Novus atlas Sinensis
Novus atlas Sinensis is a 1656 atlas of China compiled by the Jesuit missionary Martino Martini and published in Amsterdam by Joan Blaeu for European readers curious about the Chinese empire. Its pictures are hand-coloured copperplate province maps with decorative cartouches, sea-monster borders and figures in costume, offering a designer ideas for period cartography, ornamental title panels and framing devices.
