Cartographer:
LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huygen van
Engraver:
Joannes a Doetechum
Title:
Habitus e China regno pretiose elegantie et rerum omnium affluentissimum.
Stock Code:
6056
Method:
Copper engraving
Publisher:
Cloppenburgh
Colouring:
Uncoloured
Atlas:
Histoire de la Navigation.
Size: (W x H):
32cm x 25cm
12½ inches x 10 inches
Date:
1638
Price:
£175
Handsome print of four inhabitants of China. Text in Latin and Dutch along lower edge. Linschoten lived and wrote at a time when exploration was rapidly opening up the world. His travel writings, in three parts, the famous ‘Itinerarium’, included ‘Description de l’Amerique’, ‘Le Grande Route de Mer’ and ‘Histoire de la Navigation’, and were published individually and together in many editions from 1595 onwards.
Fine condition.