Dec 10, 2024 - Sale 2689

Sale 2689 - Lot 66

Price Realized: $ 3,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
(EAST INDIES.) Melchisedec Thevenot; after Joao Teixeira. [China, Korea, Japan, Philippines, Malay Peninsula, Indonesia, and New Guinea.] Large engraved untitled chart of Southeast Asia with inset plans of the Ganges River and a coastal inlet of Chittagong, Bangladesh. B/C dovecote watermarked laid paper, 20½x26½ inches sheet size; attractively hand-colored in outline; left margin partially reinstated where originally trimmed for binding, closed tear into left image from mount point. Paris, 1664
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First edition of this significant summarization of seventeenth-century cartographic knowledge of the Spice Island region from Thévenot's Relations de Divers Voyages Curieux. The chart is an engraved rendering of a pirated 1649 Portuguese portolan by Joao Teixeira. Suarez, Early Mapping of Southeast Asia, page 208.