[Chart of the East Indies, South China Sea, Indonesia, and Malaysia] / made by Robert Friend, hydrographer in Shafts Court over against ye East India House in leaden Hall Street, London. 1719.

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[Chart of the East Indies, South China Sea, Indonesia, and Malaysia] / made by Robert Friend, hydrographer in Shafts Court over against ye East India House in leaden Hall Street, London. 1719.

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Portolan chart of region roughly bounded by the Taiwan Strait, the coasts of southeastern China, Indochina, the Malay Peninsula, Indonesia as far east as Flores Island, Borneo, Luzon, and the island of Taiwan. Compiled by an apprentice of the "Thames" or "Drapers' School" of mapmakers; see Tony Campbell, "The Drapers' Company and its school of seventeenth century chart-makers" in Wallis and Tyacke (eds.) My head is a map ... (London, 1973) p. 100-101.

1 ms. map : hand col. ; 1,300 x 835 mm. on 2 sheets.

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