| Creator: |
Verbiest, Ferdinand, 1623-1688. |
| Title: |
[World map] [cartographic material]. |
| Scale: |
Scale [ca. 1:8 000 000]
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| Publisher: |
[Pei-ching? s.n. 1674?] |
| Date: |
1674 |
| Material Type: |
Map |
| Physical Description: |
1 map : col. ; 2 hemispheres 141.5 cm. and 143.0 cm. in diam., on 2 scrolls each 176.5 x 263.0 cm. |
| Notes: |
Double hemispherical world map with Chinese pictorial representation of relief.
In Chinese.
Includes panels of Chinese text and col. ill. of ships and animals.
Title devised by cataloguer.
Wood block prints on silk, hand-painted.
Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-rm3499; The map was given to the National Library by the Australian architect and artist, William Hardy Wilson in 1949, as part of the Hardy Wilson Collection. |
| Subjects: |
World maps -- Early works to 1800.
World -- [1674?]
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| Call Number: | MAP RM 3499/1-2 Held in Pictures Section Stacks, Row 46 |
| Amicus Number: |
22178095 |
| To cite this item use: |
http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-rm3499 |
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