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Sumatra.

Gastaldi prepared this map and it was the first separate map of any Southeast Asian island based on actual observation. The general contour of Sumatra is remarkably good ...

Highest Bid:
$870 / ≈ €818

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$900 - $1250

Publisher: GASTALDI, G./ RAMUSIO, J. B.
Date: Venice, 1556

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Plants, including the canior, diringuo, pucho and chiabe.

In the Indies there are many delightful plants, which include the ‘costus indicus’ (named by the Malays 'pucho') that has a wonderful aroma. Then there is the ‘cala...

Starting Bid: $40

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$50 - $80

Publisher: DE BRY, Th.
Date: Frankfurt, 1598

 

Illustrations of Lancuas, Fagaras, Lacca and Cuci fructa.

Common in Bali, Java and Sunda is a plant known as the great Galanga or Galigam. The natives, however, call it Lancuas. The fagaras, particularly found in Sunda, looks li...

Starting Bid: $40

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$50 - $80

Publisher: DE BRY, Th.
Date: Frankfurt, 1598

 

A picture of various trees including the palm tree.

The Jacca fruit grows only on the trunk of the tree, not on its branches, rather like the fruit of the palmates. Then there is a fruit that grows in abundance in Bali, wh...

Starting Bid: $40

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$50 - $80

Publisher: DE BRY, Th.
Date: Frankfurt, 1598

 

India Orien.

A miniature map showing India and the islands of Borneo, New Guinea, Sumatra, Java, etc.Korea as an enlonged peninsular and one town marked.First published in 1598 in his...

Highest Bid:
$210 / ≈ €197

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$250 - $400

Publisher: LANGENES, B.
Date: Amsterdam, Cornelis Claes, 1606

2 bids  

I. Delineatio convivii a Ternatensium rege Generali Neccio exhibiti.

This famous and desirable scene from Roelof Roelofsz's narrative of a voyage by J.C. van Neck to Ternate.Theodore de Bry, a German engraver and book dealer, began a compi...

Starting Bid: $60

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$75 - $100

Publisher: DE BRY, Th.
Date: Frankfurt, Wolfgangi Richteri, 1607

 

[Javanese gamelan orchestra]

Two 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...

Starting Bid: $1

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$1 - $75

Publisher: LODEWYCKSZ, Willem
Date: Amsterdam, Cornille Nicolas, 1609

 

[Java].

Wood block engraved coastal profiles set in text from "Premier livre de l'histoire de la navigation aux Indes Orientales, par les hollandois, et des choses a eux adv...

Highest Bid:
$8 / ≈ €8

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$10 - $20

Publisher: LODEWYCKSZ, Willem
Date: Amsterdam, Cornille Nicolas, 1609

1 bid  

Sumatra Insula.

A miniature map of Sumatra containing detailed geography and nomenclature around the entire island. The neighbouring coast of the Malay Peninsula is shown, including Sing...

Starting Bid: $200

BidAsk spread:
$250 - $450

Publisher: LANGENES, B.
Date: Amsterdam/Frankfurt 1609

 

India Orientalis.

Map covering India, Thailand, Philippines, Northern Borneo and the coast of Southern China. From the rare Cloppenburg edition "Atlas Sive Cosmographicae Meditationes...

Starting Bid: $320

BidAsk spread:
$400 - $550

Publisher: MERCATOR, G. / CLOPPENBURGH, J.E.
Date: Amsterdam, 1630