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1724 VALENTIJN, F. - Fine chart depicting the Islands of the Philippines
[The Philippines]
| Maker: | VALENTIJN, F. | |
| Date: | Amsterdam, 1724 | |
| Colored: | Colored. | |
| Size: | 308 x 388 mm / 12.1 x 15.3 inches | |
| Condition: | Dark impression and wide margins. | |
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$2300 / ≈ €2054
Description
Fine chart depicting the Islands of the Philippines. It gives little interior detail, but identifies the coastlines, settlements, and principal coastal features. An attractive early map, one of the few early Dutch maps to focus on the region. East to the top.
The chart is criss-crossed with rhumb lines, with one decorative compass rose in the waters north of the islands. Sounding depths are included near shore, as are sand banks, shoals, and obstructions. A scale is in the upper left corner. Port cities are also included.
Luzon is the main focus of this chart, an appropriate emphasis as it is the largest island in the Philippines archipelago and the most populous. It also contains one of the most important ports in the entire Pacific, Manila, which was part of a cross-oceanic trade route linking Acapulco in New Spain to Manila and the markets of Asia.
Magellan arrived in 1521 and nominally claimed the islands for Spain. The Spanish declared Manila the capital in 1571. When this chart was made, the islands were still under Spanish control, as they would be until 1898.
From: Valentyn F., Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indien, vervattende Een Naaukeurige en Uitvoerige Verhandelinge van Nederlands Mogendheyd In die Geweesten. Amsterdam, J. van Braam & G. onder de Linden, 1724-26.
Reference: Landwehr (VOC) - 467.1a(3); Quirino - p.124
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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[The Philippines]
1724 VALENTIJN, F. - Fine chart depicting the Islands of the Philippines
Date: Amsterdam, 1724
