Collection

Maps and Sea Charts

Maps and charts of the archipelago from Münster's woodcut of Sumatra of about 1590 to the Dornseiffen atlas of 1884: Blaeu and Janssonius, Valentijn's island maps of 1726, Bellin and Mannevillette for the French navy, and the town plans of Batavia.

301 sheets

By islandJava 89 Sumatra 53 Borneo 28 Celebes 29 Moluccas 64 Lesser Sunda 17 New Guinea 15

By periodThe spice race 46 The Company 139 Raffles to the Cultivation System 31 Netherlands Indies 70

Order: Price, high to lowPrice, low to high Oldest first Newest first

Maps and Sea Charts

VOC Atlas of Africa and East Indies by J.W. Heydt, Homann Heirs, 1744

1744 · 36.5 × 32.5 cm$15,000

Maps and Sea Charts · Moluccas

Antique Blaeu Maps, Indonesia & Moluccas, VOC Era, c.1642

1642 · 59 × 50 cm$10,970

Maps and Sea Charts

Antique Blaeu Map of Asia, Arabia Felix and the East Indies, 1642

1642$8,395

Maps and Sea Charts

Antique Map of South East Asia, Australia and the Indian Ocean, 1726

1726 · 69 × 52.5 cm$8,060

Maps and Sea Charts · Java

Rare 1681 Map of Batavia: Detailed Dutch Colonial Era Cartography, 1681

1681 · 62 × 53.5 cm$6,605

Maps and Sea Charts

Antique Ortelius Map of Asia Featuring Japan, China, Taiwan & East Indies, 1587

1587 · 49 × 35 cm$5,540

Maps and Sea Charts · Sumatra

Antique Map of Sumatra, Indonesia 'c.1780'

1780 · 63 × 49.5 cm$3,920

Maps and Sea Charts · New Guinea

Original Blaeu Map of Southeast Asia from India to Tibet and Japan to New Guinea

1635 · 60 × 49.5 cm$3,920

Maps and Sea Charts · Java

Antique Map of the Island Java, Indonesia, c.1650

1650 · 54 × 61.5 cm$3,640

Maps and Sea Charts · Java

Antique Map of Java by Janssonius, circa 1650

1650 · 62 × 51.5 cm$3,300

Maps and Sea Charts · Java

Antique Map of Java and Part of Borneo, Indonesia, c.1657

1657 · 49.5 × 58 cm$3,080

Maps and Sea Charts · Celebes

Antique Map of Straits of Makassar by J.W. Norie, Engraved Chart, 1820

1820 · 66 × 96 cm$3,080

Maps and Sea Charts · Java

Antique Map of Java in The Dutch East Indies, Now Indonesia, c.1690

1690 · 46 × 55 cm$3,080

Maps and Sea Charts · Moluccas

Large Italian Map of Islands of Oceania, incl Papua, Timor, Banda, Ceram, 1855

1855 · 54 × 74 cm$2,965

Maps and Sea Charts · Java

Antique Map of Java by Henri Chatelain, Decorative Print, 1718, France

1718 · 44 × 98 cm$2,965

Maps and Sea Charts

Old Antique Map of the East Indies and Southeast Asia, ca.1644

1644 · 60 × 50 cm$2,965

Maps and Sea Charts · New Guinea

Map of Southeast Asia, Extending from India to Tibet & Japan to New Guinea, 1640

1640 · 60 × 50.5 cm$2,965

Maps and Sea Charts · Java

Antique Map of Java 'Indonesia' by Chatelain, 1719

1719 · 103.5 × 89 cm$2,800

Maps and Sea Charts · Java

Antique Plan of Batavia by Van Krevelt, circa 1780

1780 · 45 × 69 cm$2,800

Maps and Sea Charts · Java

Antique Map and Views of Batavia by Homann Heirs, '1733'

1733 · 61 × 51 cm$2,800

Maps and Sea Charts

Antique Map of Asia and the East Indies and Korea as a Peninsula, ca.1660

1660 · 61 × 50 cm$2,800

Maps and Sea Charts

Original Antique Hand-Colored Map of The East Indies and Southeast Asia, c.1644

1644 · 59 × 50 cm$2,800

Maps and Sea Charts

Original Antique Map of the East Indies (Indonesia) by Janssonius, c.1644

1644 · 59.5 × 47 cm$2,800

Maps and Sea Charts · Java

Large Chart of the island and sea of Java, Indonesia

1863 · 103 × 69.2 cm$2,800

Maps and Sea Charts

Antique Map Set East Indies, India, Indochina, Indonesia, Zatta 1784

1784 · 50 × 38 cm$2,795

Maps and Sea Charts

Original Antique Map of the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, c.1690

1690 · 70 × 49.5 cm$2,520

Maps and Sea Charts · Java

Antique Map of Java, Sumatra & Borneo, Dutch East Indies Sea Chart c.1700

1700 · 61.5 × 51.2 cm$2,520

Maps and Sea Charts

Rare 18th-Century Hand-Colored Map of Southeast Asia and the East Indies, 1748

1748 · 88 × 53 cm$2,505

Maps and Sea Charts

Antique Map of Southeast Asia 'India, Indonesia' by N. Visscher, circa 1670

1670 · 63.6 × 52.7 cm$2,185

Maps and Sea Charts · Java

Antique French Map of Java, Indonesia by Chatelain, '1719'

