Artist / Author / Cartographer:
Aa, Pierre Van der
Title:
La Chine suivant les Nouvelles Observations
Date:
1729
Medium:
copper engraving
Size:
22.5 x 29.5 cm
Description:
La Chine suivant les Nouvelles Observations de Messrs. de L'Academie Royale des Sciences etc.
An attractive map of China published in Leiden in the first half of the eighteenth century.
The Dutchman Pieter Van der Aa was a publisher, editor and bookseller who worked in Leiden in Holland. He started working as an apprentice to a bookseller when he was nine years old and started publishing his own books by the time he was twenty three. He published numerous atlases and travel books.
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Item Code:
MA8423
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