Subject: China--Description and travel--16th-17th centuries--Maps

China [Hondius 1606 map]
AuthorHondius, Jodocus, 1563-1612
PlaceAmsterdam
Publisher[Hondius]
CollectionRicci Institute Library
Edition
LanguageLatin
TypeMap, Map (Digital)
Series
ShelfMap Case
Call Number[4] G7810 1606 .H65
Description1 hand-colored map ; 36 x 45 cm.
Note

China [map] / [Jodocus Hondius]
Map of China, Japan, Korea and the Northwest Coast of America.
Scale ca. 1 cm. = 19 German miles (E72º -- W160º / N58º -- N15º); China; Korea.

Relief shown pictorially. "Medius Meridianus est 155 reliqui ad hunc inclinantur pro ratione 15 & 58 parallelorum."; Includes illustrations of wheeled wind machine, junk, masted ship, and crucifixion [persecution of Christians in Japan]; Represents Korea as an island, "Corea"; Sea of Korea not labeled.; Map verso has text "Regnum Chinae", p. 354 and 355.; Copper engraving, printed on chain-lined paper.

Image at Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps
See BnF catalog record
See Map and accompanying Latin document Regnvm Chinae
Local image: [Hondius-China (1606).jpg

Travels to real and imaginary lands : two lectures on East Asia. [Ragionamenti del mio viaggio intorno al mondo. English]
AuthorBertúccioli, GiulianoForte, AntoninoCarletti, Francesco, 1573?-1636
PlaceKyōto 京都
PublisherIstituto italiano di cultura, Scuolo di studi sull'Asia orientale
CollectionRicci Institute Library
Edition
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook, Digital Book (PDF)
SeriesOccasional papers (Istituto italiano di cultura (Kyōto, Japan). Scuolo di studi sull'Asia orientale) ; 2
ShelfDigital Archives, Seminar Room 102-103
Call NumberG420.C243 B47 1990
Descriptionviii, 85 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm + pdf
Note

Travels to real and imaginary lands : two lectures on East Asia / by Giuliano Bertúccioli. With an appendix: Francesco Carletti on slavery and oppression / by Antonino Forte. Includes bibliographical references.
Foreword by Antonio Forte -- Francesco Carletti: A Florentine merchant in Japan and China in the years 1597-1599, by Giuliano Bertuccioli -- The region of the parrots: the strange fortune in China of a non-existant land, by Giuliano Bertuccioli.
The appendix Francesco Carletti on slavery and oppression is an English translation of Carletti’s Ragionamenti del mio viaggio intorno al mondo.
Series: Occasional papers (Istituto italiano di cultura (Kyōto, Japan). Scuolo di studi sull'Asia orientale) ; 2.
Italian School of East Asian Studies.
***Graphic resource: maps, cartography

Local access dig.pdf. [Bertuccioli-Travels.pdf]

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