17th century map of India after Cantelli da Vignola

CANTELLI DA VIGNOLA, Giacomo.

Penisola Dell India di qua dal Gange et Isole intorno ad essa adiacenti...
Rome: G.G. de Rossi, 1683. Coloured. 520 x 420mm.

Vignola's highly decorative map of India, with a fine title cartouche of an elephant being ridden by a warrior and monkeys, published in the de Rossi atlas, the 'Mercurio Geografico'.
According to the title the map was compiled from the surveys ''of the barefoot Carmelite priests [Jean-Baptiste] Tavernier, [Jean-Albert] Mandelslo and Pietro dea Valle and other modern authors''.


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