Acquired From: Leen Helmink
Colouring: Uncoloured
Condition: Excellent
Confirmed: 14/12/2024
Date Acquired: 17/09/2022
Dealers ID No.: 19117
Description: In 1649 Claes Jansz. Visscher reissued and expanded the work of Barent Langeness 1598 Caert-Thresoor (View Record (#285), View Record (#294), View Record (#295), View Record (#296), View Record (#383), View Record (#388)) as Tabularum geographicarum contractarum libri quatuor denuo recogniti, a compact atlas divided into four parts: Europae, Asiae (titlepage, View Record (#10)), Africae, and Americae nova descriptio. Alongside the inherited Langenes material, Visscher added twenty-three newly engraved maps including plates relating to recent Dutch discoveries in Australia and the East Indies (#11, View Record (#12), View Record (#371), View Record (#388)). The atlas also incorporated revised versions of the earlier Hondius world maps View Record (#292), View Record (#293), and two maps by Benjamin Wright (this map and View Record (#370))nThis map present the islands of Ternate and Tidore, shortly after the return of the second Dutch voyage to the East Indies (1598-1600), led by Jacob van Neck with Wybrand van Warwijck as vice-admiral. The fleet reached the Spice Islands in 1599, establishing trading relations and gathering detailed navigational intelligence.nAlthough engraved in 1601 in connection with the publication of the account of the second Dutch voyage (for the 1609 French title page see View Record (#380)), the plate does not appear in surviving copies of the journals printed that year. It is first found in Visschers 1649 atlas.nThe map presents the clove-producing islands of Ternate and Tidore in detailed profile, underscoring their strategic and commercial importance within the Moluccan spice trade. Portuguese fortifications are prominently identified, including S. Paolo on Ternate and two sites on Tidore labelled Portuges fort and Portuges beste fort, recording the still-visible, though increasingly vulnerable, Portuguese military presence in the region at the turn of the seventeenth century.nThe concentration of named coastal settlementsTalange, Gonsora, Cubala, Telingame, etctogether with marked anchorages and defensive sites, reflects the practical priorities of the second Dutch expedition, for which control of harbours and proximity to clove-producing districts were critical. The engraving therefore functions not merely as a topographical representation but as record of commercial and strategic intelligence, capturing the islands at a pivotal moment in the intensifying European contenst for dominance in the spice trade.
Engraver: Wright, Benjamin (1575-1613)
First published: Tabularum geographicarum contractarum libri quatuo, denuo recogniti, Amsterdam: Claes Jansz. Visscher, 1649
Image Size (cm): 8.5×12.5
Mapmaker: Wright, Benjamin (1575-1613)
Notes: Purchased with entries #370, #371
Price: 1750
Primary Category: Southeast Asia
Purchase Reference: Ledger 2022
Rarity: R1 Extremely rare – occasionally seen on the market
References: Peter van der Krogt, ed., Koemans Atlantes Neerlandici, vol. 3 (t Goy-Houten: HES & De Graaf, 1997), 8571:341, ed. 341:54 nGünter Schilder, Monumenta cartographica Neerlandica, vol. 7 (Canaletto, 2003), 271-277
Sheet size (cm): 14.3×18.2
Technique: Copper Engraving
This state: First
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