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Verhandeling der zee-horenkens en zee-gewassen in en omtrent Amboina en de naby gelegene eylanden….
Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Good Confirmed: 28/09/2024 Date Acquired: 6/3/2003 Dealers ID No.: (STK 48.23) Description: François Valentijn was a minister who devoted most of his life to the employ of the VOC. In 1685 he was sent by the VOC to Ambon as a Minister to the East Indies, where he…
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Voyage de découvertes aux terres australes: exécuté par ordre de S.M. lEmpereur et Roi, sur les corvettes le Géographe, le Naturaliste, et la…
Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Good Confirmed: No Description: This is the navigation and geography volume from the official account of the Baudin expedition to the southern lands, undertaken by order of Napoleon Bonaparte and led by Captain Nicolas Baudin. The third volume (Tome 3), published in 1812 under the authorship of Louis Claude de Freycinet, focuses…
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Plan de Port Praslin à la côte des Arsacides découvert par Surville en 1769
Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Fair, fragile Confirmed: No Dealers ID No.: (STK 1458.01) Description: According to Simon Dewez this map of Timor is in Freycinet's own hand (View Record (#264)). nThis manuscript chart of Port Praslin, located on the côte des Arsacidesan 18th-century name for part of the Solomon Islands near Timoris…
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Copié S’th hémisphère oriental de l’ancien monde public par le S. Danville. Copie à la Bibliothèque Impériale le 24 Juin 1808.
Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Fair, fragile Confirmed: No Dealers ID No.: (STK 1457.01) Description: A manuscript map in ink depicting Australia (labelled Nouvelle Hollande), the Moluccas, New Guinea, and Java, drawnaccording to Simon Dewezin the hand of Louis de Freycinet. This version is based on a map by Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon dAnville and…
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This untitled vellum chart is a fragment of
Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Fair. Very cockled and distorted. Vertical 12cm 'slice' lower edge; small tear top edge and small tear above the island Aynam (today Hainan) Confirmed: No Dealers ID No.: Lot N 6 Description: This untitled vellum chart is a fragment of a larger chart titled Oost Indien. Wassende-Graade Paskaart,…
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Australian Geography, with the Shores of the Pacific And those of the Indian Ocean
Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: No Dealers ID No.: (STK 134/23) Description: This textbook was designed for use in New South Wales schools. As a frontipiece it featured this world map on Mercator projection. Engraver: Carmichael, John First published: Sydney: J. Moore, 1850 Mapmaker: Mitchell, Thomas Livingstone (1792-1855) Notes: Need…
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Caart van dIndische zee van Cabo de goede Hoop tot Canton eerbiedig opgedragen door zyne Allerdoorlugtigste Hoogheids
Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: No Date Acquired: 19/6/2023 Dealers ID No.: 19223 Description: This large-format sea chart of the Indian Ocean, drawn on Mercators projection, was produced for official use by the Dutch East India Company (VOC). Extending from the Cape of Good Hope to Canton, it was issued…
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Route maritime de Brest à Siam, et de Siam à Brest, faite en 1685 et 1686 selon les remarques des six Peres Jesuites, envoiez par le Roy de France…
Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: No Date Acquired: 1/5/2023 Dealers ID No.: 19189 Description: This map, Route maritime de Brest à Siam, et de Siam à Brest ("Sea Route from Brest to Siam, and from Siam to Brest"), charts the outward and return voyages of the French scientific and diplomatic…
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Insulae indiae orientalis praecipuae in quibus Moluccae celeberrime sunt
Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Date Acquired: 14/3/2023 Description: In 1584, Jodocus Hondius I fled religious persecution in Ghent (now Belgium) and settled in London. There, he established himself as an engraver, instrument maker, and mapmaker. Three years later, he married Coletta van den Keere, sister of the renowned engraver Pieter…