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Title: Bowle's new one-sheet map of Asia : divided into its empires, kingdoms, states, & other subdivisions
Creator: Palairet, Jean, 1697-1774
Contributor: La Rochette, Louis Stanislas d'Arcy de
Bowles & Carver, booksellers
Date Created and/or Issued: 1790
Publication Information: Printed for the proprietors Bowles & Carver, no. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard
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
Send requests to address or e-mail given.
kklein@usc.edu
Description: Includes text: "Methodical divisions of Asia, on the continent & the islands, under which two general divisions the whole is comprehened."
Date pencilled on map verso.
Relief shown pictorially, and with shading.
Prime meridian: Ferro.
Hand-colored copper engraving, printed on chain-lined paper with watermark.
Sea of Korea referred to as "Gulf of Corea."
Type: image
Format: 1 map : col.
47 x 51 cm., on sheet 53 x 61 cm.
maps
Identifier: seakorea-m160 [Legacy record ID]
EAMC_159
http://doi.org/10.25549/seakorea-m160
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/EAMC_159.jpg
Language: English
Subject: Asia--Maps--Early works to 1800
Maps--England--1790
G7400 1790 .P24
Time Period: circa 1741/1774
Place: Scale not given (E15º -- W170º / N75º -- S20º)
Asia
Source: Sea of Korea Map Collection, map no. EAMC-159 [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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