Ware affbeeldinge Wegens het Casteel ende Stadt Batavia gelegen opt groost Eylant Java Anno 1669
| Reference: | S45314 |
| Author | Jacob van MEURS |
| Year: | 1669 |
| Zone: | Jakarta |
| Printed: | Amsterdam |
| Measures: | 350 x 265 mm |
€625.00
| Reference: | S45314 |
| Author | Jacob van MEURS |
| Year: | 1669 |
| Zone: | Jakarta |
| Printed: | Amsterdam |
| Measures: | 350 x 265 mm |
€625.00
Description
Antique Map Batavia by Van Meurs titled ‘Ware affbeeldinge wegens het Casteel ende Stadt BATAVIA/gelengen opt groot eylant JAVA Anno 1669′.
The plan is based on the earlier, much larger map of Batavia published by Clement de Jonghe in 1650.
Batavia, present-day Jakarta, the Dutch center of trading activities in the East Indies. European and native ships are shown in the sea, while the Dutch lion stands proudly above the schematically planned city.
A very fine and mid- to late 17th century black and white plan of Batavia published by Jacob van Meurs (1619/20 – 1680), map publisher, engraver and bookseller of Arnhem, later Amsterdam in Gedenkwaerdige gesantschappen der Oost-Indische maatschappy in in ‘t Vereenigde Nederland by Arnoldus Montanus (c. 1625 – 1683) in 1669, a Dutch missionary, explorer and theologian.
The map has a vignette at the bottom showing Jakarta from the sea with the volcanoes Mount Gede, Mount Pangrnago and Mount Salak in the background.
Copperplate, trimmed at the borderline, in good condition.
Bibliografia
Van der Krogt 4, #1951; Van der Krogt A, 54:33
Jacob van MEURS (1619/1620 - c. 1680)
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Jacob van Meurs was a Dutch engraver and publisher from Amsterdam.
Active from 1651 to 1680, he specialized in works of geography, travelogues, and history. He published the first version of The New and Unknown World: or Description of America and the Southland which was printed in Dutch and included 125 copper engravings.
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Jacob van MEURS (1619/1620 - c. 1680)
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Jacob van Meurs was a Dutch engraver and publisher from Amsterdam.
Active from 1651 to 1680, he specialized in works of geography, travelogues, and history. He published the first version of The New and Unknown World: or Description of America and the Southland which was printed in Dutch and included 125 copper engravings.
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