COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Map Collection
Record
Accession Number:
12409
File Name:
12409-002
Call number:
E683 M253d
Map title:
Asie Moderne
Place of Publication:
Paris
Publisher:
Chez Denys Thierry, ruë S. Jacques, à l'enseigne de la ville de Paris, devant la ruë de Plâtre
Publication date:
M. DC. LXXXIII.
Map size height:
21 cm.
Map size width:
13.5 cm.
Item description:
engraved map, vol. 2, fig. 2, p. 5
Geographical description:
Map of Asia including part of Africa and Europe. Also includes the northern part of Australia and Japan, as well as the Land of Jesso. The map appears to be printed on a piece of fabric hung on a wall.
Source author:
Manesson-Mallet, Allain, 1630?-1706?
Source title:
Description de l'univers, contenant les differents systêmes du monde, les cartes generales & particulieres de la geographie ancienne & moderne ... Tome second
Source place:
A Paris: Chez Denys Thierry, ruë S. Jacques, à l'enseigne de la ville de Paris, devant la ruë de Plâtre, M. DC. LXXXIII.
Cartobibliographic notes:
The land of Jesso was an undefined area which was thought to join America and which was located between Japan and the Kurile islands. Jean-Francois de Galaup, comte de La Perouse's expedition clarified the geography of the northern Pacific.
Geographic Area:
Asia
Normalized date:
1683
LC bibliographic number:
22293255
Asie Moderne
