A Bougis of Bokjes – Baldaeus (1744)
Description: Antique print, titled: 'A Bougis of Bokjes' - This plate shows Buginese people near Batavia, East Indies, Indonesia. The Buginese people are an ethnic group - the most numerous of the three major linguistic and ethnic groups of South Sulawesi, in the southwestern province of Sulawesi, third largest island of Indonesia. Drawn to accompany J. Nieuhof's account of his travel in the east indies. Johan Nieuhof (1618-1672) was a Dutch traveller who wrote about his journeys to Brazil, China, India and the East Indies. His notes and illustrations were published in Dutch by Jacob van Meurs in 1665 and this English edition was published in 'Churchill's Voyages and Travels' (3rd edition 1744).
Source unknown, to be determined.
Artists and Engravers: Made by 'Philip Baldaeus' after an anonymous artist. Author: Philip Baldaeus (1632-1672). Father Philippus Baldaeus, Baelde or Philip Balde (October 1632, Delft - 1672, Geervliet) was a Dutch minister. He went to Jaffna, Ceylon with an invading Dutch force during 17th Century. As the first European he documented the life, language and culture of Tamil people, living in the north of the island. It is a great historical record, similar to Mahawamsa, and it was immediately published in Dutch and German (with many beautiful plates). Some plates in this work signed G. Appelmans fe., being the engraver.
- Date: 1744
- Technic: Engraving / etching on hand laid paper.
- Overall size: 8,3 x 13,6 inch
- Image size: 6,7 x 11,2 inch
- Condition: Very good, given age. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
- PartNumber: 58730
- Storage Location: BG-B6-35 Iscra
A Javanese Man and Wooman – Nieuhof (1744)
Description: Antique print, titled: 'A Javanese Man and Wooman.' - This plate shows a man and woman from Java, Indonesia. It originally accompanied J. Nieuhof's account of his 'Voyages and Travels to the East-Indies' in the 17th century. Johan Nieuhof (1618-1672) was a Dutch traveller who wrote about his journeys to Brazil, China, India and the East-Indies. His notes and illustrations were published by Jacob van Meurs in 1665 and this English edition was included in 'Churchill's Voyages and Travels' (3rd edition 1744).
From: Churchill's 'A Collection of Voyages and Travels, some now first printed from original manuscripts others now first printed in English', printed in 1744 for Henry Lintot and John Osborn.
Artists and Engravers: Made by 'Johan Nieuhof' after an anonymous artist. Johan / Jan / Johannes Nieuhof / Nieuhoff / Neuhof (1618-1672) was a Dutch traveler who wrote about his journeys to Brazil, China and India. The most famous of these was a trip of 2,400 km from Canton to Peking in 1655-1657 as part of a Dutch envoy, which enabled him to become an authoritative Western writer on China. Johan Nieuhof was born in Uelsen, Germany, of which his father (originally from Zwolle) was mayor. Nieuhof left for Brazil in 1640 as a reserve officer-candidate - from then on, barring two short family visits in 1658 and 1671, he spent all the rest of his life abroad. After an adventurous career in the service of the Dutch East India Company (or VOC) - between 1660 and 1667 he occupied posts in India and on Ceylon - he then lived in Batavia until 1670. He then disappeared without trace on Madagascar, traveling in a sloop from which he had landed to seek drinking water. The engravings are made after Nieuhoff's drawings.
- Date: 1744
- Technic: Engraving / etching on hand laid (verge) paper.
- Overall size: 8,3 x 13,6 inch
- Image size: 6,9 x 11,6 inch
- Condition: Good, given age. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
- PartNumber: 61646
- Storage Location: BG-B16-15 ISCRA
A Large Draught from Benjar (..) – Anonymous (1711)
Description: Antique print, titled: 'A Large Draught from Benjar on the Island of Borneo To Macasser on the Island of Celebes Shewing the Streight of Bally with the Islands to the Eastward thereof.'Â Rare early example of this working English Sea Chart of part of Indondesia, extending from the Northwest corner of Borneo near Banjarmasin, to Java and Bali in the Southwest, 't Land van Floris' in the southeast, and Celebes in the northeast. The chart includes extensive soundings, rhumblines and a compass rose. Thornton's chart depicts the Java Sea, in the heart of the Indonesian Archipelago. By the 18th century this area was well-known to mariners, having been extensively explored first by the Portuguese and later by agents of the Dutch East India Company. East Java is depicted in the lower left corner, and further east are the islands of Bali and Lombok. Following the chain are the islands of Flores and Sumbawa. Kalimantan and Borneo are depicted in the upper right of the map, and on the far right side is Celebes, on which the handsome title cartouche is featured. The sea is elegantly traversed by rhumb lines that radiate from compass roses. Source unknown, to be determined.
