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A chart of the western part of the East Indies. With all the adjacent islands, from Cape Bona Esperanca to Cape Comorin
Bound sheet. Engr. Scale: [ca. 1:14 000 000 (bar)]. Cartographic Note: North at 270 degrees. Borders graduated for latitude. Plane chart. Bar scales in English and French leagues, Spanish leagues and Dutch miles (altered from first state of chart). Additional Places: Indian Ocean. A chart from the 'English Pilot, the Third Book, describing ... the Oriental Navigation'. Although it has the same title and coverage as a chart in Seller's 1675 Atlas Maritimus, this is a new plate. The graduation, coastlines and placenames all show differences.
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Object Details
| ID: | PBE6865(10) |
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| Collection: | Charts and maps |
| Type: | Chart |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Seller, John; Thornton, John Fisher, William Atkinson, James Colson, John |
| Places: | Indian Ocean |
| Date made: | 1677 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
| Measurements: | Printed area 43 x 53 cm, on sheet 45 x 54.5 cm. |