| Bib ID |
3425103 |
| Format |
Map, Online, Online - Google Books |
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| Online Versions |
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| Scale |
Scale [1:8,945,000] (E 92°--E 130°/N 44°--N 16°) |
| Description |
[London : Printed for W. Innys and others, 1747]
1 map : col. ; 32.8 x 40.4 cm.
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| Collection |
Braga special map collection.
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| Notes |
Map of China showing its provinces but without clear boundaries and including to the west the Kingdom of Tibet & Mogols of Kokonor stretching to the Kingdom of Corea [i.e. Korea] in the east. The map also includes the Isle of Hay Nan [i.e. Hainan] and the island of Taewan (or Formosa). Bowen has gone to considerable trouble to indicate the major river systems with a considerable degree of accuracy, though elaborate details of physical features in Tibet are largely conjectural'. The cartouche portrays a walled city with an elaborate pagoda. In the foreground a mandarin dispensing justice is identifiable by his dress and headgear, thus pointing out that, unlike other newly discovered lands, this distant and unknown country was civilised and had a highly developed system of justice. A modest compass rose is also shown. Relief is shown pictorially.
Cartouche title.
At head of map: Longitude from Peking.
At foot of map: Longitude from London.
Text reviewing the history of European cartography of China by Jesuit missionaries from 1708-1717 is included and entitled: Advertisement
At bottom left corner of sheet: No. 41.
Map no. 41 from: A complete system of geography / by Emanuel Bowen. London : Printed for W. Innys [and others], 1747.
Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-rm276
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| Subjects |
China - Maps - Early works to 1800.
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| Time Coverage |
1747 |
| Other authors/contributors |
Bowen, Emanuel, d. 1767. Complete system of geography
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| Related records |
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