MAP
General Map
GM000394
Exacta & accurata delineatio cum orarum maritimdrum tum etjam locorum terrestrium quae in regionibus China, Cauchinchina, Camboja sive Champa, Syao, Malacca, Arracan & Pegu, una cum omnium vicinarum insularum descriptione ut sunt Samatra, Java utraq., Timora, Molicca, Philippina, Luconja & de Leqveos dicta; nec non insulae Japan & Corea
1596
This antique coloured map covers the entire Far East from Java to Japan. It is engraved for Linschoten's "Itinerario", a manual for sailing to the East Indies. A cartouche in the upper right corner contains a bilingual title (Latin and Dutch) summarizing the territories depicted (in translation): "The true depiction or illustration of all the coasts and lands of China, Cochin China, Cambodia, Siam, Malacca, Arracan and Pegu". In the sea are two finely engraved compass roses, sea-monsters and galleons, in China there are drawings of an elephant, camel, giraffe and rhinoceros. Map shows Burma, Sumatra, the Malay Peninsula, Borneo and the Phillippines, around the coast of China to Korea and Japan. Korea is shown as an almost round island, Japan is drawn as "shrimp shaped", Bali bears the name Galle and Sumbawa is called by its old name Iava Menor, an island called Os Papuas should be the beginning of Papua New Guinea and land at the right of map, known as Beach, where Australia would eventually be discovered, and others.
Second map of Southeast Asia contained in the Itinerario. Map was derived from portolan chart compiled in 1573 by Fernao Vaz Dourado, Portuguese Cartographer and other Portuguese charts by Bartolomeu Lasso.
Second map of Southeast Asia contained in the Itinerario. Map was derived from portolan chart compiled in 1573 by Fernao Vaz Dourado, Portuguese Cartographer and other Portuguese charts by Bartolomeu Lasso.
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Similar map in D2018_000043_BL, D2018_000100_BL and D2018_000139_RGS
Reproduced from Jan Huygen Van Linschoten original copper engraved map from his "Itinerario", first published in Amsterdam, 1596 by Cornelis Clasez. (Dutch coloured map of the East Indies).
Limited Edition.
Limited Edition.
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