Nieuwe Kaart van de Sundasche Eilanden als Borneo, Sumatra en Groot Iava &c
Amsterdam,
Isaak Tirion,
[1744-1769].
Engraved map with contemporary hand-colour in outline, a bit creased, lower edge frayed.
420 by 530mm. (16.5 by 20.75 inches).
17593
notes:
Tirion's map of southwest Southeast Asia, including Sumatra, the Malay peninsula naming "Sincapoera" on the mainland, Java and a disproportionately large island of Borneo. Published in his 'Niewe en beknopte hand-atlas', from 1744-1769.
Isaak Tirion (c1705-1765) was granted the privilege in September of 1728 to publish Thomas Salmon's 'Modern History, or the Present State of all Nations', in Dutch, a little over a year after his name appears for the first time in...
Isaak Tirion (c1705-1765) was granted the privilege in September of 1728 to publish Thomas Salmon's 'Modern History, or the Present State of all Nations', in Dutch, a little over a year after his name appears for the first time in...
bibliography:
Philips 600.
provenance:
The Battling for Buda
The most important maps of the Middle East and Arabia published in the sixteenth century
First printed sea chart of the northeastern seaboard by an Englishman, and the first with soundings
The Capital of Prussia 


