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Title: Het Eyland Diego Rais

Contributors:

Dates

  • Issued: 1753
  • Coverage: 1753
  • Coverage: 1753 to 1753

Publishers

  • Joannes van Keulen; Amsterdam

Summary

Cartographic Details: Scale not given (E 71°--E 73°/S 5°--S 7°). Relief shown by soundings. Second map depicts The Dangerous Shoals of S. BrandaÃÉo and lists the location; could not match this to any known geography, though a Vingboons map on page 376 of Grote atlas van de Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie volume 5 (from 1665-1670) shows"S. BrandaÃÉo" to the NE of Rodrigues Island. Possibly from: De Nieuwe Groote Lichtende Zee-Fakkel / by een gebragt en opgestelt door Jan de Marre ... in 't Licht gebragt door Joannes van Keulen. Amsterdam : by Joannes van Keulen, Boek-en Kaartverkoper aan de Nieuwe Brug in de gekroonde Lootsman, 1753.

38 x 62 centimeters

Scale not given.

Ames Library of South Asia Maps

Subjects

  • Rodrigues (Mauritius) Maps Early Works to 1800
  • Maps
  • Early Maps
  • 2022-creator-sprint
  • Mauritius

Geospatial coordinates

  • Bounding Box: BBOX (56.38,63.72,-10.14,-20.73)

Provider

University of Minnesota

Rights

  • Access rights: Public
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Citation

van Keulen, Johannes, 1704-1755. Het Eyland Diego Rais. Joannes van Keulen; Amsterdam. Early maps. https://umedia.lib.umn.edu/item/p16022coll246:297

Format

JPEG

Languages

  • dut