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A new chart of the China Sea and East India Archipelago : comprehending the Sunda, Molucca & Phillippine [sic] Islands in which are exhibited the various straits and passages to Canton, and between the Indian and Pacific Oceans
Title
A new chart of the China Sea and East India Archipelago : comprehending the Sunda, Molucca & Phillippine [sic] Islands in which are exhibited the various straits and passages to Canton, and between the Indian and Pacific Oceans / carefully drawn and regulated according to the most approved and modern surveys and astronomical observations by J.W. [Norie], hydrographer, &c., 1856.
Publication
London : Published as the act directs, Jany.1st, 1821 by J.W. Norie & Co. at the Navigation Warehouse & Naval Academy, no. 157, Leadenhall Street, [1856]
Physical Description
1 map ; 77 x 180 cm
Cartographic Detail
Scale approximately 1:2,800,000 (E 99°00'--E 145°00'/N 23°45'--N 4°37').
Local Notes
BEIN Roll Map 135: Imperfect: tears throughout, with a section missing at the bottom of the title.
Notes
Description based on imperfect copy; there are tears at the end of the title, including a section missing, affecting the cartographer's name.
Relief shown by hachures and depth shown by soundings.
Scale estimated from measurement of degree of latitude.
Three sheets mounted on blue paper.
Access and use
BEIN Roll Map 135: Restricted. Permission of curator needed for use.
Format
Maps & GIS
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 29, 2023
Subjects
Genre/Form
Nautical charts.
Also listed under
J.W. Norie & Co., publisher.
England London.
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