THE EAST INDIES
Our Indonesian Store
In our Indonesian store you can find an extensive collection of original rare antique maps, prints and books of mainly the Old East Indies. A large part of our Indonesian collection of antique maps, prints and books can be found on this website. Our physical store is located in the Mandarin Oriental Hotel Jakarta and also offers (tribal) art and antiques.
THE NETHERLANDS
Our Dutch Stores
In 2014, Bartele Santema moved to The Netherlands and opened an antique map store in the Frisian village Langweer. In 2018, he opened a second antique map store in Sneek. Our Dutch antique map stores offer antique maps from every part of the world. Moreover, thousands of antique prints can be found covering fields of interest as diverse as antique city views, animal prints, antique portraits and many more.
ONLINE STORES
Our Online Stores
With weekly new additions we offer a wide range of our maps, prints, books and antiques online. This website displays our Indonesian inventory. For our Dutch inventory, please visit our online antique map store. If you don’t find what you are looking for, let us know and we will help you to locate it.
Please note that we are also interested in buying your antique maps and prints, especially from the East Indies!
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Latest Additions
Partie de la Nouvelle Grande Carte des Indes Orientales (..) – Elwe (1792)
- Date: 1792
- Technic: Etching/engraving, contemporary hand colouring on hand laid paper. Watermark
- Overall size: 26 x 21,8 inch
- Image size: 23,5 x 20,5 inch
- Condition: Very good, given age. Original middle fold, as issued. A fine copy, with only some slight age-related browning and a few small stains. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
- PartNumber: 56912
- Storage Location: BG-B3-15
Ile Timor – Lerouge & Choubard (1825)
- Date: 1825
- Technic: Handcoloured etching / stipple engraving on wove paper.
- Overall size: 13,2 x 19,7 inch
- Image size: 7,5 x 11 inch
- Condition: Very good, given age. Some small imperfections (small stains) in the margins. A crease in the top right margin corner. Margin edges a little uneven. Image very faintly discoloured. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
- PartNumber: 56437
- Storage Location: BG-B2-04
Coupang: Ile Timor. Divers Costumes – Prot (1825)
- Date: 1825
- Technic: Handcoloured etching / stipple engraving on wove paper.
- Overall size: 19,7 x 13,2 inch
- Image size: 11 x 6,5 inch
- Condition: Very good, given age. Some small imperfections (small stains) in the margins and a few in the top edge of the image. A faint dampstain in the right margin edge. Margin edges a little uneven. Image very faintly discoloured. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
- PartNumber: 56438
- Storage Location: BG-B2-03
Pl.16 Commerce du Japon/Japanse Koophandel – Van der Aa (1725)
Description: Plate 16: 'Commerce du Japon / Japanse Koophandel - Magnificence du Roi Calaminhan aux Indes Orientales / Calaminhans Eer Pracht.' (Japanese Trade - Magnificence of the King of Kalimantan, Indonesia.) This plate shows the Dutch VOC trading post in Nagasaki, Japan on the left. On the right an Indonesian King and his entourage in Kalimantan, Borneo. Extremely rare in any edition.
This plate originates from the very scarse: 'La galerie agreable du monde (...). Tome premier des Indes Orientales.', published by P. van der Aa, Leyden, c. 1725. This famous work was published in 66 parts and is the biggest print / map book ever published. Van der Aa incorporated plates by other publishers such as Blaeu, Visscher, de Wit, meurs, Halma, Mortier, Allard in this work and often added broad decorative borders. Probably the costliest and complete universal geographic work ever produced. It is said that only 100 copies were printed. Ref: Koeman Aa9; Phillips 2780 note. This plate was originally published in 'Les Indes orientales et occidentales, et autres lieux.', by Romeyn de Hooghe, published by Pieter van der Aa, leiden, 1710. Extremely rare in any edition.
Artists and Engravers: Pieter van der Aa (Leiden 1659-1733) was a Dutch publisher best known for preparing maps and atlases. The Galerie Agreable contains plates and maps by the best Dutch engravers: Luiken, Goeree, Mulder, Stoopendaal, Aldert Meijer, Romeyn de Hooghe, ao.
