Fabulous chart reveals spice of East Indies life
A cartographic highlight of the mammoth October 30-November 1 series of sales held by German auction house Reiss & Sohn (18% buyer’s premium) was the Insulae Moluccae… map shown below, which sold for almost four times the estimate at €38,000 (£33,670).
Issued by CJ Visscher in Amsterdam in 1617, but originally engraved by Johannes van Doetecum for P…