Tavernier, Daniel (sold)
Daniel Tavernier (c. 1610 – September 10, 1648) was a French adventurer and merchant active in East Asia during the first half of the 17th century. He was born in Antwerp of a French or Flemish Huguenot family which subsequently returned to Paris after the publication of the Edict of Nantes, which promised protection for French Protestants. Daniel is an older brother of the more famous Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (1605 - 1689), who discovered the Tavernier Blue Diamond (Hope Diamond) and pioneered East Asian trade. Daniel is known to have made 11 or 12 voyages to Tonquin (North Vietnam) from Batavia in the Dutch East Indies. Having settled in the Dutch port of Batavia, he preceded Jean-Baptiste to East Asia by at least 10 years. Daniel's presence in Batavia probably inspired Jean-Baptiste to travel there on his second voyage. Daniel probably served as a guide for Jean-Baptiste on his voyage, which included a stop in Vietnam. Daniel Tavernier died in Batavia of dysentery on September 10 of 1648. He never published in his lifetime, but a map either drawn by him, or based upon his journals, was published by his brother, Jean-Baptiste, in 1679.
One of the earliest acquirable maps specifically of Vietnam.
Carte Faite sur la Lieux Par Daniel Tavernier En Plusieurs Voiages quil a fait au Tonquin.
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This is a rare, large, 1679 map of Vietnam and Southern China printed by Jean-Baptiste Tavernier and attributed to that mapmaker's elder brother, the French Huguenot merchant adventurer, Daniel Tavernier. The map covers the coast of Vietnam from southern China to the Mekong Delta. It includes parts of modern-day China: the Island of Hainan and the Chinese coast roughly as far north as modern-day Hong Kong and Macau. The Island of Shangchuan (上川岛) appears as well, just south of Hong Kong, where the Navarrese-Basque Roman Catholic missionary, St. Francis Xavier, died. (more details)
A revolution the mapping of Japan.
A Mapp of the Isles of Iapon. / Map of Tunquin.
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An extremely rare work, this is the 1680 map of Japan and Vietnam (Tonkin) that accompanied the Moses Pitt edition of the travels of Daniel and Jean-Baptiste Tavernier. It is a seminal work, being among the first European maps of Japan (and Vietnam) based upon actual reconnaissance. (more details)