Detail View: Old Maps Collection: Carte des Isles qui sont a l'entrée de la riviere de Canton

Barcode: 
4687820500008
Title: 
Carte des Isles qui sont a l'entrée de la riviere de Canton
Contributor: 
Bellin, Jacques-Nicolas, 1703-1772, cartographer
Category: 
Sea Charts
Type: 
Printed
Language: 
French
Create Year: 
[1764]
Format: 
JPEG 4831 × 5960, 32MB
Page No.: 
56
Scale: 
Scale indeterminable.
Physical Map Dimension (cm): 
21 x 17 cm, on sheet 26 x 21 cm
Note: 
This is a map of the South China coast from Shangchuan Island Lantao (Latao) Island. The focus is on the surrounding area of Macau and the most important islands in navigational aid to and from Macau. Xiangshan Island is marked as 'Isla de Macao' as was common on western maps of this period, demonstrating the importance of Macau over Xiangshan for foreign trade. There are depicted on the map the famous islands of Shangchuan (Chang-chuen-chan), Lampacao (Lampe Kao), the Ilha dos Veados (Islas dos Ucados) Lapa (I. des Prêtres), Montanha (Montania) and the Thieves Islands (les Isles des Voleurs). The presence of the soundings are also another indicator that the map has a navigational aid purpose. They extend all the way from Shangchuan to the entrance of the Pearl River.
Note: 
Original is a copperplate printed map in the 'Le petit atlas maritime: recueil de cartes et plans des quatre parties du monde'.
Note: 
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.
Note: 
Map oriented with East at the top.
Note: 
Title inside scroll work cartouche.
Note: 
Scale line underneath the title in black and white interchangeably.
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Relief shown pictorially and bathymetric relief by soundings.
Note: 
Map outlined in simple fillet.
Note: 
Macao in China maps.
Note: 
Macao and its surroundings.
Reference: 
Phillips, P.L. A list of geographical atlases in the Library of Congress, vol. 3, n.º 3508, p. 348-355
Geographic Area: 
Macao (China)
Geographic Area: 
Pearl River Delta (China)
Geographic Area: 
South China Sea
Relation Note: 
Tome III, n.º 56
Pub Title: 
Petit atlas maritime : recueil de cartes et plans des quatre parties du monde.
Pub Author: 
Bellin, Jacques-Nicolas, 1703-1772
Pub Year: 
1764
Pub location: 
[Paris]
Provenance: 
Harvard College Library
Provenance: 
http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990040126040203941/catalog
Provenance Call No.: 
G1059 .B45 1764*
MUST holding: 
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