Price: £650.00

• Date: 1654
• Condition: AAA
• Colour: Original
• Size: 38.5. x .53.5 cm

Titel: 'Partie Meridionale de l'Inde En deux Prequ'Isles l'une deca et l'autre de le Gange'.

Sanson's important mid-seventeenth century map of India and Malaysia.

First published in 1654 and issued separately, then included in Sanson's Atlas Les Cartes Générales de toutes parties du Monde, first issued 1658. Engraved by Jan van Somer, it covers most of modern India, Bangladesh and Burma, the whole of Sri Lanka, Thailand, Malaysia, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam, and parts of Indonesia and China, showing the cities and smaller settlements, rivers and mountain chains, as well as the borders of the seventeenth-century kingdoms and other major political divisions, most of them further subdivided.

With decorative title and imprint in a cartouche at the foot in the form of a cloth in an enormous shell floating on the sea: with the equator and Tropic of Cancer marked and latitude and longitude indications in the borders.

In excellent condition.