17th century miniature map of the East Indies

CLUVER, Philip.

India Orientalis Nova.
Amsterdam, 1659. Old colour. Sheet 130 x 135mm.

Scarce miniature map of the East Indies, with Australia shown as mapped by Abel Tasman and other Dutch explorers over a century before Cook.
From "Philippi Cluverii introductionis in universam geographiam tam veterem quam novam libri vi Tabulis aeneis illustrari. Accessit P. Bertii breviarium orbis terrarum"


Stock ID : 18843