Description
Antique map Ambon titled ‘Carte Particuliere de l ‘Isle Amboine’.
Old map showing Ambon, in the Moluccas Islands, better known as the Spice Islands. Ambon was the headquarters of the Dutch East India Company(VOC) from 1610 to 1619 until the founding of Batavia.
Artists and Engravers: Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772) was one of the most important and proficient French cartographers of the mid-eighteenth century. He was appointed the first Ingenieur Hydrographe de la Marine, and also Official Hydrographer to the French King.
Condition: Very good, light foxing. Please study image carefully.
Date: c.1760
Overall size: 36.5 x 25 cm.
Image size: 30 x 21 cm.
Purchase code : BG-06723
