Acquired From: Leen Helmink
Colouring: Coloured
Condition: Excellent
Confirmed: Yes
Date Acquired: Nov 2025
Dealers ID No.: 19723
Description: This small map of New Guinea (Nova Guinea) and the Solomon Islands (Insulae Salomonis) was issued in the 1618 Caert-Thresoor published by Jodocus Hondius Jr. It presents the loosely known northern shores of New Guinea together with the still-speculative archipelagos reported by sixteenth-century Spanish navigators, particularly Álvaro de Mendañas 1568 voyage. Coastlines are stylised and often left open-ended, reflecting the fragmentary and second-hand geographical information available to Dutch mapmakers at the time.nAs with other maps in the 1618 edition, the cartographic content follows the Tabularum geographicarum contractarum tradition as revised by Petrus Bertius, which itself drew on descriptive material first developed for the Langenes pocket atlas of 1598 (see maps 285, 294, 295, 296,383, 389) This material mediated Iberian discoveriesknown mainly through summaries and hearsayto a Northern European readership.nThe 1618 edition introduced a newly engraved plate for this subject, replacing Pieter van den Keeres earlier map used in the 15981606 Dutch, French, and Latin editions (View Record (#383)). Of particular interest is the suggestion of a navigable passage south of New Guineaan early Dutch cartographic reflection of the strait later associated with Luís Vaez de Torress voyage of 1606. Although Torress discovery was never formally published in Spanish sources, knowledge of his route circulated among Dutch merchants active in Lisbon, and several early seventeenth-century Dutch accounts refer to his passage.nTogether with the earlier van den Keere map (View Record (#383)), this map shows how Dutch cartographers reworked and updated Petrus Planciuss influential model of New Guinea within the evolving miniature-atlas tradition.
Engraver: Jodocus Hondius Jr
First published: Caert Thresoor, Amsterdam: Jodocus Hondius Jr, 1618
Image Size (cm): 13.2×9.8
Mapmaker: Hondius Jr, Jodocus (1594-1629)
Primary Category: Southeast Asia
Rarity: R1 Extremely rare – occasionally seen on the market
References: Koeman, Atlantes Neerlandici, Lan 11 (Caert-Thresoor).n Schilder, Australia Unveiled, for discussion of early depictions of New Guinea.n Suarez, Early Mapping of the Pacific, on Mendañas voyages and their cartographic afterlife.
Sheet size (cm): 20×12.5
Technique: Copper Engraving
This state: 1618, Leiden,
Website: https://www.helmink.com/antique-map/19723/jodocus-hondius-jr-map-of-n…
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