Artists and Engravers: Made by an anonymous engraver after 'Samuel Thornton'. In 1671, the London cartographer John Seller (fl.1664-97) commenced work on The English Pilot , a work that intended to challenge Dutch hegemony in the sea atlas market. Intended to be published in four books covering different regions of the globe, Seller published an uncompleted book on 'Oriental navigation' in 1675. Unable to continue this Herculean endeavour, Seller sold his rights to John Thornton, the official hydrographer to the English East India Company. Thornton took up the project with great fervour, publishing his first editions in 1689. Thornton did not publish his first edition of the Third Book, detailing navigation in the East Indies, until 1703. While Thornton largely based his charts on those of earlier Dutch cartographers, most notably those found in Pieter Goos' Zee-Spiegel and Lucas Janz Waghenaer's Mariner's Mirror, The English Pilot proved to be enormously popular. When John Thornton died in 1708, his brother Samuel took over the business and added to and modified existing charts. All four books were produced in editions until the 1760s. The Third Book ran into twelve editions up to 1761. The project succeeded in giving the English dominance in the sea chart market as the eighteenth-century progressed.
- Date: 1711
- Technic: Copperplate engraving / etching on hand laid paper.
- Overall size: 22,8 x 19,1 inch
- Image size: 21 x 17,1 inch
- Condition: Good, given age. Margins with a few small tears and some spots, all outside image area. Original middle fold as issued. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
- PartNumber: 58064
- Storage Location: BG-B5-40
A Large Draught of the East End of Java and Madura (..) – Anonymous (1711)
Description: Antique print, titled: 'A Large Draught of the East End of Java and Madura shewing the Streights of Bally.' - Rare early example of this working English Sea Chart of part of Indondesia with Java, Madura, and the Straights of Bali, Indonesia. Source unknown, to be determined.
Artists and Engravers: Made by an anonymous engraver after 'Samuel Thornton'. In 1671, the London cartographer John Seller (fl.1664-97) commenced work on The English Pilot , a work that intended to challenge Dutch hegemony in the sea atlas market. Intended to be published in four books covering different regions of the globe, Seller published an uncompleted book on 'Oriental navigation' in 1675. Unable to continue this Herculean endeavour, Seller sold his rights to John Thornton, the official hydrographer to the English East India Company. Thornton took up the project with great fervour, publishing his first editions in 1689. Thornton did not publish his first edition of the Third Book, detailing navigation in the East Indies, until 1703. While Thornton largely based his charts on those of earlier Dutch cartographers, most notably those found in Pieter Goos' Zee-Spiegel and Lucas Janz Waghenaer's Mariner's Mirror, The English Pilot proved to be enormously popular. When John Thornton died in 1708, his brother Samuel took over the business and added to and modified existing charts. All four books were produced in editions until the 1760s. The Third Book ran into twelve editions up to 1761. The project succeeded in giving the English dominance in the sea chart market as the eighteenth-century progressed.
- Date: 1711
- Technic: Copperplate engraving / etching on hand laid paper.
- Overall size: 21,8 x 17,7 inch
- Image size: 20,8 x 17 inch
- Condition: Good, given age. Top edge irregular as issued. Paper with some discolouration at places. A tiny double worm holes left and right of the lower edge of the middle fold, just inside the image area. Original folds as issued. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
- PartNumber: 58065
- Storage Location: BG-B5-39
A Makasser with his Wife as they are habited at Batavia – Nieuhof (1744)
Description: Antique print, titled: 'A Makasser with his Wife as they are habited at Batavia.' - This plate shows a man and his wife from Makassar living in Batavia (now Jakarta), Indonesia. It originally accompanied J. Nieuhof's account of his 'Voyages and Travels to the East-Indies' in the 17th century. Johan Nieuhof (1618-1672) was a Dutch traveller who wrote about his journeys to Brazil, China, India and the East-Indies. His notes and illustrations were published by Jacob van Meurs in 1665 and this English edition was included in 'Churchill's Voyages and Travels' (3rd edition 1744).
From: Churchill's 'A Collection of Voyages and Travels, some now first printed from original manuscripts others now first printed in English', printed in 1744 for Henry Lintot and John Osborn.
Artists and Engravers: Made by 'Johan Nieuhof' after an anonymous artist. Johan / Jan / Johannes Nieuhof / Nieuhoff / Neuhof (1618-1672) was a Dutch traveler who wrote about his journeys to Brazil, China and India. The most famous of these was a trip of 2,400 km from Canton to Peking in 1655-1657 as part of a Dutch envoy, which enabled him to become an authoritative Western writer on China. Johan Nieuhof was born in Uelsen, Germany, of which his father (originally from Zwolle) was mayor. Nieuhof left for Brazil in 1640 as a reserve officer-candidate - from then on, barring two short family visits in 1658 and 1671, he spent all the rest of his life abroad. After an adventurous career in the service of the Dutch East India Company (or VOC) - between 1660 and 1667 he occupied posts in India and on Ceylon - he then lived in Batavia until 1670. He then disappeared without trace on Madagascar, traveling in a sloop from which he had landed to seek drinking water. The engravings are made after Nieuhoff's drawings.
