Appropriately, the sheet for Hopeh that takes in Peking is the most ornate of Martinis fifteen provincial maps. Blaeus designer has provided a delightful title-piece, formed of two Chinese elders seated in ornamental chairs, with their servants and a pair of flamboyant birds. Curiously, although Peking had been named since the 15th century (after a spell as Kublai Khans Camnalue), it is here spelled Xuntien.
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Martino_Martini" class="extiw" title="w:en:Martino Martini"><span title="Italian Jesuit missionary, cartographer and historian (1614-1661)">Martino Martini</span></a>
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1690, from a 1655 original
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