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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...

$2200 / ≈ â‚¬2059
Maker / Publisher: DE ROSSI, G.
Place & Date: Rome, 1683-1688

 


Insularum Moluccarum Nova description.

Exquisite map of the famous Spice Islands based on the islands described by Jan Huyghen van Linschoten. This map was the first large-scale map of the region and depicts t...

$750 / ≈ â‚¬702
Maker / Publisher: SCHENK, P. / VALK, G.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1730

 


Overzichtskaart van den Nederlandsch oost Indischen Archipel.

Very detailed map of Indonesia, taken from "Atlas van Nederlandsch Oost- en West-Indie," prepared by a doctor I. Dornseiffen, and published by Seyffardt's Boekh...

$50 / ≈ â‚¬47
Maker / Publisher: DORNSEIFFEN, I.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Seyffardt, 1884

 


[Bantam].

Text engravings from "Premier livre de l'histoire de la navigation aux Indes Orientales, par les hollandois, et des choses a eux advenues . . . ", being the cla...

$80 / ≈ â‚¬75
Maker / Publisher: LODEWYCKSZ, Willem
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cornille Nicolas, 1609

 


L'illustration, journal officiel hebdomadaire.

L'Illustration, the first French illustrated newspaper from 1843, became the first magazine in the world in 1906 and is distributed in more than 150 countries.The mythica...

$250 / ≈ â‚¬234
Maker / Publisher: BASCHET, R.
Place & Date: Paris, 1908

 


Allerneuester geographisch- und topographischer Schau-Platz von Africa und Ost-Indien. . .

An early issue of this important book by Johann Wolfgang Heydt's describing the Dutch factories, settlements and stations at the hands of the Dutch East India Company in ...

$2750 / ≈ â‚¬2573
Maker / Publisher: HEYDT, J. W.
Place & Date: Wilhermsdorf, Tetscher u. Nürnberg, Homanns Erben, 1744

 


Tabula Sexta Asia (Arabian Peninsula)

This is a very desirable  early Ptolemaic woodblock map of the Arabian Peninsula, here called Arabia Felix. The map is presented on a trapezoidal projection with par...

$2200 / ≈ â‚¬2059
Maker / Publisher: PTOLEMY,C ./ TRECHSEL, G.
Place & Date: Vienna, 1525 -1541

 


Asia secunda pars in forma Pegasi.

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 BÃ...

$5000 / ≈ â‚¬4679
Maker / Publisher: BÃœNTING, H.
Place & Date: Brunswick, ca. 1635

 


Asia secunda pars terrae in forma Pegasi.

Asia depicted as the flying horse Pegasus. Thiscartographical curiosity, double page copper engraved map, was published in Heinrich Bünting's “Itinerarium Sacrae Scrip...

$4000 / ≈ â‚¬3743
Maker / Publisher: BÃœNTING, H.
Place & Date: Brunswick, 1640

 


Isola Di Ceylan. (Manuscript map of Sri Lanka)

Manuscript map of Sri Lanka (Ceylon). Inland filled with a good number of place names, mountains.

$650 / ≈ â‚¬608
Maker / Publisher: ANONYMOUS
Place & Date: Italy, ca. 1750

 


L'Arabie.

Small detailed map of the Arabian Peninsula. From Atlas Portatif Universel, by Robert de Vaugondy.Page 162 outside border top right.

$225 / ≈ â‚¬211
Maker / Publisher: VAUGONDY, R. de
Place & Date: Paris, later than 1749

 


Waere affbeeldinge wegens het casteel ende stadt Batavia.

A good impression of Batavia's finely engraved and detailed plan, present-day Jakarta, the Dutch center of trading activities in the East Indies. Copied after Clement de ...

$600 / ≈ â‚¬561
Maker / Publisher: VANDER AA, P.
Place & Date: Leiden, 1719

 


Die Insel Formosa neu abgemessen auf Befehl Kaysers Kamhi.

One of the earliest obtainable printed map of Taiwan or Formosa Island. It was issued around 1726 to illustrate Joseph Stöcklein's [Stoecklein] compellation of Jesuit mi...

$1200 / ≈ â‚¬1123
Maker / Publisher: STOCKLEIN, J.
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1726

 


Straat Riouw onder opzicht van de commissie tot verbetering der Indische Zeekaarten..

Very large and rare so-called Blue Back centered on the strait passing between the Riau Islands. It contains an inset map with enlarged details of Riouw Harbor on Bintang...

