1726 SCARCE VALENTIJN COPPER PLATE FISH ENGRAVING

1726 SCARCE VALENTIJN COPPER PLATE FISH ENGRAVING (image 1/1)
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en Nieuw Oost Indien Franciscus Valentijn’s We are very pleased to offer these superb original copper engravings of fishes from Franciscus Valentijn’s en Nieuw Oost Indien. This was an encyclopedic work covering all aspects of the early history of the Dutch East Indies & parts of China, Japan, India, Ceylon & Australia. It is particularly rich in the history of Ambon, w the author lived. To this very day, it provides the most complete record of the early discoveries & life of the times in this far flung empire. T are many maps, views & illustrations of flora & fauna, shells & fish, all beautifully engraved after drawing by the best Dutch artists of the time. These include such artists as F. Ottens, J.C. Philips, J. Goeree, G. Schoute and J. Lamsvelt and M. Balen. The section on shells & sea creatures was based on Rhumphius’s Ambonsche Rariteit-Kamer, in which the plates were drawn by Maria Merian. Franciscus Valentijn (1666-1727), was a minister of the Dutch Reform church who lived mostly in Amboina during his sixteen years of service with the Dutch East India Company. His drawings of brilliantly colored & wildly improbable fish owe much to the influence of Louis Renard, another Dutchman who published the work Poissons, Ecrevisses et Crabes in 1718. The surreal and imaginative drawings are also strongly reminiscent of the works read more
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