Catégorie : Southeast Asia

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Very Good Date Acquired: 29/3/2019 Description: This detailed chart depicts the Sunda Strait, the narrow but strategically vital maritime passage between the islands of Sumatra and Java. It forms part of Robert Dudleys DellArcano del Mare (Secrets of the Sea), first published in Florence between 1646 and 1647…

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: 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 Confirmed: No Description: This engraving presents a perspective view of Batavia, the Dutch colonial capital (modern-day Jakarta). Originally created by Jan Van Ryne, it first appeared in Robert Sayer's 1753 catalogue, Two Hundred and Six Perspective Views Adapted to the Diagonal Mirror, or Optical Pillar Machine (#197 in the 1780 edition). Van Ryne,…

Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Very Good Description: A mid-18th century French black and white plan of Batavia as it appeared in 1629 engraved by Jacob van der Schley (1715-1779) and compiled by Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772), who spent more than 50 years at the French Hydrographic Service where he was appointed the first Ingénieur hydrographe de la…

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…