PETER SCHENK, Insularum Indiae orientalis nova descriptio, ca 1700
The Dutch presence began at the end of the 16th century, shortly before the establishment of the Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie, VOC). The VOC established trading posts mainly in the Moluccas and on Java.
This map shows Java, Borneo, Sumatra, Malaysia or Malacca, Timor and the Philippines.
Petrus Schenck (Elberfeld, Wuppertal 26 December 1660 - Leipzig, Saxony 1711) was a German engraver and mapmaker. Schenck was one of the most important figures in Saxon cartography in the first half of the 18th century.The mapmaker entered the service of the Amsterdam engraver and map publisher Gerard Valck. Schenck lived in the Jordaan on Lauriergracht in amsterdam. The couple had six children, all of whom were baptized in the Westerkerk.
Around 1700, he settled in Leipzig as a globetrotter, mapmaker and art dealer.
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