Detail View: Old Maps Collection: Carte du port de Goa et ses environs

Barcode: 
4687820500123
Title: 
Carte du port de Goa et ses environs
Contributor: 
Bellin, Jacques-Nicolas, 1703-1772, cartographer
Category: 
Sea Charts
Type: 
Printed
Language: 
French
Create Year: 
]1764]
Format: 
JPEG 4847 × 5896, 31.7MB
Page No.: 
29
Scale: 
Scale indeterminable.
Physical Map Dimension (cm): 
21 x 17 cm, on sheet 28 x 22 cm
Note: 
This map depicts the harbor of Goa, India, most probably with a military purpose. The spotlight on the map seems to be given to harbors, with 7 marked, and forts, settlements, churches and other major buildings. As it is the case of the house of the Portuguese Viceroy of Goa.
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.
Note: 
Map outlined in double fillet.
Reference: 
Phillips, P.L. A list of geographical atlases in the Library of Congress, vol. 3, n.º 3508, p. 348-355
Geographic Area: 
Velha Goa (India)
Geographic Area: 
India
Relation Note: 
Tome III, n.º 29
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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