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Auction 119, Lot 802

"Inkomen vande Haven van Batavia [verso] Batavia", Nieuhoff, Johann

Subject: East Indies - Indonesia

Period: 1683 (circa)

Publication:

Color: Hand Color

Size:
6.3 x 4.8 inches
16 x 12.2 cm
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Beautifully engraved view of Batavia (Jakarta), showing the busy trading port with a plethora of East India Company ships in the bay. The view is titled with a banner-style cartouche and is on a full sheet of Dutch text. (9 x 13.75") The verso has an equally lovely, although uncolored view of Jakarta showing the countryside surmounted with an angel bearing a crest.

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Condition: A

The view is very good; the sheet has a few light marginal stains and spots.

Estimate: $200 - $250

Sold for: $100

Closed on 5/9/2007

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