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“Such is the Infinity of these Isles…”
The Maldives and Ceylon Island.
- Author: MORDEN, Robert
- Publication place: [London
- Publisher: Robert Morden and Thomas Cockerill
- Publication date: 1693].
- Physical description: Engraved map with text in English above and on verso.
- Dimensions: 200 by 157mm. (7.75 by 6.25 inches).
- Inventory reference: 15142
Notes
A miniature map of southern India, Ceylon and the Maldive Islands in the Indian Ocean. Published in the third edition of Morden’s ‘Geography Rectified: or, a Description of the World’.
Biography
Robert Morden (c1650–1703)
Robert Morden was a leading English mapmaker from the last quarter of the eighteenth century; his place and date of birth are not known, but it is thought he came from the north of England, perhaps the West Riding of Yorkshire. He was probably apprenticed to Joseph Moxon, who was born in Wakefield, Yorkshire, in the Weavers’ Company, and made free by about 1666.
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