Cambodia map Lauweck Capitale Du Camboye Bellin 1753

Title: Eauweck Capitale Du Camboye.

Description: Old antique plan of the town of Lawec in Cambodia halfway along the Mekong River on the way to Phnom Penh.
The Dutch East India Company set up a trading post at Lauweck in 1620, but the trade there proved disappointing, and just two years later the company shut the post down. A new Lawec trading post was opened in 1636, and then sold to the British in 1651, with discontinuities corresponding to the Anglo-Dutch Wars of the era. Meanwhile, "From 1636 to 1670 the Dutch merchants lived at Udong on a semi-permanet basis, but in 1667 the Company left Cambodia.
The map is copperplate engraved with hand-coloring.

Cartographer: Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703 – 21 March 1772)
Bellin was born in Paris. He was hydrographer of France's hydrographic office, member of the Académie de Marine and of the Royal Society of London.
Over a 50 year career, he produced a large number of maps of particular interest to the Ministère de la Marine.

Publisher: Antonine de Prevost, Histoire générale des voyages.
Engraver: Jakob van der Schley aka Jakob van Schley (26 July 1715 Amsterdam - 12 February 1779 Amsterdam) was a Dutch draughtsman and engraver.
He studied under Bernard Picart (1673-1733)

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Sheet app.: 16.5 x 16.5 cm. 6.75 x 6.5 inches
Image app.: 13.5 x 11 cm. 5.25 x 4.25 inches.
Condition: Very good hand colored old print, folds as published.

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