Old antique map of China - Philippines - Japan by Giovanni Botero / Natalis Metellus. 1596
Giovanni Botero (1533-1617)
Giovanni Botero was born in Bene, Pietmonte. He received a Jesuit education and entered the Order, becoming a teacher of rhetoric and philosophy in Italy and France. He was one of the greatest economists of the sixteenth century and considered a precursor of Malthus. He was expelled from the Order after delivering a sermon where he criticised the worldly authority of the Pope. His first geographical work, Le Relationi Universali, was published in 1591 but contained no maps. (J. Hubbard)
Regnum Chinae.
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Old, antique map of China by Giovanni Botero / Natalis Metellus, showing Southeast Asia, the Philippines and Japan.
Oriented to the West.
Date of the first edition: 1596
Date of this map: 1596
Copper engraving, printed on paper.
Size (not including margins): 16 x 21cm (6.2 x 8.1 inches)
Verso text: German
Condition: Excellent.
Condition Rating: A+
References: Meurer (Cologne), Bot 12.
From: Theatrum oder Schawspiegel: Darin alle Fürsten der Welt, so Kräffte und Reichtumb halben namhafft seind, vorgestellt werden ... Cologne, Lambert Andree, 1596.
This map of China is attributed to Lambert Andreas on the basis of his publication of the atlas in which it is found. This was a translation of the popular geographical work by Giovanni Botero in Rome.
Giovanni Botero (1533-1617)
Giovanni Botero was born in Bene, Pietmonte. He received a Jesuit education and entered the Order, becoming a teacher of rhetoric and philosophy in Italy and France. He was one of the greatest economists of the sixteenth century and considered a precursor of Malthus. He was expelled from the Order after delivering a sermon where he criticised the worldly authority of the Pope. His first geographical work, Le Relationi Universali, was published in 1591 but contained no maps. (J. Hubbard)