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Lot 304
Sale 588 - Fine Books and Manuscripts
Nov 13, 2018
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ORTELIUS, Abraham (1527-1598). hinae, olim Sinarum regionis, nova descriptio auctore Ludovico Georgio. Antwerp, ca 1584.
Engraved map of China, image 366 x 471 mm (sheet 480 x 597 mm), with hand-coloring, text in Latin on verso. (Short split along centerfold in lower margin repaired.) FIRST EDITION, second state, with "Las Philippinas" above "Sinus Magnus." The second western map of China drawn by Luis Jorge de Barbuda (Latinized as Ludovicus Georgius), a Portuguese Jesuit, and the first to mark the Great Wall of China.
