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Map of Guandong, China | ) |
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Excudit Joannes Blaeu | |
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banderole / cartouche / ornamentation, chart / map / plan, Asians & Africans | |
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- Map of Guandong (China) taken from the Atlas van der Hagen, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague, part 4.
- This map of the Chinese province of Guandong, which also depicts today's Hong Kong, belongs to an atlas of China compiled by the Italian missionary Martino Martini (1614-1661). On his return journey to Rome in 1653 Martini stopped off in Amsterdam, where he sold his atlas to the publisher Joan Blaeu (1598-1673). From 1655 onwards Blaeu published this atlas in various languages under the title 'Atlas Sinensis'. The atlas was also incorporated in its entirety into Blaeu's Atlas Maior in 1662.
