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Now available from HES & DE GRAAF Publishers
Günter SCHILDER and Hans KOK
Sailing for the East. History and catalogue of
manuscript charts on vellum of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) 1602-1799.
Volume X in the Utrecht Studies on the History of Cartography (Explokart).
The Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie (Dutch East
India Company) was for a period of 200 years
responsible for the navigation material for the
journey between the Netherlands and the Far East
and the inter-Asian trade. On the basis of newly
found archive materials which were never
published before, this book gives a more complete
and startling overview of chart material used on
a VOC-ship than has ever been possible. All
navigation charts of the VOC in the 17th and 18th
century, drawn on vellum (of which many were
traced in foreign collections), are described and
analysed in a profusely illustrated
cartobibliography. In a supplement extracts of
the groot-journalen of the Kamer Amsterdam
are published. These give a unique view of the
total expenses of the VOC on navigation. The
extensive introduction gives much new,
comprehensive and detailed information on the
history of the VOC, the chart makers, the routes,
the navigation and the instruments.
· ISBN: 978 90 6194 260 3
· Year: 2010
· Size: 32 x 24 cm.
· Binding: Cloth. with full colour dust
jacket and cd-rom with appendices.
· Illustration: 600 full colour illustrations.
· Pages: 708 pp.
· Language: English.
· Price: 175,-
Check our website http://www.hesdegraaf.com for
more information and distribution.
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Dr Peter van der Krogt
Map Historian, Explokart Research Program
Faculty of Geo-sciences, University of Utrecht
P.O. Box 80.115
3508 TC UTRECHT, The Netherlands
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