Detail View: Old Maps Collection: Chu-Kiang or Canton River from Boca Tigris to Canton

Barcode: 
3687800354609G
Title: 
Chu-Kiang or Canton River from Boca Tigris to Canton
Other Title: 
Canton River from Boca Tigris to Canton
Other Title: 
Chu Kiang or Canton River from Macao & Hong Kong to Boca Tigris.
Category: 
General Maps
Type: 
Manuscript
Language: 
English
Create Year: 
[1857]
Format: 
JPEG 2000, 8109 x 6989, 90MB
Scale: 
[ca. 1:82,400].
Physical Map Dimension (cm): 
51 x 61 cm, on sheet 66 x 71 cm
Note: 
This is a roughly made manuscript map copying a published lithography in London by the Hydrographic Office of the Admiralty. The main chart of the map depicts in detail the Pearl River from Humen (Boca Tigris) to Guangzhou (Canton), path used by the British to reach Guangzhou for trade. Along the river a large amount of soundings is given and even on some of its tributaries. On the inset it is shown the same route but extended from Hong Kong and Macao to Guangzhou. The route west of Macao is also given but only with soundings at the mouth, for these was an exclusive route for the Portuguese that the English did not have access to.
Note: 
Inset 1: Chu Kiang or Canton River from Macao & Hong Kong to Boca Tigris. - Scale [ca. 1:275,000]. - 32 x 46 cm.
Note: 
Original is a manuscript map made from a third edition British lithography, 62 x 51 cm.
Note: 
Underneath the title: "Mally[sic] & Sons lith."
Note: 
There is a 32-point compass rose on the inset with an asterisk indicating north.
Note: 
Relief shown by form lines and bathymetric relief by soundings.
Note: 
Map outlined in bold fillet and inset in double fillet.
Note: 
Macao and its surroundings.
Note: 
Macao in routes.
Subject: 
Guangdong -- Maps
Geographic Area: 
Pearl River Estuary (China)
Geographic Area: 
Guangdong Sheng (China)
Geographic Area: 
Macao (China)
Provenance: 
Bibliothèque Nationale de France
Provenance: 
https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb407451240
Provenance Call No.: 
GE C-82
MUST holding: 
https://must.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/853MUST_INST/reglfj/alma991003022849505076