BEIN 21 1670A: Manuscript number on verso: 173. Watermark., Depths shown by isolines and soundings., Coordinates not present on map and are approximated., and From Blaeu's De groote Zee-spiegel (Amsterdam, 1655).
BEIN 21 1670B: Manuscript number on verso: 174. Watermark., Depths shown by isolines and soundings., Coordinates not present on map and are approximated., and From Blaeu's De groote Zee-spiegel (Amsterdam, 1655).
Title supplied by cataloger. and "This book of charts was taken out of a Chinese trading junk of between 400 & 500 tons burden, trading from the gulf of Pechili in China to the straits of Singapore, by Philip Bean, of H.M.S. Herald, in the year of 1841; the junk being taken as a seige by the 'Herald'"--inscription from front free endpaper in 19th century hand.