COLLECTION NAME:
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Record
Author:
Elwe, Jan Barend
Date:
1792
Short Title:
4 Partie de la nouvelle grande carte des Indes Orientales, contenant les Isles de Borneo, Java, Celebes, Mindanao, Gilolo, Molucques, La Nouvelle Guinée, La Nouvelle Bretagne, & les Nouvelles Philippines; avec les Isles de Sumbawa, Serbira, Solor, Bouton & Pangesane ...
Publisher:
Elwe, Jan Barend
Publisher Location:
Amsterdam
Type:
Atlas Map
Obj Height cm:
49
Obj Width cm:
59
Scale 1:
7,500,000
Note:
Map of Asia, including Borneo, Java, Celebes [Sulawesi], Gilolo [Halmahera], the Maluku Islands (Indonesia), Mindanao (Philippines) and Papua New Guinea. Shows countries, regions, cities, topography, vegetation, bodies of water, drainage, coastlines and islands. Relief shown pictorially. Includes a compass rose with north oriented toward top of sheet, latitudinal and longitudinal lines, and descriptive notes throughout. Inset maps: Isle de Sumbawa -- Isles de Serbira et de Solor -- Isles de Bouton et Pangesane. Hand-colored engraving. Map is 49 x 59 cm, on double sheet 58 x 70 cm. Fourth of four sheets.
Region:
Borneo
Region:
Java (Indonesia)
Region:
Sulawesi (Indonesia)
Region:
Mindanao Island (Philippines)
Region:
Maluku Islands
Full Title:
4 Partie de la nouvelle grande carte des Indes Orientales, contenant les Isles de Borneo, Java, Celebes, Mindanao, Gilolo, Molucques, La Nouvelle Guinée, La Nouvelle Bretagne, & les Nouvelles Philippines; avec les Isles de Sumbawa, Serbira, Solor, Bouton & Pangesane dressée avec soin, sur plusieurs cartes manuscriptes, par un habile connoisseur; & publiée a Amsterdam par Jan Bt. Elwe. MDCCXCII.
List No:
14478.047
Page No:
32
Series No:
47
Publication Author:
Elwe, Jan Barend
Pub Date:
1792
Pub Title:
Atlas der wereld. Amstelædami, Chés J. B. Elwe.
Pub Note:
Atlas der wereld, by Jan Barend Elwe; published in Amsterdam, 1792. Title translates to: Atlas of the world. Bound in contemporary half-calf over marbled paper boards. With gilt ornamentation and title on spine. Collation - Folio: 22 pages, 40 leaves of plates. Comprised of letterpress text, an engraved title page, 37 maps, one timeline and one table of distances for Europe. Geographic coverage includes Europe, Russia, the Middle East, the Holy Land, East and Southeast Asia, Africa, North America and South America. Maps show continents, countries, regions, cities, churches, railways, topography, deserts, bodies of water, drainage, coastlines, islands and routes of exploration. With pictorial vignettes of figures, fauna and flora. This historical atlas in which Elwe re-issued maps by De L’Isle, Ottens, Jaillot, and other 17th-century cartographers continued the 17th-century Franco-Dutch mapmaking tradition long after it had been eclipsed by the 18th-century English mapmakers. The work is an intriguing bookend on a cartographic tradition - “the golden age of cartography” - that shaped much of the modern world.
Pub List No:
14478.000
Pub Type:
World Atlas
Pub Maps:
37
Pub Height cm:
59
Pub Width cm:
36
Image No:
14478047.jp2
Authors:
Elwe, Jan Barend
