Dec 06, 2012 - Sale 2297

Sale 2297 - Lot 127

Price Realized: $ 5,280
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
SPEED, JOHN. The Kingdome of China. Double-page engraved map, 400x515, wide margins, English text on verso; hand-colored in outline; matted. Lovely copy of the map. London: Bassett and Chiswell, 1626 [i.e. 1676]

Additional Details

Speed has borrowed heavily from both Blaeu and Hondius. Korea appears as a peninsula.