Insula Ceylan, olim Taprobana, nunc incolis Lankawn.
Scale approximately 1:1,355,000 (E 079°34'22"--E 081°59'43"/N 10°03'43"--N 05°53'06")., Title from cartouche at upper left., "Vol. 3, p. 601" at upper right, "18" in bottom right border., Relief shown pictorially., Four borders of the map are labeled with directions: meridies, septentrio, oriens, and occidens; oriented with east at the top., Decorative cartouche at upper left, flanked by two men and an elephant, with a figure at top. Bar scales at lower right with two figures above, one using a compass. Compass rose., Bar scales given in Duytsche mylen, Spanish leagues, and Eng. and French leagues; scale estimated by measurement of degree of latitude., Oriented with east at the top.
- Contributor
- Baldaeus, Philippus, 1632-1672 (Contributor)
- Date
- 1732 to 1746
- Department
- Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections
- Dimensions
- 28 x 38 cm, on sheet 35 x 43 cm
- Genre
- early maps
- Last Modified
- 2025-10-27T16:43:15.749971Z
- Language
- Latin
- Materials
- 1 map : engraving
- Provenance
- Library copy from the library of Donald K. Adams and Lawrence D. Stewart
- Related Material
- Appears in: Naauwkeurige beschryvinge van Malabar en Choromandel, der zelver aangrenzende ryken, en het machtige eyland Ceylon / door Philippus Baldaeus. T' Amsterdam : By Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge en Johannes van Someren, 1672. This version is likely from the second or third English edition (A true and exact description of the most celebrated East-India coasts of Malabar and Coromandel, as also of the isle of Ceylon).
- Rights Statement
- No Copyright - United States
- Series
- Donald K. Adams and Lawrence D. Stewart Collection of Prints--Baldaeus, Philippus, 1632-1672. Naauwkeurige beschryvinge van Malabar en Choromandel, der zelver aangrenzende ryken, en het machtige eyland Ceylon. English
- Subject
- Sri Lanka
- Technique
- engraving (printing process)
- Attribution
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