Inde Ancienne A l'Orient Du Gange - Dass Alte Indien gegen Orient des Flusses Ganges' (Ancient India to the East of the Ganges), Allain Manesson Mallet, Frankfurt, 1719. Copper-engraving, handcolored in wash and outline. Decorative engraved map showing Burma and Thailand with Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam and the Malay peninsula. The mythical 'Lake Chiamay or 'Lake Chiang Mai' is prominent in the upper centre of the map, but is unnamed.
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Album / Pictures From History/Universal Images Group