An 18th century playing-card map of the Malay Peninsula

RABATTA, Augusto & BAILOU, Jean Baptist de.

Penisola di la dal Gange anticamente India ultra Gangem di diversi Rè.
Florence: Aniello Lamberti, 1779. Original colour. Sheet size 115 x 70mm.

A rare miniature map of Bengal and the Ganges engraved by Lamberti for the 'Minchiate', the Florentine version of the Tarot, which had each card marked with an arcane symbol. The full set was published in Augusto Da Rabatta and Jean Baptiste De Baillou's pocket atlas 'Nuovo Atlante Generale'. Information on the map is minimal, but an extensive key gives the names of the various regions.


Stock ID : 12985