Detail View: Old Maps Collection: 禹跡圖

Barcode: 
4687820500616
Title: 
禹跡圖
Original Title: 
禹跡圖
Contributor: 
Anonymous
Category: 
General Maps
Type: 
Printed
Language: 
Chinese
Create Year: 
1903?
Format: 
JPEG2000, 4747 × 5349, 3.8MB
Scale: 
ca. 1:5,000,000
Physical Map Dimension (cm): 
41 × 39
Note: 
Stone rubbing dated 1903? One of the earliest stone maps, it consists of 5,110 grids, each grid is approximately 100 li. Original stone was engraved in Fuchang 7 nian, i.e. 1136 A.D. The stone is now in the Forest of Stone Steles Museum in Xi'an, China. Shows coast lines, Yellow River, Yangtze River and its branches, Tai Lake, Dongting Lake, and Fanyang Lake. Annotated in pencil: From Bull. de l'Ecole Française d'Extrème, Orient, vol. 3, 1903, facing page 214. On bottom of map: Carte B. Includes text.
Note: 
This is an early old map depicted the world
Subject: 
Rivers
Subject: 
Rubbing
Geographic Area: 
China
Pub Year: 
1903?
Pub location: 
France
Provenance: 
Library of Congress Map Collections