Catégorie : Southeast Asia

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…

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…

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: Very Good Confirmed: No Description: This engraving offers a perspective view of Batavia, the Dutch colonial capital (present-day Jakarta). Originally created by Jan Van Ryne, it was first published in Robert Sayer's 1753 catalogue, Two Hundred and Six Perspective Views Adapted to the Diagonal Mirror, or Optical Pillar Machine (View Record (#184)).…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 26/12/2024 Dealers ID No.: 19641 Description: Herman Moll was a German-born mapmaker who settled in London in the late 17th century. Beginning his career as an engraver, he rose to prominence as a cartographer known for his detailed and commercially astute maps.…

Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 6/4/2001 Dealers ID No.: M47/2 Description: This is the third and final state of Willem Jansz. Blaeus important map of the East Indies, India quae orientalis dicitur, et insulae adjacentes (India, so-called the East, and adjacent islands), published in the 1635 Latin…

Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries Colouring: Coloured Condition: Good Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 26/6/2000 Dealers ID No.: M47/1 (STK 946.01) Description: This intermediate state of Willem Jansz. Blaeus map of the East Indiestitled India quae orientalis dicitur, et insulae adjacentes (India, so-called the East, and adjacent islands)was published in the 1634 German-language edition of Novus Atlas.…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: 29/09/2024 Date Acquired: 3/10/2014 Description: This manuscript map showcases three key Banda Islands: Banda Api, known for its volcano Gunung Api (or "Burning Mountain"); Banda Neira; and Banda Lonthoir (modern-day Banda Besar). It also includes name tables and three insets depicting the smaller islands of…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Excellent Confirmed: 24/10/2024 Date Acquired: 10/3/2013 Description: Abraham Ortelius, a pioneering mapmaker, published the first comprehensive collection of uniformly sized maps. Titled Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Theatre of the World), this groundbreaking work established the concept of the modern atlas. Ortelius drafted all the maps before passing them to…