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Chinae, olim Sinarum regionis, nova descriptio. auctore Ludovico Georgio. Cum privilegio Imperatoris, Regis, & Brabantiae: ad decennium. 1584.
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Ortelius
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Scale approximately 1:2,800,000. 1 map : 33.5 x 45.5 cm, on sheet 45 x 58.5 cm. Relief shown pictorially. Oriented with north to the right. Includes illustrations and decorative cartouches. Ortelius' map of China is the first Western map of China taken directly from reports of the Portuguese mapmaker Luis Jorge de Barbuda (Ludovicus Georgius). It's the earliest printed map to focus on China and the first to illustrate the Great Wall of China. Map also shows Japan, Southeast Asia, and the Philippines. On verso: China, p. 106. From Ortellius' Theatrum orbis terrarum.
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China
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1584
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