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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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