Strongly engraved, handsome map of Southeast Asia. This map shows excellent detail for it’s time. The elaborate cartouche presents an idealized view of European imperialism, illustrating a missionary preaching to the native peoples and a western queen or empress receiving riches from the East. The area shown stretches from the greatly exaggerated Maldives to an indistinct New Guinea, still attached to Australia. The Phillippines are well described, at least in general outline, and island of Formosa is prominent. Dominating Tibet is the legendary Lake Chiamay, believed to be the source of all the great rivers of mainland Southeast Asia.