Schenk & Valk’s Map of the Bay of Bengal dictionaries and an equally ludicrous land-ship

and an equally ludicrous land-ship sailing towards a lunatic asylum

Bombay and Madras

Four variants of the title-page are known

already re-branded as London Transport

our example still has the original pictorial dustwrapper

Schenk & Valk’s Map of the Bay of Bengal dictionaries and an equally ludicrous land-shipSinus Gangeticus; vulgo Golfo de Bengale nova descriptio This is a map of the Bay of Bengal with north oriented to the right. Petrus Schenk and Gerard Valk often worked in partnership, towards the end of the Dutch Golden Age, when the United Provinces still led Europe in the field of map making. Together they purchased the surviving copper printing plates of the famous Janssonius firm, among others, and reissued them under their own imprint. Condition