Longitude and Latitude on a map of the Qing Empire

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Huangchao yitong yudi quantu 皇朝壹统舆地全圖 [Complete Map of the Unified Qing Empire].

Dong Fangli (Youcheng) 董方立(佑誠) (1791-1823), Li Zhaoluo 李兆洛 (1769-1841)
Changzhou, China,
1865 [1832].
Wood-block printed map of the unified Qing Empire, comprising sixty-four sheets. Two titles in seal script to upper centre and upper right in two lines.
(if joined) 1780 by 2340mm. (70 by 92.25 inches). (each sheet) 203 by 277mm. (8 by 11 inches).
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An ambitious map comprising sixty-four sheets, divided into eight rows, each covering a latitude of 5°30' made under the reign of Emperor Daoguang 道光 (1872- 1850, r. 1820-1850). Engraved and printed by two-colour process, the map utilizes a dual-grid system; a grid of squares in black, and the system of longitude and latitude in red. The prime meridian runs through Beijing.

The map was the most advanced and complete map of the Qing Empire in the early nineteenth ...

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Sotheby's, China in Ancient and Modern Maps, 145, p. 230.