1719 Carte de l'Ile de Java: Partie Occidentale, Partie Orientale, Dressee tout Nouvellement Sur Les Memoires Les Plus Exacts;…

By: Henri Abraham Chatelain Date: 1719 (published) Amsterdam Dimensions: 15 x 34 inches (38.1 x 116 cm) This is an authentic antique map of the island of Java showing portion of Sumatra and Bali. The map was produced for Chatelain’s 7 volume world atlas out of Amsterdam in 1719 This is without question, the most elaborate, and accurate large format map of the Island of Java and its coastline of the early 18th century. While other maps of the island were produced previous to this one, Chatelain’s was the first to offer a highly detailed and more importantly accurate depiction of the southern coastline, its various bays, villages, outlying reefs, large rocks, and tributaries. While the Dutch East India Company had been very active in the area for quite some time, up until Chatelain’s map there had not been such a wealth of geographic information available to the general public. One can concur that the Dutch East India Company kept whatever data they had collected very close to them, yet