China: 'Pecheli sive Peking Imperii Sinarum Provincia Prima' (Pecheli or Peking, first province of the Chinese Empire). Atlas Blaeu, Laurens Van der Hem, c. 1665

The Atlas Maior is the final version of Joan Blaeu's atlas, published in Amsterdam between 1662 and 1672, in Latin (11 volumes), French (12 volumes), Dutch (9 volumes), German (10 volumes) and Spanish (10 volumes), containing 594 maps and around 3000 pages of text.

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