A fine early map of the southern tip of the Indian peninsula with the Maldives displayed offshore. Malabar is the south western region of southern India. The work it comes from is a revised edition of Barent Langenes’ ‘Caert Thresoor’ of 1598 and was first published in 1616. It was an expanded issue by Petrus Bertius entitled ‘Tabularum Geographicarum Contractarum’. The maps were all newly engraved by Jodocus Hondius. This is an example from the first edition with Latin text. Bertius was the librarian of the University of Leyden and related to Hondius by marriage. The maps were slightly larger in size and the book was dedicated to King Louis XIII of France. Recognisable cities on the coast include Kochi (Cochinon), Kozhiode (Calicut), Mangalor, and Goa, the original Portuguese colony. The map is finished with longitude and latitude scales in the border. Gole (1978) 9; Koeman (1967-70) Lan 11A; Shirley (2004) T.Bert 2a.