$1200 / ≈ â‚¬1123
Maker / Publisher: HULST VAN KEULEN, Wed.G.
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1843

 


Sumatrae et insularum Locorumque nonnullorum circumiacentium. . .

Fine depicting the Island of Sumatra and the southern coasts of Malaysia from Quedo to Johore.North is orientated to the left of the page.Singapore is probably identifie...

$1800 / ≈ â‚¬1684
Maker / Publisher: JANSSONIUS, J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660

 


SETTSU MEISHO ZUE. Illustrations of famous places in Settsu.

Settsu Meisho Zue was printed in two series of 8 and 4 volumes. The principal illustrator was Takehara Shunchosai, but many illustrations in the 4 volumes supplement are ...

$3500 / ≈ â‚¬3275
Maker / Publisher: AKIZATO, Rito - TAKEHARA, Shunchosai
Place & Date: Osaka, Yanagiwara Kibei, Kansei 8-10 or 1796-1798

 


Koreische Fischerfamilie. Famille de pecheurs de Corea.

A Korean family of fishermen playing a board game. No.9' above image. From "Schinz Naturgeschichte und Abbildungen des Menschen der verschiedenen Rassen und Stämme&...

$125 / ≈ â‚¬117
Maker / Publisher: HONEGGER, V.
Place & Date: Zürich, 1845

 


Carte de la Corée d'après la Carte du Dictionnaire coréen-français par les Missionnaires de Corée. . .

Map of Korea called "Corée", which was produced by the French organization Mission Etrangères de Paris (MEP) in 1880. Supposedly, the map was based on Father ...

$500 / ≈ â‚¬468
Maker / Publisher: HAUSERMANN, R.
Place & Date: Paris, 1880

 


Nieuwe Kaart van het Eyland Sumatra..

Fine chart depicting the Island of Sumatra and the southern coasts of Malaysia from Quedo to Johore. North is orientated to the left of the page. Singapore is probably id...

$1750 / ≈ â‚¬1638
Maker / Publisher: VALENTIJN, F.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1726

 


Nieuwe Caart der Eylanden van Banda.

Decorative map of the Banda Islands.François Valentijn (1666-1727), a missionary, worked at Amboina from 1684 to 1694 and 1705 to 1713 and travelled extensively in the V...

$250 / ≈ â‚¬234
Maker / Publisher: VALENTIJN, F.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1726

 


Standford's map of the empires of China and Japan with the adjacent parts of the Russian Empire, India, Burma &c.

Charming, folding map of China and Japan with the adjacent parts of the Russian Empire, India, and Burma. A key identifies railway lines in red, projected railway lines i...

$850 / ≈ â‚¬795
Maker / Publisher: STANFORD, E.
Place & Date: London, ca. 1911

 


ARMENIEN. Costumes de l'Empire Ottoman 9.

A beautiful hand colored lithograph of an Armenian published in the French work "Galerie Royale de Costumes peints d´après nature par divers artistes et lithograph...

$375 / ≈ â‚¬351
Maker / Publisher: GALERIE ROYALE DE COSTUME.
Place & Date: Paris, Chez Aubert & Cie., 1842-1848

 


AFGHAN de CABOULE. Costumes Persans 8.

A beautiful hand colored lithograph of an elegant Afghan from Kabul published in the French work "Galerie Royale de Costumes peints d´après nature par divers artis...

$350 / ≈ â‚¬328
Maker / Publisher: GALERIE ROYALE DE COSTUME.
Place & Date: Paris, Chez Aubert & Cie., 1842-1848

 


Morokoshi Meisho Zue [Illustrated Description of Famous Sites of China].

Published in Osaka, Kawachiya Genhichiro, et al. [8 book sellers], slightly later issue but apparently in Edo period, using all the same woodblocks of original first edit...

$6000 / ≈ â‚¬5614
Maker / Publisher: OKADA GYUKUZAN, OKA YUGAKU, OHARA TOYA MINSEI
Place & Date: Osaka, Edo, slightly later than Bunka 3, year of the tiger - 1806

 


Plan de la rade de Macao (chine) Levé d'après les ordres mr. Rocquemaurel.

Very detailed chart of Macao and several of the surrounding Islands, and features numerous depth soundings throughout. Prepared by captain, Gaston de Rocquemaurel. Logo o...

$2000 / ≈ â‚¬1871
Maker / Publisher: DEPOT GENERAL DE LA MARINE
Place & Date: Paris, c.1856 / 1863

 


A new & accurate map of Asia drawn from actual surveys. . .

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."; ...

