VISSCHER, Nicolaes (1618-79). Asiæ nova delineatio. [Amsterdam: c.1670]. Hand-coloured engraved map of Asia, allegorical title cartouche (some light browning and marginal staining), 435 x 535mm., framed and glazed. The first state, before the addition of the "Privilegio" in 1676. Provenance: "Sold to me as c.1670 in 1959. The Ladrones Islands were renamed the Marianas in 1668, so this is unlikely to be much later than that date. 'Van Diemen's Land' is marked; van Diemen's voyage was in 1642, so the map cannot be earlier ..." (manuscript note on the verso of the frame). With 7 other miscellaneous maps including Abraham Ortelius's Gallia Narbonens ... Sabaudiæ Ducat ... Venuxini comitatus nova descr. ([Antwerp, c.1603], a regional map of the south of France in 3 sections, Dutch text on the verso), Matthaeus Merian's Tabula transeundi maris Orientalis, Septentrionalis, et Occidentalis (Frankfurt, [c.1644], map of western Europe and north Africa), Edward Wells's A New Map of Sarmatia, Europæa, Pannonia and Dacia ([London, c.1700], with a small inset map titled "A Draught of the North Parts of Europe according to the erroneous Opinion of some of the Ancients") and Laurie & Whittle's A Plan of the Harbour of Rye in Sussex (London, 1794), all framed and glazed. (8)
