LES INDES ORIENTALES SUIVANT LES NOUVELLES OBSERVATIONS
£425
Les Indes Orientales suivant les nouvelles observations de Messrs. de l'Academie Royale des Sciences etc. augmentées de nouveau..
Attractive and rare map of South East Asia, Japan, Korea, India and a the tip of Australia in lower right. Covers area from India to China ..
Cartouche with Asian gentlemen, Elephant and Pagoda.Compass rose.
Excellent hand colour.
Excellent example good strong impression ..
REF http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/3427553
code : M4322
Cartographer : Pieter Van Der AA
Date : 1719 Leiden
Size : 28.5 x 33 cms.
availability : Available
Price : £425
Pieter Van Der Aa (1659-1733)
Van Der Aa was a prolific publisher, working in Leiden during the first three decades of the eighteenth century. Much of his output consisted of re-issues and re-engravings of map and view plates that he had acquired from earlier mapmakers. Little of his output was original, though that which is has a very distinct style, precisely and elegantly engraved, and is much sought-after today.
Perhaps his most remarkable publication was the elaborate Galerie Agreable Du Monde, issued in 1729, in 66 parts, bound into 27 volumes, which contained about 3,000 plates, apparently limited to 100 sets. Another of his extensive publications was the Cartes Des Itineraires Et Voyages Modernes, a collection of 28 volumes of travel accounts, illustrated with a series of small, but finely engraved maps, often with decorative pictorial title-pieces.
An interesting feature of Van Der Aa's method is that several of his atlases include maps printed within large, separately engraved, elaborately designed mock-frame borders, which were prepared with a blank centre so that individual maps could be over-printed on that area.
Despite the quantity and variety of Van Der Aa's publications they seem to have had only a limited circulation, and so are now scarce.
