Regnum Chinae : the Printed Western Maps of China To 1735 / Marco Caboara.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Caboara, Marco, HKUST., author.

Series:

Studies on the history of cartography ; Volume 21.

Explokart Studies in the History of Cartography Series ; Volume 21

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cartography--History.

Cartography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : maps

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands : Koninklijke Brill NV, [2022]

Summary:

This study reproduces and describes, for the first time, all the maps of China printed in Europe between 1584 and 1735, unravelling the origin of each individual map, their different printing, issues and publication dates.

Contents:

Intro

REGNUM CHINAE

Copyright

Table of contents

Foreword by Prof. Wei Shyy

Foreword by Dr. Ko Pui Shuen

Acknowledgements

1. Making and Structure of this Cartobibliography

1.1. Introduction

1.2. Chronological framework

1.3. Map groups

1.4. The introductory chapters

1.5. Jesuit cartography

1.6. A process of discovery

2. Maps of China in the Ming-Qing Period (1534-1735)

2.1. Making and Collecting Maps in Imperial China

2.2. "Maps of the whole realm" from the Ming Dynasty

2.3. "Maps of the whole realm" from the Qing Dynasty

2.4. Conclusion

3. European Manuscript Maps of East Asia and China from Marco Polo to the Sixteenth Century

3.1. Introduction

3.2. The Ancient World and the Tabula Peutingeriana

3.3. Foundations of the Medieval Cartography of Eastern Asia: The Silk Road and Its Travellers

3.4. The Catalan Atlas

3.5. Fra Mauro's Map of the World

3.6. Henricus Martellus Germanus and the Renaissance Paradigm: Cathay and Mango beyond the Ancient Oikoumene

3.7. The New World of Martin Waldseemüller and Francesco Rosselli

3.8. Conclusions

4. China on European Printed Maps between the Late Fifteenth and Late Sixteenth Century

4.1. Premise

4.2. Ptolemy Replaced

4.3. Montezuma Is the Last Great Khan

4.4. From the Land Bridge to the Strait of Anián

4.5. Uncertainties

4.6. New Boundaries

4.7. Legacy

5. China in Sixteenth-Century Portuguese Nautical Cartography

5.1. Methodological Backdrop

5.2. China in the Mist

5.3. Ptolemy's Long Shadow, c.1517-1519

5.4. Cartography of Guangdong - 1520s

5.5. Around Fujian: 1530s and 1540s

5.6. The Ports of Call in Zhejiang: 1550s and 1560s

5.7. Returning to Guangdong: 1570s and 1580s

5.8. Conclusion.

6. The Coast of Guangdong and the Emergence of Macao on Chinese and Western Maps in the Sixteenth Century

6.1. Introduction

6.2. Chinese Maps

6.3. Western Maps

6.4. Conclusion

7. Atlases of China by the Jesuits Ruggieri, Boym and Martini

7.1. The Mapmakers' Travels and an Overview of their Works

7.2. Key Reference Materials in Chinese

7.3. Basic Cartographic Methods and Processes

7.4. Conclusion

8. Taking China's Measure: Eighteenth-Century Empire and the Mapping of Eurasia

8.1. The Qing Mapping Project and Its European Connections

8.2. Qing Court Atlases and d'Anville's Maps of China

8.3. The Encirclement of Central Eurasia

8.4. Epilogue

9. The Romanization of Chinese Toponyms

9.1. Introduction

9.2. Brief Overview of the Romanization of the Chinese Language

9.3. Geographical Maps as a Source for the Study of Romanization

9.4. General Analysis of the Romanizations Employed on Maps of China

9.5. Conclusion

Cartobibliography

1. 1584 Abraham Ortelius, Luiz Jorge de Barbuda, Antwerp

2. 1588 Abraham Ortelius, Filips Galle, Antwerp

3. 1589 Juan González de Mendoza, Giuseppe Rosaccio, Bologna

4. c.1590 Michele Ruggieri, Rome(?)