$750 / ≈ â‚¬702
Maker / Publisher: BOWEN, E.
Place & Date: London, 1747

 


Carte générale de L'Empire Ottoman en Europe et en Asie dressée par Henri Kiepert . . .

Large School wall map of Turkish Empire printed in chromo-lithography. Published by Dieter Reimer and printed by Ferdind Barth in Berlin. This rare map has two insets in ...

$1750 / ≈ â‚¬1638
Maker / Publisher: KIEPERT, H.
Place & Date: Berlin, Verlag von Dietrich Reimer, 1867

 


Imperii Sinarum nova descriptio.

Schenk and Valk's rare early 18th century issue of Janssonius milestone map of China, Korea and Japan after Martino Martini. Engraved by Johannes van Loon. The overall ba...

$2000 / ≈ â‚¬1871
Maker / Publisher: JANSSONIUS, J./ VALK, G. / SCHENK, P.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1720

 


Nouvelle Carte De L'Asie Avec Des Tables Alphabetiques Pour Trouver Sans Peine Les Etats Des Principaux Princes De Cette Partie Du . . .

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 Or...

$750 / ≈ â‚¬702
Maker / Publisher: CHATELAIN, H.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1719

 


Kiepert's Physikalische Wandkarten IV. ASIEN. . .

Wall map of Asia printed in chromo lithography. Published by "Stich und Druck der lith. Anst. Von Leopold Kraatz in Berlin". Physical map showing the Asian cont...

$2000 / ≈ â‚¬1871
Maker / Publisher: KIEPERT, Heinrich.
Place & Date: Berlin, D. Reimer, 1873

 


Arabia Felice Nuova Tavola.

Fine early map of Arabian peninsula, being one of the earliest modern maps of the region.Girolamo Ruscelli first published the map in his "La Geographi di Claudio To...

$850 / ≈ â‚¬795
Maker / Publisher: RUSCELLI, G.
Place & Date: Venice, 1598

 


Carte nouvelle des Terres de Cucan..

Prepared by H.Reland (1676-1718) a professor active in Utrecht and specialized in Asian languages, geography and religions. His first map was a map of Japan copied after ...

$600 / ≈ â‚¬561
Maker / Publisher: CHATELAIN, H.
Place & Date: The Hague, 1728

 


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...

$300 / ≈ â‚¬281
Maker / Publisher: JOLLAIN, F.
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1686

 


Tartaria.

Published in Hondius' editions of the Mercator Atlas from 1606 onwards, showing China, Korea as an island, and the northern Pacific coast of America showing the two conti...

$1000 / ≈ â‚¬936
Maker / Publisher: MERCATOR, G / HONDIUS, J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1633

 


Parliamentary Papers - Foreign Office - Annual Series - Diplomatic and Consular Reports on Trade and Finance.

Very scarce - Only for the British Parliament and the British Crown printed - and not for the trade! Accounts about the Korean country during the time span of the last th...

$5500 / ≈ â‚¬5146
Maker / Publisher: FOREIGN OFFICE
Place & Date: London, Harrison and Sons, 1882-1906

 


Karte von dem groessten Theil des Landes Jemen Imame, Kaukeban &c.

Large map of Yemen from "Allgemeiner grosser Atlas" published by P. J. Schalbacher - 1786-1800. Based on the observations of the Danish explorer Carsten Niebuhr...

$300 / ≈ â‚¬281
Maker / Publisher: SCHRAEMBL, F.A.
Place & Date: Vienna, 1789

 


Mapa De la parte de la Isla Formosa sa perteneciente al Emperadotde la China sacado por Ord. De S.M.

Extremely rare map of the west coast of Taiwan, the Punghu or Pescadore Islands, and the Fokien or Fujian coast of China. Several ancient Taiwanese cities are noted, incl...

$15000 / ≈ â‚¬14036
Maker / Publisher: DE LA CONCEPTION, J.
Place & Date: Manilla, Seminario Conciliar, y Real de San Carlos, 1788-1792

 


A new & accurate map of Asia, Drawn from the most approved modern maps & charts / by Thos. Bowen.

The map is of interest for the use of Sea of Korea, the sea between Korea and Japan.Detailed map of Asia from Saudi Arabia, Persia, Russia, India, China, Japan to Southea...

$600 / ≈ â‚¬561
Maker / Publisher: BOWEN, Th.
Place & Date: London, J.Cooke, 1777-1778
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2023

 


L'Asie, dressée pour l'étude de la Géographie . . .

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 be...

