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Map of the Riouw (Riau) Residency, Sumatra. The border between Riau and the island’s west coast is marked in red ‘as far as it is known [voor zoo verre die... bekend is]’, ending abruptly in the unexplored mountains near Lake Toba, northern Sumatra.

Two maps of the Banda Islands—one of the whole group; the other focusing on the larger islands only—with an elaborate cartouche illustrated with six views of the islands. There is also a drawing of the volcano on Goenong Api (Banda Api).

Four-sheet topographic map of the residency of Japara (Jepara, Central Java), with an inset signal map of locations’ heights and distances. Administrative districts, crops—coffee, alang-alang, rice, sugarcane, coconut—and fishing ponds are shown.

On this map of the northern tip of the Minahasa Peninsula, the roads have been added in pencil after the map was printed. Similarly, the elevation (side view) of the peninsula’s mountains has the route of a journey added in pencil.

This detailed map of the Dutch East Indies in the mid-19th century contains a great deal of information: topographical details, settlements and administrative areas, roads, railways and maritime routes, telegraph lines, inset maps etc.

This map shows Java and Bali divided into Dutch colonial administrative areas (‘residencies’), and features mountains, rivers, settlements, and routes. It was designed to be folded within book covers so it could be easily carried.

This map shows Java and Bali divided into Dutch colonial administrative areas (‘residencies’), and features mountains, rivers, settlements, and routes. It was designed to be folded within book covers so it could be easily carried.

A map of the residency of Madioen (Madiun), East Java, divided into regencies and districts. Mountains, rivers and roads are marked, along with postal routes and post offices, sugar factories, cinnamon sheds (‘kaneelloodsen’) and indigo plant mills.

Map of the residency of Patjitan (Pacitan), south coast of East Java, divided into administrative districts. At the base, there is an elevation (side view) drawing of terrain around the Bay of Patjitan. Villages, forts and ruined temples are marked.

A hand-drawn plan for improvements to the pier at the port in Batavia (Jakarta), showing profiles of stone and concrete walls/buttresses to be built along the sides of the ‘Haven Kanaal [Harbour Canal]’. Blue lines on the profiles mark water level.

Hachures—short lines/dashes that give a sense of the shape and steepness of terrain—are used to show the mountains of Sumatra’s west coast, and of the Padang Highlands and Lowlands. Text lists the heights of some of the region’s chief mountains.

Detailed map of Java based on the expeditions of the geologist and botanist Dr. Franz Junghuhn. There are 16 inset maps featuring volcanoes, mountains and coal seams.