Detail View: Old Maps Collection: Carte du royaume de Kau-li ou Corée : copiée sur la Carte Angloise
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Barcode:
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36878003544218
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Title:
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Carte du royaume de Kau-li ou Corée : copiée sur la Carte Angloise
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Contributor:
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Bellin, Jacques-Nicolas, 1703-1772, cartographer
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Category:
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General Maps
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Type:
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Printed
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Language:
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French
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Create Year:
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[1764]
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Page No.:
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55
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Scale:
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Scale indeterminable.
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Physical Map Dimension (cm):
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20 x 18 cm, on sheet 27 x 22 cm
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Note:
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This map features a notably accurate depiction of Korea based on sources sent to France via China. Korea is correctly depicted as a peninsula in a form roughly close to modern day. Up until the 18 century the ruling Joseon Dynasty had strictly forbidden Westerners from visiting Korea and the peninsula remained an almost complete enigma to Europeans. In fact, most of the maps of Korea at the time were almost blank with just one or two place names visible. However, around 1710, China's Empreror, Kangxi (1654-1722) dispatched agents to Seoul who returned with detailed maps and geographical descriptions of Korea. This intelligence was later given to the Jesuit Jean-Baptiste de Regis (1663-1738) who created as series of manuscript maps which featured a broadly accurate depictions of Korea. These maps were published in China as part of the Kangxi Atlas (1718-19). The leading French cartographer Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon D'Anville (1697-1782) acquired copies of the Kangxi maps first printed in Jean-Baptiste Du Halde's (1674-1743) 'Description géographique, historique, chronologique, politique, et physique de l'empire de la Chine et de la Tartarie chinoise'. Bellin claims on the title cartouche that the map derives from an English map as to avoid a "copyright" issue.
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Original is a copperplate printed map in the 'Le petit atlas maritime: recueil de cartes et plans des quatre parties du monde'.
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There is a 16-point compass rose on the map with a fleur-de-lis indicating north. Rhumb lines for the principal winds are bold and half-winds are dotted.
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Title inside scroll work phytomorphic cartouche.
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Scale line underneath the title in black and white interchangeably.
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Relief shown pictorially.
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Latitude and longitude lines on the bottom and right borders of the map.
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Landmasses outlined in green.
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Map outlined in double fillet.
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Reference:
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Phillips, P.L. A list of geographical atlases in the Library of Congress, vol. 3, n.º 3508, p. 348-355
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Subject:
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Atlas
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Geographic Area:
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Korea
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Relation Note:
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Tome III, n.º 55
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Pub Title:
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Petit atlas maritime : recueil de cartes et plans des quatre parties du monde
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Pub Author:
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Bellin, Jacques-Nicolas, 1703-1772
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Pub Year:
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1764
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Pub location:
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[Paris]
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Provenance:
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Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal
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Provenance:
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http://id.bnportugal.gov.pt/bib/catbnp/604917
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Provenance Call No.:
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C.A. 62 V.
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MUST holding:
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https://must.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/853MUST_INST/171sgkf/alma991002995549605076
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