MORTIER, Pierre (1661-1711).
Le Royaume de Siam avec les royaumes qui luy sont tributaires.
Engraved map with original hand color in part.
Amsterdam: Pierre Mortier, ca. 1700.
32 1/2" x 22 7/8" sheet.

A MAGNIFICENT EXAMPLE OF MORTIER'S MAP OF SOUTHEAST ASIA, first published in the Suite du Neptune François (1700). The map extends from Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, and the Malay Peninsula and the Gulf of Bengal in the north, to Java and Sumatra in the south, centered on Malacca and Borneo. There is a note about a discovery attributed to the Portuguese captain Pedro Bertollo ("Pierre Bertollo") near Singapore, referred to as the "Canal de Consicao de Nuestra) S(enhora)," in 1633-the same year that the Dutch East India Company blockaded the Straits of Singapore and Malacca. The route was a new passage south of Bintan and Galang and west of the Karimun Islands and extended through the Riau Archipelago. The map also shows numerous depth soundings and shows the trade routes between Batavia (Jakarta, Java) and Siam and details the shoals and reefs off the coast of modern-day Vietnam.

REFERENCE: Koeman IV: Mor 7 (26).

CONDITION/BINDING: Floated on a mat and enclosed in mylar (not examined out of mat).