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Colored Antique Print of New Guinea Fishermen and views of New Guinea, shown framed in a room, true to size

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Colored Antique Print of New Guinea Fishermen and views of New Guinea

Name: Colored Antique Print of New Guinea Fishermen and views of New Guinea
Brand: East Indies Maps and Prints
SKU: f_31335102
Price: 535 USD
Availability: InStock

New Guinea is now Papua.

€480

$535 · £400

Original print, not a reproduction

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Date: Not stated
Sheet size: 13.2 × 15.6 in (33.5 × 39.5 cm)
Condition: Good. Wear consistent with age and use. Later hand coloring. Original folding line. General age-related toning. Some wear and soiling, blank verso. Please study images carefully.
Island: New Guinea
Place names: New Guinea is now Papua
Collection: Towns and Landscapes
Stock no.: f_31335102

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 'Volkeren van Nova Guinea , en hun Vaertuygen Het Brandende Eyland als het Noord West van u is De Kust van Nova Guinea beoosten het Eyland Jamma De Kust van Jamma nae Moa'. Four engravings on one sheet showing a native New Guinea boat with fishermen and coastal views of New Guinea with Dutch V.O.C. ships in the foreground. This print originates from 'Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën' by F. Valentijn.

François Valentyn or Valentijn (17 April 1666 to 6 August 1727) was a Dutch Calvinist minister, naturalist and author whose Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën ("Old and New East-India") describes the history of the Dutch East India Company while also making notes on geography, ethnography, and natural history; half is about the Moluccas.

In total, Valentyn lived in the East Indies 16 years. Valentyn was first employed by the V.O.C. (Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie) at the age of 19 as minister to the East Indies, where he became a friend of the German naturalist Georg Eberhard Rumpf (Rumphius). He returned and lived in Holland for about ten years before returning to the Indies in 1705 where he was to serve as army chaplain on an expedition in eastern Java. He finally returned to Dordrecht where he found time to write his Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën (1724 to 26) a massive work of five parts published in eight volumes and containing 1,200 engraved illustrations and some of the most accurate maps of the Indies of the time.