Nieuwe Pascaert van Oost Indien Verthoonende hen van C. De Bona Esperanca tot aen het Landt van Eso Geleyt op Wassende Graeden en van veel fouten verbetert

Johannes van Keulen I founded the Amsterdam publishing house In de Gekroonde Lootsman in 1678 and quickly established it as a major producer of maps, nautical charts, atlases, and pilot books. This first-state chart was issued in De groote nieuwe vermeerderde zee atlas ofte water-werelt in 1680. It presents the maritime world of the Dutch East Indies from the Cape of Good Hope to the Landt van Eso north of Japan, extending across southern Africa, the Red Sea, Arabia, India, Ceylon, Southeast Asia, China, Japan, and the western Pacific.

In the south, Hollandia Nova records Dutch discoveries along the western, northern, and southern coasts of Australia. These include 't Landt van Eendracht, recalling Dirk Hartog’s 1616 landfall in the Eendracht; the Leeuwin, associated with the southwest coast; discoveries linked to Jan Carstensz. and Willem Joosten van Colster; Pieter Nuyts’s south-coast voyage in the 't Gulden Zeepaert; and G. F. de Wits Land, associated with Gerrit Frederiksz. de Witt. Australia is therefore shown as part of the wider VOC route system rather than as an isolated southern land.

The chart’s cartouches reinforce its commercial and maritime setting. The large title cartouche includes regional figures, animals, and a decapitation scene. The lower publisher’s cartouche is flanked by two fish holding the Golden Fleece, a symbol of wealth derived from eastern trade. Above it stand four figures: a pilot with chart, dividers, and Jacob’s staff; a sailor; a richly dressed merchant; and a local figure from the Indies. Five galleons populate the surrounding seas in this state, but these ships and figures were removed in the second state.

This chart is closely connected with Van Keulen’s related East Indies chart derived from Pieter Goos (95) and the untitled vellum chart from the same Goos/Van Keulen chart tradition (266). Doncker’s East Indies charts (33, 234, and 347), provide useful comparisons for Dutch mapping of the Indian Ocean, Southeast Asia, northern Hollandia Nova, and VOC sea routes.