The East Indies, with the Roads

Thomas Jefferys, The East Indies, with the Roads, London: Laurie & Whittle, 1794

Rare two sheet unmounted map of India
North India: 21 x 54 in (52.5 x 135 cm)
South India: 23.5 x 54 in (58.7 x 135 cm)
Will form a huge map of 44.5 x 54 in (113 x 137.1 cm) approximately, when both the sheets are joined together

One of the land mark maps of the 18th century. This huge map of Indian Sub-continent is a gold mine of information be it geographical, historical, cultural, it shows roads, caravan routes, temples, cities, treaty lines, mountain ranges, lakes, swamps, rivers etc.

Thomas Jefferys (c. 1719 - 1771), "Geographer to King George III", was an English cartographer who was the leading map supplier of his day. He engraved and printed maps for government and other official bodies and produced a wide range of commercial maps and atlases, especially of North America. As "Geographer to the Prince of Wales", he produced A Plan of all the Houses, destroyed & damaged by the Great Fire, which begun in Exchange Alley Cornhill, on Friday March 25, 1748. He produced The Small English Atlas with Thomas Kitchin, and he engraved plans of towns in the English Midlands.

This work will be shipped unframed. The sheets are unmounted and in 2 un-joined parts as issued. It needs to be joined together to make complete map of India.

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