An influential and enjoyably detailed Dutch map by *Willem Blaeu*, 1638, based ultimately on Sir Thomas Roe's journey; CLICK ON ANY PART OF THE MAP FOR A HUGE SCAN

Source: From a facsimile with modern hand coloring, bought on ebay and scanned by FWP, Aug. 2006

"Willem Blaeu, Magni Mogolis Imperium. From Novus Atlas, Amsterdam 1638. This edition: 1640, page 4.  41.6 x 51.8 cms (16.2 x 20.2 inches). Copper plate engraving. Original colour."

"By the Blaeu publishing house of the empire of the Great Moghul. The map covers a large area encompassing today's India, Hindustan, Pakistan, Bangla Desh, Afghanistan, Tibet and Nepal. From the cities of Bombay and Calcutta in the South, to the cities of Agra, Delhi, Lahor, Islamabad, Kabul, Candahar in the Center and West. Left is the Indus River, right the Ganges River. In the East is the mythical lake Chimay, where all the great rivers of Southeast Asia are supposed to have their origin. Many cities are represented in line along the scarcely known trading routes. The map includes decorative cartouches and mileage scale, battle ships, camels, elephants, etc.

"The Empire of the Great Moghul, in northern India, was mapped by Joan Blaeu and his brother Cornelis in 1638. The fascination of seventeenth-century Europe with this great empire in the East created a demand for maps that was fulfilled largely by Dutch mapmakers, even though Dutch commercial interests in the East were concentrated elsewhere. Blaeu's map stretches from Persia to China and shows lands travelled by the embassy of the Englishman Sir Thomas Roe to the Moghul emperor Jahangir in 1615, derived from a map published by William Baffin in London in 1618. Curiously, Blaeu, and his rival mapmaker in Amsterdam Jansson, included only one map of  India in their atlases, and this Dutch version of Baffin's map remained the standard Dutch view of the north part of the subcontinent and central Asia throughout the seventeenth century." -- (Goss).

*Blau's map of the Moluccas, 1630*

Compare "Magni Mogolis Imperium" by Henricus Hondius, Amsterdam, c.1630: *the whole map*: *northwest*; *northeast*; *southwest*; *southeast*