Colouring: Coloured
Condition: Very Good
Confirmed: No
Description: Pieter van der Aa was a publisher, bookseller, and engraver based in Leiden in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. He was not a mapmaker in the technical sense, but he produced many maps and views by adapting earlier French and Dutch sources for large multi-volume atlases such as Le Nouveau Théâtre du Monde (1713) and La Galerie Agréable du Monde (1729).nThis engraved view depicts Bantam (modern Banten) on the north-west coast of Java. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries it was a major Islamic trading port and a key centre in the Southeast Asian spice trade, attracting sustained Dutch and English interest prior to the consolidation of Dutch authority in Java.nThe town is presented in elevated prospect across the harbour, with shipping and coastal defences prominent in the foreground. The foreground shipping and harbour activity emphasise Bantams former strategic role at the entrance to the Sunda Strait. By the early eighteenth century the Dutch East India Company had shifted its administrative and maritime focus to Batavia. The engraving therefore records a harbour whose commercial significance had already declined at the time of publication.
First published: Nouvel Atlas, Leiden: Pieter van der Aa, 1714
Mapmaker: Aa, Pierre [Pieter] van (1659-1733)
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Primary Category: Prints & Related Material
Rarity: R2 Very rare – one or two copies appear on the market
Technique: Copper Engraving
This state: La Galerie Agréable du Monde: tome premier dAsie, Leiden: Pieter van der Aa [17251729]
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