Browse Listings in Asia
Fokien Imperii Sinarum Provincia undecima.
The province of Fokien lies opposite Taiwan and south of the region described in the above map. The coast is shown from Wen-zhou in the north to Fu-zhou and as far south ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660
Xantung, sinarum imperii provincia quatra.
A map of the northern province ‘Xantung’ of China after the Jesuit Martino Martini.Shows the Great Wall and is centered on the Bohai Sea, and the Shandong and Liaonin...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1660
Arabia.
A handsome map of the Arabian Peninsula drawn on a large scale on which the three classical divisions are shown with some urban centers and topographical features. A cert...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1662
De gelegenheyt van t'paradys ende t'landt van Canaan..
Very attractive map, showing the location of Paradise. Two vignettes depict the Temptation of Adam and Eve, and their Expulsion from the Garden of Eden. Nicolaes Visscher...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1664
Noordoost Cust van Asia van Japan tot Nova Zembla.
Important for its early depiction of Hokkaido and the Islands to the North of Japan. Ships navigate the seas around the Siberian, Chinese and Japanese coast extending as ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1666
Pascaerte van 't Westelyckste Deel van Oost Indien, van Cabo de Bona Esperanca tot C.Comorin..
An eye-catching chart of the western part of the Indian Ocean and its adjacent coasts of East Africa, Arabia with the Red Sea and the Arabian Gulf, Iran, Pakistan and we...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1666
L'Empire des Turcs.
Rare map of the Turkish empire, published by Jollain in 1667. Published in "Trésor Des Cartes Geographiques Des Principaux Estats de Lunivers".Showing "&q...
Place & Date: Paris, 1667
An embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham, Emperor of China deliver'd by their excellencies, Peter de Goyer and Jacob de Keyzer, at his imperial city of Peking. . .
Very rare first English text edition of this most important and early resource on China and the Chinese. Three parts in one folio by John Macock for the author.Part I: An...
Place & Date: London : Printed by the Author at his house in White-Friers, 1669
Paskaerte Zynde t'Oosterdeel Van Oost Indien, met alle de Eylanden daer ontrendt geleegen van C. Comorin tota aen Iapan.
An eye-catching chart of Pieter Goos' sea chart of Australia, Southeast Asia, China, Japan, Korea and India. The chart shows the regions from Cape Comorin (Southern India...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1669
La Chine d'Athanase Kirchere de la compagnie de Jesus, illustrée de plusieurs monuments tant sacrés que profanes et de quantité de recherches de la nature. . .
Athanasius Kircher, S.J., (1601 or 1602-1680) was a 17th-century German Jesuit scholar who published around 40 works, most notably in the fields of oriental studies, geol...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1670
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Via Bethleem. [The route from Jerusalem to Bethlehem ]
The route from Jerusalem to Bethlehem. Below a lettered key. Taken from a very rare travel book by Anthonius Gonsales, "Hierusalemsche Reyse". The book describe...
Place & Date: Antwerpen, Michiel Cnobbaert, 1673
Turckschemoniken die onder den goddelycken. . .
Decorative picture of three dervishes dancers. Their whirling dance, also known as the sema, is a serious religious ritual performed by Muslim priests in a prayer trance ...
Place & Date: Antwerpen, Michiel Cnobbaert, 1673
Nazareth.
Decorative view of Nazareth, below a decorative cartouche with numbered key and surrounded by 2 cherubins. Taken from a very rare travel book by Anthonius Gonsales, "...
Place & Date: Antwerpen, Michiel Cnobbaert, 1673
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Rama. [Ramah]
Town plan of Ramah, about 5 miles (8 km) from Jerusalem and near to Gibeah. Below a decorative cartouche with numbered key and surrounded by 2 cherubins.Taken from a very...
Place & Date: Antwerpen, Michiel Cnobbaert, 1673
Arabie.
Uncommon miniature map of the Arabian peninsula, from Pierre Duval's La Geographie Universeille dated 1676. Following his Cartes de géographie in 1657, Pierre Duval publ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1676
Reiß in das Gelobte Land ... Mit nach dreyen andern Reißbeschreibungen vermehret, und schönen Kupfern gezieret.
Very rare first illustrated edition of collected travel accounts by citizens of Zürich, containing : Hans Jacob Amman, "Narrative of a trip to Palestine". The ...
Place & Date: Zürich, M. Schauffelberger Erbin, 1678
Carte des Isles du Japon Sequels est remarque la Route..
This uncommon map of Japan, a reduced version of his larger map, contains comments about the nature of the country. For instance, Ocsaqui (Okazaki, near Nagoya) is said t...
Place & Date: Paris / Amsterdam, 1679
Carte des Isles du Japon Esquelles est remarque la Route..
This uncommon map of Japan, which is on a fairly large scale, contains comments about the nature of the country. For instance, Ocsaqui (Okazaki, near Nagoya) is said to h...
Place & Date: Paris 1679
Ambassades mémorables de la Compagnie des Indes orientales des Provinces Unies vers les empereurs du Japon.
First edition in French of this important work on Japan, a work whose illustrations "represent a high-water mark in book illustrations of the 17th century" (Lac...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1680
Waere affbeeldinge wegens het casteel ende stadt Batavia.
