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Tartaria [cartographic materia] / Jodocus Hondius

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Item

Date:

[ca. 1607-1613].

Reference:

R11981-87-0-E

Item no. (creator):

Alexander E. MacDonald Canadiana Collection #633

Type of material:

Maps and cartographic material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

3716917

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Alexander E. MacDonald Canadiana Collection

Europe and Asia

Tartaria
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Date(s):

[ca. 1607-1613].

Place:

Amsterdam:

Place of creation:

Netherlands

Publisher:

s.n.,

Extent:

1 map : hand col. ; 32 x 47.3 cm on sheet 46 x 53.7 cm.

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Maps shows an area covering Asia from the Black Sea and Moscow in the west to part of the northwest coast of America naming Cape de Fortuna and the strait of Anian. Map also shows Korea as an island and the great wall of China.

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Engraver: Hondius, Jodocus, 1563-1612

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General note:

Decorative title cartouche on the bottom right corner of map. Decorative text box in bottom left corner contains text with a reference to Jodocus Hondius. next to this box is another decorative box "Millaria Germanica Communia" .
Includes decorative vignettes: of a nomadic tribe, tents and livestock near the top middle ofthe map. Along the left margin two figures titled "Tartari imago and Samogedi imago".
Plate from an early atlas. On verso: two pages of text. to the left page 352 (2 appears slightly raised) titled Tartaire. On the right upper corner 35e titled Tartaire OV L'Empire DV Grand Cham. Bottom right corner carries "PPPPPPP".
Relief shown pictorially.

Custodial history:

Part of the Alexander E. MacDonald Canadiana Collection purchased by the Public Archives of Canada in 1981.

Subject heading:

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Asia, East - Maps - Early Works, 1601-1650

Source:

Private

Other accession no.:

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80101/245 CA
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Cartographic material

[Consultation90 Open]
Original can be viewed in the presence of an early cartographic archivist.

Item no. assigned by LAC [R11981] 633

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit Library and Archives Canada.
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