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TIMOR - [ A Dutch VOC chart of the Island of Timor . Amsterdam or Batavia (Java), ca. 1760]. Manuscript map, in Dutch, ink and wash on paper, maximum dimensions 900mm x 585mm. The chart covers the island of Timor, the coastlines neatly drawn in green, black and yellow, islands and place-names in black, the divisional boundary between Portuguese and Dutch possesion drawn in black. Houses are marked by small symbols, major forts neatly drawn and distinguished by Dutch or Portuguese flags, contemporary Dutch inscriptions concerning land use and vegetation, many with neat translations in a late 18th century French hand as well as additional early 19th century French annotations noting the accuracy of the topography. Stylised mountains in green and brown washes representing the geography of the island. Coastlines in green, sandbanks marked by dotted areas, rocks and obstructions by crosses, a single decorated coloured compass rose, the seas filled with rhumblines, single scalebar. (Occasional light staining or browning, some snall tears to margins, the map mounted on acid free paper) A rare surviving map of Timor, drawn up by an anonymous Dutch cartographer in Amsterdam or Batavia, for administrative purposes for the Dutch authorities of the southern part of the island. The annotations of the vegetation are very interesting, describing the locations of ricefields, coconut-trees ("klapper boomen") and other land-use. The Portuguese and Dutch forts are clearly marked and the boundary line between the the Dutch and Portuguese parts of the island is marked in two positions, showing the fluctations of the control of Timor by both countries.