication Introductio in Universam Geographicam tam veterem quam novam ... Venduntur Amstelaedami : Apud Joannem Wolters, 1697. The map depicts many provinces and cities named in the interior. The Great Wall is shown along the northern border. A large, imaginary lake labelled Kia Lacus is the source of five major, southern-flowing rivers. The map also includes Formosa, Korea and parts of Japan and Laos."

N.B. error in spelling in catalog title "descripto" i.e. "descriptio". Corrections see LC record.
Dig. file [Cluver-Imperii Sinarum 1697]

The description of the map title artwork as a Jesuit with a Chinese man and a woman do not seem to apply to this image. The man in European clothing appears to be English or Dutch, and there is no woman but a person who appears to be from Latin America, perhaps Mexico or Central America. They do not appear to be brewing tea but perhaps coffee, or (given the appearance of the third person) chocolate.   

Acquisition is made possible by the Thomas J. Klitgaard Endowment at the Ricci Institute.

"本文在寫作過程中曾與北京外國語大學張西平教授和香港大學馮錦榮先生交流過，在此謹表謝忱；同時也十分感謝金國平教授因本人的此一發現而推薦出席此次專題研討會並作大會報告。本文摘要曾載於2012年11月15日《第三屆澳門學國際學術研討會論文集》中。"

Article references Atlante della Cina di Michele Ruggieri, S.I., Rome, Istituto poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, 1993.
Includes bibliographical references.
Unpublished draft. Access by permission.
Local access dig.pdf. [羅明堅中國地圖集.pdf]

ABSTRACT: In 1986 the Kendall Whaling Museum (Sharon, Massachusetts) acquired a panel of a Chinese map as an example of the Chinese representation of the monstrous fish (whales) mentioned by Herman Melville in his assessment of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century depictions of whales. Only later was the panel identified as a rare seventeenth-century variation of Matteo Ricci's world map of 1602.
In this paper, the museum's map is compared with other manuscript and printed maps by Matteo Ricci. Discussion centers on the origins of the manuscript copies of Ricci's 1602 map and their inter-relationships. A census of woodblock prints of Ricci's maps (1602, 1603, post- 1644) and of the Chinese manuscript copies is included.
KEYWORDS: World maps; Matteo Ricci,printed and manuscript maps; Jesuits and maps; China, seventeenth century maps.
Local access dig.pdf. [Day-Ricci World Map.pdf]