Detail View: Old Maps Collection: Plano del rio por el qual se navega con e[m]barcacion[e]s menores entre Ma[c]ao y Canton

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Plano del rio por el qual se navega con e[m]barcacion[e]s menores entre Ma[c]ao y Canton

Agote y Bonechea, Manuel de, 1755-1803, cartographer

Guignes, Joseph de, 1721-1800, dedicatee

Plan

Manuscripts

Spanish

1792

[ca 1:73,000].

162 x 81 cm, on sheet 174 x 86 cm

This plan is mainly a navigational guide of the Pearl River, between Macao and Canton -Guangzhou. Macao is at the right bottom corner with all the fortresses marked and identified just as many other on the trip up the river. Some Pagodas are also marked, some with its name and others just marked 'torre' -tower. Underneath the title there is a large note with information about the making of the map. The author started to collect information since 1787 in all his trips to Canton, that in 1792 were already nine. He says the plan may not be the most correct one for all measurements were made on board; for westerners were not on land for long periods of time. And so he admits that the voyage is not possible only by consulting this plan.

Original is a manuscript map in paper, glued to canvas and varnished, 163 x 83 cm.

Behind the map there is a 4-point compass rose with a half fleur de lis indicating north.

Includes seven coastal profiles of different locations. Some drawings of fortresses, buildings and Pagodas can be seen in different parts of the map.

Title inside strap work cartouche with representation of a group of Chinese musicians at the top and of a coast of the China Sea at the bottom. Sided by navigational instruments and flags.

Relief shown pictorially and by hachures.

Latitude line on the right border of the map.

Map outlined in double fillet.

Macao and its surroundings.

Pearl River

Pearl River (China)

Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal

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C.Par. 71.

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