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A hand-colored engraved map of the continent of Asia by Justus Danckerts. The map shows geographical features, national borders highlighted in yellow, pink, and green, and various bodies of water. In the lower-left corner is a large, decorative title cartouche featuring an architectural plinth topped with two birds. Around the plinth are several figures: men in turbans and robes, one sitting and smoking a long pipe, another standing with a staff, and several figures attending to crates and bundles of cargo near a kneeling camel. Small sailing vessels are depicted in the Arabian Sea and the Pacific. The top right corner includes a small portion of the North American coastline (marked "Anian"). The bottom right corner shows the northern coast of "New Holland" (Australia).