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Mar di India
1659
Brunei, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Southeast Asia, Thailand, Vietnam
This mid-17th century map of the Indian Ocean has a colourful cartouche illustrated with paintings of Asian merchants and warriors with bows and arrows. The scale is decorated with paintings of cherubs.
Indiae Orientalis nova descriptio
c.1633-1636
Brunei, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Southeast Asia, Thailand, Vietnam
The outline of the island of New Guinea is very vague on this early 17th century map of Southeast Asia. The cartouche is decorated with two figures of Asian warriors: one holds a spear, the other a sword. There are also drawings of mermaids.
- Archipelago of St Lazarus2
- Borneo2
- Java2
- Malacca2
- Malay Peninsula2
- Pegu2
- Siam2
- Sulawesi2
- Sumatra2
- Western New Guinea2
- Archipelago de San Lazaro1
- Archipelagus S. Lazari1
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- [remove]Blaeu, Willem Janszoon3
- Jansson, Jan2
- Blaeu, Joan1
- Wit, Frederik de1