Langenes' Miniature Map of the Maluku Islands Printed Area Measurement_53.5 x 46.5 cm Further to the northwest

Further to the northwest

An illustrated record of important events in the annals of Europe

This map of Scandinavia is from Wyld's New General Atlas

Sent to Mrs Beckham in Cheltenham by her daughter

This is an allegoricial engraving by Jospeh Montalegre of Nuremberg after Johannes Degler for Jesuit scholar Heinrich Scherer’s Atlas Marianus

Langenes' Miniature Map of the Maluku Islands Printed Area Measurement_53.5 x 46.5 cm Further to the northwestMoluccae Insulae This map shows the Maluku Islands (or Moluccas), part of the volcanic Indonesian archipelago known to contemporary Europeans as the spice islands. They were the focus of Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch and English attempts to control the lucrative spice trade. The map was engraved by Jodocus Hondius or Pieter van den Keere for the 'Caert thresoor', a miniature atlas first published in 1598. From 1600 it was also used in the earlier