Vandermaelen Agra

Philippe Vandermaelen.
Pays d'Ajemeer D'Agra &a.
Brussels, 1827. 480 x 520mm. Original colour.
£150
Detailed map of Northern India, published in the first atlas of the world to have every map on the same scale, 'Atlas Universel de Geographie', thus showing some of the more remote areas of the world in unprecedented detail. Thirty years later the names of this map acquired notoriety in the India Mutiny of 1857: Delhi, Lahore, Jaipur, Jhansi & Lucknow. VAND0025