[De slagh van Bantam te water geschiet]

Picture-map (or news map) of the Battle of Bantam in December 1601, produced from three copperplate sheets, showing the view of Bantam Bay with the battle between the Dutch and Portuguese ships at various phases (marked with letters A-H). The ship in the centre is identified as the Duyfken, later commanded by Willem Janszoon to chart the west coast of Australia's Cape Yorke Peninsula in 1606. Inset map in lower left corner's oriented to the south, depicting South East Asia from Goa to the Moluccas and the Philippines. Relief shown pictorially.; Title from bookseller's sales catalogue of 1609.; "CJVisscher excudebat"; Cartouche at upper left corner of map: Prudentibus, Honorandis, ac Reverendis Viris, Navigationi Indiae Orientalis Praefectis in his; ce Foederatis Inferioris Germaniae Regioni; bus: Necnon Speicalibus Eorum Collegiis, quae sunt in Hollandia Zelandia et Wesfrisia, Hermanus Alardi, et Johannes Everardj Cloppenburgius merito Dedicarunt Ao CD.d.CIII. On the left of the cartouche is the coat of arms of the Dutch Republic, and the Stadtholder Prince Maurits is on the right.; Above the inset: Heraldic arms of the VOC, surrounded with laurel wreath and sea gods, the new trading company’s coat of arms.; Includes illustrations; text and legend in margin.; Keyes, George S. Mirror of empire : Dutch marine art of the seventeenth century. [Minneapolis] : Minneapolis Institute of Arts ; Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1990, number 124; Zandvliet, K. Mapping for money : maps, plans, and topographic paintings and their role in Dutch overseas expansion during the 16th and 17th centuries. Amsterdam : Batavian Lion International, 1998, page 69; Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-rm4775. Inset: Ware afbeeldinghe va alle d'eijlanden ende zeecusten gheleeghen tuschede stat Goa, ende de wijtver maerde Moluccen.The naval battle of Bantam. en