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Insulæ : Indiæ orientalis præcipuæ, in quibus Moluccæ celeberrimæ sunt
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[1620?]
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J. Hondius
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Scale approximately 1:15,942,707 (E 95°--E 140°/N 20°--S 10°). 1 map : hand colored ; 33 x 46 cm, on sheet 38.5 x 50 cm. Relief shown pictorially. Pages 677-680 from unidentified volume; map is pages 678-679. Text on verso, with title, "Les principales isles de l'Inde orientale : entre lesquelles les Moluques sont les plus celebres," and "Les Isles Moluques" at top of one page. An early map of the East Indian Archipelago, heavily annotated with placenames and explanatory text, showing the vitally important Spice Islands and covering an area from Sumatra and Southeast Asia in the west to Nova Guinea [i.e. New Guinea] in the east. Much of the geographical data for this map is based on the portalans of the Portuguese cartographer, Bartolomeu Lasso, from earlier in the 1500s but updated from his own knowledge of other European explorers in this region. At bottom left corner of map Hondius inscribes "Huc Franciscus Dra. appulit" on the southern port of Java where Francis Drake landed. Decorative features include a sea battle, a sea monster, two compass roses and three decorated cartouches. From: L'Atlas, ou, Meditations cosmographiques de la fabrique du monde et figure d'Icelvy / commence en Latin par le tres docte Gerard Mercator ; paracheve per Jodocus Hondius ; traduit en francois par le Sieur de la P. Sumptibus.
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Southeast Asia, East Indies, Early maps, Early works to 1800
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Southeast Asia
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1620
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