Title
Title Page of "Beschreibung der Ostindischen Kusten Malabar und Coromandel".
Subject
The title page to a book that gives an account of the cultures, geography, and natural resources of the regions of Malabar, Coromandel, and Ceylon.
Description
The title page of the book "Beschreibung der Ostindischen Kusten Malabar und Coromandel" depicting native peoples, animals, and resources. This book was a travel log, geography, and ethnography of Sri Lanka and the Southern Indian coastal regions published for Dutch audiences by the minister Philippus Baldaeus.
Creator
Engraving/publishing by Johannes Janssonius van Waasberge and Johannes van Someren.
Source
The 1672 edition of the book "Beschreibung der Ostindischen Kusten Malabar und Coromandel" by Philippus Baldaeus.
Publisher
User "Sardar" on Wikimedia Commons.
Rights
Public domain due to expired copyright.
Type
Digital photograph of a printed page.
Coverage
Early modern colonial scholarship by the dutch on Malabar, Coromandel, and Ceylon.
Text
"Beschreibung der Ostindischen Kusten Malabar und Coromandel Derfelben angrantz end en Konigreiche und Landfebaften als anch Der Kaiferreichs Ceylon benebenft der Hbgotterey der Oft-Indifchen Heyden.
t'Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius van Waasberge, en van Someren. Anno 1672.
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