[Bàye la baye.] (Gulf of Albay]

Description

hand-coloured copper engraving.

EXTREMELY RARE map from ‘Recueil des voiages…. Compagnie des Indes Orientales, formee dans les Provinces-Unies des Pais-Bas’, map: vol. 3, page 90, later ed. (short image version), Accounts of twenty voyages of exploration undertaken on behalf of the East-India Company. View without galleons and inhabitants. THE EARLIEST WESTERN INDIVIDUAL DEPICTION OF ALBAY GULF.