Asia.- Speed (John) A Newe Mape of Tartary, [1676].

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 with hand-colouring, platemark 400 x 515 mm (15 3/4 x 20 1/4 in), sheet 430 x 560 mm. (17 x 22 in), central vertical fold with careful repairs to splitting verso, upper margin with losses, nicks and tears, other edges slightly rough, printers' crease in the lower right corner, other handling creases and surface dirt, unframed, Bassett and Chiswell, [1676].

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