Detail View: Old Maps Collection: L'empire de la Chine pour servir a l'Histoire generale des voyages = Keizerryk van China, om te dienen tot de Historische Beschryving der Reizen

Barcode: 
4687820500344
Title: 
L'empire de la Chine pour servir a l'Histoire generale des voyages = Keizerryk van China, om te dienen tot de Historische Beschryving der Reizen
Original Title: 
L’empire de la Chine pour servir a l’Histoire generale des voyages = Keizerryk van China, om te dienen tot de Historische Beschryving der Reizen
Contributor: 
Bellin, Jacques Nicolas, 1703-1772
Contributor: 
Schley, Jacobus van der, 1715-1779
Category: 
General Maps
Type: 
Printed
Language: 
French
Create Year: 
1748
Format: 
JPEG, 13525 × 10639, 38.8MB
Scale: 
approximately 1:10,000,000 (E 73°29ʹ00ʺ--E 134°46ʹ00ʺ/N 53°33ʹ00ʺ--N 18°09ʹ00ʺ)
Physical Map Dimension (cm): 
27.2 × 38.7
Note: 
Includes notes in French and Dutch on the background of the map. Sea of Korea referred to as "Mer de Corée;" Korea as "Royaume de Corée.
Note: 
In this map, Macao is in the center of the mouth of the Pearl River estuary. Macao and the surrounding islands were depicted in this map.
Note: 
The map was drawn by Jacques Nicolas Bellin who was the French naval hydrologist and chief cartographer.
Note: 
Macao in China Maps
Geographic Area: 
China
Geographic Area: 
Korea
Relation Note: 
Appears in: Histoire générale des voyages, ou Nouvelle collection de toutes les relations de voyages par mer et par terre. / Antoine François Prévost [et al.]. La Haye : P. de Hondt,1747-1767. (Vol. 8, p. 1)
Pub Title: 
L’Histoire générale des voyages
Pub Author: 
Prévost, abbé, 1697-1763
Pub Year: 
[1749]
Pub location: 
[Hague]
Provenance: 
Harvard Map Collection - Harvard College Library