Acquired From: Leen Helmink
Colouring: Uncoloured
Condition: Excellent
Confirmed: 29/09/2024
Date Acquired: 29/4/2014
Description: When the pioneering Dutch expedition (1595-1597) to the East Indies, led by Cornelis de Houtman returned to the Dutch Republic, efforts to publish the findings were quickly undertaken. In April 1598, Cornelis Claesz. published Historie van Indien, the journal by Willem Lodewijcksz., a clerk on the voyage. In addition to this, Claesz. also printed this map showing the route taken by de Houtmans expedition. The map depicts the outbound journey (Exitus) with two sets of four ships: the Mauritius, Amsterdam, Hollandia, and Duifje. On the return journey (Reditus), there are two sets of three ships, as the crew had burned the Amsterdam in Bawean to consolidate supplies and manpower. nA scrollwork cartouche in the lower right corner contains the title of the map in Latin and Dutch. In English, it reads: Chart made during the voyage of the Hollanders to Java located in the East Indies. Sailed from Holland on the 2nd of April 1595 and returned home anno 1597 on the 14th of August. The route is marked with the ooo little rings outbound and homebound. The description thereof is strange to read.nBehind the cartouche is a promontory labelled Terra Australis Incognita with the toponyms Lucach Regnum, Maletur Reg., and Beach Reg. These were names for regions on Java Minor, a confusion originating from a printing error in the 1532 edition of Marco Polos Travels, published in Johann Huttichs and Simon Grynaeuss Novus orbis regionum ac insularum veteribus incognitarum. At the middle bottom edge, a German scale bar is drawn, and at the lower left corner are two small inset maps: one of Mossel Bay in Southern Africa and another of the Bay dAntongil on Madagascar. nIn the top right corner, there are three reduced vignettes copied from Lodewijcksz.s journal. On the left is a presentation of the soldiers (the inscription reads: Soldiers of the city of Bantam, the bravest, most persistent and obstinate in all of the East Indies, who do not trust anybody). In the centre is a depiction of their commander (the inscription reads: The commander of the soldiers of the city of Bantam. In front of him one or two lances are carried and a long sword carried almost horizontally. He is shown respect by squatting low). On the right, farmers are depicted (the inscription reads: The farmers, coming to the market of the city of Bantam, are dressed in paper gowns. The paper is manufactured from the bark and inner-bark of the trees). The name of the engraver is not provided, but Gunter Schilder suggests it may have been Benjamin Wright.
Engraver: Wright, Benjamin (xx)
First published: Separate publication. Amsterdam: Cornelis Claesz, 1598
Mapmaker: Lodewijcksz, Willem
Other states: Only 3 uncoloured copies known: Amsterdam, Maritime Museum; Rotterdam, Maritime Museum; Verhoeff VOC Collection (The Netherlands)
Price: 100,000
Primary Category: Southeast Asia
Purchase Reference: Ledger 2022. Inv. 2014-015
Rarity: R1 Extremely rare – occasionally seen on the market
References: Günter Schilder, Monumenta cartographica Neerlandica, vol. 7 (Alphen aan den Rijn: Canaletto, 2003), 25864, 268 and Ill. 11.52. nGunter Schilder and Marco von Egmond, Maritime Cartography in the Low Countries during the Renaissance, History of Cartography, Volume 3: Cartography in the European Renaissance, Part 2, pgs. 1384-1432, 1412.
Technique: Copper Engraving
This state: 1598
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