Dutch translation of the Latin edition, published in 1723. Westerveen was the secretary of the Dutch East India Company and writes on the right of the VOC to trade as well as on VOC maritime trade with the East Indies. Westerveen also addresses these matters with regard to the Dutch West India Company and deals with Dutch trade in the light of the interests of both Spain and Portugal in the Americas and in Asia.Also contains an interesting Extract uyt de Resolutien door den Gouverneur Generaal e...

Decorative portrait of Gustaaf Willem Baron van Imhoff, who was Governor for the V.O.C. (Dutch East Indian Company) in Indonesia.

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 c...

Rare two-sheet blue-back sea chart of the Atlantic and Eastern part of North America., published by Gerard Van Keulen. The map extends from the latitude of Newfoundland and the English Channel in the north to the Equator in the south.In North America, most of the Great Lakes are shown and a large lake (Apalache Lac) in South Carolina. Florida is presented in a triangular shape.Florida is shown in a triangular model, with large islands forming the tip and numerous soundings along the coast. The ...

Fluviorum Rheni Mosae Mosellae Moeni Neccaris aliorumque minorum in eosdem se exonerantium et regionum circumjacentium descriptio Decorative map with 18 vignettes on three sides showing fortifications along the Rhine.

Map of the lake of Neuchatel by  Covens & Mortier. After the death of the widow of Pieter Mortier in 1719, the firm continued till 1778 as Covens & Mortier. They published numerous atlases and pocket atlases, using maps after de l' Isle and Map of the lake of Neuchatel.Plus Mercator's and Blaeu's maps of the Wiflispurgergou.   [Lot of 3 maps]- Carte de la Souveraineté de NEUCHATEL et VALLANGIN- das WIFLISPUR-Gergow-  Das WIFLISPUR-Gergow Blaeu 1610

A very fine sea chart of the west coast of Morocco between C.Cantin tot C.Bajador and the Canary Islands, Lanzerote and Fuerteventura. With a very large decorative title-cartouche and an inset depicting Porto de Nao en Po. de Cavallos on Lanzerote. Rhumb lines.  Johannes van Keulen is the founder of the successful van Keulen firm that published charts, pilot guides and sea-atlases for over 2 centuries. In 1680, he published his immensely popular 'Zee Atlas of te Water Werelt'.

A chart depicting the astronomical division of the earth. With on both sides a descriptionary text. All within an elaborate and very decorative border. A very fine item.Claude Buy de Mornas (d. 1783), géographe du roi (1764). Atlas Méthodique et Elémentaire de Géographie et d' Histoire, 1761, Atlas Historique et Géographique, 1762. A chart depicting the astronomical division of the earth. With on both sides a descriptionary text. All within an elaborate and very decorative border. A very fi...

La Sphere Terrestre / La Sphere CelesteA set of two very fine prints of a Terrestrial Sphere and a celestial Sphere. With an description on both sides. All within an elaborate and very decorative border. Claude Buy de Mornas (d. 1783), géographe du roi (1764). Atlas Méthodique et Elémentaire de Géographie et d' Histoire, 1761, Atlas Historique et Géographique, 1762.[Lot of 2 prints]

It is a charming book illustrated with portraits of Willem of Orange and Prince Maurits and eight engraved armorial plates. Followed by thirthy engraved views or scenes of Dutch cities, most with Latin text at the foot.The plates include views of Amsterdam, Leiden, a skating scene, and Prince Maurits sailing wagon. The Anatomy Theatre of the University of Leiden with a finely attired man looking at the dissected body of a man lying on the central table, surrounded by concentric benches with hum...

Included in Famiani Stradae Romani è Societate Jesu de Bello Belgico Decas duae... .Published by Johann Godfried Martin Schönwetter. The book was first published in 1651 and re-published in 1699. The binding is a fine German blind-tooled pigskin, clamps wanting. Fair amount of pages has the usual browning. Copy is somewhat used but altogether very fine. Specially the folding historical engravings are of a high standard.The Bello Belgico , written by Famianus Strada (1572-1649), Jesuit and teac...

Very decorative view of Katwijk. Signed lower right, Louis Bleuler au chateau de Laufen . Original design by Louis Bleuer. This gouache was the model for his aquatint in his famous book 80 Rheingegenden published in 1826.

With 2 engraved titles of the 'Leo Belgicus', with one paw resting on a shield bearing the title, large woodcut printer's device on the colophons, and 30 richly engraved views and plans of battles and sieges, 28 double-page and 2 full-page, by Johanness W.Bauer, J.Miele, Jacomo Cortese, a.o. Two examples of the famous Leo Belgicus map are included. Among the greatest decorative works of early cartography is a series of arresting maps showing The Netherlands and Belgium in the shape of a lion.Thi...

A rare oversized serio-comic map of Europe at the start of the Second World War depicting stereotypes of 31 countries, as listed in the key lower right, including Britain as a woman with battleships on leads; France as Marianne, leading her troops into battle; Germany, with a swastika sash, stabbing a female Poland; and Russia as a Cossack holding a hammer and sickle, his arm around a large brown bear. Very scarce, although as mentioned on the map 150 were printed, only three, nos. 8, 9, 10, 13...

"The most comprehensive work on Asia published in Europe during the early colonial period" (Landwehr). The first book to give a comprehensive account in text and illustration, of the peoples, places, and natural history of Indonesia" (Bastin & Brommer). Volume I, part I contains the preliminary matter plus the Philippines and Acapulco;- volume I, part II covers the Moluccas;- volume II and volume III, part 1 cover Amboina;- volume III, part 2 covers Amboina, Celebes, Borneo, and Further India;- ...

A reduced version of Clement de Jonghe (1650) plan of Jakarta from 1650. The town plan has a vignette at the bottom showing Jakarta from the sea with the volcanoes Mount Gede, Mount Pangrnago and Mount Salak in the background. Engraved for Arnoldus Montanus "Gedenkwaerdige gesantschappen der Oost-Indische maatschappy in ’t Vereenigde Nederland. . ." (1669) but reissued by Pieter van der AA.Batavia, present-day Jakarta, the Dutch center of trading activities in the East Indies. European and nat...

Allegorical scene allegorical image celebrating the circumnavigation of the earth by Ferdinand Magellan. The image shows Magellan on board of his ship, surrounded by mythological figures including Apollo with sun and lyre, Zeus on his throne of clouds, Adam and Eve. A bird carrying an elephant and a depiction of the Tierra del Fuego.The image also includes cannon, banner with the double-headed Hapsburg eagle, anchor, broken mast, navigational instruments such as armillary sphere and dividers, se...