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Interesting map showing the portion of Asia extending from the Caspian Sea in the west to China, Japan and Russian Asia in the east. It also includes an early depiction of the Northwest Coast of America and it’s also one of the first maps to name California. The cartography of east Asia is based on the travels of Marco Polo between 1275 and 1291 with later information gained from the Portuguese Jesuit missionaries of the 1540s in Japan. From the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum by Ortelius published in A

Interesting map showing the portion of Asia extending from the Caspian Sea in the west to China, Japan and Russian Asia in the east. It also includes an early depiction of the Northwest Coast of America and it’s also one of the first maps to name California. The cartography of east Asia is based on the travels of Marco Polo between 1275 and 1291 with later information gained from the Portuguese Jesuit missionaries of the 1540s in Japan. From the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum by Ortelius published in Antwerp in 1612. The map has been flattened, deacidified and archivally backed.