Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'
1737

Original antique map of southern India and Coromandel Coast after Bouchet

Nouvelle Carte d'une Grande Partie de la Presqu'ile des Indes en de ca du Gange

DESCRIPTION: Early antique copper-plate engraved map from 1737 of southern India and a bit of Sri Lanka (Ceylan) including the Coromandel Coast of southeast India.

Created by J.B. d'Anville (1697-1782) after Jesuit cartographer Jean-Venant Bouchet who spent 30 years surveying southern India. Includes the Jesuit "logo" at bottom left, an acknowledgement of its Jesuit sources. Anville would have used the symbol to legitimize and to promote the value of this derivative work.

Engraved by Louis Corne. Apparently scarce. No copy found for sale online nor any sale record in AMPR.

This is one of the earliest maps to accurately detail the interior of Southern India. Legend at lower left identifies locations described in French as:
  • Place considerable
  • Demeure d'un Nabab ou Gouvereur.
  • Demure d'un Paleagaren ou petit Prince.
  • Eglise ou Christienti.
  • Pagode ou Temple de Gentile.

CREATOR: Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'

PUBLICATION DATE: 1737

GEOGRAPHIC AREA: India

BODY OF WATER: Indian Ocean

CONDITION: Good.  Clean. Short 1" tear at top margin repaired archivally from verso.

COLORING: N/A

ENGRAVER: Louis Corne.

SIZE: 12 " x 14 "

ITEM PHYSICAL LOCATION: 

PRICE: $450

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