A four-sheet map of India in the 18th century

JEFFERYS, Thomas.

The East Indies, with the Roads. By Thomas Jefferys Geographer to the King. MDCCLCVIII. The Second Editon. To the Directors of the Hon.ble East India Company , Tho.s Jefferys humbly Dedicates this Map.
London: Robert Sayer, 1768. Fine original colour. Four sheets conjoined, total 1080 x 1400mm.

Laid on archival canvas.

An important wall map of India, the largest and most detailed map of the country prior to James Rennell's surveys of Bengal in the 1770s. It shows the areas under the control of the East India Company in red.
It was published during the First Anglo-Mysore War (1767-9), a conflict between the East India Company and Mysore that was not resolved until the death of Tipu Sultan at Seringapatam in 1799,


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