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Shuntian also known as Quinzay

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Xuntien alias Quinzay: A fanciful map of Hangzhou, China, embellishing the earlier nonsense of Andre Thevet (1516 1590)'s map of Quinsaï in the 1575 Universal Cosmography (Cosmographie Universelle). Quinzay is a name derived from Marco Polo's Travels, but neither map attempts to include any major elements of his account of Yuan-era Hangzhou. Shuntian was a Ming and Qing-era name of the capital district around Beijing and never had anything to do with Hangzhou in any era.

Date
1638
Mapmaker / publisher
Johannes Janssonius, drawer
Place
cities by Matthäus Merian
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
map
Original size
3,050 × 2,200 pixels

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Reason: its US copyright has expired (published before 1931).

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"Shuntian also known as Quinzay" (1638). Johannes Janssonius, drawer, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Xuntien_alias_Quinzay_-_btv1b53196767m_(1_of_2).jpg

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