Asia Qing China Mughal India Japan Arabia Ottoman Empire 1774 miniature map Vintage Advertising Plants of the World

Plants of the World

overall binding remains clean

Evidently it appeared within a French work during the American Civil War

various splits along fold lines from use

5" tear at middle right edge

Asia Qing China Mughal India Japan Arabia Ottoman Empire 1774 miniature map Vintage Advertising Plants of the WorldL'Asie. (Old Maps, 18th Century Maps, Engraved Maps, Asia, Ottoman Empire, Arabia, Iran, Persia, Russia, Qing China, Mughal India, Japan). Issued 1774, Paris by the French Academy of Royal Sciences. Small mid 18th century engraved map with attractive hand color. The apocryphal "Company's Land" is named off the coast of Yedo, title in a hanging banner top left corner. Note the distorted projection effect emanating from the north pole. Remains a nice