RARE MAP OF INDIA BY MATHAUS SEUTTER IN 1728


Detailed map of India, extending from the Ganges to Eastern Persia and North to the Mont de Caucause (Himalayas).

Separately published example of the first edition of Mercator’s map of the World, first printed in Geneva in 1587.

Gorgeous example of Mercator’s map of the World, based upon the writings of Claudius Ptolemy, from a later edition of Gerard Mercator’s Tabulae geographicae CI. 

Important early map of the Indian Ocean and Southeast Asia, from the 1478 Rome edition of Ptolemy’s Geography, Claudii Ptholomei Alexandrini.

Agra without the Taj.

Map Maker: Alain Manesson Mallet
Paris / 1683

An attractive birds eye view of the city. From Mallet’s monumental Description de l’ Univers, first published in Paris in 1683, perhaps the greatest work of its kind in the 17th century.

Fragment of map of Chittagong (Bengal), 23 January, 1818, by John Cheape, Bengal Engineers.

Pen-and-ink and water-colour fragment of a map of Chittagong by John Cheape(1792-1875) in 1818.

Chittagong, located in Bangladesh at the point where the Karnaphuli River empties into the Bay of Bengal

Map of Malabar, Canara and Deccan from the book:
Truthful detailed description of the famous East India Coast Malabar and Coromandel, and the island of Ceylon.
By Philippus Baldaeus
Published by John Janssonius of Waesberge and Someren in Amsterdam – 1672 

A map of India, showing Malabar, Madura and Cormeddel 
Copperplate 18th Century 
From: A collection of voyages and travels, some now first printed from original manuscripts, others now first published in English. 
By: Awnsham Churchill, John Churchill, John Locke and John Nieuhoff 

City and environs of Sirengampatanne or Seringapatnam taken at the request of Mr Robert Adams, Surgeon by Alexander Cesars LeGou – 1775

“Dutch Fort of Pulicat (old spelling Paliacate) named Fort of Gueldre”- 1741 
Paris

Source: University of Berne, Switzerland

Map and cross section of the drainage tunnel from the Machhodri tank to the river, Benares, with elevation and cross section of the tunnelling process and drawings of the equipment used – 1825