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C1771
A Plan of the City of Siam or Juthia
Mapmaker:
John Andrews (1766 - 1798)
Ayutthaya, the capital of Siam, was situated on the banks of the Menan River (Chao Phraya River). During the seventeenth century, the Dutch East India Company (VOC) began trading there in animal pelts and sappanwood which were destined for their … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
A Plan of the City of Siam or Juthia
Date:
C1771
Mapmaker:
John Andrews (1766 - 1798)
Condition:
In good condition, centre fold as issued.
Technique:
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1771
Description:
Ayutthaya, the capital of Siam, was situated on the banks of the Menan River (Chao Phraya River). During the seventeenth century, the Dutch East India Company (VOC) began trading there in animal pelts and sappanwood which were destined for their Japanese trading posts. This plan was made soon after the departure of the VOC in 1765. From Andrews’s ‘A Collection of Plans of the Capital Cities of Europe, and some remarkable cities in Asia, Africa & America’. Andrews’s superbly engraved and embellished series of town plans are usually found issued uncoloured, this set however has FULL ORIGINAL HAND COLOURING.
