Artist / Author / Cartographer:
Hydrographic Office of the Admiralty
Title:
Napa-Kiang Roads in the island of Loo-Choo
Date:
1827
Medium:
copper engraving
Size:
43 x 55 cm
Description:
Napa-Kiang Roads in the island of Loo-Choo by Capt. F.W. Beechy RNN FRS. 1827.
Large scale chart of the present day Naha harbour at Okinawa in the Japan Sea. With several coastal profiles, scale and vignette of Hydrographical office. Map nr. 990.
Prepared by Frederick William Beechey (17 February 1796 – 29 November 1856) who was an English naval officer and geographer.
Engraved by J. & C.Walker and "published according to Act of Parliament at the Hydrographical Office of the Admiralty Jan. 15th 1835".
A scarce chart.
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