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Maps and Sea Charts
Antique Print of Surate and a Plan of Batavia in the Dutch East Indies, 1719
Batavia is now Jakarta.
€174
$195 · £145
Original print, not a reproduction
Ships worldwide from the Netherlands, insured and tracked. 14-day returns.
- Date
- 1719
- Sheet size
- 17.3 × 10.2 in (44 × 26 cm)
- Condition
- Good. General age-related toning. Please study image carefully.
- Island
- Java
- Place names
- Batavia is now Jakarta
- Collection
- Maps and Sea Charts
- Period
- The Company, 1700 to 1799
- Stock no.
- f_29243342
What the condition grades mean
- Excellent
- Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
- Very good
- Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
- Good
- Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
- Fair
- Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.
Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.
Antique print titled 'Vue et Description de Surate et de Batavia'. Attractive view of the town and harbor of Surate on the northwest coast of India, and a bird's-eye city plan of Batavia (Jakarta) present-day capital of Indonesia. Surate was the first English trading post in India and was known as a gold and textile center. Batavia was the capital of the Dutch East Indian trading empire during the period when the Dutch dominated trade from the famous Spice Islands. Originates from Chatelain's monumental seven volume 'Atlas Historique'.
Artists and Engravers: Henri Abraham Chatelain (1684-1743), his father Zacharie Chatelain (d.1723) and Zacharie Junior (1690-1754), worked as a partnership publishing the Atlas Historique, Ou Nouvelle Introduction A L'Histoire under several different Chatelain imprints, depending on the Chatelain family partnerships at the time of publication.
Image size: 22 x 37.5 cm.
