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| MÜNSTER, S. - Die länder Asie nach irer gelegenheit biss in Indiam werden in diser tafel verzeichnet. Basle, c.1550, Coloured.. 256x343mm. Wood block printed map. Very good condition. One of the first European maps of Asia. Although quite crude, Münster's map does significantly improve upon the Ptolemaic model for the area. The coast of China begins to emerge in recognizable form, although Japan is not shown yet. Münster's highly important map of Asia, a veritable masterpie... (Click on title or image to go to item page) |
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| ORTELIUS, A. - Asiae Nova Descriptio. Antwerp, 1580/1589, In attractive colours.. 370x490mm. Generally in good condition. Lower right margin short and shaving the neatline, now remargined for protective reason. German text on verso. Dark impression. Second state. Ortelius' fine map of Asia well represents the continent at a time when Europeans were expanding their power in the far east. The Indian subcontinent and Malaysian peninsula are easily recognizable. Ceylon and Sumatra are correctly placed. The Philippines are distorted and Japan ... (Click on title or image to go to item page) |
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| ORTELIUS, A. - Asiae nova descriptio. Antwerp, 1603, Coloured.. 370x485mm. Large margins. Very fine condition. Ortelius' fine map of Asia well represents the continent at a time when Europeans were expanding their power in the Far East. The Indian subcontinent and Malaysian peninsula are easily recognizable. Ceylon and Sumatra are correctly placed, though their shape leaves something to be desired. The Phili... (Click on title or image to go to item page) |
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| LANGENES, B. / BERTIUS, P. - Asia. Amsterdam, 1606, Uncoloured.. 85x125mm. In very good condition, lightly age toned, with water stains, all with wide margins, a nice dark impression. Latin text to verso A miniature map of the continent of Asia, published by Petrus Bertius in Amsterdam, at the beginning of the seventeenth century. An attractive small map featuring hatching in the sea, a strap-work title, and a sea monster. Also showing parts of America, Africa and Europe. This example is from ... (Click on title or image to go to item page) |
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| MERCATOR,G./ HONDIUS,J. - Asia. Amsterdam, 1608, Uncoloured.. 153x193mm. Paper browned. Lower and right margins cut short, as issued. Minor marginal water stain upper left, hardly noticeable. Map of Asia with an over-sized Korea and a curious shape for Japan, from the first French-text edition of Jodocus Hondius' Atlas Minor. Shortly after the publication of the big folio-atlases the need was apparently felt for a smaller-sized atlas, one that would be handier and above all, cheaper.<... (Click on title or image to go to item page) |
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| HONDIUS, J. - Asiae Nova Descriptio. . . Amsterdam, 1613, In original colours.. 373x501mm. Paper browning as usual. Repair of center fold. With some colour addition. Several sources appear to have been used in the compilation of this map, including the Portuguese Jesuits Luis Teixeira (1595) for Japan, and Luis Jorgede Barbuda (1584) for details of China. Korea is depicted as an island. Recent discoveries of Barentsz. are cited. Parts of America and New Guinea a... (Click on title or image to go to item page) |
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| MERCATOR, G. / CLOPPENBURGH, J.E. - Asia. Amsterdam, 1630, Coloured.. 197x255mm. Good and dark impression. In good condition. French text on verso. Asia map from the rare Cloppenburg edition slightly larger format and more scarce edition of the Mercator/Hondius "Atlas Minor". Engraved by Pieter Van Den Keere. The Cloppenburg edition was continued for a couple of years but seems to have been suppressed after 1636 ... (Koeman Atlantes Neerla... (Click on title or image to go to item page) |
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| JANSSONIUS, J. - Asia recens summa cura delineata. Amsterdam, 1632, Coloured.. 410x550mm. Paper slightly age toned. Some shine-thru of text on verso. Very good condition. This is the rare early issue with decorative paneled borders. In upper border views and plans of Famagusta, Rhodos, Damascus, Jerusalem, Aden and Ormus. Originally engraved with plans of 6 towns at the top and bottom, c1630, this edition was printed after the lower border had been cut off (in order... (Click on title or image to go to item page) |
