Detail View: Old Maps Collection: India orientalis

Barcode: 
4687820500026
Title: 
India orientalis
Original Title: 
India orientalis
Contributor: 
Hondius, Jodocus, 1563-1612
Contributor: 
Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594
Category: 
General Maps
Type: 
Printed
Language: 
Latin
Create Year: 
1604?
Format: 
JPEG, 13817 × 11509, 57.5MB
Scale: 
Scale not given
Physical Map Dimension (cm): 
37 × 49
Note: 
In 1604, Hondius acquired Mercator’s plates and set about producing a new atlas. He engraved several new maps for it, of which this map is an example. For the depiction of the East Indies he drew heavily on Plancius’ map of 1594. Map shows India, China including the Malay peninsula and Indochina, northern Borneo and the Philippines. The decorative detail includes a sea monster and an oriental junk in the Bay of Bengal as well as scrollwork title and scale cartouches. -- Dealer’s description.
Note: 
Along the coast of southern china, from west to east appears Quancii, I. Ainam, the Pearl River estuary, Cantao, Macao and I. Fermosa. Cochinchina was also depicted within Chinese boundaries. The title and scale were painted with beautiful scroll ornamentation and decorated with sea monsters, ships and other patterns. Around 1601, Dutch ships entered the Pearl River estuary demanding tribute, starting a nearly 30-year war with the Portuguese for Macao. Until 1627, Dutch troops gave up the intention to occupy Macao and invaded Taiwan instead after all the five invasions of Macao had failed. The images of Dutch warships drawn in the Pearl River estuary reveal that period of history.
Note: 
Macao in Asia Maps; Macao in East Indies Maps
Geographic Area: 
Asia
Geographic Area: 
Southeast Asia
Pub Author: 
Hondius, Jodocus, 1563-1612
Pub Year: 
[1630]
Pub location: 
[Amsterdam]
Provenance: 
Harvard Map Collection - Harvard College Library
MUST holding: 
http://10.20.100.239/record=b1389989