Sri Lanka (Ceylon)

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.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 / ≈ €1955

Maker / Publisher: PTOLEMY, C.
Place & Date: Lyons, M. Servetus, 1535

[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 / ≈ €1955

Maker / Publisher: PTOLEMY, C . / WALDSEEMÜLLER, M. / FRIES, L.
Place & Date: Vienna, Trechsel, G., 1525 -1541

Tabula XII - Asiae [Taprobana Ins - Ceylon/Sri Lanka]

Map of Taprobana (Sri Lanka) which depicts the typical misconceptions of Ptolemy showing the island greatly enlarged, surrounded by imaginary islands, and with a small pa...

$1000 / ≈ €889

Maker / Publisher: PTOLEMY,C. / FRIES, L.
Place & Date: Vienne, 1541

Tabula Asiae XII (Sri Lanka, with Elephant)

The FIRST edition of Munster's first modern map of Sri Lanka, which appeared in his "Geographia Universalis", first published in 1540. The Geographia was a new ...

$300 / ≈ €267

Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545

Maldivae Insulae.

Very fine early miniature map of Maldives Islands. East is at the top. Title cartouche on the lower right corner. A dolphin and two ships are depicted.First published in ...

$150 / ≈ €133

Maker / Publisher: LANGENES, B.
Place & Date: Amsterdam / Frankfurt, 1609

Carte du Golfe de Bengale, Mer de Indes, et Riviere du Gange, Avec les Pais et Iles d'alentour, Savoir les Cotes de Malabar, Cormandel, Ile de Ceylon, Les Maldives . . .

Detailed map of the Southern part of India with Ceylon. Good detail along the coasts of Malabar, Coromandel, the Maldives islands and the Kingdoms of Visipour, Golconda, ...

$275 / ≈ €244

Maker / Publisher: VANDER AA, P.
Place & Date: Leiden, 1719

Isola Ceilon.

Attractive copper engraved map of Sri Lanka showing mountains, Towns and the Rama's Bridge (Ponte di Adamo). Included in "Atlante Novissimo che Contiene Tutte le Par...

$600 / ≈ €533

Maker / Publisher: ALBRIZZI, G.B.
Place & Date: Venice, 1740

Isola Di Ceylan. (Manuscript map of Sri Lanka)

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

$500 / ≈ €444

Maker / Publisher: ANONYMOUS
Place & Date: Italy, ca. 1750

Outposts of Empire. Ceylon.

A large colored lithograph by John Vickery (1906-1983), he was an Australian artist. He worked in the fields of painting, illustration and advertising. He is the only Aus...

$250 / ≈ €222

Maker / Publisher: VICKERY, John.
Place & Date: London, ca 1937