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| BÜNTING, H. - Asia secunda pars in forma Pegasi. Brunswick, ca. 1635, Uncoloured.. 272x362mm. Double page copper engraved map. German text on verso. - Fine even impression with original margin all around plate mark. Centerfold and 2 vertical folds softened. A nearly perfect copy of a piece of utmost rarity. UNRECORDED PLATE or STATE. Asia depicted as the flying horse Pegasus. Below the depiction 3 lines of engraved Latin text. Double page copper engraved map from Heinrich Bünting’s “Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae”, printed in Brunswick around 1635 (whereas the “ordinary” Bünting Pegasus from the ... (Click on title or image to go to item page) |
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| VISSCHER, N.J. - Asiae Nova Descriptio. Amsterdam, 1636, In original colours.. 435x555mm. Paper slightly browned. Cut to neat line, partly within outer border and remargined for protective reason. Some repaired tears and small missing area's redrawn. Making nice presentation. Final State of Pieter Van Den Keere's Rare Map of Asia--The first map of Asia to include decorative panels. Published by H.J.Visscher and engraved by Abraham Goos, embellished with upper and lower friezes incorporating 10 town views and 6 portraits. Each of the side borders shows 4 vignettes with a ... (Click on title or image to go to item page) |
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| VISSCHER, N.J. - Asiae Nova Descriptio. Amsterdam, 1636, In original colours.. 440x568mm. Paper slightly browned. Cut to neat line. In good condition. Final State of Pieter Van Den Keere's Rare Map of Asia -- The first map of Asia to include decorative panels. Published by N.J.Visscher and engraved by Abraham Goos, embellished with upper and lower friezes incorporating 10 town views and 6 portraits. Each of the side borders shows 4 vignettes with ... (Click on title or image to go to item page) |
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| DANCKERTS, C. / BERTIUS, P. - Carte de L'Asie. Paris, 1627-1640, In original colours.. 282x175mm. Marginal staining. Repair of split lower part center fold. Rare map of Asia with the imprint of Cornelius Danckert's in lower right corner. The cartouche in top left without text. This map was part of a set of continents printed by Melchior Tavernier separately issued and later on added to his "Theatre geographique". Also based on Hondius map. Ex... (Click on title or image to go to item page) |
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| BÜNTING, H. - Asia secunda pars terrae in forma Pegasi. Brunswick, 1640, Uncoloured.. 275x365mm. German text on verso. Fine dark impression with small margins at three sides, only at bottom trimmed with slight loss of lettering. Unobtrusive marginal imperfections mended. Asia depicted as the flying horse Pegasus. This cartographical curiosity, double page copper engraved map, was published in Heinrich Bünting's “Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae”, edition printed in Brunswick around 1640. The “ordinary” ... (Click on title or image to go to item page) |
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| BERTIUS/DANCKERTS. - Carte De L'Asie Corrigée, et augmentée, dessus toutes les autres cy devant faictes par P. Bertius Paris, 1640, Hand coloured. 380x490mm. Cleaned and stabilized, still slightly stained. Margins trimmed. Lightly toned in places, very slight, occasional spotting. This rare map is according to Burden one of a set of the four known continents that Melchior Tavernier published in Paris, with Petrus Bertius' named on the map. Very similar to Hondius' map of Asia, but much rarer and not often seen on the market. Tavernier was the most important map sel... (Click on title or image to go to item page) |
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| SANSON, N./ MARIETTE, P. - Asie. Paris, 1650, Original o/l colour.. 392x562mm. Left and right hand margins added, some text carefully re-dawn, rest a fine copy. Map of Asia still showing Corey as an island. Including Americas West coast. More about Western mapping of Korea maps. [+]... (Click on title or image to go to item page) |
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| VON RALEIGH, W. / HOLE, W. - [Rare map centered on the Arabian Peninsular and India reaching till Malysia.] London, John Saywell in 1652, Uncoloured.. 248x378mm. In very fine condition. Dark impression. Early map of the Indian Ocean region, from the Eastern Mediterranean (Alexandria) to Malaysia and Sumatra. Shows The passage of Nimrod and The passage of Ophir en Hauilah into India. Noah's Ark is shown near Mount Ararat. The mythical Chiamay Lake appears in China as the source of four rivers.... (Click on title or image to go to item page) |
