1726 VALENTIJN, F. - Samboepo in platte Grond.
Samboepo in platte Grond.
| Maker: | VALENTIJN, F. | |
| Date: | Amsterdam, 1726 | |
| Colored: | Uncolored. | |
| Size: | 273 x 360 mm / 10.7 x 14.2 inches | |
| Condition: | In very good condition. | |
Description
Decorative panoramic view of the town of Samboupo on the island of Celebes (Sulawesi) in today's Indonesia. Dutch (V.O.C.) sailing ships and various local craft fill the foreground.Â
The city with great detail including the fort and hundreds of individual houses and buildings. Below the print is an extensive key in Dutch that locates and describes 16 places and buildings.
François Valentijn (1666-1727), a missionary, worked at Amboina from 1684 to 1694 and 1705 to 1713 and traveled extensively in the VOC's lands. He is best known for his monumental history and description, ''Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën'' which remains one of the most important primary sources for the East Indies and neighboring lands.
François Valentijn (1666 - 1727)
A Dutch minister, naturalist and author whose Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën ("Old and New East-India") describes the history of the Dutch East India Company and the countries of the Far East. François Valentijn was born in 1666 in Dordrecht as the eldest of seven children of Abraham Valentijn and Maria Rijsbergen. He spent most of his life in Dordrecht; however, he is best known for his activities in the tropics, notably in Ambon in the Maluku Archipelago. Valentijn studied theology and philosophy at the University of Leiden and the University of Utrecht before becoming a preacher in the Indies. In total, Valentijn lived in the East Indies for 16 years. Valentijn was first employed by the V.O.C. (Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie) at 19 as minister to the East Indies, where he became friends with the German naturalist Georg Eberhard Rumpf (Rumphius). He returned and lived in the Netherlands for about ten years before returning to the Indies in 1705, where he served as army chaplain on an expedition in eastern Java.Â
 He finally returned to Dordrecht, where he had time to write his Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën (1724-26), a massive five-part work published in eight volumes and containing over one thousand engraved illustrations and some of the most accurate maps of the Indies of the time. He died in The Hague, Netherlands, in 1727.
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