Exactissima Asiae delineatio, in praecipuas regiones, ceterasq partes divisa, et denuo in lucem / [cartographic material]Allard, Carel, 1648-ca. 17091702]latBEIN 1973 Folio 18: Backed with paper. Ms. no. "88" in upper right corner. Sheet measures 53.4 x 62.5 cm. No. 81 of 87 maps bound together.The map covers most of Eurasia from the Middle East, the whole of Tartaria [i.e. China and the Russian Republic in the north], Iaponia [i.e. Japan] and an incomplete outline of Yedso [probably the islands of Hokkaido and Sakhalin] and all of South East Asia, including the East Indies. It incorporates Nicholas Witsen's Asian and Siberian cartography - Witsen was a prominent politician, Mayor of Amsterdam, scholar and cartographer. The decorative cartouche features an oriental courtesan with merchants of many nations presenting gifts. Relief is shown pictorially.Relief shown pictorially.Prime meridian: Ferro.Map [51] from: Magnum theatrum belli, quousque se hodie in orbe extendit : continens novissimas et perfectissimas, tam particulares quam generales, Tabulas Geographicas : Germaniae, Beglii, Hungariae, Italiee, Galliae, Hispaniae, Magniae Britaniae, Scandinaviae, Poloniae, Moscoviae, Asiae, Americae et Africae : cum speciali indice, quo cujuslibet Tabulae notabilia exhibentur / opus collectum a Carolo Allard. Amstelo Batavo : [C. Allard?, 1702].Text in Latin.