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Folding engraved map with fine hand colour.25 x 19 cms.Lower left mardin trimmed originally to adapt the folding map to the book,
The map represents the Korean Peninsula like an island, the eastern coast of China and Japan.This map originally drawn by Cloppenburgh and printed by Pieter van der Keere( Kaerius) for the 1630 edition of the Atlas Minor  is a reduced form of the Hondius map printed in the same period and the atlas mentioned above.
This second edition of the map that was used by Du Plessis fof his book  " Nouvelle geographie" has some differences like the removal of the last letters IA of JAPON; remnants of these letters still appear on the plate.The author describes the Korean peninsula as a "presqu´ isle de Coreé" so he took side for the insular theory. The Ladrones island also appear at the  south of Korea. Japan island is described with over 40 cities and the capital Meaco clearly represented.
An attarctive map from a rare geography by Du Plessis nowadays very difficult to find.