Author: NIEUHOF, Joan. Title: De stadt Pellacata met het casteel.
Description: Amsterdam, Weduwe Jacob van Meurs, 1682. Engraved view depicting a bird's eye view of Pulicat, with Fort Geldria, the seat of the Dutch Republic's first settlement in India, and the capital of Dutch Coromandel (VOC). On the foreground travelers, shepherds with a flock and a gallows. Ca. 29 x 36 cm. From: Zee en lant-reize door verscheide gewesten van Oostindien. - Joan Nieuhof (1618-1672) was a servant of the East India Company (VOC). Between 1663 and 1666 he served as director on the Malabar coast . - (Small hole lower blank margin rep.). Landwehr, VOC, 282.
Keywords: Dutch travel India VOC Dutch East India Company VOC India prints prints india
Price: EUR 137.50 = appr. US$ 149.44 Seller: Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books (NVvA/ILAB)
- Book number: 37769