India.- Middle East.- Aa (Pieter van der) Zee-togt van Alfonso d'Albuquerque ..., map centred on India, showing from the east African coast, including the Arabian Peninsula to Java and part of China, decorative vignette with battle scene below, engraving with hand-colouring on laid paper, platemark 155 x 230 mm. (6 x 9 in), sheet 230 x 340 mm. (9 x 13 1/2 in), central vertical fold, minor surface dirt and light browning, 1710; together with two further van der Aa maps centred on India, including 'Babylonie en Balsara van Aleppo tot in Pegu' illustrating the journey of the Venetian jeweller and traveller Gasparo Balbi, and 'Reys-Togt van Aleppo over Ormus, door Indien tot in Pegu en Siam Gedaan' illustrating the journey of Caeser Frederiks who travelled from Cyprus via Allepo to the Indian Ocean, around Cape Coromandel and on to the Malaysian Peninsula and ulimately the Straits of Malacca, engraved maps, each approx. 180 x 300 mm. (7 x 11 3/4 in), handling creases and minor browning, unframed, [circa 1700] (3).
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