Bertius, Petrus
1616

Malabar

Descriptio Regni Malabar

DESCRIPTION: Very beautiful early antique miniature map of southern India and a part of Sri Lanka (Ceilon or Ceylon) by Bertius. Numerous towns and villages in India are identified. Important locations within India that are noted by Bertius include: Coromandel, Bisnagor, Goa, Negapatam, Cananor, Calicut (Kozhikode), and Mangalor (Mangaluru),

This lovely copper-plate engraved map is from a Latin edition of Petrus Bertius' Tabularum Geographicarum Contractarum. The basis of the "Tabularum" was the atlas Caert Thresoor by Barent Langenes, first published in 1598.

Latin text on verso. Plate 586.

Petrus Bertius (1565 – 1629)


Cartographer, theologian, historian, and geographer Petrus Bertius was born in Beveren-aan-de-Ijzer, a village in the Belgian province of West Flanders. The village is located near the border with France.

The son of Flemish preacher, Pieter Bardt, Bertius was related by marriage to cartographers Jodocus Hondius and Pieter van den Keere. Petrus Bertius studied at the University of Leiden and later traveled in Germany and Russia. In 1620 he emigrated to France and he was appointed as a cosmographer to the Court of Louis XIII.

CREATOR: Bertius, Petrus

PUBLICATION DATE: 1616

GEOGRAPHIC AREA: India

BODY OF WATER: Indian Ocean

CONDITION: Good.  Latin text on verso.

COLORING: None.

ENGRAVER: 

SIZE: 5 " x 4 "

ITEM PHYSICAL LOCATION: 13

PRICE: $225

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