18th century map of Northern India and Pakistan

BELLIN, Jacques-Nicolas.

Carte de L'Indoustan Suivant les Cartes les plus récentes... 1752.
Amsterdam, 1773. Original colour. 240 x 345mm.

A very fine example

A close copy of Bellin's map of northern India, with Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Bellin's map was first issued in Prèvost's 'Histoire Generale des Voyages'; this example was engraved for Abbé Raynal's 'Histoire Philosophique et Politique des etablissements & du commerce des Européens dans les deux Indes'. Written in collaboration with other writers, including Denis Diderot, its Radical tone earned it a place on the Roman Catholic Church's Index of Forbidden Books, requiring it to be burned.


Stock ID : 23914