Premiere partie de la carte d'Asie
contenant la Turquie, l'Arabie, la Perse, l'Indie en deca du Gange et de la Tartarie ce qui est limitrophe de la Perse et de l'Inde
Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d',
1697-1782
cartographic
map
cartographic image
Early maps.
fr
1751
monographic
A Paris :
Chez l'Auteur aux Galleries du Louvre,
publisher
[1751]
fre
1 map on 2 sheets ; sheets 56 x 82 cm
"Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville (1697-1782) was an important French cartographer known for his scrupulous attention to detail and his commitment to accuracy. His method was to collect and compare as many sources of geographic information as possible and to correct and reissue maps as new information became available. His own personal collection of maps eventually totaled nearly 9,000 items. This map of 1751 by d'Anville shows the part of Asia from its border with Africa and Europe in the west to most of the Indian subcontinent and Tibet in the east. Brief notes describe parts of the Arabian Peninsula as "very dry" and "covered with sand." Qatar is listed as Catura. Kandahar, Kabul, and Herat are shown, and a garbled version of the name Afghanistan--"Agvanistan"--appears. Borders on this copy are indicated by hand-drawn lines in colored ink. No fewer than 12 different scales of distance are provided, a testament to d'Anville's commitment to detail and the lack of standardization at the time." World Digital Library.
par le Sr. d'Anville ; H. Gravelot, invenit., DeLafosse, sculpsit ; grave par Guille. De-la-Haye.
LC copy annotated in inks to show boundaries. DLC
Relief shown by hachures and pictorially.
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
Scale approximately 1:7,150,000.
Middle East
Maps
Early works to 1800
Middle East
G7420 1751 .A5
Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g7420.ct003763
2013593009
hdl:loc.gmd/g7420.ct003763
rda
DLC
130417
20220714110244.0
17701974
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