Jacobus Robijn's very rare chart of the Indian Ocean, extending from the Cape of Good Hope to Japan, is known in only three other examples: the Tooley collection at the National Library of Australia, an example bound in an atlas at the BnF, strangely dated 1666, and in a private collection.

Based on Pieter Goos's chart of 1658, 'Oost Indien Wassende-Graade Paskaart', Schilder notes that it is "a complete survey of Dutch expansion in the East Indies and takes into account Tasman's two voyages of exploration", naming all the Dutch discoveries in Australia, from Dirk Haartog's first landfall of 1616 in northern Western Australia at now Ashburton River: "Willems Riv. t'Landt de Eendracht Ontdeckt A.o 1616" and culminating in Abel Tasman's discoveries made in his two voyages of 1642 and 1644.

The mapmaker
Jacobus Robijn (c1649-1707) first registered as a bookseller in Amsterdam on the 26th of January 1674. Self-described as "Afsetter, Kaert- en Kunstverkkooper, in de Nieuwebrughs Steegh, in de Stuurman" (1677); and "Konst Verkooper in de Nieuwe-Brug-Steeg, in de Stuurman" (1689, 1690), in Amsterdam, on the same street as his rival Hendrick Doncker. However, Robijn is best known for publishing lavish examples of other people's works. The earliest of these include Willem Blaeu's large and important chart of the Atlantic Ocean, the 'West Indische Paskaert', the plate of which he owned between 1674 and c1678.

In 1679, Robijn is briefly recorded as being in partnership with Johannes van Keulen to produce a new set of charts. However, the relationship foundered and van Keulen began to issue the 'Zee-Fakkel', solely under his own name, in 1680.

Robijn subsequently published editions of Pieter Goos's 'Zee-Atlas' (1683); and Arent Roggeveen's exceedingly rare sea pilot 'Het Brandende Veen' — The Burning Fen — (1687), presumably having bought the original plates from Pieter Goos's son, Henrik, in 1680; some of which he altered or completely re-engraved, adding some twenty new charts of his own. In 1686, Robijn acquired a privilegio for his charts, which he soon proudly added to his engravings.