MUGHAL MAPS
from c.1500 to c.1750 
SELECTIONS FROM THE *SCHWARTZBERG
HISTORICAL ATLAS* (DSAL, highly ZOOMABLE)
=*Babur, Humayun, and Sher Shah, c.1526-1555**
=*the Mughal Empire, c.1605**
=*Jahangir, Shah Jahan, Aurangzeb, c.1605-1707**
=*religious and cultural sites during the Mughal period**
=*Mughal disintegration and the rise of regional powers, c.1707-1766**
=*a synopsis: major powers of South Asia, c.1300's-1700's**
MET TIMELINE
=*Metropolitan Museum timeline** displays, with both maps and images (scroll down)
Maps by Thomas Lessman
=*a global set of maps from the period**
EARLIER 1500's =*Ptolemaic India by Waldseemuller, 1513*
=*India, Eurasia, Africa, America, by Lorenz Fries, 1522*
=*the world according to Apianus, 1524 (1564)*;

=*Benedetto Bordone's oval world, 1528*
=*Munster's Ptolemaic Asia, c.1544 onward*
=*Gastaldi's new Deccan and south, 1548*
MAPS, c.1500-1700
=*maps of the period**, in a research site by Henry Davis
PTOLEMAIC MAPS FLOURISH
=*some Ptolemaic examples from the late 1400's onward*
=*Walker Collection**, Univ. of Melbourne
THE FIRST WORLD ATLAS, 1570
=*"Theatrum Terrarum," 1570** by *Abraham Ortelius**, LC: *Asia**, *India**, and much more
WORLD CITIES, 1572
=views of *Calicut**; *Canonore**; *Diu**; *Goa**; and other world cities, from the *"Civitates Orbis Terrarum," 1572**
RUSCELLI'S WORLD, 1574
=*a mixture of Ptolemaic maps and his own 'Nuova Tavola' maps, 1574*, by Girolamo Ruscelli
MORE ORTELIUS MAPS
=*Cambaia, 1583*, and other Ortelius atlas maps
LATER 1500's
=*Asia in the form of Pegasus, Heinrich Bunting, 1590* (yes, the horse)
=*Asia and beyond, Giovanni Botero, 1591-98*
=*Asia and beyond, Giovanni Magini, 1597*
PTOLEMAIC OVERVIEW, 1598
=*a complete set of Ptolemaic maps, 1598* by Girolamo Porro, and an overview map, to see how they fit together
AKBAR'S INDIA =*"Hindoostan, divided into Soubahs according to the Ayin Acbaree"*, by R. Wilkinson (1815)
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*the Mughal Empire, c.1605**
MUGHAL EMPIRE, 1619
=*William Baffin's map, 1619*, based on Sir Thomas Roe's account
MUGHAL EMPIRE,
  5 OVERVIEWS
Maps of the rise and fall of the Mughal Empire by:
=*Joppen, 1907*
=*Roolvink, 1957*
=*Majumdar, n.d.*
=*Times Books, 2007*
and especially the DSAL zoomable Schwartzberg atlas:
=*the Mughals: an overview*
=*Babur, Humayun, and Sher Shah, c.1526-1555**
=*the Mughal Empire, c.1605**
=*Jahangir, Shah Jahan, Aurangzeb, c.1605-1707**
=*Mughal disintegration and the rise of regional powers, c.1707-1766**
MISCELLANY, 1600s
=*India, Asia, and various other maps from the 1600s*
BERTIUS ATLAS MAPS, 1600
=*South Asia and beyond, 1600*, atlas maps by Petrus Bertius
'MERCATOR' ATLAS MAPS, early 1600's, 1634
=*South Asia and beyond, early 1600's*, in atlas maps by Mercator and Hondius, et al.; and an updated later *atlas from 1634*
ASIA, 1630 =*Asia, 1630*, from a Portuguese atlas
THE DUTCH IN SURAT, 1629
=*"Logie van Suratte"*, the Dutch factory as it looked 1629, and other views
MUGHAL EMPIRE, 1638
=*the Mughal Empire, 1638*, by Willem Blaeu (based on Roe's journey)
ATLAS MAPS, 1652-
=*South Asia and beyond, 1652 on*, atlas maps by Nicholas Sanson
