Heading: (World)
Author: Verbiest, Ferdinand
Title: Kun-yü ch’üan-t’u [Complete Map of the World]
Place Published: Seoul, Korea
Publisher:
Date Published: c.1930
Description:

Woodblock map, printed on 12 sheets joined into of 6 large maps mounted as scrolls on silk with later wooden dowling at tops and bottoms. Each scroll approx. 147.3x58.4 cm. (58x23").

This is a c.1860 Korean reprint of the c.1674 map by the Dutch Jesuit missionary, astronomer & cartographer Ferdinand Verbiest, who introduced cartography to China in 1657. It incorporated information from the Portuguese explorations. Verbiest was known as the Kangxi Emperor of China's Flemish astronomer. Reference: Other impressions of these maps are in the Library of Congress and in the Harvard-Yenching Library collection along with maps by Matteo Ricci. A very few sets of these maps, originally block-printed on silk and now owned by the National Library of Australia, still exist in national libraries in China, Japan, Britain, France, the United States and the Vatican. McLaughlin 56:3

Some minor worming, else about very good or better AMENDED 6/3/2014: It is the Seoul, c.1930s edition, not the Seoul, 1860 edition