Map of the Peninsula of India

James Wyld, Map of the Peninsula of India, from the 19th. Degree of North Latitude, to Cape Cormorin, London, 1838
38.5 x 33 in (96.2 x 82.5 cm)

One of the finest and a huge detailed map of Southern India from Bombay and Aurangabad, until a part of of Sri Lanka. Original outline colour indicate the British Possessions, the Rajah of Mysore, the Mahratta Countries, the Nizam's Dominions, the Rajah of Satara, and Travancore. A highly detailed map with many place names, roads, rivers, etc.

"James Wyld (1812 - 1887) was a British geographer and map-seller, best known for Wyld's Great Globe. On his father's death in 1836, Wyld became the sole owner of the thriving family mapmaking business based in Charing Cross. His maps, which covered regions as diverse as London and the gold fields of California, were regarded highly, and Wyld himself had an excellent reputation as a mapmaker; he was elected as a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in 1839, and he was appointed Geographer to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. He had an opportunistic approach to the business and was a prolific publisher of maps and guides (so much so that Punch claimed that if a country were discovered in the interior of the earth Wyld would produce a map of it "as soon as it is discovered, if not before". (Source: Wikipedia)

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