India Orien[talis]

Acquired From: Leen Helmink

Colouring: Uncoloured

Condition: Good

Confirmed: No

Date Acquired: 1/1/2023

Dealers ID No.: 19239

Description: This map first appeared in the Asia section of CaertThresoor, the compact Dutch atlas published in 1598 under the imprint of Barent Langenes and distributed through the Amsterdam publisher Cornelis Claesz. Designed as an affordable, portable alternative to largeformat atlases, CaertThresoor brought together terrestrial, maritime, and cosmographical material for both scholarly and general audiences.nMost plates were engraved by Pieter van den Keere (View Record (#285), View Record (#383)), with additional contributions by Jodocus Hondius (View Record (#294), View Record (#295), View Record (#296)). The authorship of some maps, such as the East Indies plate (View Record (#388)), remains uncertain and may involve either engraver.nTitled India Oriens, the map depicts Southeast Asia, extending from India and the Bay of Bengal eastwards across the Malay Peninsula and the Indonesian archipelago to New Guinea, with southern China visible at the northern edge. It reflects the rapid expansion of Dutch geographical knowledge in the 1590s, incorporating Portuguese navigational information transmitted through the writings of Jan Huygen van Linschoten and reinforced by early Dutch voyages to the East Indies.nThe map is numbered 17 in the upper right corner, indicating its sequence within the atlas, and marked Cc 5 in the lower right, the printers signature denoting the fifth leaf of section Cc.

Engraver: Hondius, Jodocus or van den Keere, Petrus

First published: Caert-Thresoor, Middelburg: Barent Langenes, 1598

Image Size (cm): 12.3×8.7

Mapmaker: Langenes, Barent (fl. 1598-1609)

Notes: Purchased with #382

Other states: Dutch, French, Latin, and German editions between 1598 and 1650

Price: 625

Primary Category: Southeast Asia

Rarity: R1 Extremely rare – occasionally seen on the market

References: Peter van der Krogt, ed., Koemans Atlantes Neerlandici, vol. 3 (t Goy-Houten: HES & De Graaf, 1997), 398399 (no. 341:22).nGünter Schilder, Monumenta Cartographica Neerlandica, vol. 7 (Lochem: Canaletto, 2003), 466468.nDavid Parry, The Cartography of the East Indian Islands: Insulae Indiae Orientalis (London: Countrywide Editions, 2005), 103, pl. 4.17.

Sheet size (cm): 17×11.5

Technique: Copper Engraving

This state: First