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![[Trees of India.]](jpegs/59682.jpg)
[Trees of India.]
J.v. Linchoten [monogram]. Baptista à Doetechum: fecit.
[Amsterdam, 1596.]
Scarce engraving. 255 x 320mm (10 x 12½"), very large margins. Repaired split in lower centre fold.
An illustration of cash crop trees of India, including Coco palms, pepper, areca and fig. Engraved by Baptista van Doetechum for 'Histoire de la navigation de Jean Hugues de Linschot Hollandois', Jan Huygen van Linschoten's account of the East Indies. Known as the ''Itinerio'', this work broke the Portuguese monopoly on the trade routes to the Far East.
[Ref: 59682] £360.00
J.v. Linchoten [monogram]. Baptista à Doetechum: fecit.
[Amsterdam, 1596.]
Scarce engraving. 255 x 320mm (10 x 12½"), very large margins. Repaired split in lower centre fold.
An illustration of cash crop trees of India, including Coco palms, pepper, areca and fig. Engraved by Baptista van Doetechum for 'Histoire de la navigation de Jean Hugues de Linschot Hollandois', Jan Huygen van Linschoten's account of the East Indies. Known as the ''Itinerio'', this work broke the Portuguese monopoly on the trade routes to the Far East.
[Ref: 59682] £360.00
Portugalliae Que Olim Lusitania, Novissima et Exactissima Descrtiption Auctore Vernando Alvaro Secco . . . anno 1600.
Baptista Doetecomius Sculp.
[Amsterdam, Henricus Hondius, c.1636.]
Hand-coloured engraved map. 340 x 490mm (13½ x 19¼"). Split in upper centre fold.
A map of Portugal, engraved by Baptista van Doetecum in 1600 after Fernando Alvares Secco's map of 1561, here published in a German editon of the Mercator-Hondius atlas. It is one of the most striking of 17th century maps of Portugal, and one of the few in the atlas to be printed from a purchased plate rather than engraved in-house.
[Ref: 39400] £350.00
Baptista Doetecomius Sculp.
[Amsterdam, Henricus Hondius, c.1636.]
Hand-coloured engraved map. 340 x 490mm (13½ x 19¼"). Split in upper centre fold.
A map of Portugal, engraved by Baptista van Doetecum in 1600 after Fernando Alvares Secco's map of 1561, here published in a German editon of the Mercator-Hondius atlas. It is one of the most striking of 17th century maps of Portugal, and one of the few in the atlas to be printed from a purchased plate rather than engraved in-house.
[Ref: 39400] £350.00
Vera Effigies et Delineatio Insulæ Sanctæ Helenæ...
[Baptista à Doeticum sculp.]
[Amsterdam: C. Claesz, 1595-96.] Trimmed to neatline on three sides and into image at bottom, losing engraver's name, mounted on album paper.
Three coastal profiles of St Helena, engraved by Baptiste van Doeticum for Jan Huygen van Linschoten's 'Itinerario, Voyage ofte Schipvaert naer Oost ofte Portugaels Indien...'. The publication of Linschoten's 'Itinerario' broke the Portuguese monopoly on the trade routes to the spices of the East Indies, allowing the foundation of both the Dutch and English East India Companies.
[Ref: 51056] £380.00
[Baptista à Doeticum sculp.]
[Amsterdam: C. Claesz, 1595-96.] Trimmed to neatline on three sides and into image at bottom, losing engraver's name, mounted on album paper.
Three coastal profiles of St Helena, engraved by Baptiste van Doeticum for Jan Huygen van Linschoten's 'Itinerario, Voyage ofte Schipvaert naer Oost ofte Portugaels Indien...'. The publication of Linschoten's 'Itinerario' broke the Portuguese monopoly on the trade routes to the spices of the East Indies, allowing the foundation of both the Dutch and English East India Companies.
[Ref: 51056] £380.00
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