Dec 06, 2012 - Sale 2297

Sale 2297 - Lot 139

Price Realized: $ 1,020
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
VALENTYN, FRANÇOIS. Nieuwe Kaart van het Eyland Japan. Double-page engraved map, 445x565 mm, wide margins; matted. Amsterdam, 1726

Additional Details

A strong impression and lovely copy of the map. Extracted from Volume 5 of Valentyn's Oud en Nieux Oost Indien and created to illustrate the Dutch trade with Japan. The map was created on the Blaeu/Martini model, but with the innovation of showing the emergence of a land-based route for trade between Nagasaki and Kokura on Kyushu. The map also appeared again in a Reinier and Josua Ottens composite atlas appearing circa 1729. Walter 46; Campbell 47.