CANTELLI GIACOMO
Penisola dell’India di là dal Gange divisa ne i regni che in essa si contengono…e conforme le relationi di alcuni Padri della Comp.a di Giesù di Monsù Tavernier, Mandeslo e d’altri viaggiatori del nostro secolo.
Date: Roma,1683
Malaysia-Singapur
Cod 6839
Subject: Malaysia-Singapur
1.500,00 €
Copper engraving, mm 530x410, hand colour. Very good example; map extending from Sumatra to the Bengala river and China river. Modern day countries include India, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Malaya. Showing the major rivers, mountains and cities.In bottom right corner a decorative cartouche, surmounted with two figures in Asian garb and a leopard. From Il Mercurio Geografico, printed by De Rossi. Giacomo Cantelli was born in Vignola, as he remarked with his signature, and was the first official cartographer of the Court of Modena, in 1685, when the Duke Francis II appointed him geographer. Very good condition
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