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A mid-18th century map of the important port of Batavia (Jakarta), with military forts, a pier, hospitals, churches, and residential streets. However, the city is also surrounded by fields and plantations, for producing crops and grazing animals.

Although published in 1898, this map is copied from a c.1625 map of Batavia (Jakarta). It focuses on the castle and fortifications (in red), but also shows the fields of crops, a graveyard and the wetlands surrounding the city (in blue).

Four sheets from a larger series of maps, showing the city of Batavia (Jakarta, Java). The port, railway network and city centre are shown in great detail. To the west and south of the centre, there are villages, rice paddies, fields and wetlands.

Very detailed atlas of the entire Dutch East Indies, over 16 map sheets, with a cover and overview map. Includes topographic maps, inset maps of cities and islands, and maps featuring land and sea routes, languages, geology, colonial territory etc.

Map of the city of Padang, Sumatra, featuring roads, religious and military buildings, markets, warehouses and factories, and a railway station. Surrounding areas have villages and fields of rice, nutmeg, coconut, bamboo, alang-alang, sugarcane.

Map of the city of Makassar, Celebes (Suawesi), with the Dutch Fort Rotterdam, Koning’s Plein (King's Square) and a military hospital. The surrounding area has villages and crops: rice (paddy) fields, coconut, bamboo, nipa palm, banana.

Map of the city of Padang on the west coast of Sumatra, with inset maps of the nearby islands, featuring residential, business, government and military areas. There are also agricultural areas with coconut, nutmeg, bamboo, nipa palm and sago palm.