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Book/Printed MaterialJournal of a tour through part of the snowy range of the Himālā Mountains, and to the sources of the rivers Jumna and Ganges. James Baillie Fraser (1783-1856) was a Scot who in 1813 went to Kolkata (Calcutta) to join the family firm of Becher and Fraser. He remained there until 1820. In 1815, he accompanied his brother William, who was taking part in the Anglo-Nepalese War of 1814-16, on an expedition into the Garwhal Hills to find the sources of the Jumna and Ganges rivers. James and...- Contributor: Fraser, James Baillie
- Date: 1820
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MapMap Outlining the Maritime Coasts of Arabia Felix, the Meccan Shores, and also the Red Sea, the Arabian Peninsula, Hormuz, Persia, from Sinda to the Indus River, Khambhat in India and Malabar, ...
Deliniantur in hac tabula, Orae maritimae Abexiae, freti Mecani ; al. Maris Rubri ; Arabiae, Ormi, Persiae, suprà Sindam usque Fluminis Indi, Cambaiae Indiae & Malabaris, Insulae Ceylon, Choromandeliae, & Orixae, fluvii Gangis, & Regni Bengalae, situs item Sinuum, Insularum, Scopulorum, Pulvinorum, Vadorum, profunditatumque, dictis oris adjacentium, cum genuinis Singulorum locorum Nominibus, prout ab expertissimis navium Gubernatoribus Lusitanicis, indigetantur Jan Huygen van Linschoten (1563-1611) was a Dutchman whose contributions to cartography were of great significance in breaking the Portuguese monopoly on trade and navigation in the late 16th century and in opening up southern Asia to the Dutch and later the English. As a young man, van Linschoten spent four years in Spain learning a trade. He then made his way to Lisbon,...- Contributor: Linschoten, Jan Huygen Van - Langren, Henricus F. Ab (Henricus Florentius)
- Date: 1596
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MapFrom the Shores of Gujarat, Malabar, Bengal and Malacca, to the Kingdom of Siam and China in the East.
De Kusten van Guzaratte, Malabaar, Bengale en Malacca, met die van't Magtig Koninkryk Siam, tot aan China bestevend This attractive map of Southeast Asia was published in Leiden in 1700 and covers, to the west most of India; as far east as southern China and the Korean Peninsula; and to the south Thailand, most of the Malay Peninsula, and northern Sumatra. The map may have been created in the 16th century as a later record of the voyage that Lopo Soares de...- Contributor: Aa, Pieter Van Der
- Date: 1707
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MapNautical Atlas of the World, Folio 3 Recto, Northern Indian Ocean with Arabia and India and Folio 3 Verso, Southern Indian Ocean with Insulindia on the Left, and Madagascar on the Right. The map presented here is from the Miller Atlas in the collections of the National Library of France. Produced for King Manuel I of Portugal in 1519 by cartographers Pedro Reinel, his son Jorge Reinel, and Lopo Homem and miniaturist António de Holanda, the atlas contains eight maps on six loose sheets, painted on both sides. The maps were richly decorated and illuminated by...- Contributor: Homem, Lopo, Flourished - Manuel I, King of Portugal - Reinel, Jorge, Active 16th Century - Reinel, Pedro, Born Approximately 1464 - Holanda, António De
- Date: 1519
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