Item #74900 The Cartography of the East Indian Islands. Insulae Indiae Orientalis. Dr David E. PARRY.

The Cartography of the East Indian Islands. Insulae Indiae Orientalis

London, Countrywide Editions, 2005.

Oblong quarto, 241 pages with approximately 160 maps illustrated (many of them in colour).

Papered boards; extremities slightly bumped; edges slightly marked; an excellent copy with the fine dustwrapper.

Signed by the author on the title page. A serious 'first attempt to present in chronological order an account' of the mapping of the 'larger Southeast Asian region to which the true Spice Islands belong, from classical times through to the beginning of the nineteenth century'. Not stated, but limited to 1500 copies.

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