Antique Maps of the East India Company

Houtman

the Dutch first fleet to the East Indies

The missing chart of the Dutch first fleet

Lacks in all collections

DESCRIPTIO HYDROGRAPHICA accommodata ad Battavorum navigationem in Javam insulam Indiæ Orientalis, factam; ad quam postridie Calendas Aprilis ann. 1595 ex Hollandia solverunt et ex qua domum redierunt 3. Idus Augusti an. 1597. Horum exitus reditusq3 via his notis ooo demonstratur. De hac navigatione extat descriptio lectu perquam admiranda

Amsterdam, 1598

Stock#: 19018

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Willem Lodewijcksz

the Dutch first fleet to the East Indies

The forbidden chart of Java

Lacks in all collections

Nova tabula, Insularum lavæ, Sumatræ, Borneonis et aliarum Malaccam usque, delineata in insula Iava, ubi ad vivum designantur vada et brevia scopulique interjacentes descripta a G.M.A.L.

Amsterdam, 1598

Stock#: 19019

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de Wit / Ottens

the World

the only wall map with explorer's tracks

in pristine condition and colour

Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula Auct. F. de Wit

Amsterdam, 1680

Stock#: 18919

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Plancius

Southern Africa and Indian Ocean

arguably the best map of the region

Fifth copy known

Delineatio orarum Manicongi, Angolæ, Monomotapæ, terræ natalis, Zofalæ, Mozambicæ, Abyssinorum &t: una cum vadis, et sirtibus adjacentibus. Item insulæ magna vulgo S. Laurentij alias Madagascar dictæ, inter maximas totius Orientis habitæ.

Amsterdam, 1592

Stock#: 19037

SOLD

Danckerts-Tavernier

the World

Exceptionally rare

First state

Charte Universelle De Tout Le Monde

Paris, 1628

Stock#: 18988

SOLD

Plancius

the Spice Islands

arguably the best map of the region

one of 11 copies known

INSULAE MOLUCCAE celeberrimæ sunt ob Maximam aromatum copiam quam per totum terrarum orbem mittunt: harum praecipuæ sunt Ternate, Tidoris, Motir, Machian & Bachian, his quidam adjungunt Gilolum, Celebiam, Borneonem, Amboinum & Bandam. Ex Insula Timore in Europam advehuntur Santala rubea et alba, Ex Banda nuces myrysticæ, cum Flore, vulgo dicto, Macis, Et ex Moluccis Caryophilly : quorem icones in pede hujus tabellæ ad vivum expressas poni curavimus.

Amsterdam, 1592

Stock#: 19080

SOLD

Plancius

the Spice Islands

first state

five copies known

INSULAE MOLUCCAE celeberrimæ sunt ob Maximam aromatum copiam quam per totum terrarum orbem mittunt: harum praecipuæ sunt Ternate, Tidoris, Motir, Machian & Bachian, his quidam adjungunt Gilolum, Celebiam, Borneonem, Amboinum & Bandam. Ex Insula Timore in Europam advehuntur Santala rubea et alba, Ex Banda nuces myrysticæ, cum Flore, vulgo dicto, Macis, Et ex Moluccis Caryophilly : quorem icones in pede hujus tabellæ ad vivum expressas poni curavimus.

Amsterdam, 1592

Stock#: 18980

SOLD

Plancius

the Spice Islands

arguably the best map of the region

one of 11 copies known

INSULAE MOLUCCAE celeberrimæ sunt ob Maximam aromatum copiam quam per totum terrarum orbem mittunt: harum praecipuæ sunt Ternate, Tidoris, Motir, Machian & Bachian, his quidam adjungunt Gilolum, Celebiam, Borneonem, Amboinum & Bandam. Ex Insula Timore in Europam advehuntur Santala rubea et alba, Ex Banda nuces myrysticæ, cum Flore, vulgo dicto, Macis, Et ex Moluccis Caryophilly : quorem icones in pede hujus tabellæ ad vivum expressas poni curavimus.

Amsterdam, 1592

Stock#: 19085