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Quinta Asie Tabvla.
Woodblock map of Persia from Martin Waldseemüller's 1513 edition of Ptolemy, a landmark work that contributed to major advances in both Renaissance geography and map p...
Place & Date: Strasbourg, J. Schott, 1513
Karte von Katay od. dem Reiche Kin, zur Geschichte von Jenghiz Khan. Aus dem Englischen.
The map is of interest for the use of East Sea, the sea between Korea and Japan, here called "Meer von Corea".Copper engraving, hand colored in outline and wash...
Place & Date: Leipzig, Schwabe, ca. 1750
Carte des Royaumes de Siam, du Tunquin, Pegu, Ava, Aracan . . .
Map of Siam, du Tunquin, Pegu, Ava, Aracan. Across the top is an extensive list of 22 important sites and locations keyed to the plan with tiny letters and numbers.Jacque...
Place & Date: Paris, 1750
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Plan de Gingy, ville et forteresse d'Asie . . . [An Early Manuscript Map of Pondicherry Prior To Its Reconstruction After The Seven Years War.]
An early manuscript map of Gingy shortly after The Seven Years War, when the French took possession of large part of India.With an extensive key to the left.Gingee Fort o...
Place & Date: Paris, 1765
Plan de Thiagar, prise par l'arméé française en 1759.
An early manuscript map of Thiagar. With an extensive unfinished key to the left. The map was drawn shortly after the end of the Seven Years War, when the French took pos...
Place & Date: Paris, 1769
Plan de la ville de Madras et de ses attaques.
Manuscript map, in black, brown and red ink, showing the fortifications of the city of Madras, now Chennai, on the east coast of India, north of Pondicherry.Showing the c...
Place & Date: Paris, ca 1760
Paldobundo Province.
Woodblock printed map of Jeolla Province which was one of the historical Eight Provinces of Korea during the Kingdom of The map is drawn in "Paldo Bundo," styl...
Place & Date: 1710-1718
Official War map of Korea.
A large folding map of Korea published in the year of the outbreak of the Korean War, published by the Rand McNally Company. The map is extremely detailed and features a ...
Place & Date: America, ca 1950
Voyage of his majesty’s ship Alceste, along the Coast of Corea, to the island of Lewchew, with an account of her subsequent shipwreck, by John M’LEOD. Surgeon of the Alceste.
Second and best edition, with frontispiece portrait of Captain Maxwell and five fine hand-colored aquatint plates, including a plate not present in the first edition of t...
Place & Date: London, John Murray, 1818
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