$600 / ≈ â‚¬561
Maker / Publisher: DESNOS / BRION
Place & Date: Paris, 1765
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2023

 


1) Natoliae,.. 2) Aegypti recentior.. 3) Carthaginis..

To the left a map of Turkey. Oriented with west at bottom. Right side of sheet contains a map of northern Egypt showing the Nile River delta, and a map the vicinity of Tu...

$700 / ≈ â‚¬655
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1570-1609

 


Terra Sancta.

This is the most modern of Ortelius' maps of the Holy Land. It focuses specifically on the Holy Land and is oriented with east of the top. Ortelius used as a model the wa...

$2400 / ≈ â‚¬2246
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1603

 


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...

$550 / ≈ â‚¬515
Maker / Publisher: VISSCHER, N.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1664

 


CANTON Kong-Teheou.

Very detailed (1:1.000.000) map centered on Macao and Victoria Island, showing soundings, English, Australian, Danish telegraph lines reaching Hong Kong and extended to M...

$750 / ≈ â‚¬702
Maker / Publisher: SERVICE GEOGRAPHIQUE DE L\'ARMEE.
Place & Date: Paris, 1898 updated for june 1904

 


Description geographique, historique, chronologique, politique, et physique de l'empire de la Chine et de la Tartarie chinoise . . . du Thibet, & de la Coree. . .

Without the separately published atlas. Lacking 2 plates in vol.2 (Obseques at p.149 and Gin seng at p.180), one plate torn without a loss (vol.1, p.230), d4 vol.1 with a...

$12000 / ≈ â‚¬11229
Maker / Publisher: DU HALDE, J.-B.
Place & Date: The Hague, H. Scheurleer, 1736

 


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...

$1400 / ≈ â‚¬1310
Maker / Publisher: STOOPENDAAL, B.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1682

 


A view of the town and castle of Macao.

A nice engraving that shows the attack of the English ship "Centurion" on Macau, during which she captured a Portuguese ship that had sailed from Manila. In up...

$700 / ≈ â‚¬655
Maker / Publisher: HARRIS, J.
Place & Date: London, 1746

 


Carte de la Coste d'Arabie.

Uncommon issue of this very nice map of the Arabian peninsula. Depicted is Saudi Arabia, Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.With French text in title cartouche and an additiona...

$400 / ≈ â‚¬374
Maker / Publisher: HARREVELT,E.van / CHANGUION, D.J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1773

 


A Map of the Environs of Constantinople Drawn from a great number of accurate astronomical & geographical manuscripts and printed documents, by A. Arrowsmith 1801 and 1804.

Arrowsmith’s large and detailed map of the Ottoman Empire and the Black Sea, with Cyprus, Crete and the Greek Islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Albania, Bosnia and Herz...

$4000 / ≈ â‚¬3743
Maker / Publisher: ARROWSMITH,A.
Place & Date: London, No.10 Soho Square, 4th September 1804

 


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...

$1500 / ≈ â‚¬1404
Maker / Publisher: DE ROSSI, G.
Place & Date: Rome, 1683-1688

 


Punishment of China.

The Chinese way of a punishment from Linschoten's famous voyages to the East of 1583-92 here published by De Bry the year after they first appeared as a separate book. Fr...

$150 / ≈ â‚¬140
Maker / Publisher: DE BRY, Th.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1599

 


Feast of China.

A scene of a Chinese dinner feast from Linschoten's famous voyages to the East of 1583-92 here published by De Bry the year after they first appeared as a separate book. ...

$150 / ≈ â‚¬140
Maker / Publisher: DE BRY, Th.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1599

 


Funeral in China.

A scene of a funeral in China from Linschoten's famous voyages to the East of 1583-92 here published by De Bry the year after they first appeared as a separate book. From...

$100 / ≈ â‚¬94
Maker / Publisher: DE BRY, Th.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1599

 


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...

$2200 / ≈ â‚¬2059
Maker / Publisher: BLAEU, J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1660

 


Nankin [Nanjing, Jiangsu]

Very detailed (1:1.000.000) map showing the area north of Nanjing, Jiangsu. The French Service géographique des armées was founded in 1887 and provided the French milit...

$450 / ≈ â‚¬421
Maker / Publisher: SERVICE GEOGRAPHIQUE DE L'ARMEE
Place & Date: Paris, 1900

 


Vue et Description de Quelques-Uns des Principaux Forts des Hollandois dans les Indes .

Interesting sheet with seven detailed views illustrating the most important Dutch V.O.C. trading outposts and fortified colonial possessions in the East Indies, including...

