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Hindoustan ou Inde en deca du Gange et Inde Transgangetique par V. Levasseur Geographe.
Artist
Victor Jules Levasseur  (1800–1870)  wikidata:Q588019
 
Alternative names
Victor Levasseur; Jean Charles Victor
Description French cartographer and geographer
Date of birth/death 8 December 1800 Edit this at Wikidata 4 February 1870 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Caen 9th arrondissement of Paris
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artist QS:P170,Q588019
Frédéric-Guillaume Laguillermie  (1805–1870)  wikidata:Q55256153
 
Alternative names
Guillaume Laguillermie
Description French engraver
Date of birth/death 1805 Edit this at Wikidata 1870 Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q55256153
Title
Hindoustan ou Inde en deca du Gange et Inde Transgangetique par V. Levasseur Geographe.
Description
English: A beautiful 1852 map of India and Southeast Asia by Victor Levasseur. Features the entire sub-continent as well as all of Southeast Asia. Includes the modern day nations of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Burma, and Malaysia. Identifies major cities, rivers, mountains and various other topographical features. Features a neoclassical decorative border. Prepared by V. Levasseur for publication as plate no. 23 in Maison Basset’s 1852 edition of the Atlas Illustre .
Date 1852 (undated)
Dimensions height: 10 in (25.4 cm); width: 13 in (33 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,10U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,13U218593
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Geographicus link: India-levassuer-1852
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Duvotenay, T., Atlas Illustre (Maison Basset), 1852.

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