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Les Indes Orientales et leur archipel. Assujettie aux observations astronomiq(u)es combinees avec les itineraires anciens et modernes, et avec les routes des navigateurs.
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Les Indes Orientales et leur archipel. Assujettie aux observations astronomiq(u)es combinees avec les itineraires anciens et modernes, et avec les routes des navigateurs.

A beautiful example of Rigobert Bonne's c. 1770 map of India, Southeast Asia and the East Indies. Covers from Kandahar and the Maldives in the west eastward to include all of India, Southeast Asia (modern Burma, Thailand or Siam, Malaysia, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos), the East Indies (Java, Sumatra, Borneo and the Celebes) and the Philippines. Also includes much of Tibet. Identifies countless cities, rivers, waterways, and states throughout the region. Names the Straight Singapore as Sin Capura. Vietnam is divided into the kingdoms fo Tonkin and Chochinchine. Includes the Tip of Formosa or Taiwan. Drawn by R. Bonne c. 1770 for issue as plate no. 26 in Jean Lattre's 1776 issue of the Atlas Moderne.

Date
1770
Place
India
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
map
Original size
4,000 × 2,899 pixels

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Reason: its maker died more than 100 years ago.

Read from: Commons licence category: PD-old-100-expired; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.

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"Les Indes Orientales et leur archipel. Assujettie aux observations astronomiq(u)es combinees avec les itineraires anciens et modernes, et avec les routes des navigateurs." (1770). Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1770_Bonne_Map_of_India,_Southeast_Asia_%5E_The_East_Indies_(Thailand,_Borneo,_Singapore)_-_Geographicus_-_SoutheastAsia-bonne-1770.jpg

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