A New Chart of the Java Sea c.1794
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Reproduction of A New Chart of the Java Sea, Whitin the Isles of Sunda; with its Straits and the Adjecent Seas, originally published in 1794 by Laurie and Whittle of London in ‘The East India Pilot, or Oriental Navigator, on One Hundred and Eighteen Plates: Containing a Complete Collection of Charts and Plans’. In line with other sea charts of this period there is very little information about the inland areas. For merchants the seas and coastal cities were all that mattered.
Size image: 58 cm x 40 cm (M) or 86 cm x 58 cm (L, original size printed on canvas)
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