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An Unrecorded Jesuit Map of China
Rare Jesuit map of China, engraved after Philippe Couplet's map of 1686, and published in Paris by Longchamps.
The map gives extensive details regarding China's provinces, major cities, families, colleges, temples, churches, and missions. The ending note discusses the Jesuit activities during the century.
This is the second state of an earlier, anonymously-engraved map, correcting some introduced errors and using French spelling of place names.
The Address for Longchamps, "a Paris, chez Longchamps Géographe rue St. Jacques à l'Enseigne de la Place des Victoires," is typically found on imprints dating to the 1750-1760 time period.
Rarity
This map is exceedingly rare. We have only located it in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and Biblothèque Nationale de France.
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