Exacta & accurate delineatio cùm orarum maritimarum tùm etiam locorum terrestrium quae in regionibus Ch...

An intricate, engraved map of Southeast Asia, China, Japan, and the East Indies. The map is oriented with North to the left, as indicated by the vertical placement of the Tropic of Cancer. China (part of China) dominates the left side, featuring rivers, mountains, and illustrations of a rhinoceros, a giraffe, and an elephant. Japan and a large island labeled Island of Korea appear in the upper left. The Philippines are centered, surrounded by the Chinese Ocean, which contains several detailed European sailing ships. Large islands of Borneo, Sumatra, and Java occupy the right and bottom sections. New Guinea and Gilolo appear in the upper right. At the bottom right, a coastline is labeled Beach, a gold-bearing province. Decorative elements include an elaborate architectural cartouche at the top center containing a scale bar and credits to Arnoldus Florentius à Langren. A large text block in the upper right contains descriptions in Latin and Dutch. Two ornate compass roses with rhumb lines span the oceans. Sea monsters and a whale are depicted in the eastern seas. Numerous small place names appear along the coastlines.

German Miles, of which 15 correspond to one degree.

Spanish Miles, of which 17 1/2 correspond to one degree.

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An exact and accurate delineation of both the maritime coasts and the terrestrial locations that are in the regions of China, Cochinchina, Cambodia, or Champa, Siam, Malacca, Arakan, and Pegu, together with all the neighboring islands adjacent thereto, taken from the Itinerary of Jan Huygen van Linschoten, etc. Into the Philippines, the Lucones original name for the people and region of Luzon, and those called the Lequios Ryukyu Islands, as well as in the island of Japan and Korea, and many other rare adjacent places; where also the first movements of the rivers, springs, streams, and lakes everywhere, through which places and into which ports one may navigate, etc., have all been most accurately depicted in this manner by Arnoldus Florentius à Langren, Geographer and Sculptor to His Royal Majesty, who published it to the light of day, from an archetype expressed from life, and corrected in many places by Petrus Plancius, by whose favor these and many other things are produced for the praise of God and the utility of the whole world.

A truthful portrait or depiction of all the sea coasts and lands of China, Cochinchina, Cambodia, Siam, Malacca, Arakan, and Pegu, together with all the surrounding islands, large and small, such as the Philippines, the Lucones, and the Lequios, as well as the islands of the Japanese and Korea, with their depths, sands, shallows, and shoals, all drawn according to the most correct sea chart of this land that the Portuguese use, treated and brought forth.

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CHINESE OCEAN

PART OF CHINA

JAPANESE

ISLAND OF KOREA

PHILIPPINE ISLANDS

BORNEO

SUMATRA

GREATER JAVA

LESSER JAVA

BEACH
gold-bearing province

NEW GUINEA

TROPIC OF CANCER

EQUINOCTIAL LINE