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Certificate of Authentication and Description
This is to certify that the item illustrated and described below is a genuine antique
map, print or book that was first produced and published in 1719, today 306 years ago.
July 1, 2025
Cartographer(s)
van der Aa
First Published
Leiden, 1719
This edition
Size
22.5 x 30.0 cms
Technique
Copper engraving
Stock number
19725
Condition
mint
Description
Rare and important map of China, Formosa and Korea issued in 1714 in Leiden by Pieter van der Aa. The map is of medium size and is famous for its decorative and spectacular title cartouche and improved geography of the area.
Condition
Pristine copy, from a de luxe plano binding (ie. bound with no centrefold). Stunning original colour.
Pieter van der Aa (1659-1733)
Records show that van der Aa, born in Leiden in 1659, made an early start in life by being apprenticed to a bookseller at the age of nine and starting his own in business as a book publisher by the time he was twenty-three.
During the following fifty years he published an enormous amount of material including atlases and illustrated works in every shape and size, two of them consisting of no less than 27 and 28 volumes containing over 3,000 maps and plates.
(Moreland & Bannister).