Blaeu: Asia, quae est Geographiae blavianae pars quarta, libri duo, volumen decimum

Joan Blaeu: Asia, quæ est Geographiæ blavianæ pars quarta, libri duo, volumen decimum. (Amstelædami: labore & sumptibus Ioannis Blaeu 1662)

• Digitized: Universidad de Granada [permalink]
• Bibliographic reference: BS 182
• Entry in Wiener China-Bibliographie

This is volume 10 of the 1662 edition of Blaeu’s Atlas maior or Atlas Novus, the comprehensive atlas of the world, conceived by Willem Blaue, compiled by Ioan Blaeu, cf. Peter van der Krogt: Koeman’s Atlantes Neerlandici. Vol. II (2000), Item nr.: 2:601[-3]10 (pp. 354 f.)

Dealing with China, the volume contains:

• [Martino Martini:] Asiae liber primus [-secundus]. Nouus atlas sinensis a Martino Martinio Soc. Iesu descriptus… (p. 119 of digital object) – Martini’s Novus Atlas Sinensis first published by Blaeu in 1655
• Martino Martini: De bello tartarico historia (p. 302 of digital object) – first published in Antwerp in 1654.
• Jacobus Golius: De regno Catayo additamentum (p. 327 of digital object)  – first published in 1655.