A newe mape of Tartary / augmented by John Speed and are to be sold by Tho. Bassett in Fleet Street & Richard Chiswell in St. Pauls Churchyard ; Dirck Grÿp, sculp.

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Title: A newe mape of Tartary / augmented by John Speed and are to be sold by Tho. Bassett in Fleet Street & Richard Chiswell in St. Pauls Churchyard ; Dirck Grÿp, sculp.
Alternative Title: New map of Tartary
Creator: Speed, John, 1552?-1629
Contributor: Bassett, Thomas
Chiswell, Richard
Gryp, Dirck, engraver
Speed, John, 1552?-1629
Copyright Date: [1676]
Description: English text on verso entitled: The description of the kingdom of Tartary, p. 39-40 (signature: V).
Illustrations on left border: A. Samoged -- Tartar genteel woman -- A Tartar -- Tartar country woman.
Illustrations on right border: Samoged woman -- Tartar gentleman -- Tartar woman -- Tartar country man.
Illustrations on top border: Astrakhan -- Samarkand -- Cambalu -- The House in Nova Zemla.
Map folio 39 from: The theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine ... as also a prospect of the most famous parts of the world / John Speed. London : Thomas Bassett & Richard Chiswell, 1676.
Map of Tartary [i.e. Mongolia] to the north of China controlled by marauding Mongols in the 13th-14th centuries. The map shows its provinces and cities stretching north from the Himalayas, west to eastern Europe and north of Chinae Regni Pars [i.e. China] and Corea Isle [i.e. Korea]. One feature is the Great Wall of China along the Chinese border on the lower right side of the map. There are many decorative features including along the top of the map pictorial scenes of the cities of Astrakhan, Samarkand and Cambalu, as well as an illustration of a "house in Nova Zemla". Left and right borders eight colourful illustrations of ethnic costumes from some of the peoples of Tartary.
Relief shown pictorially.
Text at top centre of map reviewing the discovery of Nova Zembla [i.e. the archipelago Novaya Zemlya] by the Dutch explorer William Hollander in 1594-96.
Watermark.
Extent: 1 map ; 35 x 44 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Scale: Scale approximately 1:22,438,000.
Coordinates: (E 30°--W 160°/N 81°--N 25°)., 025.000000, 030.000000, 081.000000, -160.000000, 22438000, and a
Language: English

Collection Information

Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number: Lanman 50 1676

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Format: cartographic
Genre: Maps.
Resource Type: Maps, Atlases & Globes
Subject (Geographic): Mongolia--Maps--Early works to 1800.
Subject (Name): Bassett, Thomas
Chiswell, Richard
Gryp, Dirck, engraver
Speed, John, 1552?-1629

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Identifiers

Orbis Record: 13279812
Object ID (OID): 16389950