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Mr Selden's Map of China

Paperback • 2015 • 1. edition

Mr Selden's Map of China

By Timothy Brook

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About the book

In 1659, a vast and unusual map of China arrived in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. It was bequeathed by John Selden, a London business lawyer, political activist, former convict, MP and the city's first Orientalist scholar. Largely ignored, it remained in the bowels of the library, until called up by an inquisitive reader. When Timothy Brook saw it in 2009, he realised that the Selden Map was 'a puzzle that had to be solved': an exceptional artefact, so unsettlingly modern-looking it could almost...Show more

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9781781250396

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Profile Books Ltd

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2015

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Mr Selden's Map of China

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