Subject: Asia
Period: 1658 (published)
Publication: Praecipuarum Universi Terrarum Orbis
Color: Hand Color
Size:
4.3 x 2.6 inches
10.9 x 6.6 cm
This scarce, little map is roughly based on the Ortelius/Galle map of 1593. Asia extends too far to the east so that America pars appears above Japan. There is no Korean peninsula. A long east-west range of mountains stretches the entire length of the continent. There is a cluster of islands labeled Moluccae Insulae, but they are not well placed and appear north of Borneo. In the first edition of King's book on miniature maps, he attributed Bucelin's maps to Johann Praetorius who was the publisher of Historiae Universalis Auctorium, which was often bound with the Praecipuarum Universi. Latin text on verso.
References: King (2nd ed.) pp. 126-127.
Condition: A+