INDIA quae ORIENTALIS dicitur, et INSULAE ADIACENTES.

An important and attractive Dutch map of South East Asia, showing Dutch discoveries in northern Australia. The map includes South East Asia in general with all of Malaysia, the East Indies, the Philippines, Indonesia, Indochina, Maledives and Southern China with the Pearl River Delta, Taiwan, and part of Japan. India quae Orientalis was first published in 1638, and in a number of editions in the years up to 1700. Any edition of this beautiful map is rare; this example with German text on verso, dates from c1658.Richly embellished with 3 cartouches, coat of arms at head of dedication to Christophoro Thisio from Henricus Hondius, 2 compass roses, a sea monster and 6 sailing vessels. Johannes Janssonius (1588 - 1664), more familiarly known as Jan Jansson, was a Dutch cartographer who produced his first maps of France and Italy in 1616 and continued from then onwards publishing a large number of maps which were almost comparable to Blaeu in quality. During the 1630s he went into partnership with his brother-in-law Henricus Hondius and published more editions of the highly regarded Mercator/Hondius/Jansson atlases.

Very good condition. Mounted.