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Carte des Indes Orientalis
1748
Brunei, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Southeast Asia, Vietnam, Thailand
This mid-18th century map features labels noting the local populations, including the Kemois of the mountains and deserts of Cochinchinae (Vietnam) and the Byayos of Borneo. The map’s cartouche is embellished with maritime and military paraphernalia.
Carte des Indes Orientales: I. feuille
1748
Myanmar, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam
Map featuring the ancient kingdoms of mainland Southeast Asia. The cartouche is embellished with maritime and military paraphernalia. The map is dedicated to William IV, Prince of Orange (Guillaume Charles Henry Friso). Sheet one of two.
Carte des Indes Orientales: I. feuille
1748
Myanmar, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam
Map featuring the ancient kingdoms of mainland Southeast Asia. The cartouche is embellished with maritime and military paraphernalia. The map is dedicated to William IV, Prince of Orange (Guillaume Charles Henry Friso). Sheet one of two.
Carte des Indes Orientales
1748
Brunei, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Southeast Asia, Thailand, Vietnam
This mid-18th century map features a label noting that the Byayos people inhabited the mountains of central Borneo. Another note at the northeast tip of Borneo states that the location and number of islands in the area is uncertain.
Plan d'Amboine, tel qu'il étoit en 1718 = Platte-grond van Amboina, zoo als het was in den jaare 1718
c.1746-1770
Indonesia
This colourful mid-18th century plan of the city of Amboine (Ambon, capital of Ambon Island, in the Maluku Islands, Indonesia) has a detailed legend identifying locations within the city and the surrounding mountains. The text is in French and Dutch.
Carte nouvelle de la Mer du Sud
1730
East Timor, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Vietnam
This elaborately illustrated map of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans includes the eastern islands of Southeast Asia. The routes of five expeditions west across the Pacific are marked, including that of Ferdinand Magellan to the Philippines in 1520.
L'Asie dressée sur les observations de Mrs. de l'Academie Royale de Sciences
1730
Brunei, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Southeast Asia, Thailand, Vietnam
This map features maritime routes: between Siam and Batavia; and five routes of the explorers Juan Gaetan and Olivier du Nord (dated 1542) east of the Philippines. The cartouche has a colourful illustration of Asian people in traditional costume.
Deese wassende pas-kaart van Oost-Indien, is nu te bekoomen voor die deselve begeeren
c.1728-1738
Brunei, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Singapore, Southeast Asia, Thailand, Vietnam
Map of the Indian Ocean dominated by a rhumbline network—a web of interconnected lines used to help plot routes—with a compass rose at the centre. At the top there are (incomplete) drawings of people with text in Dutch, French, English and Spanish.
Carte de l'ile de Java: partie occidentale, partie orientale, dressée tout nouvellement sur les mémoires les plus exacts
1726
Indonesia
The mountains and forests of early 18th century Java are beautifully illustrated here by the Dutch cartographer Henry Abraham Chatelain (1648-1743). Details include cities, fields of crops, animals and people. An inset map shows the port of Batavia.
- Indonesia24
- Vietnam18
- Cambodia15
- Laos15
- Malaysia15
- Myanmar15
- Thailand15
- Singapore14
- Brunei13
- East Timor13
- Philippines13
- Southeast Asia12
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- Sumatra16
- Malay Peninsula15
- Java14
- Malacca14
- Borneo13
- Maluku Islands13
- Sunda Islands13
- Sulawesi12
- Western New Guinea12
- Isle de Borneo10
- Isle de Sumatra10
- Royaume de Cochinchine10
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- Mayer, Tobias4
- Sanson, Guillaume4
- Après de Mannevillette, Jean-Baptiste d'3
- Bellin, Jacques Nicolas3
- Schley, Jacobus van der3
- Delisle, Guillaume2
- Prévost, Abbé2
- Tavernier, Daniel2
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- Alexis Hubert Jaillot6
- Homann Heirs3
- Jean Cóvens et Corneille Mortier3
- François L'Honoré & Compagnie2
- Pierre Mortier2
- Weduwe van Johannes van Someren2
- Andries de Leth & Hendry de Leth1
- Johannes Loots1
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