Indonesia Siege VOC Batavia 1629 Jakarta by Bellin 1754

Title: Batavia assiege en 1629 – Batavia A 1629 belegerd.

Bird's eye view map of the siege of Batavia in 1629.

The Siege of Batavia was a military campaign led by Sultan Agung of Mataram to capture the Dutch port-settlement of Batavia in Java.
The first attempt was launched in 1628, and the second in 1629, both were unsuccessful.
Jan Pieterszoon Coen, the Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies managed to repel the sieges and beat off all of Sultan Agung's attacks.

Mapmaker Cartographer: Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703 – 21 March 1772)
Bellin was born in Paris. He was hydrographer of France's hydrographic office, member of the Académie de Marine and of the Royal Society of London.
Over a 50 year career, he produced a large number of maps of particular interest to the Ministère de la Marine.
Publisher: Antonine de Prevost d' Exile's Histoire generale des voyages.

Engraver: Jakob van der Schley aka Jakob van Schley (26 July 1715 Amsterdam - 12 February 1779 Amsterdam) was a Dutch draughtsman and engraver.
He studied under Bernard Picart (1673-1733)

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Sheet app.: 40 x 27 cm. 15.75 x 11 inches.
Image app.: 27.5 x 19 cm. 11 x 7.5 inches.
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