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Title: Carte de l'Isle de Ceylan : dresseáe sur les observations de Mrs. de l'Academie Royale des Sciences

• Coávens et Mortier
• L'Isle, Guillaume de, 1675-1726

Dates

• Coverage: 1750
• Coverage: 1750 to 1759

Publishers

• Chez Iean Coávens et Corneille Mortier, geographes; Amsteldam

Summary

Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:1,095,000 (E 78°30'--E 82°30'/N 10°30'--5°30')."Avec privil." Relief shown pictorially; depths shown by soundings. Prime meridian: Ferro. Bar scales given in"lieues marines de France et d'Angleterre,""lieues marines d'Espagne," and"lieues communes d'Allemagne". Appeared in various eds. of Coávens et Mortier's Atlas noveau.

45.3 x 56.1 centimeters

Scale approximately 1:1,095,000

Ames Library of South Asia Maps

Subjects

• Sri Lanka Maps Early Works to 1800
• Maps
• 2022-creator-sprint
• Sri Lanka

Geospatial coordinates

• Bounding Box: BBOX (78.5,82.5,10.5,5.5)

Provider

University of Minnesota

Rights

• Access rights: Public
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Citation

Coávens et Mortier, L'Isle, Guillaume de, 1675-1726. Carte de l'Isle de Ceylan : dresseáe sur les observations de Mrs. de l'Academie Royale des Sciences. Chez Iean Coávens et Corneille Mortier, geographes; Amsteldam. Early maps. https://umedia.lib.umn.edu/item/p16022coll246:251

Format

JPEG

Languages

• fre