Kaart van de Zuyd-Ooster Eylanden van Banda (Map of the South-eastern Banda Islands)

Title
Kaart van de Zuyd-Ooster Eylanden van Banda (Map of the South-eastern Banda Islands)
Year/Period
1726
Region
Holland
Dimension
Image size: 46.0 x 56.5 cm,
Frame size: 64.0 x 74.5 cm
Accession No.
2016-00306

Francois Valentijn (1666–1727) was a minister, naturalist and writer who served the Dutch V.O.C. in the East Indies in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. His monumental work Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indien (Old and New East-India), published between 1724 and 1726, offers a comprehensive mapping of the East Indies with a large selection of scale maps and views. This map of the South-eastern Banda islands, with part of Australia at the lower part of the map, was published in that work.