Original outline hand colouring. Good clean condition. From A New General Atlas. Tartary, Giacomo Giovanni Rossi, c.1695. An engraved map of Tartary.
Japan is shown to be very near to the mainland at the northern point.
The large decorative title cartouche displays a Tartary family and bears an attribution to the Modena cartographer Giacomo Cantello da Vignola and is dated 1683. Matching light water stain in the two bottom blank margins. Otherwise good condition.