- Date: 1744
- Technic: Engraving / etching on hand laid (verge) paper.
- Overall size: 8,4 x 13,6 inch
- Image size: 6,9 x 10,9 inch
- Condition: Good, given age. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
- PartNumber: 61647
- Storage Location: BG-B16-14 ISCRA
A Map of Karazm, Great Bukharia and Turkestan – Kitchin (1745)
Description:Â Antique map titled 'A Map of Karazm, Great Bukharia and Turkestan'. Map of Asia, covers from the Caspian Sea across to the Aral Sea in Kazakhstan, into Turkistan, through Uzbekistan and south to northern Persia and east towards Siberia. This map originates from 'A New General Collection of Voyages and Travels' by Astley.Â
Artists and Engravers:Â Thomas Kitchin (or Thomas Kitchen (1718 - 1784) was an English engraver and cartographer, who became hydrographer to the king.
- Date: 1745
- Overall size: 25.5 x 19.5 cm.
- Image size: 22.5 x 15 cm.
- Condition: Very good, please study image carefully.
A Map of Little Bocharia – Kitchin (c.1766)
Description: Antique map of Asia titled ‚A Map of Little Bochara and the adjacent countrys. Drawn from the Survey of the Jesuits and Mr. McKyrillows Map of the Russian Empire‘. Depicts little Bochara, tartary and the Gobi desert. This map most likely originates from ‘A New Geographical and Historical Grammar (..)‘.
Artists and Engravers:Â Thomas Kitchin (or Thomas Kitchen (1718 - 1784) was an English engraver and cartographer, who became hydrographer to the king. He was also an author, who wrote about the history of the West Indies.
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- Date: c.1766
- Overall size: 37 x 24 cm.
- Image size: 23 x 17 cm.
- Condition: Very good. General age-related toning, some creasing of the paper. Please study image carefully.
A Marchant of Java – Nieuhof (1744)
Description: Antique print, titled: 'A Marchant of Java.' - This plate shows a merchant from Java, Indonesia. It originally accompanied J. Nieuhof's account of his 'Voyages and Travels to the East-Indies' in the 17th century. Johan Nieuhof (1618-1672) was a Dutch traveller who wrote about his journeys to Brazil, China, India and the East-Indies. His notes and illustrations were published by Jacob van Meurs in 1665 and this English edition was included in 'Churchill's Voyages and Travels' (3rd edition 1744).
From: Churchill's 'A Collection of Voyages and Travels, some now first printed from original manuscripts others now first printed in English', printed in 1744 for Henry Lintot and John Osborn.
Artists and Engravers: Made by 'Johan Nieuhof' after an anonymous artist. Johan / Jan / Johannes Nieuhof / Nieuhoff / Neuhof (1618-1672) was a Dutch traveler who wrote about his journeys to Brazil, China and India. The most famous of these was a trip of 2,400 km from Canton to Peking in 1655-1657 as part of a Dutch envoy, which enabled him to become an authoritative Western writer on China. Johan Nieuhof was born in Uelsen, Germany, of which his father (originally from Zwolle) was mayor. Nieuhof left for Brazil in 1640 as a reserve officer-candidate - from then on, barring two short family visits in 1658 and 1671, he spent all the rest of his life abroad. After an adventurous career in the service of the Dutch East India Company (or VOC) - between 1660 and 1667 he occupied posts in India and on Ceylon - he then lived in Batavia until 1670. He then disappeared without trace on Madagascar, traveling in a sloop from which he had landed to seek drinking water. The engravings are made after Nieuhoff's drawings.
- Date: 1744
- Technic: Engraving / etching on hand laid (verge) paper.
- Overall size: 8,3 x 13,6 inch
- Image size: 6,7 x 11,1 inch
- Condition: Good, given age. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
- PartNumber: 61645
- Storage Location: BG-B16-15 ISCRA
A Mestice Wooman – Nieuhof (1744)
Description: Antique print, titled: 'A Mestice Wooman.' - This plate shows a woman of mixed ethnicity (Mestizo), Indonesia. It originally accompanied J. Nieuhof's account of his 'Voyages and Travels to the East-Indies' in the 17th century. Johan Nieuhof (1618-1672) was a Dutch traveller who wrote about his journeys to Brazil, China, India and the East-Indies. His notes and illustrations were published by Jacob van Meurs in 1665 and this English edition was included in 'Churchill's Voyages and Travels' (3rd edition 1744).
