Detail View: Old Maps Collection: Map of the Chinese Sea and Coast, from Drioens Strait to Nanquin, and the Islands from Borneo to Japan and Ladrones

Barcode: 
3687800354561D
Title: 
Map of the Chinese Sea and Coast, from Drioens Strait to Nanquin, and the Islands from Borneo to Japan and Ladrones
Original Title: 
[Kaart van de Chineesche Zee en Kust, van Straat Drioens tot Nanquin, en de Eilanden van Borneo tot Japan en de Ladrones]
Contributor: 
Blaeu, Joan, 1650-1712, cartographer
Category: 
Sea Charts
Type: 
Manuscripts
Language: 
Dutch
Language: 
Latin
Language: 
Spanish
Language: 
Portuguese
Create Year: 
1687
Format: 
JPEG 6243 × 5000, 14.3MB
Scale: 
Scale not given.
Physical Map Dimension (cm): 
73 x 93 cm, on sheet 82 x 111 cm
Note: 
Joan Blaeu succeeded his father, in 1638, as a Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie (VOC) mapmaker and achieved great profit from this office. His principal interest was his major cartographic works on Asia. On this particular chart are depicted the Western Pacific, China and Philippine Seas, as for the coast line extends from Malaysia to Nanjing with Korea (Coraij) represented as a small island. The other islands present are the Chinese islands of Hainan and Taiwan, a small part of Sumatra, the north part of Borneo and Philippines and southeast Japan. Near the coast of the Vietnamese East coast are the Paracels in the Vaz Dourado type, although with the triangular set on its northeast side that started to emerge on Dutch maps by the mid-16th century.
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Original is a manuscript map on parchment.
Note: 
Title from provenance library.
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There is a 32-point compass rose with a fleur-de-lis indicating north and a cross on the east point, colored blue, red, green and yellow. The rhumb lines for the principal winds are in black, for the half-winds in green and for the quarter-winds in red.
Note: 
Double scale line placed on Borneo Island, one in magenta and green interchangeably and the other in red, blue and yellow.
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Relief shown pictorially.
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The coast lines of continents and bigger islands are outlined in yellow, green and magenta with smaller islands painted in the same colors.
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Latitude line on the right side of the chart in yellow and white interchangeably.
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Equator and Tropic of Cancer lines in red.
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Toponyms on land in black and toponyms on water in red.
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Author information and table of leagues in Dutch with Tropic of Cancer and Equator in Latin. Place names in Dutch, Spanish and Portuguese.
Note: 
Macao in East Indies maps.
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Macao in China maps.
Subject: 
Nautical Chart
Geographic Area: 
China
Geographic Area: 
South China Sea
Geographic Area: 
Hainan Island (China)
Geographic Area: 
Philippines
Geographic Area: 
Vietnam
Geographic Area: 
Malay Archipelago
Geographic Area: 
Taiwan
Geographic Area: 
Malaysia
Geographic Area: 
Paracel Islands
Geographic Area: 
Cambodia
Geographic Area: 
Borneo
Geographic Area: 
Japan
Geographic Area: 
Korea
Provenance: 
National Archives of the Netherlands
Provenance: 
https://www.nationaalarchief.nl/en/research/map-collection/72f6e77c-fb5e-102d-96a7-003048976d84
Provenance Call No.: 
4.VEL.
MUST holding: 
https://must.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/853MUST_INST/171sgkf/alma991000811169705076