- Date: 1725
- Technic: Copperplate engraving on a verge type hand laid paper with watermark. Authenticity 100% guaranteed.
- Overall size: 19,3 x 15 inch
- Image size: 13,4 x 8,3 inch
- Condition: Excellent. General age related toning and light staining. Paper edge uncut and thus irregular and with occasional minimal tears. Original folding as issued.
- PartNumber: 22053
- Storage Location: (BG) B42-13
La ville de Palembang dans l’Ile de Sumatra – Van der Aa (1725)
Description: Plate: 'La ville de Palembang dans l'Ile de Sumatra'. (The city of Palembang on the island of Sumatra.) This plate shows a sea battle before the city of Palembang on Sumatra, Indonesia. With compass rose, legend and scale. This plate originates from the very scarse: 'La galerie agreable du monde (…). Tome premier des Indes Orientales.', published by P. van der Aa, Leyden, c. 1725. This famous work was published in 66 parts and is the biggest print / map book ever published. Van der Aa incorporated plates by other publishers such as Blaeu, Visscher, de Wit, meurs, Halma, Mortier, Allard in this work and often added broad decorative borders. Probably the costliest and complete universal geographic work ever produced. It is said that only 100 copies were printed. Ref: Koeman Aa9; Phillips 2780 note.
Artists and Engravers: Pieter van der Aa (Leiden 1659-1733) was a Dutch publisher best known for preparing maps and atlases. The Galerie Agreable contains plates and maps by the best Dutch engravers: Luiken, Goeree, Mulder, Stoopendaal, ao.
- Date: 1725
- Technic: Copperplate engraving and etching on a verge type hand laid paper with watermark. Authenticity 100% guaranteed.
- Overall size: 19,3 x 15 inch
- Image size: 13,6 x 11,4 inch
- Condition: Excellent. General age related toning and occasional light staining from handling. Paper edge uncut and thus irregular. Original middle fold as issued.
- PartNumber: 21283
- Storage Location: (BG) B38-45
Pl.13 Afteeckeninge van de Scheep-strijd voor Bantam – Houtman (1646)
Description: Plate 13 ; 'Afteeckeninge van de Scheep-strijd voor Bantam'. (Depiction of the sea battle before Bantam.) This plate shows war ships in battle before Bantam / Banten, Indonesia.
This is an extremely rare print / copperplate engraving from: 'De eerste Schipvaerd der Hollandsche Natie naer Oost-Indien.... (The first sea voyage of the Dutch nation to the East-Indies ...), which was part of the monumental work by Isaac Commelin (1598-1676) on VOC voyages: 'Begin ende voortgangh van de Vereenighde Nederlantsche Geoctroyeerde Oost-Indische Companie....', published by Joannes Janssonius, Amsterdam, 1646. The First Dutch Expedition to Indonesia was an expedition that took place from 1595 to 1597. It was instrumental in the opening up of the Indonesian spice trade to the merchants that eventually formed the Dutch East India Company, and marked the end of the Portuguese Empire's dominance in the region. Although the expedition did not bring back as much as expected - 245 bags of pepper, 45 tons of nutmeg, and 30 bales of mace - spice prices had become so inflated that the expedition was still profitable. All in all, the voyage suffered from bad leadership, but was still instrumental in opening up the East Indies to the Dutch
Artists and Engravers: During this voyage Cornelis de Houtman (1565-1599) emerged as the leader of the expedition. He was the brother of Frederick de Houtman, a Dutch explorer who discovered a new sea route from Europe to Indonesia and managed to begin the Dutch spice trade.
- Date: 1646
- Technic: Original copper engravings on a vellin type paper.
- Overall size: 9,6 x 7,5 inch
- Image size: 8,5 x 5,7 inch
- Condition: Good. General age related toning and foxing, some creasing and minor soiling. Minor damp staining lower margin not affecting image.
- PartNumber: 19480
- Storage Location: (BG) C94-21
INDONESIA
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