Map of the Red Sea from Mocha to Jeddah. (Carte De La Mer Rouge Depuis Moka Jusqu'à Gedda) 1775

Old map of Eritrea, Jeddah, Makkah, Mocha, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Tā'izz, Yemen.

day Mocha, Yemen) shown at top right and Gedda (present-day Jeddah, Saudi Arabia), some 1,000 kilometers northwest, at the left edge of the map. As noted under the title, the original source of the map was Jean Law of Lauriston, commander of the French settlements in India in the mid-18th century. It was created in the form presented here by Jean-Baptiste-Nicolas-Denis d'Après de Mannevillette (1707-80), a celebrated French navigator, cartographer, and one of the first French hydrographers, who had a long and distinguished career in the Compagnie française pour le commerces des Indes orientales (French East India Company). D'Après Mannevillette studied under the famous Guillaume de L'Isle (1678-1756), the king's geographer. Using new instruments while on a voyage to China in 1728, he was able to correct the latitudes of many places. Upon his return to France, he corrected and published existing maps of the route to China: from the Red Sea to the coasts of India, Malaya, and the northern parts of Indonesia, Indochina, and China. From 1735 he began collecting charts and material about the navigation of Africa and the Indies. He also traveled extensively for this purpose. During his many voyages, d'Après de Mannevillette collected or created a number of charts for a hydrographic atlas, which, with the assistance of the Academie des Sciences, he published in Paris in 1745 as the Le Neptune oriental (The oriental navigator) with 22 maps. For the next 30 years, with the help of his friend the eminent British hydrographer Alexander Dalrymple, d'Après de Mannevillette revised his charts for a second and enlarged edition, which appeared in 1775 and contained 41 new charts. This comprehensive atlas was used on all French and many foreign ships when navigating the Indian Ocean.

Created by Baptiste-Nicolas-Denis D in 1775.

• Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
• "Scale approximately 1:1,710,000"--Note extracted from World Digital Library.
• Original resource extent: 1 map ; 66 x 49 centimeters.
• Original resource at: Qatar National Library.
• Content in French.
• Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Map Tags

1775

Arabian Peninsula

Baptiste-Nicolas-Denis D

Eritrea

Jeddah

Makkah

Map

Mocha

Nautical Charts

Portolan Charts

Red Sea

Saudi Arabia

Sudan

Tā'izz

Yemen