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Title: Northeast China & Eastern Siberia, Russia, 1750 (Raster Image)

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Dates

  • Issued: 2011-09
  • Coverage: 1750

Publishers

  • Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library

Summary

This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Carte de la Tartarie Orientale : pour servir a l'Histoire generale des voyages, tiree des cartes levees par les PP. Jesuites. It was published by Pierre de Hondt in 1750. Scale [ca. 1:8,000,000]. Covers a portion of Northeast China and Eastern Siberia and Sakhalin, Russia. Map in French. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Asia North Lambert Conformal Conic coordinate system. All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as drainage, cities and other human settlements, shoreline features, the Great Wall of China, and more. Relief shown pictorially. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.

Subjects

  • China
  • Russia
  • Siberia
  • Sakhalin
  • Manchuria
  • Siberia, Eastern
  • Maps
  • Human settlements
  • Cities and towns
  • Villages
  • Landforms
  • Bodies of water
  • Infrastructure (Economics)
  • imageryBaseMapsEarthCover
  • Datasets

Geospatial coordinates

  • Bounding Box: BBOX (98.954178, 171.32952, 68.920681, 24.930609)
  • Geometry: BBOX (98.954178, 171.32952, 68.920681, 24.930609)

Provider

Harvard

Rights

  • Access rights: Public

Citation

Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library, Bellin, Jacques Nicolas, 1703-1772., Prevost, abbe, 1697-1763., Hondt, Pieter de., Schley, Jacobus van der, 1715-1779. Northeast China & Eastern Siberia, Russia, 1750 (Raster Image). Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library. Raster data. https://hgl.harvard.edu/catalog/harvard-g7822-m2-1750-b4

Format

GeoTIFF