Red Sea Region, North Africa, ca. 1730 (Raster Image)

Title:

Red Sea Region, North Africa, ca. 1730 (Raster Image)

Date:

201312

Description:

This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Carte de l'Egypte, de la Nubie, de l'Abyssinie &c., par Guillaume de l'Isle, de l'Academie Royal a Paris. It was published by Chez Henri de Leth, a l'enseigne du Pecheur ca. 1730. Scale [ca. 1:9,250,000]. Covers the Red Sea region, North Africa including portions of the Middle East and Europe. Map in French.The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Africa Sinusoidal projected coordinate system. All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as drainage, major roads, cities and other human settlements, territorial boundaries, shoreline features, and more. Relief shown pictorially. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.Historic paper maps can provide an excellent view of the changes that have occurred in the cultural and physical landscape. The wide range of information provided on these maps make them useful in the study of historic geography, and urban and rural land use change. As this map has been georeferenced, it can be used in a GIS as a source or background layer in conjunction with other GIS data.None planned

Type:

map

Type (Narrower):

Maps

Type (Broader):

Image

Coverage:

1730

Geographic region:

Africa
Africa, North
Red Sea
Arabian Peninsula
Mediterranean Sea
Algeria
Azerbaijan
Bahrain
Cameroon
Central African Republic
Chad
Congo
Congo Democratic Republic of the
Cyprus
Dijibouti
Egypt
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Gaza Strip
Greece
Iran
Iraq
Israel
Italy
Jordan
Kenya
Kuwait
Lebanon
Libya
Malta
Niger
Nigeria
Oman
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
Somalia
Sudan
Syria
Tunisia
Turkey
Uganda
United Arab Emirates
West Bank
Yemen
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Provenance:

Harvard College LibraryHarvard Geospatial LibraryHarvard Map Collection, Harvard College LibraryL'Isle, Guillaume de, 1675-1726.Leth, Hendrik de, 1703-1766.ESRI ArcGIS 9.3.1

Publisher:

Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library
Harvard University Library
Harvard Geospatial Library

Rights:

For educational, non-commercial use only.

Identifier:

G5687_R3_173U_L5

Source:

JP2 Map Image
Georeferenced Raster Data
Paper Map
JP2 Map Image
L'Isle, Guillaume de, 1675-1726.
Leth, Hendrik de, 1703-1766.
Chez Henri de Leth, a l'enseigne du Pecheur
Carte de l'Egypte, de la Nubie, de l'Abyssinie &c.

Format:

JPEG2000
Raster
Pixel

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