Artist / Author / Cartographer:
Mylne, Robert
Title:
Pegu - A Map of the East Coast of the Bay of Bengal
Date:
1727
Medium:
copper engraving
Size:
18.8 x 22.7 cm
Description:
A Map of the East Coast of the Bay of Bengal with the Islands.
This unusual map is from HAMILTON, Alexander (d. ca 1732). A New Account of the East Indies. Being the Observations and Remarks of capt. Alexander Hamilton, Who spent his Time there From the Year 1688. to 1723. Trading and Travelling, by Sea and Land, to most of the Coiuntries and Islands of Commerce and Navigation, between the Cape of Good-hope, and the Island of Japan. Edinburgh: printed by John Mosman, 1727.
Robert Mylne drew the maps for this publication
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