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 French and Dutch sources for large multi-volume atlases such as Le Nouveau Théâtre du Monde (1713) and La Galerie Agréable du Monde (1729).nThis harbour chart of Bantam shows the port at the entrance to the Sunda Strait, historically a strategic anchorage for vessels navigating between the Indian Ocean and the Java Sea. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Bantam was a focal point of European competition in the spice trade. nThe fortified settlement appears as a small grid at the head of the bay, while the anchorage dominates the composition. Depth soundings are scattered across the water, guiding ships toward safe mooring, and the scale in Dutch miles underscores the charts practical purpose. Offshore islands including Hollands Kerk-hof (Dutch Churchyard) serve as navigational markers and reflect earlier Dutch activity in the harbour. Inland detail is minimal, reinforcing the charts focus on channels, approach routes, and the working space of maritime trade. It records Bantam at a time when it remained an important harbour, even as Dutch power had shifted toward Batavia.
First published: Nouvel Atlas, Leiden: Pieter van der Aa, 1714.
Mapmaker: Aa, Pierre [Pieter] van (1659-1733)
Price: 500
Primary Category: Southeast Asia
Purchase Reference: Ledger 2022
Rarity: R2 Very rare – one or two copies appear on the market
Technique: Copper Engraving
This state: La Galerie Agréable du Monde: Tome premier dAsie, Leiden: Pieter van der Aa [c. 17251729]
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