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Title: Carte nouvelle d'Asie
Creator: Moithey, Maurille Antoine, 1732-ca. 1810
Philippe de Prétot, Étienne André, 1710?-1787
Contributor: Philippe de Prétot, Étienne André, 1710?-1787. Atlas universal pour l'étude de la geographie et de l'histoire ancienne et moderne
Vallet, engraver
Date Created and/or Issued: 1787
Publication Information: M.A. Moithey
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution: University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection: Asian Maps Collection
Rights Information: East Asian Library, Archival Research Center, University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0154
Public domain
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kklein@usc.edu
Description: Relief shown pictorially.
Imprint pencilled on map verso.
"Moithey Ing. del.
Gravé par Vallet."
Includes text panel: "Bornes de l'Asie", "Mesures de l'Asie", and "Division de l'Asie en général, rélativement aux points cardinaux &c."
Probably from his Atlas universal pour l'étude de la geographie et de l'histoire ancienne et moderne.
Decorative title cartouche crowned with pyramid and clouds.
Hand-colored copper engraving, printed on chain-lined paper with watermark.
Sea of Korea referred to as "Mer de Corée."
Type: image
Format: 1 map : col.
26 x 33 cm., on sheet 33 x 48 cm.
maps
Identifier: seakorea-m67 [Legacy record ID]
EAMC_065
http://doi.org/10.25549/seakorea-m67
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/EAMC_065.jpg
Language: French
Subject: Asia--Maps--Early works to 1800
Maps--France--1787
G7400 1787 .P55
Time Period: circa 1720/1787
Place: Scale not given (E10º -- E170º / N80º -- S15º).
Asia
Source: Sea of Korea Map Collection, map no. EAMC-65 [Identifying number]
University of Southern California [Contributing entity]
Relation: Asian Maps Collection
Sea of Korea Map Collection
seakorea-m174
Provenance: Lee, David

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