(India-Burma-Laos-China) De Land Reyse, door Benedictus... Central Asia and state boundaries in green

and state boundaries in green

This small envelope has a map (with North oriented to the left) which sketches out key locations from the Delaware River to Gosport

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Image size is 25 x 48 (inches)

(India-Burma-Laos-China) De Land Reyse, door Benedictus... Central Asia and state boundaries in green(India Burma Laos China) De Land Reyse, door Benedictus Goes, van Lahor gedaan, door Tartaryen na China, Vander Aa, 1707 The basis of the map is in following the travels of Bento De Gis, a Portuguese Jesuit traveler and explorer who was the first European to make the journey from India to China, via Afghanistan. In trekking across Asia his is counted as the person to prove that the "Cathay" of Marco Polo's stories and "China" are indeed the same