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Wanguo Dadi Quantu [Complete Map of the World with All Nations]. China: Xianfeng period, 1851.
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LIU YAN (also called DEZHI, fl. 1834-1851), after YE ZIPEI (fl. 1813-1845)
Wanguo Dadi Quantu [Complete Map of the World with All Nations]. China: Xianfeng period, 1851.
Extremely rare monumental map of the globe, one of only two known extant copies. It features two hemispheres defined by straight meridian and circular parallel lines and a ground of red grids. The left hemisphere centres on the south pole, while the right one on the north pole; both are bordered by the equator. The map adopts the modern mapping techniques of conic equidistant projection and geographic coordinates. Placenames are oriented outwards on the northern hemisphere, while those on the southern orient inwards, such as one might expect if a globe were cut in two at the equator and the two hemispheres aligned with the poles facing the viewer. The producer of this map is Liu Yan (or Liu Dezhi), an expert of terrestrial globe making and a student of Li Zhaoluo (1769-1841). The original cartographer is Ye Zipei (fl. 1813-1845) who, according to Liu Yan’s inscription at the top of the map, based his work on the famous world map Kunyu Quantu (Complete Map of the World) produced by Ferdinand Verbiest (1623-1688), and Huangchao Yitong Yudi Quantu [Complete Map of the Unified Empire] by Li Zhaoluo. However, Liu Yan may have largely changed Ye Zipei’s original design to what we see in the present lot, including the unusual composition, and moving the detailed annotations from within the hemispheres to the margins of the map (Huang). The map was published three times: the first edition by Ye Zipei in 1845; the second edition revised and released by Liu Yan in the third month of 1851, with only two known extant copies, being the present lot and the copy in the collection of Shijiazhuang Museum, Hebei Province (this copy is divided differently, into eight vertical strips); the third edition was also published by Liu Yan, in the autumn of 1851, renamed Dadi Quanqiu Yilan zhi Tu (Map with an Overview of the Whole Global World), a copy of which can be found in the collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei. Ying-Shi Huang, ‘Research on the Characteristic and Production of the “Universal Atlas” by Ye Zipei,’ in Bulletin of the Historical Association of the Republic of China, no. 42 (2010), pp. 185-230.
Woodblock map of the globe, printed on paper in red and black, comprising six accordion-style albums, each approx. 215 x 95mm folded (215 x 2600mm unfolded) for an overall size of approx. 1290 x 2600mm. Light brown front and rear covers for each album, with a white title strip on the front covers, title and sequence number written in ink by hand. The map includes rivers, mountains, and geometrical shapes representing administrative units, annotated with place names in Chinese. Texts on the four sides include information of countries and places. An inscription from Ye Zipei’s original version of the map is preserved and printed at the upper left corner, including texts by Ye Zipei himself, his brother Ye Yunshi, collector Tan Jing and Yu Hao. The map contains two inscriptions by Liu Yan in 1851, one next to Ye Zipei’s inscription and the other at the lower left corner. Collector’s seals appear on the flyleaf of each album. (Wormholes along folds with significant losses, all albums backed with rice paper, some chipping and tears along folds; paper browning, especially along the margins and wormholes; light staining on covers, title strips slightly chipping. Album one (the top row): the middle part of the title strip lost, the largest wormhole measures 40 x 70mm, on the title leaf. Album two: the largest wormhole 105 x 150mm. Album three: the largest wormhole 105 x 110mm. Album four: the largest wormhole 80 x 90mm. Album five: the largest wormhole 90 x 65mm. Album six: the largest wormhole 60 x 30mm.) Provenance: Nishiyama Goro, 1864-1940, Tokyo, Japan (collector's stamp).
Wanguo Dadi Quantu [Complete Map of the World with All Nations]. China: Xianfeng period, 1851.
Extremely rare monumental map of the globe, one of only two known extant copies. It features two hemispheres defined by straight meridian and circular parallel lines and a ground of red grids. The left hemisphere centres on the south pole, while the right one on the north pole; both are bordered by the equator. The map adopts the modern mapping techniques of conic equidistant projection and geographic coordinates. Placenames are oriented outwards on the northern hemisphere, while those on the southern orient inwards, such as one might expect if a globe were cut in two at the equator and the two hemispheres aligned with the poles facing the viewer. The producer of this map is Liu Yan (or Liu Dezhi), an expert of terrestrial globe making and a student of Li Zhaoluo (1769-1841). The original cartographer is Ye Zipei (fl. 1813-1845) who, according to Liu Yan’s inscription at the top of the map, based his work on the famous world map Kunyu Quantu (Complete Map of the World) produced by Ferdinand Verbiest (1623-1688), and Huangchao Yitong Yudi Quantu [Complete Map of the Unified Empire] by Li Zhaoluo. However, Liu Yan may have largely changed Ye Zipei’s original design to what we see in the present lot, including the unusual composition, and moving the detailed annotations from within the hemispheres to the margins of the map (Huang). The map was published three times: the first edition by Ye Zipei in 1845; the second edition revised and released by Liu Yan in the third month of 1851, with only two known extant copies, being the present lot and the copy in the collection of Shijiazhuang Museum, Hebei Province (this copy is divided differently, into eight vertical strips); the third edition was also published by Liu Yan, in the autumn of 1851, renamed Dadi Quanqiu Yilan zhi Tu (Map with an Overview of the Whole Global World), a copy of which can be found in the collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei. Ying-Shi Huang, ‘Research on the Characteristic and Production of the “Universal Atlas” by Ye Zipei,’ in Bulletin of the Historical Association of the Republic of China, no. 42 (2010), pp. 185-230.
Woodblock map of the globe, printed on paper in red and black, comprising six accordion-style albums, each approx. 215 x 95mm folded (215 x 2600mm unfolded) for an overall size of approx. 1290 x 2600mm. Light brown front and rear covers for each album, with a white title strip on the front covers, title and sequence number written in ink by hand. The map includes rivers, mountains, and geometrical shapes representing administrative units, annotated with place names in Chinese. Texts on the four sides include information of countries and places. An inscription from Ye Zipei’s original version of the map is preserved and printed at the upper left corner, including texts by Ye Zipei himself, his brother Ye Yunshi, collector Tan Jing and Yu Hao. The map contains two inscriptions by Liu Yan in 1851, one next to Ye Zipei’s inscription and the other at the lower left corner. Collector’s seals appear on the flyleaf of each album. (Wormholes along folds with significant losses, all albums backed with rice paper, some chipping and tears along folds; paper browning, especially along the margins and wormholes; light staining on covers, title strips slightly chipping. Album one (the top row): the middle part of the title strip lost, the largest wormhole measures 40 x 70mm, on the title leaf. Album two: the largest wormhole 105 x 150mm. Album three: the largest wormhole 105 x 110mm. Album four: the largest wormhole 80 x 90mm. Album five: the largest wormhole 90 x 65mm. Album six: the largest wormhole 60 x 30mm.) Provenance: Nishiyama Goro, 1864-1940, Tokyo, Japan (collector's stamp).
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