Historic Map : MalteBrun Map of India, Burma and Southeast Asia (Siam, Vietnam), 1837, Vintage Wall Art 1855 in Sweden including Greenland

including Greenland

winds and ocean currents

roughly from Mecca (Jeddah

to small cartouches frame a distance scales and Blaeu's signature

The Mississippi Company's charter was to trade the riches of the Louisiana Territory

Historic Map : MalteBrun Map of India, Burma and Southeast Asia (Siam, Vietnam), 1837, Vintage Wall Art 1855 in Sweden including GreenlandThis is a beautiful 1836 copperplate lithograph map of India and Southeast Asia by French cartographer Malte Brun. Includes the modern day nations of India, Bangladesh, Burma (Myanmar), Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Singapore. Also shows the 19th century kingdoms of Tonquin and Cochin in modern day Vietnam. Straits of Singapore or Sincapour noted. All text is in French.