Royal Siamese Maps: War and Trade in Nineteenth Century Thailand by Santanee Phasuk and Philip Stott
with a Foreword by HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn of Thailand
4to. pp. 208. 378 colour illustrations. index. cloth. dw. Bangkok: River Books, [2004].
New.
ISBN-10: 9748225925 / IBSN-13: 9789748225920
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In 1996, seventeen exquisite handdrawn and hand-coloured cotton maps were discovered in the Grand Palace, Bangkok. These long-lost treasures record cartographically Siamese warfare and trade during the first three reigns of the Bangkok Period (1782-1851). Large in size, and works of art in themselves, the maps are full of histrical and landscape detail ensuring that they wil become important primiary sources for historians and geographers of Southeast Asia for many years to come. Focusing on Siam and on her immediate neighbours, the collection also includes a remarkable four-metre costal map extending from peninsular Malaysia to Korea.
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In 1996, seventeen exquisite handdrawn and hand-coloured cotton maps were discovered in the Grand Palace, Bangkok. These long-lost treasures record cartographically Siamese warfare and trade during the first three reigns of the Bangkok Period (1782-1851). Large in size, and works of art in themselves, the maps are full of histrical and landscape detail ensuring that they wil become important primiary sources for historians and geographers of Southeast Asia for many years to come. Focusing on Siam and on her immediate neighbours, the collection also includes a remarkable four-metre costal map extending from peninsular Malaysia to Korea.