HAINZELMAN, J. Tan oc pra-visud… Ambassadeur extraordinaire du Serenissime Roy de Siam en France.. Paris c.1690. Uncoloured. Very good condition and impression. 240 x 180 mm.
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250 €   

¤ Johann Hainzelman (1641 - 1693), German artist and engraver, active in Paris and Berlin. Portrait of the Siamese Ambassador "Tan oc-pra Visud Sont torre Raja tud.
On 1 September 1686, Louis XIV welcomed the ambassadors of Phra Narai, King of Siam, in a great public audience at Versailles.
Held in the sumptuous Hall of Mirrors, it was the most spectacular reception the Sun King ever granted to an embassy during his long reign. What made it unique was the way in which the French court copied as nearly as possible the outward forms of Siamese royal ceremonial, as recounted by various French visitors to the Asian kingdom and the chevalier de Chaumont, who had served as Louis's ambassador to Phra Narai the previous year.
For the object of the reception was to present the French monarch as an omnipotent Asian despot, equal to the Siamese monarch in every way, to give the envoys an exalted idea of Louis's greatness, power, and magnificence according to eastern expectations. At the same time, the French king also impressed his own courtiers with a theatrical display of royal absolutism that went far beyond European precepts.
What this event reveals in particular, therefore, is how the Sun King manipulated royal French protocol and Siamese rituals of majesty to assert his absolutist claims in a visual way, by magnifying his image and gloire both personally and symbolically as French monarch and the living embodiment of the state. Le 18 juin 1686, les vaisseaux " l'Oiseau " et " la Maligne " amènent à Brest trois ambassadeurs du roi de Siam, accompagnés de six mandarins et d'une nombreuse suite. Les ambassadeurs apportent à Louis XIV de somptueux présents ainsi qu'une lettre du roi de Siam.

MÜNSTER, S. Tabula Asiae XII Bâle, 1580. Col. Laid down on tissue. Repaired centerfold and one hole next to centerfold and some paper thinness. 305 x 357 mm.
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330 €   

¤ Attractive woodblock map, depicting Sri Lanka as known to Ptolemy. Text on the left and a large elephant. From his "Geographia", that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge. An exciting map.

DE L'ISLE,G. Carte des Cotes de Malabar et de Coromandel.. Paris, 1723. In original o/l colours. A good and dark impression. Some slightly brown spotting. 443 x 568 mm.
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230 €   

¤ Detailed and attractive map of India and the northern tip of Sri Lanka. With decorative title cartouche and two compass-roses.

BRAUN, G. / HOGENBERG, F. Calechut / Ormus / Canonor.. Cologne, 1580. Beau col. 4 vues grav. sur le même cuivre. Texte latin. 335 x 480 mm.
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800 €   

¤ Four panoramic views on one sheet; the upper approximately two-thirds of this double page sheet contains a fine panoramic view of "Calicut" which is on the west caost of India in Kerala, while the lower third is divided among three other views; Ormus, Canonor, St.Georgii. From the greatest publication in this genre!.
The "Civitates" was compiled and written by George Braun, Canon of Cologne Cathedral. Braun gathered together vast amounts of information and draft plans to produce over 500 city views/maps published in six parts between 1572 and 1617. Most of these engravings were made by Simon Novellanus and Frans Hogenberg, many after drawings by Joris Hoefnagel.

HONDIUS,H. India quae Orientalis..Insulae Adiacentes. Amsterdam, 1629. Col. Paper slightly age-toned. All together in good condition 394 x 490 mm.
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2000 €   

¤ An important Dutch map of South East Asia, noteworthy for being the first map to include, albeit incompletely, the discoveries made by the Dutch vessel "Duyfken" in 1605-06 in the Gulf of Carpentaria, an expedition which made the first recorded European contacts with Australia. The Australian discoveries of the voyage are not recorded here, only the survey along the coast of New Guinea. The map includes South East Asia in general with all of Malaysia, the East Indies, the Philippines, Indonesia, Indochina and Southern China with the Pearl River Delta, Taiwan, and part of Japan. Reference:Schilder, Australia Unveiled Map 24; Clancy, The mapping of Terra Australis Map 6.6; Koeman/Krogt, Atlantes Neerlandici, Vol.I, 8400:1B.1

THORNTON,J. A chart of the trading part of the East Indies and China.. Londres, 1685. Uncoloured. In mint condition. 431 x 538 mm.
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7500 €   

¤ In upper part a fine title cartouche with the names of John Thornton, John Seller, William Fisher, James Atkinson and John Colton. With inset map (63x136mm) of Japan. Detailed chart from Thornton's "Atlas Maritimus". John Thornton collaborated with Seller in many of his publications but was also an hydrographer in his own right. Thornton was a skilled engraver and played an important part in the production of the various edition's of Seller's Atlas Maritimus, and later issued his own version. Comparing this chart with its Dutch counterparts, like Visscher and de Wit, several areas like India are much more accurate.

LETI,G. Waere affbeeldinge wegens het casteel ende stadt Batavia. Amsterdam, 1681. Beau col. In good condition. 403 x 508 mm.
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2400 €   

¤ A good impression of this finely engraved and detailed plan of Batavia, present-day Jakarta, the Dutch center of trading activities in the East Indies. Copied after Clement de Jonghe's map on a smaller scale, with one major alteration; the coastline in front of the fortress as curving inwards; the river had silted up here, so that the coast came to lie some distance from the castle. European and native ships are shown in the sea, while the Dutch lion stands proudly above the schematically planned city.