Lot 307
"L'Asie divisee en Ses Principaux Etats, par le Sr. Janvier a Paris." Ca. 1760s. Attractive 18th Century Map of Asia. Printed area, approximately 17-5/8" wide by 12-1/4" high. Expertly engraved by Janvier, this copperplate rendering presents with original outline color and a striking fully colored cartouche in an exotic far eastern motif. Covers from the western Mediterranean to Kamchatka in the north, and from the Red Sea and Arabian Peninsula in the southwest to the Philippines and Indonesia in the east, and everything in between, India, China, Russia, Korea, Japan, Philippines, etc. A shadowy presence in the Bering Sea hints at the Alaska coast with the caption "Terre vue par (land seen by) Tchiricoive et DeLisle en 1741." A bit of light age tone in the margins otherwise excellent condition. A very pretty and increasingly popular map ready for framing.
Estimated Value $450 - 650.
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| Realized $432 |