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| PICART, Nicolas / DUVAL, Pierre. - Asie. (8). Paris, Antoine de Fer, 1657 but 1661 or 1662, In original o/l colours.. 140x195mm. Paper slightly age toned and water stained. Right hand margin cut close. One tiny wormhole in upper part filled in. Scarce map of Asia published by Antoine de Fer in 1661 or 1662 in "Cartes de géographie revues et augmentées". With number 8 in lower right bottom of the map. The series of maps is largely derived from those of Jean Boisseau's "Trésor des cartes", 1643, itself taken from Johannes Ja... (Click on title or image to go to item page) |
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| ALLARDT, H. - Asiae Nova Apud Hudo Allardt. / Nova et exacta Asiae geograpicha descriptio. Amsterdam, 1660-1665, Coloured.. 450x560mm. Strong impression, wide margins, some general browning, foxing in margins and on verso. Reinforced centerfold and margins. Missing parts of border redrawn. Rare map of Asia, with relief shown pictorially. Shows Great wall of China and the mythical island of Yedso north of Japan. Title at head of map: Nova et exacta Asiae geograpicha descriptio. Title cartouche in lower left hand corner with to Arab men with bowls. The north coast of Australia in l... (Click on title or image to go to item page) |
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| JOLLAIN, G. - Asie. Paris, 1667, Uncoloured.. 138x195mm. Some light brown spotting. Dark impression. Rare map of Asia, published by Jollain in 1667. The name of Korea placed in the sea in between Korea and Japan. In top right part of North America. Published in "Trésor Des Cartes Geographiques Des Principaux Estats de Lunivers". This atlas is based upon Boisseau's atlas from 1643, the first w... (Click on title or image to go to item page) |
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| SANSON, N. - Geographiae Sacrae Tabula, que totius orbis partes continent. Amsterdam / Utrecht, 1680, Uncoloured.. 185x282mm. Age toning of paper, mainly marginal. Dark impression. Attractive map of the Mediterranean and countries bordering, extending eastwards to include the Arabian Peninsula. Including the Black Sea up to the Caspian Sea.... (Click on title or image to go to item page) |
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| DE WIT, F. - Accuratissima totius Asiae tabula.. Amsterdam, 1680, In attractive original colours.. 485x567mm. In very good condition. Very fine strong colours and town spots and compass rose heightened with gold dots. The map includes a detailed depiction of South East Asia and the Far East. The northern tip of Australia (Hollandia Nova) is shown as are the important discoveries made to the North of Japan by the Dutch navigator Maarten de Vries in 1643. The map is embellished with a large and decorative title car... (Click on title or image to go to item page) |
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| TAVERNIER, J.B. - Hern Johann Baptisten Taveniers..Vierzig Jaehrige Reize.. Nuremberg, 1681, Uncoloured.. 340x210mm. Folio. 5 Parts in one volume. In contemp. vellum with ink title on spine. Engraved frontisp. 18 plates several wood-block text illustrations and a double page map of Japan (212x305mm.). This German edition includes Tavernier's map of Japan in a reduced form (210x315mm) and contains legends about the nature of the country, e.g. where gold is mined: as well as plotting the route from Jedo to Nagasaki. According to Cox: Tavernier ... Will always continue among the most valuab... (Click on title or image to go to item page) |
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| DE ROSSI, G. - L'Asia Nuovamente corretta et accresciuta, secondo le relationi piu moderne da Guglielmo Sansone . . . 1677 Rome, 1677-1688, In attractive colours.. 406x562mm. Some marginal spotting. Dark impression. Very good. Giacomo Rossi's fine late 17th century map of the Asian continent. Nice detail of the Philippines, China and Arabia. The area north of Japan called Yuppi and attached to Russia mainland. Engraved by Giorgio Widman and issued in Il Mercurio geografico In upper left corner a tittle cartou... (Click on title or image to go to item page) |
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| SANSON, N. / MARIETTE, P. - Asia Vetus. Paris 1667-1690, In original o/l colours.. 405x568mm. Paper contemporarily cut till plate mark and laid down on a larger sheet of paper. Good and dark impression. A fine map of the ancient continent of Asia. This edition carries the date 1667. Nicolas Sanson was to bring about the rise of French cartography, although the fierce competition of the Dutch would last until the end of the century. His success was partly owing to the partnership with the publ... (Click on title or image to go to item page) |