$225 / ≈ â‚¬211
Maker / Publisher: CHATELAIN, H.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720

 


CH'ONHA CHIDO [Atlas of all under Heaven]

The Ch’onha chido [Atlas of all under Heaven] is a late 18th century copy of the traditional Korean atlas produced in the early Choson dynasty (1392-1910). One of the m...

$30000 / ≈ â‚¬28072
Maker / Publisher: Anonymous
Place & Date: Korea, ca. 1790

 


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)...

$5500 / ≈ â‚¬5146
Maker / Publisher: NIEUHOF, J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, W. Waasberge, 1693

 


Costumes des habitans de Manille.

A very beautiful print, showing four elegant figures relaxing in a shady glade, two women recline and two stand chatting.After a design of Duché de Vancy and engraved by...

$225 / ≈ â‚¬211
Maker / Publisher: LA PEROUSE, J. F. G.
Place & Date: Paris, 1798

 


Vue de cavite dans la Baie de Manille.

Two boats and passengers with Cavite Philippines in the background as if was seen from Manila Bay in January 1787. After a design of Gaspard Duchè de Vancy and engraved ...

$225 / ≈ â‚¬211
Maker / Publisher: LA PEROUSE, J. F. G.
Place & Date: Paris, 1798

 


(Untitled view from Scutari with a view of Constantinople)

Panoramic view from Scutari with a view of Constantinople in the distance, after a design by Johann Schranz. Published by J. Missiriè.

$1500 / ≈ â‚¬1404
Maker / Publisher: JACOMME et CIE.
Place & Date: Paris, 1860

 


De golf van Bengalen.

Rare chart of the Indian Ocean, with nice detail on Ceylon (Sri Lanka) with compass roses and a system of rhumb lines, soundings and anchorage's. Many place names. The pl...

$2300 / ≈ â‚¬2152
Maker / Publisher: DONCKER, H.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, after 1669-1712

 


Emir Fechrredin prince des Drus.

Engraving published by Nicolas Bonnart (c.1637 - 1718), engraver in Augsburg since 1719. Before the nineteenth century portraits of rulers in the Islamic Middle East were...

$150 / ≈ â‚¬140
Maker / Publisher: BONNART, H.
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1740

 


.Tabula III Asiae. [Caucass and Armenia.]

Ptolemaic map of the region south of the Caucasus Mountains and between the Caspian Sea as far south as the headwaters of the Tigris River in the south and the Black Sea,...

$1800 / ≈ â‚¬1684
Maker / Publisher: PTOLEMY, C.
Place & Date: Lyons, M. Servetus, 1535

 


.Taprobana Ins. Tabula XII Asiae. [Sri Lanka.]

Ptolemy's mythical island of Taprobana originally became associated with Sri Lanka although it was sometimes confused with Sumatra. Taprobana, as it was called on most ea...

$2200 / ≈ â‚¬2059
Maker / Publisher: PTOLEMY, C.
Place & Date: Lyons, M. Servetus, 1535

 


Terra Promissions.

A beautifully executed and very rare map of the Promised Land, divided into the 12 Tribes. The shore line runs in north-southwesterly direction from Sidon as far as Pelus...

$4000 / ≈ â‚¬3743
Maker / Publisher: HONERVOGT, J.
Place & Date: Paris, c.1655

 


Asie.

Manuscript map made by miss Marie Demeule, dated Elbeuf 1879. Elbeuf is a town within the Upper Normandy region in France.In the 19th century many students, and quite oft...

$300 / ≈ â‚¬281
Maker / Publisher: DEMEULE, M.
Place & Date: France, Elbeuf, 1879

 


Hong Kong. [Queen's Road]

Finely executed watercolor made by Henri Dieth of a charming atmospheric street scene at Queen's Road in Hong Kong. The watercolor is made after Eduard Hildebrandt (1818-...

$2500 / ≈ â‚¬2339
Maker / Publisher: DIETH, H.
Place & Date: Germany, 1882

 


Hongkong Piratenstrasse. [Pirate Street]

Finely executed watercolor made by Henri Dieth of a charming street scene at "Pirate Street" in Hong Kong. The watercolor is made after Eduard Hildebrandt (1818...

$2000 / ≈ â‚¬1871
Maker / Publisher: DIETH, H.
Place & Date: Germany, 1882

 


Runde Strasse in Peking.

Finely executed water color made by Henri Dieth of a charming street scene in Peking. The water color is made after Eduard Hildebrandt (1818-1869). Hildebrandt, was born ...

