**Maps of the Gulf of Cambay area**

"Surate ou Suratte," from *MALLET*, first German edition, 1685 (with later hand coloring); *a version from the 1719 German edition*; *a closer view*

Source: ebay, May 2006

A view of the British factory in Surat; an engraving, early 1700s

Source: ebay, May 2007

A view from Henri Abraham Chatelain's 'Atlas Historique', c.1720

Source: ebay, Jan. 2007

*La Ville de Suratte, dans l'Empire du Mogol; by Pieter Boudewin van der Aa, 1720* (BL)

*The bay of Surat, in a navigational map by Francois Valentijn, 1726* (the fort is in the island-filled bay at the center)

Source: ebay, Sept. 2005

"Magnificence of the Governor at Surat," from 'Voyages Celebres et Remarquables faits de Perse etc., by Jean Albert de Mandelslo,' 1727

Source: ebay, Nov. 2007

"Vue de Surate du Cote de la Riviere," by Bellin, from *PREVOST*, with early hand coloring; *a larger, uncolored scan*

Source: ebay, June 2005

A view of Surat from 1752 by Philip Baldaeus, a Dutch missionary; *detail 1*; *detail 2*

Source: ebay, Sept. 2005

"Suratte - India. Copper Engraving. From the 1752 London edition of 'A True and Exact Description of the most Celebrated East-India Coasts of Malabar and Coromandel; as also of the Isle of Ceylon' by Philip Baldaeus, a Dutch missionary."

*"A View of Surat," in a copper engraving by Edward Rooker, c. 1770*

Source: ebay, Dec. 2005

*From: 'A New Universal Collection of Voyages and Travels, from the Earliest Accounts to the present time', by Edward Cavendish Drake (London: Cooke, 1771)*

Source: ebay, July 2006

*Inhabitants of Surat; a view from 'Description of Arabia' by Carsten Niebuhr, 1776*; also: *Surat and the Gulf of Cambay*

Source: ebay, Sept. 2007

Surat in its setting, from a map by Louis Brion de la Tour, from 'Histoire Universelle depuis le Commencement du Monde', c.1780

A view of the fort from about 1780, with modern hand coloring: *more information (BL)*

Source: http://www.antiqueprints.com/Prints/india_prints.html
(downloaded Feb. 2002)

From a Surat-to-Bombay map by Benard, from Pierre de Pagès' 'Voyages Autour Du Monde', Paris, 1782

Source: ebay, Nov. 2007

*View of Surat from across the River Tapti; by A. van der Heen, 1782* (BL); [*van der Heen, 1782*]

"Surat on the banks of the Taptee," a copper engraving, 1812 (modern hand coloring)

Source: ebay, Nov. 2006

*"Surat in the East Indies," an engraving, 1814*

Source: ebay, May 2007

*Panorama of Surat, a colored aquatint by Alfred Robert Freebairn, 1830* (BL)