Subject: Java, Indonesia
Period: 1760 (circa)
Publication: Histoire Generale des Voyages
Color: Black & White
Size:
17.2 x 8.2 inches
43.7 x 20.8 cm
This well engraved and attractive chart of the island shows all principal harbors and coastal details, plus rivers, mountains, volcanoes, bays, settlements, villages, and political districts. It locates Batavia (Jakarta) and includes Madura Island, most of Bali, the Sunda Strait with the Krakatau Islands, and the southeastern tip of Sumatra. The island is divided into provinces and the kingdoms of Bantam, Jacatra, Tsieribon, and Gressic. Decorated with a very fancy rococo-style title cartouche and rhumb lines with fleur-de-lys. At lower right, outside neatline, is "Tome VIII. No. Ire."
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Condition: B
A nice impression, issued folding on a watermarked sheet with minor soiling and a hint of offsetting. A binding trim at right has been replaced with old paper, and the map has been remargined at left with loss of part of the border.