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| LOTTER, T.C. - Imperium Russicum omnisque Tartaria. Paris, ca. 1700, Uncoloured.. 136x170mm. Paper slightly water stained. Good and dark impression. Very finely engraved miniature map of Asian part of Russia with Korea and Japan. The map is of interest for the use of East Sea, the sea between Korea and Japan, here called "Mare Orientale Minus". With "Ter Yedso". Engraved by Tobias Lobeck.... (Click on title or image to go to item page) |
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| DELISLE, G. - Carte de l'Asie dresse´e sur les observations de l'Academie Royale des Sciences . . . Paris, 1700, In original o/l colours.. 450x587mm. A good and strong impression. Scarce state of the map of Asia with the imprint "à la Courone de Diamans" published by Delisle c. 1707 : "L’ Asie. Chez l’Auteur sur le Quai de l’Horloge a la Couro. ne de Diamans avec Privilege du Roy pour 20 ans, 1700". Guillaume de l'Isle's (1675-1726) well deserved reputation as one... (Click on title or image to go to item page) |
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| DE LA FEUILLE, D. - Asia. Amsterdam, 1706, Original colours.. 132x177mm. Paper slightly age toned. Dark impression. Uncommon map of Asia, with a curious shape for Korea. Nice title cartouche in upper left corner with an elephant and a warrior. From his atlas Oorlogs tablessen, Oft uytgesochte Kaarten .... (Click on title or image to go to item page) |
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| SCHERER, H. - Totius Asiae continens cum praecipuis insulis eidem annexis Munich, 1710, Uncoloured.. 230x350mm. In mint condition. On this map Hokkaido is connected with Honshu and even bigger depicted than Honshu. In lower left cartouche a scale and a monstrance with the sign of the Society of Jesus. Nova Zembla is depicted, but the north-eastern part of Siberia, the Chukchi peninsula and Kamchatka are missing. A portion... (Click on title or image to go to item page) |
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| DECKER, P. - Asia - L'Asie. Augsburg, ca. 1715, In attractive strong original colours.. 290x190mm. Cut on neat line. Paper slightly age toned, generally in good condition. Dress of the woman heightened with gold. This print represents an allegory of Asia, one of the continents. Since ancient times, the Old World was divided into three continents: Asia, Africa and Europe. A Turkish woman is standing in front of a camel, i.e. the most classic allegory of Asia. She has a turban on her head, and in her left han... (Click on title or image to go to item page) |
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| DE FER, N. - L'Asie Suivant les Nouvelles Decouvertes. . . Paris, 1717, Coloured.. 225x320mm. Good condition and impression. Map is mounted with green card. Lightly age toned. Showing the land masses from Arabia to Japon ou I.de Niphon and Nouvelle Zeelande (but what is part of New Guinea). Decorative dedication panel and title cartouche.... (Click on title or image to go to item page) |
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| CHIQUET, J. - L' Asie Dressée Selon les Observations de Mrs. De l' Academie Royale des Sciences.. Paris, 1719, Original o/l colour.. 165x223mm. A good and dark impression. Paper slightly age-toned. Mounted on an engraved text sheet giving an historical and geographical explanation. Delightful little map of Asia that conforms to the standard French model of the period. Hokkaido is attached to the mainland and Terre de Iesso is off the coast partially obscured by the title cartouche. The map does not follow any particular cartographer and Chiquet has made a concerted effort n... (Click on title or image to go to item page) |
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| CHIQUET, J. - L' Asie Dressée Selon les Observations de Mrs. De l' Academie Royale des Sciences.. Paris, 1719, Original o/l colour.. 165x223mm. A good and dark impression. Paper slightly age-toned. Together with an engraved text sheet giving an historical and geographical explanation of the region. Delightful little map of Asia that conforms to the standard French model of the period. Hokkaido is attached to the mainland and Terre de Iesso is off the coast partially obscured by the title cartouche. The map does not follow any particular cartographer and Chiquet has made a concerted effort... (Click on title or image to go to item page) |
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| CHATELAIN, H. - Nouvelle Carte De L'Asie Avec Des Tables Alphabetiques Pour Trouver Sans Peine Les Etats Des Principaux Princes De Cette Partie Du . . . Amsterdam, 1719, Uncoloured.. 465x582mm. Vertical and horizontal folds as issued. Re-inforcements of minor paper thinness along left vertical fold. Else good condition. Chatelain's map of Asia. The title is in two lines across the map. On each side border appears an index to the map's contents. The map is of interest for the use of Mer Orientale for the sea between Korea and Japan. From Chatelain's ... (Click on title or image to go to item page) |
