Rare Antique Print-MANGOSTEEN-FRUIT-MANGISTAN-JAVA-INDONESIA-van der Aa-1725

Price: € 184,50

Subject: Views/scenes: 'Fruits de l'Ile de Iava, etc.' (Fruit from the island of Java & elsewhere.) This plate shows: 1-3. The Mangosteen (mangistan, mangostan, mangoestan, manggis, manggistan, mangestang) tree and its growing. Believed to have originated in the Sunda Islands and the Moluccas of Indonesia. Extremely rare in this edition.

Condition: Excellent. General age related toning and occasional light staining from handling. Paper edge uncut and thus irregular.

Medium: Copperplate engraving on a verge type hand laid paper with watermark. Authenticity 100% guaranteed.

Size (in cm): The overall size is ca. 24.5 x 38 cm. The image size is ca. 13.5 x 16.5 cm.

Size (in inch): The overall size is ca. 9.6 x 15 inch. The image size is ca. 5.3 x 6.5 inch.

Part Number: 21371

Location: B39-10

Description: This plate originates from the very scarse: 'La galerie agreable du monde (...). Tome premier des Indes Orientales.', published by P. van der Aa, Leyden, c. 1725. This famous work was published in 66 parts and is the biggest print / map book ever published. Van der Aa incorporated plates by other publishers such as Blaeu, Visscher, de Wit, meurs, Halma, Mortier, Allard in this work and often added broad decorative borders. Probably the costliest and complete universal geographic work ever produced. It is said that only 100 copies were printed. Ref: Koeman Aa9; Phillips 2780 note.

Artists and Engravers: Pieter van der Aa (Leiden 1659-1733) was a Dutch publisher best known for preparing maps and atlases. The Galerie Agreable contains plates and maps by the best Dutch engravers: Luiken, Goeree, Mulder, Stoopendaal, ao.