The Shanhai Yudi Quantu is a Ming dynasty Chinese map published in 1609 in the leishu encyclopedia Sancai Tuhui.
Detail of East Asia.
Detail of Southern Asia.
Depiction of Europe in the Shanhai Yudi Quantu.
The leishu is a genre of reference books historically compiled in China and other East Asian countries. The term is generally translated as "encyclopedia", although the leishu are quite different from the modern notion of encyclopedia.
The Yongle Dadian, the largest leishu ever compiled