Media Information

 
 
 
Collection name:
Maps of Africa
Record:
Title:
Route maritime de Brest a Siam, et de Siam a Brest, faite en 1685 et 1686 selon les remarques des six Peres Jesuites, envoiez par le Roy de France en qualite de ses Mathematiciens dans les Indes, et la Chine. Dresse par le Pere Coronelli ...
Title in Translation:
Sea route from Brest to Siam and back taken by the six Jesuit fathers in 1685 and 1686 ...
Publication Place:
Paris
Publisher:
J. B. Nolin
Publication Date:
1687
Cartographer:
Coronelli, Vincenzo, 1650-1718
Engraver:
Loon, Herman van, fl. 1667-1674
Height:
44 cm.
Width:
73 cm.
Scale:
No scale given
Color:
Uncolored
Descriptive Notes:
Folio map extends eastward to include the Middle and Far East. Map traces the sea routes of Jesuit Fathers. Inset: Elevation of Table Mountain, Plan of Table Bay, Plans of Siam, Louvo and Batavia; Prime meridian through Ferro Island.
Provenance:
Dr. Oscar I. Norwich
General Area:
Africa
Geographic Focus:
Africa
Map Use:
Exploration
Period:
17th c.
Norwich Number:
51
Call Number:
NOR 0051
References:
Norwich (2nd ed.), ckey = 3871463
Page:
map 0051, p. 63
Program:
Jacobson Africana Program

Route maritime de Brest a Siam, et de Siam a Brest, faite en 1685 et 1686 selon les remarq…