Artist / Author / Cartographer:
Renneville, Rene Augustin de
Title:
East Indies - South East Asia
Date:
c1725
Medium:
copper engraving
Size:
31 x 43 cm
Description:
An early map of the East Indies with an inset of Buton, published to illustrate Renneville's 'Recueil des voiages qui ont servi à l'établissement & aux progrès de la Compagnie des Indes Orientales, formée dans les Provinces-Unies des Païs-Bas'.
This was published in the 1725 in the French translation of Isaac Commelin's account published in 1646. Commelin based his map on that of De Bry, 1619; this version still retains the two sea monsters.
Rene Augustin de Renneville (1650-1723), a French protestant, spent over ten years imprisoned in the Bastille for 'having criminal correspondence with foreigners', where he translated Commelin's book into French.
Scarce.
Condition
7cm tear, re-enforced with archival taper, near the inset of Buton.
References:
Item Code:
MA8392
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