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Creator:
Valck, G. (Gerard), 1651–1726
Title(s):
Asia.
Published/Created:
Amsterdam : Gedruckt by Gerard Valck ..., [ca. 1686?]
Physical Description:
1 map : hand colored ; 56.5 x 94 cm, on sheet 61.5 x 102 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio C 2015 1
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Maps & Atlas (printed)
Notes:
Relief shown pictorially.
"Cum privilegio ordinum Hollandiae et Westfrisiae."
Appears in Atlas minor sive geographia compendiosa, published by Nicolaes Visscher (1649-1702) and his widow in various editions from ca. 1683 to ca. 1716.
Koeman, C. Atlantes Neerlandici, v. III, p. 137, no. 11
Fairman, E. "'Wherin all trauailers may vnderstand how to direct their voyages': Maps and Atlases at the Yale Center for British Art from the Bequest of Paul Mellon." In Yale University Library Gazette, 75 (2001), page 124
BAC: British Art Center copy is bound as map 99 in part 2 of a composite atlas issued by Nicolaes Visscher with title: Atlas minor, sive, Geographia compendiosa, ca. 1716 (Folio C 2015 1). Hand-colored, with use of gold in the neat line and to mark select borders.
Printed from two plates (sheets joined at 210° longitude).
Subject Terms:
Asia -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Form/Genre:
Maps.
Contributors:
Visscher, Nicolaes, 1649–1702. Atlas minor.
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