5. 1593 Cornelis de Jode, Antwerp

6. 1596 Giovanni Botero, Johannes Metellus, Cologne

7. 1598 Abraham Ortelius, Pietro Maria Marchetti, Brescia

8. 1598 Pieter van den Keere, Cornelis Claesz., Barent Langenes, Middelburg

9. 1601 Abraham Ortelius, Johannes van Keerbergen, Antwerp

10. 1605 Cornelis van Wytfliet, Douai

11. 1606 Jodocus Hondius, Amsterdam

12. 1607 Jodocus Hondius, Amsterdam

13. 1615 Matteo Ricci, Nicolas Trigault, Christoph Mang, Augsburg

14. 1616 Matteo Ricci, Nicolas Trigault, Horace Cardon, Lyon

15. 1616 Petrus Bertius, Amsterdam

16. 1617 Matteo Ricci, Nicolas Trigault, Bernhard Wolter, Cologne.

17. 1617 Matteo Ricci, Nicolas Trigault, Anton Hierat von Cöllen, Augsburg

18. 1625 Samuel Purchas, William Stansby, London

19. 1626 John Speed, London

20. 1628 Samuel Purchas, Johann Theodor de Bry, Frankfurt

21. 1628 Johannes Janssonius, Pieter van den Keere, Amsterdam

22. 1630 Jan Evertsz. Cloppenburch, Pieter van den Keere, Amsterdam

23. 1635 Willem Jansz. Blaeu, Amsterdam

24. 1636 Johannes Janssonius, Amsterdam

25. 1638 Matthaeus Merian, Frankfurt

26. 1639 Nicolas Trigault, Leiden

27. 1642 Carlo Giangolini, Rome

28. 1643 Jean Boisseau, Paris

29. 1645 Pierre Duval, Paris

30. 1646 Pieter van den Keere, London

31. 1652 Nicolas (I) Sanson d'Abbeville, Samuel Purchas, Abraham Peyrounin, Paris

32. 1653 Daniello Bartoli, Jan Miel, Cornelis II Bloemaert, Rome

33. 1654 Martino Martini, Balthasar Moretus II, Antwerp

34. 1654 Martino Martini, Jost Kalckhoven, Cologne

35. 1654 Martino Martini, Joan Blaeu, Amsterdam

36. 1654 Martino Martini, Jacob Jacobsz. Pool, Delft

37. 1654 Martino Martini, Matthäus Cosmerovius, Vienna

38. 1654 Martino Martini, Jean Henault, Paris

39. 1654 Martino Martini, Veuve Jean Serrurier, Douai

40. 1654 Martino Martini, John Crook, London

41. 1655 Nicolas (I) Sanson d'Abbeville, Paris

42. 1655 Samuel Purchas, Álvaro de Semedo, John Crook, London

43. 1655 Martino Martini, Joan Blaeu, Amsterdam

44. 1655 Martino Martini, Joan Blaeu, Amsterdam

45. 1655 Martino Martini, Joan Blaeu, Amsterdam

46. 1656 Daniello Bartoli, Benedetto Guasco, Genova

47. 1656 Nicolas (I) Sanson d'Abbeville, Michele Ruggieri, Paris

48. c.1656 Pierre Duval, Paris

49. 1657 Pierre Duval, Paris

50. 1658 Martino Martini, Joan Blaeu, Amsterdam

51. 1658 Gabriel Bucelin, Ulm

52. 1659 Nicolas Picart, Paris

53. c.1659 Philippus Cluverius, Daniel Elsevier, Amsterdam.

54. 1660 Martino Martini, Gillis Jansz. Valckenier, Amsterdam

55. 1661 Philippus Cluverius, Konrad Buno, Wolfenbüttel

56. 1661 Pierre Duval, Paris

57. c.1661 Anonymous (in French)

58. 1664-1666 Johannes van Loon, Johannes Janssonius, Amsterdam

59. 1665 Johan Nieuhof, Jacob van Meurs, Amsterdam

60. 1665 Pierre Duval, Paris

61. c.1665 Philippe Briet, Paris

62. c.1665 Casimir Freschot, Antonio Francesco Lucini, Venice

63. 1666 Melchisédec Thévenot, Sebastien Mabre-Cramoisy, Paris

64. 1666 Johan Nieuhof, Michiel Cnobbert, Antwerp

65. 1667 Athanasius Kircher, Joannes Janssonius van Waesberge, Elizaeus Weyerstraten, Amsterdam

