'Landt-caert van de Cust van MALABAER, MADURA en CORMENDEL', by Johan Nieuhoff, 1682; click on any quarter of the map for a huge scan of THE COASTLINE PART of that quarter

Source: A reproduction bought on ebay and scanned by FWP, Feb. 2006

Nieuhoff had been part of a Dutch East India Company delegation to China in 1655: *the frontispiece of a translation of his account, 1673*