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Visscher Asia 1657

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Stock Code 37105

Price: £ 4000

Nicolaas J Visscher [ after Claes Jansz. Visscher & Pieter van den Keere]

1657

Asiae Nova Descriptio Auctore Nicolao Iõ. Visscher excusum in aedibus auctoris./ Amsterodammi Anno 1657

56 x 43.5 cms. Superb original colour. Narrow margins as issued. Short clean split to top centrefold, just intruding into engraved map border, expertly and invisibly closed and reinforced on verso. In all an excellent and striking example.

Fourth and final state of the Van den Keere - Visscher carte-a-figures map of Asia, here in striking & bright original colouring of the highest quality. Originally engraved and published by Pieter van den Keere in 1614. Cartographically the map draws heavily on the Jodocus Hondius map of Asia [1606], though the coastlines of Eastern Asia and Western America are considerably amended with many new place names. In the new Visscher states of the map (1631 and later), the title cartouche was reworked and Keere’s clockface replaced by a seated fisherman mending his nets. The surrounding City views of Aden, Jerusalem, Goa, Macao & Rhodes (top) and Arosbay, Calechut, Ormus, Bantam & Gammalama (bottom) derive from the decorations on Blaeu’s 1608 Wall map as to the attractive figures in the border side panels. Portraits of natives Asia kings and potentates are interspersed between the city views, with head and shoulders illustrations of the Kings of Tartary, China, Ceylon, Persia and the Moluccas. This is probably the most common of the Visscher states of this map, though Schilder records only nine examples in institutional collections around the World.

Schilder Monumenta Cartographica Neerlandica VI, Map 20 (State 4)

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