Asia.- Speed (John) A Newe Mape of Tartary, 1676.
NO RESERVE Asia.- Speed (John) A Newe Mape of Tartary, detailed map showing from Lake Baikal through the regions of present-day Manchuria and Siberia to the north of the Great Wall of China, with Korea as an Island, featuring 8 side panels with the people of Tartary in their native costume, and four vignette views above of Nova Zembla, and the silk route cities of Astrakan, Samarkand and Cambalu, engraving on laid paper without watermark, sheet 390 x 510 mm (15 1/4 x 20 in), trimmed to borderline, central vertical fold, minor nicks, unframed, Bassett & Chiswell, [1676]
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NO RESERVE Asia.- Speed (John) A Newe Mape of Tartary, detailed map showing from Lake Baikal through the regions of present-day Manchuria and Siberia to the north of the Great Wall of China, with Korea as an Island, featuring 8 side panels with the people of Tartary in their native costume, and four vignette views above of Nova Zembla, and the silk route cities of Astrakan, Samarkand and Cambalu, engraving on laid paper without watermark, sheet 390 x 510 mm (15 1/4 x 20 in), trimmed to borderline, central vertical fold, minor nicks, unframed, Bassett & Chiswell, [1676]
