Maluku Islands

By COLOM, Jacob Aertsz, 1668

Insularum Moluccarum Nova descriptio

Asia Southeast Asia

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.