Description
Description: Antique print, titled: ‘Borneo Insula.’ – A small early 18th century map of Borneo Island, Indonesia. With compass rose and scale. ‘Recueil des Voyages …. Des Indes Orientales, Formee dans les Provinces Unies des Pais-Bas’ (7 volumes) published in Amsterdam between 1702 and 1706. This map is from Volume 2 of the Voyages and is copied from the much earlier version of the map originally published by Theodore de Bry in 1613.
Artists and Engravers: Made by ‘Rene Augustin Constantin de Renneville’ after an anonymous artist. Rene Augustin Constantin de Renneville (1650-1723) a French writer who edited translated Issac Commelin’s Dutch travel accounts.
- Date: 1702
- Technic: Copperplate engraving / etching on hand laid paper.
- Overall size: 7,9 x 6,3 inch
- Image size: 6,5 x 5,4 inch
- Condition: Good, given age. A few small spots. Three small worm holes on the right, one in the image. Original fold as issued. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
- PartNumber: PCT-57920
- Storage Location: BG-C1-43
