- Bib ID:
- 7421831
- Format:
- Map
- Author:
- Linschoten, Jan Huygen van, 1563-1611
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Scale:
- Scale approximately 1:12,700,000. 120 Hispanicae leucae 17 1/2. uni gradui competentia [= 6 cm] (E 94°23ʹ00ʺ--E 154°20ʹ00ʺ/N 42°13ʹ00ʺ--S 12°12ʹ00ʺ).
- Description:
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- [Amsterdam, Netherlands] : [Jan Huyghen van Linschoten], [1596]
- 1 map : hand coloured ; 37.1 x 50.6 cm, on sheet 40.6 x 52.9 cm
- Notes:
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- Map of China, Japan, Korea, Southeast Asia, the Philippines, Straits of Malacca, Borneo, Java, Timor and part of Nova Guinea and the mythical land of Beach provincia auriferain (the region where Australia would eventually be discovered). Korea is shown as an island. Includes four large lakes in the Chinese interior, based on Chinese legend. Relief shown pictorially.
- Cartouche title.
- "Engraved by Henricus van Langren after Arnold Florent van Langeren for Linschoten's 'Itinerario', a manual for sailing to the East Indies"--Vendors notes.
- Two bar scales on map, given in "Miliaria Germanica" and "Hispanicæ leucæ".
- Oriented with west at the top.
- Includes two compass roses, decorative cartouches, and illustrations of sea monsters, sailing vessels, and animals in the interior of China (elephant, camel, giraffe and rhinoceros).
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-489649015
- In Latin. Parallel title in Dutch.
- Subject:
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- Time Coverage:
- 1596
- Other authors/contributors:
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- Also Titled:
- Waarachtige wtworpinghe oste afbeeldinge van alle die custen ende landen van China, Cauchinchina, Camboja, Sÿao, Malacca, Arracan ende Pegu, mitsgaders alle die bijleggende eÿlanden groote ende cleinen, mit noch die clippen, riffen, sanden, droochten ende ondiepten alles wt de alder correck ste pas ende Leef-caarten getrocken dje de Portugaloifsche ftvÿrlvijden hvijdendaechs gebrvijcken
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
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- Material type:
- Artistic
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1648
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1596
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