Historic Map : Bonne Map of Southern India, Sri Lanka (Ceylon), The Maldives, and The Indian Ocean, 1770, Vintage Wall Art Size:24in x 18in ferries and roads with color

ferries and roads with color coding at the county level

The elaborate title cartouche in the upper right quadrant features two bearded mean bearing clubs

he sailed for three days looking for Juan de Gama land but never found it

and Cape Hattaras are noted and a number of anchorages

Features two elaborate cartouches in the top right and bottom left

Historic Map : Bonne Map of Southern India, Sri Lanka (Ceylon), The Maldives, and The Indian Ocean, 1770, Vintage Wall Art Size:24in x 18in ferries and roads with colorA beautiful example of Rigobert Bonne's 1770 decorative map of southern India. Covers both the Malabar and Coromandel coasts as well as the Maldives, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), the Andaman Islands, and parts of Sumatra and Southeast Asia. Rhumb lines throughout. Arrows in the Indian Ocean show the direction of prevailing winds during the dry season and the monsoon season. This important Indian Ocean wind system, which blew one way for half the year, and the