Hondius Map of India
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India quae Orientalis dicitur et Insulae Adiacentes. Henricus Hondius (1597-1651). Copperplate engraving. Amsterdam, c. 1636. 17 x 21 3/4 inches sheet. An important Dutch map of South East Asia, noteworthy for being the second map to include the discoveries made in New Guinea and northern Queensland, Australia by the Dutch vessel Duyfken in 1605-06. Under the command of Willem Janzoon, the Duyfken explored the eastern shore of the Gulf of Carpentaria, just below the Cape York Peninsula, a venture which was famously the first recorded European contact with Australia.
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