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| CHATELAIN,H. - Nouvelle Carte De L'Asie Avec Des Tables Alphabetiques Pour Trouver Sans Peine Les Etats Des Principaux Princes De Cette Partie Du Monde . . . Amsterdam, 1719, In original o/l colours.. 465x578mm. In very good condition. Repair of a lower marginal split, hardly effecting engraved area. Rare to find in original out line colours. Chatelain's map of Asia. The title is in two lines across the map. On each side border appears an index to the map's contents. The map is based upon Guillaume De L'Isle's map of 1700. Includes interesting treatment of Japan with Terra Yeco and Terra de la Comagnie shown, along with other myth and ... (Click on title or image to go to item page) |
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| CHATELAIN, H. - Table contenant les divisions de l'Asie dans toutes ses parties. Amsterdam, 1720, Uncoloured.. 360x450mm. Very good impression. This folio sheet gives a breakdown of Asia into 6 principal regions. Henri Abraham Chatelain (1684 – 1743) was a Huguenot pastor of Parisian origins. He lived consecutively in Paris, St. Martins, London (c. 1710), the Hague (c. 1721) and Amsterdam (c. 1728). He is best known as a Dutch ca... (Click on title or image to go to item page) |
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| SENEX, J. - A New Map of Asia from the latest Observations Most Humbly Inscrib'd to the Right Honbl. George Earl of Warrington &c. London, 1721, In original o./l. colours.. 480x561mm. A good and dark impression. Paper slightly browned as usual, but in untouched original condition. Fine map of Asia, with decorative title cartouche flanked by two figures in Asian dress, along with flora and fauna of the continent., based on the work of Guillaume De L'Isle. In lower left corner an inset of "to avoid too great a contraction of the scale ye supposed N. Coast of Asia i... (Click on title or image to go to item page) |
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| AA, P. van der - L'Asie suivant les nouvelles observations… Amsterdam, 1728, Uncoloured.. 225x300mm. Good and dark impression. Uncommon edition of this map of Asia. From Le Nouveau Theatre du Monde, ou la Geographie Royale. The map is of interest for the use of Mer Orientale, the sea between Korea and Japan.... (Click on title or image to go to item page) |
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| SEUTTER, M. - Asia Cum omnibus Imperiis, Provinciis, Statibus et Insulis. . . Augsburg, 1730, In original colours.. 205x253mm. Some marginal browning. A good and dark impression. A finely engraved and decorative mid-18th century map published in Augsburg, Germany and incorporating two large decorative title cartouches upper right and bottom left. Large-scale map of Asia extending from Europe to Japan. Terra Yedso is represented here as a large land mass to the north o... (Click on title or image to go to item page) |
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| DESNOS, L.C. - L'Asie dressée sur de nouveaux memoires Assujetis. . . Paris, 1732, In original o/l colours.. 490x715mm. Laid down on brown paper. A few marginal tears. Dark impression. Decorative and separately issued map of Asia with engraved border composed of the coats of arms of Asian nations and is embellished with a large allegorical title cartouche. This map was drawn and engraved by J. l'Huillier and published by Guillaume Danet, son-in-law of Nicholas de Fer. M... (Click on title or image to go to item page) |
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| MOLL, H. - Asia By H.Moll Geographer. London, 1736, Coloured.. 200x264mm. Dark impression. Good condition throughout. Detailed map of Asia. From his "Atlas minor: or a new and curious set of sixty-two maps. . .", which was first published in 1729 and reprinted in 1732, 1736. The map is of interest for the use of Sea of Corea, the sea between Korea and Japa... (Click on title or image to go to item page) |
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| MOLL, H. - Asia By H.Moll Geographer. London, 1736, Uncoloured.. 297x264mm. In good condition, although paper is limp. Signs of some water staining, and with a few paper tears to the margins. Dark impression. Detailed map of Asia. From his "Atlas minor: or a new and curious set of sixty-two maps. . .", which was first published in 1729 and reprinted in 1732, 1736. The map is of interest for the use of Sea of Corea, the sea between Korea and Japan... (Click on title or image to go to item page) |
