Mr. Selden's Map of China: The Spice Trade, A Lost Chart and the South China Sea
de Brook, Timothy
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London: Profile Books, 2013. 1st edition. Nice copy. octavo. hardback with dust jacket xxiv + 211pp., col. & b/w pls., maps, appends., index, In 1659, a vast and unusual map of China arrived in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. It was bequeathed by John Selden, a London business lawyer, political activist, former convict, MP and the city's first Orientalist scholar. When Timothy Brook saw it in 2009, he realised that the Selden Map was 'a puzzle that had to be solved': an exceptional artefact, so unsettlingly modern-looking it could almost be a forgery. But it was genuineÕ
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- Mr. Selden's Map of China: The Spice Trade, A Lost Chart and the South China Sea
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- Brook, Timothy
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- Usado - Nice copy
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- 1st edition
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- Profile Books
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- London
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- 2013
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- octavo
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