Thread: Maps of old Siam and south-east Asia

lots of old maps being made available on the internet, here's a place to put any interesting ones you find

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Publisher : HARREVELT,E.van/ CHANGUION,D.J.
Title : Carte Des Royaumes de Siam, de Runquin, Pegu. Ava..
Published in Amsterdam, 1773.
Map incorporates information provided by French Jesuits, of Indochina, Malayan peninsular, Thailand, etc.
From Atlas Portatif pour servir a l'intelligence de l'Histoire Philosophique et Politique des etablissements et du commerce des Europe'ens dans les deux Indes.

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Publisher : DE ROSSI, G.
Title : Penisola dell India di là dal Gange. . .
Published in Rome, 1683-1688.
Size : 20.9 x 16.1 inches. / 53.0 x 41.0 cm.

Giacomo Rossi's fine late 17th century map of Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia and part of Sumatra. Issued in Il Mercurio geografico In lower right hand corner a large title cartouche with dedication to Tavernier and Mandeslo, supported by exotic Asian figures and surmounted by an elephant.
The cartographer was Giacomo Cantelli da Vignola (1643-1695) who was active in Modena in Italy.
The principal settlements, mountain ranges and rivers are shown in detail.

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Publisher : OTTENS, J.
Title : Le Royaume de Siam avec Les Royaumes Qui Luy sont Tributaries & c. / La Royaume de Siam avec les royaumes qui luy sont Tributaires, et les Isles de Sumatra, Andemaon, etc. . . [two sheet map]
Published in Amsterdam, 1710.
Size : 31.9 x 21.7 inches. / 81.0 x 55.2 cm.

Influential map of Southeast Asia and the East Indies including modern day Thailand, southern Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia, Singapore, Borneo, Sumatra and Java. Ottens incorporated information provided by the French Jesuits and charts the route of the French Embassy to and from Siam in 1685-1686 through the Straits of Banca and the Gulf of Siam.
It was drawn by Joachim Ottens shortly before his death and was published by his sons and later republished by Covens and Mortier.
The upper map focuses on the territories currently occupied by modern day Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, northern Borneo, and northern Malaysia. With good detail of the Andaman Islands, the Gulf of Thailand (Golfe de Siam) and coastal Vietnam. In the Kingdom of Siam, this map shows the fortress of Bangkok, the ancient Siamese capital of Ayutthaya, royal palace, and the Dutch trading colony. In Cambodia, it details the village of Ponompingn (Phnom Penh), Lewek on Cambodia, and the Dutch trading mission.
In the seas this map offers numerous depth soundings.

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Title: Johnson's Hindostan or British India
Map Maker: Johnson & Ward
Place / Date: New York / 1864
Coloring: Hand Colored
Size: 16 x 13 inches

Attractive map of India, Ceylon, Birma, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand and part of Malaysia and Sumatra.

Insets of Bombay, Madras and Calcutta. Vignette of Government House and Treasury in Calcutta. Colored by province. Shows towns, islands, rivers, lakes, mountains, etc. Decorative border.

Alvin Johnson was one of the most significant atlas publishers of the second half of the 19th Century. First with partners Browning and later Ward, and then on his own, he issued his Illustrated Family Atlas from 1860 to the 1880s, following a brief collaborations with Colton in the late 1850s.

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Title: India Orientalis
Map Maker: Jodocus Hondius
Place / Date: Amsterdam / 1606
Size: 19.5 x 14 inches

One of the finest early Dutch maps of the region, first published in 1606 as one of the 37 new maps engraved for Jodocus Hondius' expanded Dutch edition of the Mercator Atlas.

Extending from India to the coasts of Southern China with the Pearl River Estuary, Canton and Formosa, it also includes all of the Malay peninsula and Indochina, northern Borneo and the Philippines. The decorative detail includes a large sea monster and an oriental junk in the Bay of Bengal as well as fine scrollwork title & scale cartouches.

One of the most interesting & unusual features of the Southern Malay peninsula is its dissection in two, the southern part becoming an island just south of Malacca where it is separated from the rest of the peninsula by a large northeasterly channel.

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^ I will where I can/where it is practical; some I just saved to a folder over time when i saw them and now have no idea where they are from, but in most cases I have the map-maker and year, some others are from auction sites; also 'source' may just as likely be someone else's website the cartographers/publishers are well-gone!

I have created a gallery on TD for them as the auction sites may remove their images once sold and leave us a trail of broken links.

some useful sites

www.maphist.com

www.swaen.com

Old maps gallery

Barry Lawrence Ruderman Rare Maps Inc

prices . . . haven't paid much attention, but one on the last site above has a price of US$17,500

and re sources - eg the one in post #2 Penisola dell India di là dal Gange the first page on Google listed nine sources (and this page - they are fast!) for copies of this map. I've found sources for the earlier posts - 'my' source not necessarily the 'most popular' one.
Have I created a monster?

'Gulf of Bengal' only just touches on Thailand, today's Phuket is Island Junk Seylon

Carte du Golphe de Bengale
From Bellin's Le Petit Atlas Maritime, 1764.
Bellin, Jacques Nicolas, 1703-1772

The East Part of India, or, India Beyond the R. Ganges
Moll, Herman. London, 1729.

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Northern Illinois University holds an extensive collection of rare and historical maps from all over the world from the 16th through 19th centuries. There is a special emphasis on maps from Southeast Asia.
University Libraries: Rare Books and Special Collections