Catégorie : Southeast Asia

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…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Excellent Date Acquired: Nov 2025 Dealers ID No.: 19911 Description: This large and detailed blueback sea chart depicts the island of Java and represents the final and most comprehensive nautical chart of the island produced by the Van Keulen publishing house for the Dutch East India Company (VOC).…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Excellent Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: Dec 2025 Dealers ID No.: 19783 Description: Frederik de Wit began his career as an apprentice to Willem Blaeu before establishing his own publishing house in Amsterdam in 1648 under the sign De Drie Crabben (the Three Crabs). In 1655, he renamed his…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Excellent Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: Dec 2025 Dealers ID No.: 19799 Description: This large engraved plan depicts Batavia, the principal administrative and commercial centre of the Dutch East India Company in Southeast Asia. Published in Amsterdam in 1780 by Petrus Conradi and engraved by A. van Krevelt, the…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Excellent Date Acquired: 5/12/2024 Dealers ID No.: 19611 Description: This map titled was published in 1602 by Levinus Hulsius, a notable German publisher and compiler of voyage accounts. While Hulsius was responsible for publishing the map, the specific cartographer who created it is not named. This map is…

Acquired From: Brighton Antique Prints and Maps Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 19/5/2025 Dealers ID No.: ex Gowrie M164 (STK 620/1) Description: This richly engraved map of maritime Southeast Asia, India quae orientalis dicitur, et insulae adjacentes (India, so-called the East, and adjacent islands), was first issued by Henricus Hondius in…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: No Date Acquired: 6/1/2024 Dealers ID No.: 19355 Description: James Horsburgh, a distinguished hydrographer, significantly advanced maritime navigation and British trade in the East. By age 16, he had mastered mathematics, navigation, and bookkeeping, beginning his maritime career as a cabin boy apprenticed for three…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Good Confirmed: No Date Acquired: 10/04/2023 Dealers ID No.: 19175 Description: Sebastian Münster was a German mapmaker, cosmographer and professor of Hebrew at the University of Basel. Among his publications was a Latin edition of Claudius Ptolemys Geographia, first published in Basel in 1540. This edition included twenty-seven…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: No Date Acquired: 13/10/2023 Dealers ID No.: 19269 Description: Nicolas Sanson, widely regarded as one of the leading French mapmakers of the seventeenth century, played a critical role in establishing France as a leader in European mapmaking, ultimately surpassing the dominance of Dutch mapmakers. nOriginally…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: No Date Acquired: 13/10/2023 Dealers ID No.: 19267 Description: Nicolas Sanson, widely regarded as one of the leading French mapmakers of the seventeenth century, played a critical role in establishing France as a leader in European mapmaking, ultimately surpassing the dominance of Dutch mapmakers. nOriginally…