Voyages and travels in India, Ceylon, the Red Sea, Abyssinia, and Egypt, in the years 1802, 1803, 1804, 1805, and 1806
George Annesley, second Earl of Mountnorris (1770-1844), was a British aristocrat who, in 1802-06, undertook an extensive tour of parts of Asia and Africa. He was accompanied by Henry Salt (1780-1827), a trained artist who served as his secretary and draftsman. Mountnorris published this three-volume account of his travels upon his return to Britain, under the name Viscount Valentia, the title by which he…
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Mountnorris, George Annesley
Date:1809
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Map 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,…
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Linschoten, Jan Huygen Van - Langren, Henricus F. Ab (Henricus Florentius)
The Big Island of Ceylon, or Ilanare, Called Chilan by the Arabs, Persians and Chinese.
t Groot Eiland Ceilon, of Ilanare, by d'Arabiers, Persianen en Chineezen, Chilan genoemd
This fine map of Ceylon (present-day Sri Lanka) was originally drawn to illustrate an account by the Portuguese historian João de Barros (1496-1570) of the voyage to Asia that Lopo Soares de Albergaria (circa 1453-circa 1532) made in 1515 on behalf of King Manuel I of Portugal. Relief is shown pictorially, north is oriented to the right, and scale is given in Dutch, Spanish,…
From 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…
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Reinel, Jorge, Active 16th Century - Reinel, Pedro, Born Approximately 1464 - Homem, Lopo, Flourished - Holanda, António De - Manuel I, King of Portugal
Book/Printed MaterialVoyages and travels in India, Ceylon, the Red Sea, Abyssinia, and Egypt, in the years 1802, 1803, 1804, 1805, and 1806 George Annesley, second Earl of Mountnorris (1770-1844), was a British aristocrat who, in 1802-06, undertook an extensive tour of parts of Asia and Africa. He was accompanied by Henry Salt (1780-1827), a trained artist who served as his secretary and draftsman. Mountnorris published this three-volume account of his travels upon his return to Britain, under the name Viscount Valentia, the title by which he…
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, …
MapThe Big Island of Ceylon, or Ilanare, Called Chilan by the Arabs, Persians and Chinese.
MapFrom the Shores of Gujarat, Malabar, Bengal and Malacca, to the Kingdom of Siam and China in the East.
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…