$3500 / ≈ â‚¬3275
Maker / Publisher: DIETH, H.
Place & Date: Germany, 1882

 


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 ...

$80 / ≈ â‚¬75
Maker / Publisher: GONSALES, A
Place & Date: Antwerpen, Michiel Cnobbaert, 1673

 


Carte du Kouy-Tchéou.

Detailed map of Guizhou Province prepared by Mgr. Faurie and other sources supplied by missionaries. Published in "Les Missions Catholique". Engraved by P. Méa...

$150 / ≈ â‚¬140
Maker / Publisher: FAURIE, Mgr.
Place & Date: Lyon, c.1874

 


Carte du Tche-Kiang. [ Zhejiang province ]

Map of Tche Kiang, prepared by Bishop Edmond-François Guierry, C.M. (Vicar Apostolic of Zhejiang, China) after sources supplied by missionaries. Published in "Les M...

$150 / ≈ â‚¬140
Maker / Publisher: GUIERRY, Mgr.
Place & Date: Paris, 1874

 


Gezigt op de haven en de baai van Nagasaki.

A very rare birds-eye view showing Deshima and Nagasaki bay. Von Siebold was born in Würtzburg, in Germany, and worked for the Dutch government as a doctor in Java. In J...

$2000 / ≈ â‚¬1871
Maker / Publisher: VON SIEBOLD, P.Fr.B.
Place & Date: Leiden 1832-1852

 


Carte des découvertes fautes en 1787 dans les Mers de Chine et de Tartarie par les Frégates Françaises la Boussole et l'Astrolabe. . . ée. Feille.

La Pérouse's important large-scale of Northern Japan, Hokkaido, the Kuriles, the tip of Kamschatka, and the northern part of Korea.Showing the track of Perouse from 27 ...

$1400 / ≈ â‚¬1310
Maker / Publisher: LA PÉROUSE, J.F.G
Place & Date: Paris, 1797

 


Constantinopolitanae urbis effigies ad vivum expressa, quam Turcae Stampoldam vocant. A° MDCXXXV.

Large, decorative view of the city of Constantinople, with legend across the bottom. It is beautifully engraved with quaint scenes of everyday life, including hunters wit...

$2200 / ≈ â‚¬2059
Maker / Publisher: MERIAN, M.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1635

 


Partie de la Chine N°87. (Covers Jiangxi, Fujian and parts of Zhejiang, Guangdong, Hunan and Hubei.)

Covers Jiangxi, Fujian and parts of Zhejiang, Guangdong, Hunan and Hubei.From his famous Atlas Universel . This atlas was one of the most remarkable world atlases ever pr...

$225 / ≈ â‚¬211
Maker / Publisher: VANDERMAELEN, Ph.
Place & Date: Brussels, 1825-1827

 


Partie de la Chine N°86. (Covers Guizhou and parts of Yunnan, Guangxi, Hunan, Hubei and Sichuan.)

Covers Guizhou and parts of Yunnan, Guangxi, Hunan, Hubei and Sichuan.From his famous Atlas Universel . This atlas was one of the most remarkable world atlases ever produ...

$225 / ≈ â‚¬211
Maker / Publisher: VANDERMAELEN, Ph.
Place & Date: Brussels, 1825-1827

 


[Taprobana - Sri Lanka]

Wood block printed map and one of earliest printed representation of Ceylon prepared Martin Waldseemüller.Based on the slightly larger map from 1513 published in "P...

$2200 / ≈ â‚¬2059
Maker / Publisher: PTOLEMY, C . / WALDSEEMÃœLLER, M. / FRIES, L.
Place & Date: Vienna, Trechsel, G., 1525 -1541

 


.[Pakistan, Afghanistan]

Wood block printed Ptolemaic map of the region of present-day Pakistan and part of Afghanistan. Convoluted mountain ranges and river systems dominate the trapezoidal map....

$1200 / ≈ â‚¬1123
Maker / Publisher: PTOLEMY,C ./ WALDSEEMÃœLLER, M. / FRIES, L.
Place & Date: Vienna, Trechsel, G., 1525 -1541

 


.[Near east with Cyprus]

Wood block printed map and one of earliest printed representation of Near east with Cyprus prepared by Martin Waldseemüller. Based on the slightly larger map from 1513 p...

$2000 / ≈ â‚¬1871
Maker / Publisher: PTOLEMY, C . / WALDSEEMÃœLLER, M. / FRIES, L.
Place & Date: Vienna, 1525 -1541