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Waere affbeeldinge wegens het casteel ende stadt Batavia.
A good impression of Batavia's finely engraved and detailed plan, present-day Jakarta, the Dutch center of trading activities in the East Indies. Copied after Clement de ...
Date: Leiden, 1719
Very rare share in the Ostend Company.
Upper left hand corner share number 4526 in manuscript. In top emblem of the Ostend Company in copper engraving. Text: De Directeurs van de generale Keijserlijche- Indis...
Date: Antwerp / Ostend, 1723
Vertoog van het regt, Dat de Vereenigde Nederlandsche Oost-Indische maatschappye Heeft op de Vaart en Koophandel naar Oost-Indiën, Tegen de inwooners van de Spaanse, nu de Oostenrykse Nederlanden.
Dutch translation of the Latin edition, published in 1723. Westerveen was the secretary of the Dutch East India Company and writes on the right of the VOC to trade as wel...
- $1200 / ≈ €1039
Date: Amsterdam, 1724
Fort de l'Isle de Banda.
Decorative print of the Dutch VOC fortress on the island Banda. Until the mid-19th century the Banda Islands were the world's only source of the spices nutmeg and mace, p...
- $90 / ≈ €78
Date: Amsterdam, F. Bernard, 1725
Batavia, L'an 1629.
Scarce town-view of Batavia (Jakarta) in 1629.From the French reissue of the account of early Dutch voyages first published in 1608 by Commelin. The French translation wa...
- $150 / ≈ €130
Date: Amsterdam, 1725
Ein Formosaner. (Inhabitant of Formosa / Taiwan)
Wood cut with letter press, showing an inhabitant of Formosa (Taiwan) by Jacob Martini, published in "Neu-eingerichtete und vermehrte Bilder-Geographie …", pu...
Date: Erfurt, ca. 1738
Die innere Aussicht des Castells in Batavia . . .
Showing the inside-square of the V.O.C. headquarters in Jakarta.The hand colored engraving is much perforated and the windows are cut out, a thin transparent paper is mou...
- $500 / ≈ €433
Date: Augsburg, 1750
Extract uit de Resolutien door Heeren Bewindhebberen der Oost-Indische Compagnie gecommitteerd ter Vergadering van 17e binnen Amsterdam genomen op Donderdag
Contains a list of resolutions dated from 27th November 1783 and reports about the dumping of oil, tar etc. into the sea.
Date: Amsterdam, 1751
Extract uyt de Resolutien, door de Vergadering der Heeren Zeventienen, van de Generale Nederlandsche O. I. Compagnie binnen Amsterdam, genomen op Woensdag den 2 April 1774.
Contains a list of resolutions dated from 2nd April 1774 and concerning health care. Boarding crew had to be examined by the ship's surgeon. People with illnesses were to...
Date: Amsterdam, 1751
Plan de la Ville et du port de Nangasaki. Grond tékening van de stad en de haven van Nangasaki.
The map shows a plan of the port and the town of Nagasaki. Deshima, the place where the Dutch traders were allowed to settle, is included. From Prévost's important Colle...
- $300 / ≈ €260
Date: Amsterdam, 1752
t'Oost-Indisch-Huys.
A decorative print of the East Indian House, the headquarters of the V.O.C., a place for meeting, trading and storage of spices and ship equipment. The maps and charts we...
- $150 / ≈ €130
Date: Amsterdam, 1760-1767
s'Lands en Oost-Indische Lynbanen.
A decorative print of the Lynbanen a place were V.O.C. ship riggings and ropes were produced and kept.From J.Wagenaar: Amsterdam in zijne opkomst, aanwas, geschiedenisse....
- $100 / ≈ €87
Date: Amsterdam, 1760-1767
Muitery op het O:I: Comp. schip Barbestein in Duins.
Anonymous engraving of a mutiny of the VOC ship Barbestein .
Date: Amsterdam c.1790
Der Hafen und die Bai von Nagasaki.
A bird's-eye view showing Deshima and Nagasaki Bay with Dutch ships and two Dutch flags on Deshima.
Date: Germany, 1850