1669 Pieter Goos ' eye-catching chart of Australia, Southeast Asia, China, Japan, Korea, and India. (With gold highlights.)

An eye-catching chart of Pieter Goos' sea chart of Australia, Southeast Asia, China, Japan, Korea and India. The chart shows the regions from Cape Comorin (Southern India) to Japan.
North is orientated to the left.

Australia is shown with the Dutch discoveries, up to and including Tasman's second voyage of 1644, but excluding his first voyage discoveries due to the geographical limits of the chart.
Other Dutch discoveries in Australia are noted and these include: Hartog 1616, Houtman 1619, van Leeuwin 1622, Cartensz 1623, Nuyts 1627 and de Wit 1628.

The map also records the first English sighting of the Australian coast and the first recorded European shipwreck off the coast of Western Australia by the Tryall, an East India Company ship under the command of John Brookes in 1622, that had run aground on the Tryal Rocks (105km off the north-west coast of WA).

Brookes's subsequent untruthful report to the authorities in Batavia, had him place the rocks further west than their true position and in the direct course of VOC ships sailing due north for the Sunda Straits. This new information immediately prompted Gerritz, the VOC mapmaker in Batavia, to add the rocks on Dutch charts where they remained in this incorrect position for a period of almost two hundred years.

A number of mapmakers made near identical charts using the same orientation: van Loon 1661, Doncker 1669, Seller 1670.

The discoveries made by Tasman in Northern Australia in 1644 during the course of his second voyage are included. Three Dutch galleons appear in the lower right corner of the map.

Decorative title cartouche in lower left surmounted by winged putti and cherubs.
From: De Zee-Atlas of Water-Werelt, Vertoonende alle de Zee-Kusten Van het bekende des Aerd-Bodems, Met een generale beschrijvinge der selve: Seer dienstigh voor Schippers en Stuurlieden, mitsgaders Kooplieden om op 't Kantoor gebruyckt te worden."

The map is in a strictly contemporary coloring and of the highest level.

Reference: Clancy 83, ill.6.14, Koeman Goos Vol IV B(26), McMahon p.8, ill.pp.8-9, Moreland p.114, Parry p.123-121, Suarez p.209, Tooley 670, ill. pl.50, p.203 item.30.