India (North) by Melchizedech Thevenot 1663
Melchisedech Thévenot (1620-1692)
Melchisedech Thévenot was a French diplomat, scientist, and travel writer. He was a scholar with interests in mathematics, physics, and medicine, acting as the patron of several early scientific societies and contributing to the formation of the Académie des Sciences. His early career included two missions to Italy in the 1640s and 1650s, and it was there that he first developed an interest in the study of Oriental languages. In 1663, he published the first part of “Relations de Divers Voyages”, a work that would secure his reputation as one of the essential travel compilers of the seventeenth century. He would publish a second and third part in 1666, a fourth in 1672, and a final fifth part was being assembled in 1692 when Thévenot died.
Description de la Partie des Indes Orientales qui est sous la Dominations du Grand Mogol.
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Category: Antique maps > Asia > India - Ceylon
Old, antique map of Northern India, by Melchizedech Thevenot.
Cartographer: William Baffin
Engraver: J. de Bis
Date of the first edition: 1663
Date of this map: 1663
Copper engraving, printed on paper.
Size (not including margins): 36 x 27.5cm (14 x 10.6 inches)
Verso: Blank
Condition: Excellent.
Condition Rating: A+
References: Gole (India), p.118, 9.1.6.
From: Relations de Divers Voyages Curieux. 1663.
Melchisedech Thévenot (1620-1692)
Melchisedech Thévenot was a French diplomat, scientist, and travel writer. He was a scholar with interests in mathematics, physics, and medicine, acting as the patron of several early scientific societies and contributing to the formation of the Académie des Sciences. His early career included two missions to Italy in the 1640s and 1650s, and it was there that he first developed an interest in the study of Oriental languages. In 1663, he published the first part of “Relations de Divers Voyages”, a work that would secure his reputation as one of the essential travel compilers of the seventeenth century. He would publish a second and third part in 1666, a fourth in 1672, and a final fifth part was being assembled in 1692 when Thévenot died.