A good impression of this finely engraved and detailed plan of Batavia, present-day Jakarta, the Dutch center of trading activities in the East Indies. Copied after Cleme...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1681
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Hern Johann Baptisten Taveniers..Vierzig Jaehrige Reize..
This German edition includes Tavernier's map of Japan in a reduced form (210x315mm) and contains legends about the country's nature, e.g., where gold is mined and plottin...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1681
Il regno della China detto presentente Catay e Magnin. . .
A rare and decorative Italian map of China and Japan, with Japan closely modelled on the indented Cardim outline and Hokkaido, called Yuppi , shown as an Asian peninsula....
Place & Date: Rome, 1682
Jerusalem.
Engraved by Bastiaan Stoopendaal from Juan Bautista Villapando's imaginary town-plan of Jerusalem. This bird's-eye view is surrounded by 12 scenes, views and portraits of...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1682
Asia.
Detailed map the Asian continent. The map is of interest for the use of Sea of Corea, the sea between Korea and Japan.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1682
Selling price: $225
Sold in 2023
Het Beloofde Landt Canaan door wandelt . . .
A beautifully engraved map of the ancient land of Canaan which roughly corresponds to present-day Israel. Cherubs hold up a draped cloth of key symbols, also a scale pane...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1682
Indiae extra Gangem Pars Septentrionalis. Indiae extra Gangem Pars Meridionalis.
The map on the left depicts the northern portion of the India Ganges region, representing Burma (Myanmar), Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos. The right one depicts th...
Place & Date: Utrecht / Amsterdam, J.Halma, 1683
Paradigma XV Provinciarum et CLV Urbium Capitalium Sinensis Imperij Cum Templis quae Cruce X Signatur Et Domiciliis S.I.
First edition of this rare Jesuit map of China, published by Jean Baptiste Nolin in Paris and based on Philippe Couplet's map of 1686. The map shows China's 15 provinces ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1686
Le Grand Mongol. . .
Rare full portrait of the Mongol emperor of Indostan, published by map seller, François Jollain, the Elder (1641-1704), active in Paris, rue St. Jacques à la ville de C...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1686
Penisola Dell India di la dal Gange Diusa ne i Regni, che in essasi contengono et accresciuta di varie notizie. Da Giacomo Cantelli da Vignola e conforme le Relationi di alcuni Padri della Compa di Giesu di Monsu Tavernier . . . 1683
Giacomo Rossi's fine late 17th century map of Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia and part of Sumatra.. Engraved by Franciscus Donia. Issued in Il Mercurio geografico In lower r...
Place & Date: Rome, 1683-1688
Penisola dell India di là dal Gange et Isole intorno ad essa adiacenti..
Giacomo Rossi's fine late 17th century map of India with Ceylon and Maldives. Issued in Il Mercurio geografico In lower right hand corner a large title cartouche with ded...
Place & Date: Rome, 1683-1688
Iunan, Queichev, e Quangsi Provincie della Cina. . .
A beautiful map depicting the area of Beijing with decorative title cartouche and scale cartouche. Information about the area at the top of the map.The remarkable Vincenz...
Place & Date: Venice, 1690
Mocha, in Arabien. (View of Mocha, Yemen.)
Magnificent bird's eye-town-view of Mocha in Yemen.. Etched by Gaspar Bouttats (1640-1695).The Antwerp based publisher Jacques Peeters published ca. 1690 a series of prin...
Place & Date: Antwerp, c.1690
Quantung, e Fokien, Provincie della China...
A beautifully engraved decorative map of Southern China extending from Hainan in the West to Formosa in the East and centered on the Pearl River Delta with Macao and the ...
Place & Date: Venice, 1691
Isola del Giapone e penisola di Corea.
A most attractive and decorative map by Vincenzo Coronelli. An elaborate central title cartouche garlanded with intertwined flowers and dedicated to the Rev.de Fontaine o...
Place & Date: Venice, 1692
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[Arabia]
A lovely miniature map of the region of Armenia and Georgia, showing both parts of the Black Sea and Caspian Sea. For such a small map it renders a wealth of detail, with...
Place & Date: Ulm, 1692
Het gezandtschap der Neerlandtsche Oost-Indische Compagnie, aan den grooten Tartarischen Cham, Den tegenwoordigen Keizer van China. . .
Third edition of this beautifully illustrated work on China. The first edition was published in 1665.Jan Nieuhof was a "Dutch traveler and adventurer" (1618-72)...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, W. Waasberge, 1693
Parte orientale della China.. / Parte occidentale della China. (2 sheets)
The map depicts the eastern part of China with Korea -correctly- as a peninsula. Formosa is included as well. Japan is partly visible i.e. the area of Yamaguchi, strait K...
Place & Date: Venice, 1695
Isole dell'Indie. . .
A beautiful and flamboyantly engraved large-scale map of the East Indies, including the Malay Peninsula, Cambodia, the Philippines and all of Indonesia and the Spice Isla...
Place & Date: Venice, 1696
Chorographia Terrae Sanctae in Angustiorem. . .
Rare. Large visually rich map decorated with illustrations of the sacred objects and places of Judaism. In the bottom center is a plan of ancient Jerusalem, and the route...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1700
Acamantis insula hogidi Cipro . . .
Decorative map of Cyprus. The remarkable Vincenzo Coronelli (1650-1718), was a Franciscan Friar and appointed General of the Order in 1701. He was cosmographer to the Rep...
Place & Date: Venice, 1700