1719 · 93.5 × 44.5 cm$2,140

Maps and Sea Charts · Java

Antique Plan of Batavia, Nowadays Jakarta, Indonesia, 1780

1780 · 47 × 73 cm$2,070

Maps and Sea Charts · Java

Rare Old English Sea Chart of Part of Indonesia with Java, Madura and Bali, 1711

1711 · 55.3 × 45 cm$1,845

Set of 2

Maps and Sea Charts · Java

Two Antique Sea Charts of the Thousand Islands between Batavia and Bantam, c1734

1734 · 126 × 51 cm$1,845

Maps and Sea Charts · Lesser Sunda

Old Map Covering All of Southeast Asia from Persia to the Timor Island, 1712

1712 · 57 × 44 cm$1,680

Maps and Sea Charts · Lesser Sunda

1726 Valentyn's Map of Bali and Lombok, Original Engraving

1726 · 62 × 55 cm$1,680

Maps and Sea Charts · Moluccas

Large Antique Detailed Map of a Part of the Spice Islands, Indonesia, 1726

1726 · 64 × 52 cm$1,625

Maps and Sea Charts · Borneo

Old Map of Indonesian Islands Borneo, Celebes, New Guinea & New Britain, 1792

1792 · 66 × 55.3 cm$1,625

Maps and Sea Charts · Sumatra

Renaissance Mapping of Sumatra: Featuring Singapore in Münster’s Woodcut, c.1590

1590 · 41.5 × 34 cm$1,625

Maps and Sea Charts · Java

Old Map of Indian Ocean & Sumatra, Java, Borneo, India, Arabia, Africa, c.1783

1783 · 64.5 × 53 cm$1,565

Maps and Sea Charts · Java

Large Antique Map of Java & Madura with Batavia Inset, c.1870s Dutch East Indies

Date not stated · 124 × 42 cm$1,565

Maps and Sea Charts · Java

Antique Sea Chart Java Indonesia, Mannevillette Neptune Oriental 1775

1775 · 74 × 53.8 cm$1,565

Maps and Sea Charts · Moluccas

Antique Map of the Spice Islands 'Moluccas', Indonesia by W. Blaeu, circa 1640

1640 · 58.5 × 50 cm$1,565

Maps and Sea Charts · Java

Antique Map of Batavia, Dutch East Indies, Nowadays Jakarta, Indonesia, ca.1669

1669 · 37.5 × 32.2 cm$1,510

Maps and Sea Charts · Borneo

Old Map of the East Indonesian Islands Borneo, Celebes, New Guinea, Bali, 1792

1792 · 64.5 × 55 cm$1,400

Maps and Sea Charts · Java

Antique Plan of the Castle & City of Batavia 'Jakarta' on Java, Indonesia, c1669

1669 · 44.5 × 39 cm$1,400

Maps and Sea Charts · Sumatra

Early Chart Identifying British Spice Trading Colony of Bencoolen, Sumatra, 1797

1797 · 71 × 57.5 cm$1,400

Maps and Sea Charts · Java

Detailed Map of the Madura Strait, between Java & Madura Island, Indonesia, 1825

1825 · 50.5 × 68 cm$1,400

Maps and Sea Charts · Java

Antique Map of Batavia 'Jakarta', Indonesia by Montanus, circa 1669

1669 · 44.5 × 39 cm$1,400

About Maps and Sea Charts

The Dutch East Indies were mapped by the people who sailed there. The VOC kept its charts secret in its own drawing office in Amsterdam, but the great publishing houses of Blaeu and Janssonius printed the archipelago for the public from the 1630s, and their maps of the Moluccas, Java and the East Indies were copied across Europe for a century.

This collection runs from the Renaissance woodcuts of Münster and Ramusio, through the golden age atlases, Valentijn's island maps of 1726 and the French charts of Bellin and Mannevillette, to the 19th century surveys of Van den Bosch, Vandermaelen and Dornseiffen and the town plans of Batavia.

Explore

By maker, by subject and by place.

Places

Batavia (Jakarta) 126 Bantam (Banten) 25 Ambon 29 The Banda Islands 16 Ternate and Tidore 7 Makassar 12 Aceh 19 Kupang and Timor 14 Bali 9 Medan and Deli 18 Surabaya 7 Buitenzorg (Bogor) 4 Krakatoa and the Sunda Strait 8

Subjects

The spice trade 33 Volcanoes 12 Sugar and sugarcane 24 Tobacco and coffee 11 Wayang, gamelan and dance 16 Weapons and the kris 6 Governors-General 36 Ships and fleets 26 Sea charts 14 Town plans 10 Tools, textiles and ornament 16 Ferns of Java 12 Butterflies and insects 11 Birds 11 Tropical fruit 21 Costume and court dress 26

Questions

Which map is the classic map of the Spice Islands?

Blaeu's Moluccae Insulae Celeberrimae of about 1640, which shows the five clove islands in a row with ships and a decorative cartouche.

What is a sea chart?

A map made for navigation, with soundings, anchorages, coastlines and compass lines, rather than the land. The French charts of the Neptune Oriental are among the best of the 18th century.