Lot 494 
494
Philippus Baldaeus
Malabar und Coromandel, 1672.
Estimate:
€ 1,000 / $ 1,070 Sold:
€ 1,800 / $ 1,926 (incl. surcharge)
Landwehr, VOC 557. - Tiele 70. - Ebert 1543: "Sehr interessant wegen der ausführllichen Nachricht über indische Mythologie" [transl.:"Very interesting, because of the extensive report on Indian mythology."]. - Cf. cat. Nederl. Sheepvaart Mus. 240; Cox I, 283. - First German edition, published the same year as the Dutch orig. edition with the identical coppers. - Remarkably lavishly made description of the Dutch-Indian territories, with nice coppers, covers plants, inhabitants, customs and traditions, and many more. - The great coppers show landscapes, cities among others Goa), buildings, statues of gods, natives in their costumes, flora and fauna and battlescenes. - Browned in places, title copper somewhat stained and with small marginal tear, front inner joint loosened. - Armorial woodcut bookplate of I. E. Ruedorffer.
First German edition of the remarkably lavishly made work on the Dutch-Indian territories. With illustrated title copper, 30 double page copper plates and 57 coppers in the text (among them 2 portraits) and 4 copper maps. Contemp. vellum. - Browned in places, title copper somewhat stained and with small marginal tear, front inner joint loosened. - Armorial woodcut bookplate of I. E. Ruedorffer.
494
Philippus Baldaeus
Malabar und Coromandel, 1672.
Estimate:
€ 1,000 / $ 1,070 Sold:
€ 1,800 / $ 1,926 (incl. surcharge)