Schenk & Valk’s Map of the Bay of Bengal dictionaries with book label of GH

with book label of GH Wyatt below

Bombay and Madras

our example still has the original pictorial dustwrapper

colourful Scottish financier John Law won the confidence of the Duke of Orleans (then Regent of France)

Schenk & Valk’s Map of the Bay of Bengal dictionaries with book label of GHSinus Gangeticus; vulgo Golfo de Bengale nova descriptio This is a map of the Bay of Bengal with north oriented to the right. Petrus Schenk and Gerard Valk often worked in partnership, towards the end of the Dutch Golden Age, when the United Provinces still led Europe in the field of map making. Together they purchased the surviving copper printing plates of the famous Janssonius firm, among others, and reissued them under their own imprint. Condition