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| ALBRIZZI, G.B. - Nuova carta dell Asia . . . Venice, 1740, Coloured.. 275x340mm. Good margins on sound paper. Attractive and detailed map of Asia showing good detail in China, Mongolia, Tibet, Kamchatka, Japan, Kuriles, Korea, Manchuria, Formosa, Philippines, Indonesia Borneo, New Guinea, North coast of Australia, Sumatra, Tartary, Indo-China: Laos, Cambodia, Cochin China, Tonquin, India, Persia, Arabia,... (Click on title or image to go to item page) |
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| KEIZER, J. / DE LAT, J. - Kaartje van Asia. . . Deventer, 1742, In original o/l colours.. 173x243mm. Vertical folds as issued. Very fine image. Attractive and rare map of Asia. From Atlas Portatif . With a curious and oversized Hokkaido. The map is of interest for the use of Corease Zee for the sea between Korea and Japan.... (Click on title or image to go to item page) |
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| KEIZER, J. / DE LAT, J. - Kaartje van Asia. . . Deventer 1742, In original o/l colours.. 173x243mm. Vertical folds as issued, with paper thinning and reinforced for protective reason. A dark impression. Attractive and rare map of Asia. From Atlas Portatif . With a curious and oversized Hokkaido. The map is of interest for the use of Coreanse Zee for the sea between Korea and Japan.... (Click on title or image to go to item page) |
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| HOMANN HEIRS. - Asia secundum legitimas projectionis stereographicae. Nurenberg, 1744, In original colours.. 500x575mm. Some light marginal staining and discolouration, for the rest in very good condition. Dark impression. Highlighted area covers part of Spain, eastern coast of Ireland to western part of Papua New Guinea and the Asian continent from the Northern Polar Sea to the Indian Ocean. Nice decorative coloured cartouche on lower left, scale bars in decorative insert at top right, marginal French title on top. |
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| BOWEN, E. - A new & accurate map of Asia drawn from actual surveys. . . London, 1747, Coloured.. 345x422mm. In very good condition. Wide margins. An excellent early engraving of Asia. Curious shape for Japan, with a large island north called Yeso and a coastline marked De Gamma's Land. Numbered "No 52."; Decorative title cartouche includes palm tree, with village scene in background. Prime meridian at London. Th... (Click on title or image to go to item page) |
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| EULER, L. - Tab: Georg : Asiae ad emendatiora quae ad huc prodierunt exempla jussu Acad. Reg. Scient. et eleg. Litt. Pruss. descripta. Berlin, 1753, In original colours.. 335x380mm. Paper slightly age toned. Good condition. Detailed and scarce map of Asia, published in "Geographischer Atlas bestehend in 44 Land-Charten, worauf alle Theile des Erd-Creyses vorgestellet werden" and made by Leonhard Euler. The map has the publishers stamp in the lower right corber. Leonhard Euler (1707-1783), one of the greatest mathe... (Click on title or image to go to item page) |
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| GIBSON, J. - Asia London, ca. 1755, Coloured.. 286x327mm. Repair of split lower half of center fold. Good condition. Detailed map of Asia engraved by John Gibson for "The Gentleman's Magazine", founded by visionary Edward Cave, was the world's first monthly general interest magazine. The map is of interest for the use of Sea of Korea, the sea between... (Click on title or image to go to item page) |
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| DURY, A. / SAYER, R. / KITCHIN, T. - Asia. London, 1761-1763, In original o/l colours.. 104x120mm. Paper very slightly age toned and some very light offsetting due to oxidation of ink. Uncommon miniature map of Asia. The map is of interest for the use of Sea of Corea, for the sea between Korea and Japan. Engraved by J.Ellis for "A New General and Universal Atlas Containing Forty five Maps by Andrew Dury". This miniatu... (Click on title or image to go to item page) |
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| DESNOS / BRION - L'Asie, dressée pour l'étude de la Géographie . . . Paris, 1765, In original o/l colours.. 230x257mm. Good condition. Printed on thick paper. Highly decorative map of Asia embellished with a landscape style title cartouche and several sailing ships. The map is of interest for the use of Mer de Corée, the sea between Korea and Japan. Prepared by Louis Brion de la ... (Click on title or image to go to item page) |
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