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    Rigobert Bonne: Indes Iere. Feuille.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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    Rigobert Bonne (1727–)  wikidata:Q721492
     
    Description French cartographer and hydrographer
    Date of birth/death 6 October 1727 Edit this at Wikidata 2 September 1794 / 29 November 1795 Edit this at Wikidata
    Location of birth/death Raucourt Edit this at Wikidata former 9th arrondissement of Paris Edit this at Wikidata
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    artist QS:P170,Q721492
    Title
    Indes Iere. Feuille.
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    English: A beautiful example of Rigobert Bonne's 1770 decorative map of northern India. Covers the subcontinent from Kandahar east as far as Burma (Pegu) and south to just past Goa. Names countless important Indian cities, river systems and mines. Rhumb lines appear in nautical zones. Arrows in the lower left and lower right show the direction of prevailing winds during the dry season and the monsoon season. Drawn by R. Bonne in 1770 for issue as plate no. A 26 in Jean Lattre's 1776 issue of the Atlas Moderne .
    Date 1770 (undated)
    Dimensions height: 12 in (30.4 cm); width: 16.5 in (41.9 cm)
    dimensions QS:P2048,12U218593
    dimensions QS:P2049,16.5U218593
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    Geographicus link: IndiaNorth-bonne-1770
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    Lattre, Jean, Atlas Moderne ou Collection de Cartes sur Toutes les Parties du Globe Terrestre, c. 1775.

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