Description
hand-coloured copper engraving. verso: Description de la Chine with French text.
VERY RARE map from an early French edition (only 2 years after the first edition) of ‘Caert-Thresoor’, p. 51/52 (verso). Shows China, its Great Wall, and South East Asia including a complete Philippines, with one of the earliest existing depictions of the non-existing island San Juan, East of Mindanao.
