Digital Image: 1808 Guignes Nautical Chart or Map of Macau, Hong Kong, and Canton (Guangzhou)
MacaoHongKong-guignes-1808_d
Title
Carte de L'Entre de Macao aved la Route des Vaisseaux pour se rendre a Wampou et celle des Bateaux de Pays pour aller par l'interieur a Quanton.
1808 (undated) 18 x 16.5 in (45.72 x 41.91 cm)
1808 (undated) 18 x 16.5 in (45.72 x 41.91 cm)
Description
FOR THE ORIGINAL ANTIQUE MAP, WITH HISTORICAL ANALYSIS, CLICK HERE.
Digital Map Information
Geographicus maintains an archive of high-resolution rare map scans. We scan our maps at 300 DPI or higher, with newer images being 600 DPI, (either TIFF or JPEG, depending on when the scan was done) which is most cases in suitable for enlargement and printing.
Delivery
Once you purchase our digital scan service, you will receive a download link via email - usually within seconds. Digital orders are delivered as ZIP files, an industry standard file compression protocol that any computer should be able to unpack. Some of our files are very large, and can take some time to download. Most files are saved into your computer's 'Downloads' folder. All delivery is electronic. No physical product is shipped.
Credit and Scope of Use
You can use your digial image any way you want! Our digital images are unrestricted by copyright and can be used, modified, and published freely. The textual description that accompanies the original antique map is not included in the sale of digital images and remains protected by copyright. That said, we put significant care and effort into scanning and editing these maps, and we’d appreciate a credit when possible. Should you wish to credit us, please use the following credit line:
Courtesy of Geographicus Rare Antique Maps (https://www.geographicus.com).
How Large Can I Print?
In general, at 300 DPI, you should at least be able to double the size of the actual image, more so with our 600 DPI images. So, if the original was 10 x 12 inches, you can print at 20 x 24 inches, without quality loss. If your display requirements can accommodate some loss in image quality, you can make it even larger. That being said, no quality of scan will allow you to blow up at 10 x 12 inch map to wall size without significant quality loss. For more information, it is best consult a printer or reprographics specialist.
Refunds
If the high resolution image you ordered is unavailable, we will fully refund your purchase. Otherwise, digital images scans are a service, not a tangible product, and cannot be returned or refunded once the download link is used.
Cartographer
Chretien-Louis-Joseph de Guignes (1758-1845) was a French scholar, orientalist, ambassador, and merchant active around the turn of the 19th century. Chretien-Louis-Joseph was the son of the prominent French orientalist and Sinologue, Joseph de Guignes, a well-known proponent of the theory that Chinese colonists in the 5th century AD established a settlement, called Fusang, in modern day Mexico. Chretien spoke fluent Chinese, a legacy of his father, and in 1774 was assigned to the post of French Consul in Canton (modern day Guangzhou), where he spent 17 years. As one of the few Europeans in Canton fluent in Chinese, de Guignes was hired as an interpreter for the Dutchman Isaac Titsingh on his 1794-95 embassy to the court of the Qianlong Emperor in Beijing. The embassy, known as Titsingh Mission, was invited to attend the 60th year of the emperor's reign and was received at the Yuangmingyuan, or Summer Palace. Unlike the British mission one year earlier, which the Emperor rebuffed for rude and unseemly manners, the Titsingh Mission was feted by the Chinese for its adherence to conventional Chinese court etiquette. Ironically, this turned out to be the last European mission to be welcomed into the Summer Palace, which was destroyed by an Anglo-French army under Lord Elgin in 1860. It was also the last European embassy to appear before the Chinese Court in the context of traditional Imperial Chinese foreign relations. De Guignes returned to Paris in 1801 compiling a history of China and a narrative of his experiences there, including the Titsingh Mission. In 1808, by command of Napoleon, he also began work on a Chinese-Latin-French dictionary, which was published in 1813. The Dictionary proved to be a slur on de Guignes' otherwise distinguished career, turning out to be merely an updated version of a similar 17th century work by the Italian Friar Basilo Brollo. Even so, de Guignes was elected various prestigious institutions, including the Institut de France in the Académie des Sciences (Géographie et Navigation) and of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. More by this mapmaker...
Source
Guignes, Chrétien-Louis-Joseph, Voyages a Peking, Manille et l'Île de France, faits dans l'Intervalle des Années 1784 à 1801, (Paris, Imprimerie Imperiale) 1808.
References
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Library, G7822.C7 1808 .G85.