66. 1667 Athanasius Kircher, Joannes Janssonius van Waesberghe, Elizaeus Weyerstraten, Amsterdam

67. 1667 Athanasius Kircher, Jacob van Meurs, Amsterdam

68. 1669 Johan Nieuhof, Wenceslaus Hollar, London

69. 1669 Richard Blome, London

70. 1670 Guillaume Sanson, Michele Ruggieri, Paris

71. 1670 Guillaume Sanson, Martino Martini, Paris

72. 1670 Guillaume Sanson, Michał Boym, Paris

73. 1670 Martino Martini, Juan de Palafox y Mendoza, Claudine Bouzonnet-Stella, Paris

74. 1671 Andreas Müller, Berlin

75. 1671 John Ogilby, London

76. 1672 Pierre Duval, Paris

77. 1672 Philippus Cluverius, Johann Adam Schall von Bell, Augustus Hanckwitz, Regensburg

78. c.1676 John Seller, London

79. 1678 Pierre Duval, Johann Hoffmann, Nuremberg

80. 1678 Philippus Cluverius, Leonhard Loschge, Nuremberg

81. 1679 Nicolas (I) Sanson d'Abbeville, Johann David Zunner, Frankfurt

82. 1680 Robert Morden, London

83. 1681 Jonas Moore, Herman Moll, London

84. 1682 Giacomo Cantelli da Vignola, Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi, Rome

85. 1682 Nicolas (I) Sanson d'Abbeville, Antoine de Winter, Simon de Vries, Utrecht.

86. 1682 Philippus Cluverius, Johannes van den Aveele, Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge, Amsterdam

87. 1683 Allain Manesson-Mallet, Paris

88. 1683 Allain Manesson-Mallet, Paris

89. c.1684 Nicolas de Fer, Jacques Robbe, Paris

90. 1685 Allain Manesson-Mallet, Johann David II Zunner, Frankfurt

91. 1685 Allain Manesson-Mallet, Johann David II Zunner, Frankfurt

92. 1686 Philippe Couplet, François de Louvemont, Paris

93. After 1686 Philippe Couplet, Anonymous (in French)

94. 1687 Nicolas de Fer, François Halma, Utrecht

95. 1688 Melchior Haffner II, Johann Christoph Wagner, Augsburg

96. 1688 Vincenzo Coronelli, Venice

97. c.1689 John Seller, London

98. 1690 Nicolas de Fer, Sebastian Fernández de Medrano, Brussels

99. 1691 James Moxon, London

100. 1692 Johann Ulrich Müller, Gabriel Conrad Bodenehr, Ulm

101. 1696 Adam Olearius, Antoine de Winter, Hamburg

102. c.1696 Johann Hoffmann, Nuremberg

103. 1697 Abraham Ortelius, Domenico Lovisa, Venice

104. 1697 Philippus Cluverius, Johannes Wolters, Amsterdam and Samuel Smith, Benjamin Walford, London

105. 1698 Philippe Couplet, Louis le Comte, Benjamin Tooke Junior, London

106. 1701 Herman Moll, London

107. 1703 Nicolas de Fer, Paris

108. 1703 Philippe Couplet, Leopold Voigt, Vienna

109. 1706 Pieter van der Aa, Leiden

110. 1709 Nicolas de Fer, Francisco Laso, Madrid

111. 1710 De Chevigny, Guillaume Delisle, Chatelain Brothers, Amsterdam

112. 1711 Philippus Cluverius, Matthew Jenour, John Nicholson, London

113. 1712 Herman Moll, London

114. 1713 Pieter van der Aa, Leiden

115. c.1715 David Mortier, London

116. 1717 Guillaume Sanson, Paolo Petrini, Naples

117. 1720 De Chevigny, Guillaume Delisle, Stamperia Baglioni, Venice

118. 1725 Thomas Salmon, Herman Moll, London.

119. 1725 De Chevigny, Guillaume Delisle, Philippe-Nicolas Lottin, Paris.

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Print version: Caboara, Marco Regnum Chinae: the Printed Western Maps of China To 1735

ISBN:

9789004530904

OCLC:

1350423950