ATLAS MAPS, 1661-
=*South Asia and beyond, 1661 on* by Philip Cluver
ATLAS MAPS, 1663
=*South Asia and beyond, 1663*, by Pierre Duval
SOUTH INDIA, 1682
=*South India, 1682*, by Johan Nieuhoff
MALLET, 1683-1719
=*Mallet's maps and views, 1683-1719, of everything*
ATLAS MAPS, 1688
=*South Asia and beyond, 1688*, by Robert Morden
MUGHAL EMPIRE, 1700
=*Magni Mogolis Imperium, 1700*, by Pieter Mortier
MISCELLANY, earlier 1700s
=*India, Asia, and various other maps from the earlier 1700s*
VAN DER AA, 1706
=*Maps and routes of travels and explorations*
ATLAS MAPS, 1721
=*South Asia and beyond, 1721*, by Nicholas de Fer
DE L'ISLE'S DECCAN AND SOUTH, 1723
=*maps by Guillaume de l'Isle*, especially
=*the Deccan and the South, 1723*
MOLL'S MADRAS, 1726
=*many atlas maps by Herman Moll*, especially
=*India, 1715*, and above all
=*Madras, 1726*
SALMON MAPS, 1729 on
=*India, Asia, maps and views, 1729-52* by Thomas Salmon
SOUTH INDIA, 1733
=*atlas maps by J. B. Homann*, and *South India, 1733*
ATLAS MAPS, 1740
=*India, Ceylon, Asia, etc., 1740*, atlas maps by Isaac Tirion
S/SE ASIA by BOWEN, 1747
=*South and Southeast Asia, 1747*, by Emanuel Bowen
DE VAUGONDY, 1748 on
=*atlas maps, 1748 on*, by de Vaugondy; and *Asia, 1762*
ASIA, 1762
=*Asia, with political borders*, a large and useful overview map by Jean Janvier, Paris
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BELLIN MAPS
A group of mid-century maps by the influential French cartographer *Jacques-Nicolas Bellin* (1703-1772):
NORTH INDIA, 1752
*North India, 1752*
SOUTH INDIA, 1752
*South India, 1752*
 WEST / MALABAR
*Persian Gulf, Gujarat, Malabar Coast, 1740s*
DIU, 1746
*"Ville de Diu," 1746*
SURAT, c.1750 *"View of Surat," c.1750*
BOMBAY, 1750
*"A Plan of Bombay," 1750*
DABUL, 1761
*"View of Dabul," 1761*
RAJAPUR, c.1750 *"The Bay, Town, and Forts of Andarajapour," c.1750*
GOA, 1750
*"Plan of Goa," c.1750*
CANANORE, c.1750
*"Plan of Cananore," c.1750*
MAHÉ, c.1764
*"Plan of Mahe," c.1764*
CRANGANORE, c.1750
*"Plan of Cranganore," c.1750*
COCHIN, c.1750
*"Ville de Cochin," c.1750*
QUILON, c.1747
*Plan de la Forteresse de Coylan, c.1750's*
EAST / COROMANDEL
*Bay of Bengal; Coromandel Coast and its colonial wars, c.1746-56*
BENGAL, 1747
*Bengal and its small kingdoms, 1747*
HUGHLY, 1721
*Plan of the Dutch factory at Hughly as it was in 1721 (1752)*
MASULIPATAM, 1752
*A view of Masulipatam, 1752*
PULICAT, 1752 *Plan of the Dutch fort of Geldria, at Pulicat, 1752*
MADRAS, 1746
*"Madras and Fort St. George: the French victory of 1746"*
PONDICHERRY, 1741
*"Plan of Pondicherry in 1741"*
TRANQUEBAR, 1753
*"Carte du district de Tranquebar," 1753; and a plan of the fort*
CEYLON, 1750
*"Carte de l'isle de Ceylan," 1750*
JAFFNAPATAM, 1761
*"Jaffenapatam," 1761*
TRINCOMALEE, c. 1750
*"Carte de la Baye de Trinquemale," c.1750*
POINT DE GALLE, 1752
*Plan of Point de Galle, 1752*
MALDIVE ISLANDS, c.1750
*Map of the Maldive Islands, c.1750*
WORLD, mid-1700's
*Maps and views by Bellin, from Prévost, mid-1700's*
SEA MAPS, c.1747
*Maps of the winds and seas, c.1747*
ANCIENT ASIA
*Bellin's view of Asia in antiquity, c.1760*

 
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