Detail View: Old Maps Collection: [Carte des Mers de Java jusqu'à Canton]

Barcode: 
4687820501190
Title: 
[Carte des Mers de Java jusqu'à Canton]
Other Title: 
[Carte depui l'entrée du detrou de la Sonde jusqu'a Canton]
Contributor: 
Robert
Category: 
Sea Charts
Type: 
Manuscripts
Language: 
French
Create Year: 
1720
Format: 
JPEG 2000, 12611 × 19949, 41MB
Scale: 
Scale not given.
Physical Map Dimension (cm): 
120 x 74 cm, on sheet 130 x 112 cm
Note: 
Original map is manuscript watercolored on parchment 124 x 76.5 cm. The back of the map has a manuscript note 'Carte depui l'entrée du detrou de la Sonde jusqu'a Canton' and 'Porte.lle - 181, Pièce - 19'.
Note: 
Title of the map from the provenance library.
Note: 
The nautical chart has a red and blue semi compass rose indicating north. Latitude is depicted on both sides, watercolor interchangeably red and blue. The eight half-winds rhumb lines are drawn in red as is the Equinox line and Tropic of Cancer.
Note: 
The scrollwork on the upper left side has written 'Par le S.r Robert, 1720. Echelle de 60 L.a' and the scale line is interchangeably red and blue.
Note: 
Map outlined in simple fillet.
Note: 
Macao in East Indies Maps.
Reference: 
Foncin, M. Catalogue des Cartes Nautiques sur Vélin: Conservées au Département des Cartes et Plans, p. 297
Reference: 
Pflederer, R.L. Census of Portolan Charts & Atlases, p. 69
Geographic Area: 
South China Sea
Geographic Area: 
Southeast Asia
Geographic Area: 
Indonesia
Geographic Area: 
Borneo
Geographic Area: 
Paracel Islands
Provenance: 
Bibliothèque Nationale de France
Provenance: 
https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb407819064
Provenance Call No.: 
GE SH 18 PF 181 P 19 RES
MUST holding: 
https://must.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/853MUST_INST/171sgkf/alma991000811699705076