Beautifully engraved map of South East Asia, the Philippines and the Indonesian Spice Islands. Published in Amsterdam around the year 1744 by Isaak Tirion. 

The Amsterdam based publisher Isaak Tirion (1705-1769) is known to have produced books, charts and maps for the Dutch mercantile elite. Tirion was primarily a cartographic publisher, who issued several lavish atlases as well as smaller geographical guides (literally 'Hand-Atlas'), from which this attractive map is derived. During his prolific career, Tirion was associated with the Dutch East India Company; in 1757 Willem Udemans, a shipwright and director of the VOC shipyard at Middelburg commissioned Tirion to print a treatise on naval architecture. He also published a Dutch language edition of Commodore Anson's circumnavigation in 1749, a work remarkable for the quality of its maps and charts.

title: Nieuwe Kaart van de Filippynsche, Ladrones, Moluccos of Specery Eilanden, als mede Celebes etc’. Old map of the Philippines and part of Indonesia. Originates from ‘Nieuwe Hand-Atlas, bestaande in eene Verzameling van eenige naauwkeurige Landkaarten.