China--Jode, Cornelis de.

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The third western map of China, based on the Barbuda model, but recast in a north-south orientation, and the view shifted north to show north-eastern Tartary and inner Asia, presumably also derived from Jesuit sources, although de Jode also acknowledges the authors Juan Gonzalez de Mendoza and Giovanni Pietro de Maffei.

In the four spandrels, de Jode has incorporated four nicely engraved vignettes, a man using a captive stork to catch fish, a three-headed man being worshipped in Japan, a family aboard a canoe, with its own hut and duck pen, and a land yacht.

This map appeared only in the second edition of the de Jode Speculum, with two pages of Latin text describing China printed on the verso, and is very scarce.