(Tibet - Central Asia) A Map of Great Tibet, drawn... Books & Atlases The map of Overland Route

The map of Overland Route to India is surrounded by eight small vignettes relating the land route to India including the mail crosssing the desert and scenes from Madras

noting "Ruins"

With north oriented at the bottom of the map

Condition is good with a very close bottom margin

done with beautiful color and an Art Nouveau influence

(Tibet - Central Asia) A Map of Great Tibet, drawn... Books & Atlases The map of Overland RouteA Map of Great Tibet, drawn from that made by Lama Mathematicians in 1717. It is a complex and forbidding landscape to chart, and especially in mid 18th century little was solidly mapped. This primitive map of the area most interestingly acknowledges its indigenous Tibetan origins, and covers an area from Delhi through Tibet and the Gobi to "Little Bukharia" and east into China. It identifies towns, rivers, mountains transliterated from Tibetan, and