From: Churchill's 'A Collection of Voyages and Travels, some now first printed from original manuscripts others now first printed in English', printed in 1744 for Henry Lintot and John Osborn.
Artists and Engravers: Made by 'Johan Nieuhof' after an anonymous artist. Johan / Jan / Johannes Nieuhof / Nieuhoff / Neuhof (1618-1672) was a Dutch traveler who wrote about his journeys to Brazil, China and India. The most famous of these was a trip of 2,400 km from Canton to Peking in 1655-1657 as part of a Dutch envoy, which enabled him to become an authoritative Western writer on China. Johan Nieuhof was born in Uelsen, Germany, of which his father (originally from Zwolle) was mayor. Nieuhof left for Brazil in 1640 as a reserve officer-candidate - from then on, barring two short family visits in 1658 and 1671, he spent all the rest of his life abroad. After an adventurous career in the service of the Dutch East India Company (or VOC) - between 1660 and 1667 he occupied posts in India and on Ceylon - he then lived in Batavia until 1670. He then disappeared without trace on Madagascar, traveling in a sloop from which he had landed to seek drinking water. The engravings are made after Nieuhoff's drawings.
- Date: 1744
- Technic: Engraving / etching on hand laid (verge) paper.
- Overall size: 8,5 x 13 inch
- Image size: 6,9 x 11,3 inch
- Condition: Good, given age. Small tear right edge, not affecting image. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
- PartNumber: 61643
- Storage Location: BG-B16-15 ISCRA
A Negro Pedler with his wife – Nieuhof (1744)
Description: Antique print, titled: 'A Negro Pedler with his wife.' - This plate shows a black skinned peddler and his wife, Indonesia. It originally accompanied J. Nieuhof's account of his 'Voyages and Travels to the East-Indies' in the 17th century. Johan Nieuhof (1618-1672) was a Dutch traveller who wrote about his journeys to Brazil, China, India and the East-Indies. His notes and illustrations were published by Jacob van Meurs in 1665 and this English edition was included in 'Churchill's Voyages and Travels' (3rd edition 1744).
From: Churchill's 'A Collection of Voyages and Travels, some now first printed from original manuscripts others now first printed in English', printed in 1744 for Henry Lintot and John Osborn.
Artists and Engravers: Made by 'Johan Nieuhof' after an anonymous artist. Johan / Jan / Johannes Nieuhof / Nieuhoff / Neuhof (1618-1672) was a Dutch traveler who wrote about his journeys to Brazil, China and India. The most famous of these was a trip of 2,400 km from Canton to Peking in 1655-1657 as part of a Dutch envoy, which enabled him to become an authoritative Western writer on China. Johan Nieuhof was born in Uelsen, Germany, of which his father (originally from Zwolle) was mayor. Nieuhof left for Brazil in 1640 as a reserve officer-candidate - from then on, barring two short family visits in 1658 and 1671, he spent all the rest of his life abroad. After an adventurous career in the service of the Dutch East India Company (or VOC) - between 1660 and 1667 he occupied posts in India and on Ceylon - he then lived in Batavia until 1670. He then disappeared without trace on Madagascar, traveling in a sloop from which he had landed to seek drinking water. The engravings are made after Nieuhoff's drawings.
- Date: 1744
- Technic: Engraving / etching on hand laid (verge) paper.
- Overall size: 8,3 x 13,6 inch
- Image size: 6,9 x 11,6 inch
- Condition: Good, given age. Some tiny holes in right margin from binding. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
- PartNumber: 61642
- Storage Location: BG-B16-16 ISCRA
A New & Accurate Map of Asia – Bowen (1777)
Description: Antique map titled 'A New & Accurate Map of Asia'. Detailed map of Asia and Australia, shows a still largely speculative Southern Australian coastline. Originates from Middleton's 'Complete System of Geography'.Â
Artists and Engravers:Â Engraved by Thomas Bowen.Â
- Date: 1777
- Overall size: 45 x 33.5 cm.
- Image size: 41 x 31.5 cm.
- Condition: Good, repair on folding line and few tiny tears. Please study image carefully.
A New & Accurate Map of Asia – Bowen (1779)
Description: Antique map titled 'A New & Accurate Map of Asia, drawn from the most approved Modern Maps & Charts'. Detailed map of Asia from Saudi Arabia, Persia, Russia, India, China, Japan to Southeast Asia showing Australia as New Holland. This map originates from 'A new and complete system of geograph' by C. Middleton.
Artists and Engravers: Thomas Bowen was an English engraver of charts. He was the son of Emanuel Bowen (1693/4–1767), map engraver to George II and Louis XV.
- Date: 1779
- Overall size: 44.5 x 35 cm.
- Image size: 41 x 32 cm.
- Condition: Very good, please study image carefully.