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Maluku Islands
By COLOM, Jacob Aertsz, 1668
Insularum Moluccarum Nova descriptio
- Author: COLOM, Jacob Aertsz
- Publication place: Amsterdam
- Publisher: Printed By himselfe dwellinge on the Corne-market in the Fyrie-Colom, with Priviledge
- Publication date: 1668
- Physical description: Engraved map in fine original outline hand-colour
- Inventory reference: 3925
Notes
A chart of the Maluku Islands, an Indonesion archipelago in the Pacific Ocean. They were gradually taken from the Portuguese by the Dutch from the mid-sixteenth century, and at the time the atlas was made they were a major source of nutmeg, mace and cloves.
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