This finely engraved map of the region is based on the 1606 folio map by Jodocus Hondius and first appeared in 1630 in Cloppenburg's medium-sized atlas. The eastern part of China (bounded in the north by the Great Wall) is dominated by several large lakes and major rivers. The mythical Chiamai Lacus is depicted with five rivers branching off from it to the south. Korea is depicted as a strangely shaped island (later states show it as a peninsula). Below the strapwork title cartouche is Japan on the Ortelius-Teixeira model. Americae Pars appears in the upper right corner separated from Asia by a narrow Anian Strait. This is the second state of Cloppenburg's map, with most of the hatching in the sea erased and "Malnobrigo" changed to "Malnobrige." Engraved by Petrus Kaerius. Blank verso.

Originally published in Johannes Cloppenburg's Atlas sive Cosmographicae (1630-36), this example appeared in the 1676 edition published by Johannes Janssonius van Waesberghe, Jansson's son-in-law. The later editions of the Mercator/Cloppenburg atlas by Janssonius van Waesberghe and Henri Sauzet are extremely rare.

References: Caboara #22; Van der Krogt (Vol. III) #8410:353.1.

Condition: A

A dark impression with a few faint spots of foxing and marginal toning.