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[Ternate].
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- Maker :
- LODEWYCKSZ, Willem
- Place :
- Amsterdam, Cornille Nicolas
- Date :
- 1609
- Color :
- Uncoloured
- Height mm.:
- 138
- Width mm.:
- 215
- Condition :
- Paper limp, small tears to margins, and a diagonal paper crease, else in good condition Set in French text. Size of map 138 x 215mm.
- Bibliography :
- -
- Seller's ref. :
- 37954
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Text engraving showing a bay on the Island of Ternate, an island in the Maluku Islands (Moluccas) of eastern Indonesia. Above the map a lettered key (A-E). Text engraving from "Premier livre de l'histoire de la navigation aux Indes Orientales, par les hollandois, et des choses a eux advenues . . . ", being the classic account of the first Dutch voyage to the East Indies under the command of Cornelis de Houtman. the expedition left in 1595, after Holland had achieved independence from Spain and could therefore freely explore its own interests in the East.
The ships sailed across the Atlantic to Brazil, and rounded the Cape of Good Hope on 7 February 1595. They arrived in Sumatra in May 1596 and proceeded to Java with the intention of reaching the Moluccas.
The ships were un-seaworthy, however, and troubles arose between captains and crew.
Finally reaching an accord, they sailed to Bali and returned to Texel in August 1597, with only eighty-nine of the crew left alive. Because of the increased price of pepper, the voyage was able to turn a profit, despite returning with a small cargo.
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Tabula ducatus Limburch et comitatus Valckenburch. . .
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A folding fan showing a nautical festival, ca. 1770.
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Very rare share in the Ostend Company. (4527)
Upper left hand corner share number 4527 in manuscript. In top emblem of the Ostend Company in copper engraving. Text: De Directeurs van de generale Keijserlijche- Indische compagnie, ordoneren aen hunnen cassier 'joan Baptist Cogels junior, te ontvangen van D'Heer Ferdinand Anthoin Baron de Veecquemans, Antwerp. de somme van tweehondert en vijftigh guldens wisselgeldt, voor het eerste payement sijnder actie van een duijsent guldens in het Capitael van de Selve compagnie, op de conditien in het ...
$2.000
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Place : Antwerp / Ostend
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