Carte De L'Isle De Sumatra. Dressee sur les Journaux des Navigateurs et surs plusiers Cartes Manuscrites qui sont au Depot des Plans de Marine. (Drawn up on the Navigator's Logs and on several Handwritten Maps which are at the Depot of Marine Plans).
by BELLIN, JACQUES NICOLAS
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Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
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1749.. A delightful detailed black and white map of the island of Sumatra, Singapore Straits and the southern Malay Peninsula, showing many coastal features, shoals, banks and small islands. A note at lower left gives the local terms for river, cape and island and advises that the interior of the island and the course of its rivers are unknown.
26 x 26.6cm with the plate marks: 30 x 25.7cm. Two small pink dots highlight Achem (Banda Aceh) and Malaca (Malacca), a little very occasional browning. Two horizontal folds. A very good copy. From Prevost, L’Histoire Generale des Voyages. Tome IX. No. 6. 1749. .
26 x 26.6cm with the plate marks: 30 x 25.7cm. Two small pink dots highlight Achem (Banda Aceh) and Malaca (Malacca), a little very occasional browning. Two horizontal folds. A very good copy. From Prevost, L’Histoire Generale des Voyages. Tome IX. No. 6. 1749. .
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- Bookseller
- Asia Bookroom (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 136777
- Title
- Carte De L'Isle De Sumatra. Dressee sur les Journaux des Navigateurs et surs plusiers Cartes Manuscrites qui sont au Depot des Plans de Marine. (Drawn up on the Navigator's Logs and on several Handwritten Maps which are at the Depot of Marine Plans).
- Author
- BELLIN, JACQUES NICOLAS
- Book Condition
- Used
- Date Published
- 1749.
- Keywords
- Cartography, Ephemera, Indonesia, Malacca, Map, Singapore, Sumatra, Zz_gallery_ephemera_and_maps, zz_ListOn_eBay
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- Maps;
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About Asia Bookroom
Asia Bookroom is a large open shop specialising in books on Asia. We also have smaller sections on the Middle East and the Pacific. Our stock ranges from antiquarian books through to new books. We also carry ephemera relating to Asia including an interesting range of 19th and 20th Century ephemera published in East Asia in English, Chinese and Japanese.
Asia Bookroom issues regular specialised book lists on Asia and invite you to let us know your interests so that we can let you know of new arrivals as they come in to stock. And if you are in Australia's capital city Canberra we hope you will visit our shop!
Asia Bookroom issues regular specialised book lists on Asia and invite you to let us know your interests so that we can let you know of new arrivals as they come in to stock. And if you are in Australia's capital city Canberra we hope you will visit our shop!
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