A lovely antique miniature map of mainland Southeast Asia, covering the region from the Indian sub-continent through Burma and Thailand, to the Philippines and extending to the tip of the Malaysian peninsula with parts of Borneo and Sumatra. A very interesting piece showing primitive knowledge of the area with malformed islands and an incomplete Indonesian archipelago.
New Guinea is shown to have a land bridge to Australia (which is not named, but both considered the same land mass – Noua Guinea). It depicts the classical view of the river systems originating in a mythical Chiamai Lacus. India is much too narrow, Ceylon is overly large, and two large lakes are depicted in China.
German text on verso / A German edition, colored copperplate miniature map of Southeast Asia by Barent Langenes, published by Bertius P. in Tabulae Geographicae Contractae, Amsterdam, 1602/03.