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Map A Chart of the Coast of Arabia, the Red Sea and Persian Gulf, Drawn from the Chart of the Eastern Ocean.

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Title

  • A Chart of the Coast of Arabia, the Red Sea and Persian Gulf, Drawn from the Chart of the Eastern Ocean.

Summary

  • This English map is a reprinting, with slight changes, of an earlier French map published in 1740 by order of Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux, Count de Maurepas (1701-81), secretary of state under King Louis XV. The map was drawn from an earlier chart of the Eastern Ocean, "improv'd from particular surveys and regulated by astronomical observations." This English edition of the de Maurepas map has a different title cartouche. The "Remarks" section at the lower right gives abbreviations for physical features on the map, and notes: " A Stroke under ye Name of a Place denotes ye Latitude having been Observed by Astronomers, and a Prict [sic] Line by skilful Navigators." Longitude is measured in degrees east of the "Isle de Fer" (Ferro, in the Canary Islands). Town names are as they appeared on the earlier French map. The Red Sea is listed as the "Red Sea or Arabic Gulf."

Names

  • Child, G. Creator.

Created / Published

  • [place of publication not identified] : Maurepas, Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux, comte de,, 1740.

Headings

  • -  Iraq
  • -  Kuwait
  • -  Oman
  • -  Qatar
  • -  Saudi Arabia
  • -  United Arab Emirates
  • -  Yemen
  • -  1740
  • -  Arabian Gulf
  • -  Arabian Peninsula
  • -  Persian Gulf

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 1 map; color; 22 x 24 centimeters.
  • -  Original resource at: Qatar National Library.
  • -  Content in English.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021668407

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Child, G. Creator. A Chart of the Coast of Arabia, the Red Sea and Persian Gulf, Drawn from the Chart of the Eastern Ocean. [place of publication not identified: Maurepas, Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux, comte de, 1740] Map. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021668407/.

APA citation style:

Child, G. C. (1740) A Chart of the Coast of Arabia, the Red Sea and Persian Gulf, Drawn from the Chart of the Eastern Ocean. [place of publication not identified: Maurepas, Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux, comte de] [Map] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021668407/.

MLA citation style:

Child, G. Creator. A Chart of the Coast of Arabia, the Red Sea and Persian Gulf, Drawn from the Chart of the Eastern Ocean. [place of publication not identified: Maurepas, Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux, comte de, 1740] Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021668407/>.