Witsen, Nicolaas
Nieuwe lantkaarte van het noorder en ooster deel van
Asia en Europe strekkende van Nova Zemla tot China. [n.p.]
1687.
Nicolas Witsen, Burgomeister of Amsterdam, accompanied a Dutch
embassy to Moscow in 1664 and thereafter maintained
correspondence with people in several parts of Russia and its
empire, enabling him to compile information for this map which
was considered the best map of inner Asia in the seventeenth
century. It is printed in four sheets, each about 24 inches
square.
S.W. Asia (Caspian Sea & Kamalki)
N.W. Asia (Nova Zemlia)
N.E. Asia (Ys Caep)
S.E. Asia (China)