SCHENK, Petrus, (1660-1718) and Gerard VALK (died 1726). Sumatrae et Insularum Locorum que Nonnullorum circumiacentum Tabula Nova. Amsterdam: n.d..

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SCHENK, Petrus, (1660-1718) and Gerard VALK (died 1726). Sumatrae et Insularum Locorum que Nonnullorum circumiacentum Tabula Nova. Amsterdam: n.d..

Engraved hand-coloured chart (417 x 513 mm.), with wide margins. The chart covers the whole of Sumatra and its attendant islands, and the proximate parts of Malakka, Java, and Bangka, decorative figurative cartouches, and Equator line. (Light staining and discolouration, laid down, foxing in parts.) Koeman III, p. 114, no. 432. And MANNEVILLETTE, D. de. A New Chart of the West Coast of Sumatra, from the Equinoctial Line, to the Straits of Sunda. London: Laurie & Whittle, 1794. Engraved hand-coloured chart covering the West coast of Sumatra from the Equator to the beginning of the Straits of Sunda. And Aa, Pieter van der (1659-1733). Le Détroit de la Sonde nouvellement dessiné sur les Lieux. Leiden: n.d.. Engraved hand-coloured chart covering the Straits of Sunda. (3)

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(1) This chart comes from the Novus Atlas of Joannes Janssonius as republished by Petrus Schenk and Gerard Valk from circa 1680 onwards. In Janssonius' original edition of 1657, the chart appeared first in volume V (Koeman Me 116 (15)). For a fuller discussion see C. Koeman, Atlantes Nederlandici, Amsterdam 1967-71, III, pp. 109-114.

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