Catégorie : Southeast Asia

Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Excellent Confirmed: No Description: This detailed chart presents the eastern East Indies, covering the islands of Celebes (Sulawesi), Timor, Seram, Banda, Amboina, and surrounding archipelagos. It appears in Robert Dudleys DellArcano del Mare (Secrets of the Sea), first published in Florence between 1646 and 1647, and reissued in a revised, two-volume edition…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Excellent Confirmed: 3/10/2024 Date Acquired: 19/2/2019 Description: The Van Keulen family was renowned for their significant contributions to mapmaking and atlas publishing. Their firm, In de Gekroonde Lootsman (In the Crowned Pilot), was established in 1678 by Johannes van Keulen I. In 1680, two years after establishing the…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: 3/10/2024 Date Acquired: 15/6/2019 Description: Johannes Metellus was a French humanist with wide-ranging interests in cartography, geography, law, paleography, and antiquarianism. He spent much of his early life travelling across Europe, building connections with fellow humanists, particularly in Italy. Later, he moved to Louvain, which…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Excellent Confirmed: Yes Dealers ID No.: 18783 Description: This detailed sea chart by Hendrick Doncker depicts the eastern section of the East Indies and surrounding regions, extending from the southern tip of India (Cabo Comorin) to Japan including maritime Southeast Asia and parts of northern Australia (Nova Hollandia).…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Excellent Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 27/3/2019 Description: Benedetto Bordone, a Paduan-born miniaturist and illustrator active in Venice, is best known for his Isolario (Book of Islands), a landmark compendium first published in 1528. Drawing on classical geographies, medieval travel narratives, and early exploration accounts, Bordones Isolario catalogues 111…

Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Description: The map illustrates the surrounding fields, including the gardens, fortifications and housing. Several small redoubts protect the city from the interior including Ansjol, Jacatra, Noordwyk and Ankee. A large compass rose at the upper right orients the map First published: Published in A.F. Prévosts Histoire générales des Voyages in…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: No Description: Danish Ground plan of the beach and fortress Batavia for the General History of Travel Mapmaker: Haas, I Notes: No details on this Primary Category: Southeast Asia Technique: Copper Engraving

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 22/4/2018 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…

Colouring: Coloured Condition: Good Description: Plan of the town of Batavia or present-day Jakarta in Indonesia. Includes indications of land use, scales, shallows. Also includes an inset illustration of the prospect of the town with ships and settlement. First published: Publisher: Niels Hansen Møller in Copenhagen Mapmaker: Haas, I Other states: JCB Map Collection Primary…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 22/4/2018 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…