Rare map of the interests of the V.O.C. in the East Indies

RENNEVILLE, René Auguste Constantin.

[Untitled map of the East Indies.]
Paris, c.1725. Coloured. 315 x 435mm.

Trimmed lower right by binder, margin replaced, small tear repaired.

An important map of the East Indies with an inset of Buton, published to illustrate Renneville's 'Recueil des voiages qui ont servi à l'établissement & aux progrès de la Compagnie des Indes Orientales, formée dans les Provinces-Unies des Païs-Bas'. This was the first French translation of Isaac Commelin's account published in 1646. Commelin based his map on that of De Bry, 1619; this version still retains the two sea monsters.
Renneville (1650-1723), a French protestant, spent over ten years imprisoned in the Bastille for 'having criminal correspondence with foreigners'.


Stock ID : 22933