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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 BĂ...

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

 


[Complete set of maps of Japan] Imperium Japonicum Per Regiones Digestum Sex et Sexaginta Atque Ipsorum Japonensium Mappis Descriptum Ab Hadriano Relando.

Complete set of 11 maps Reland's map of Japan, the first map to use Sino-Japanese characters on a European printed map and represents a radical departure from prior Europ...

$5000 / ≈ â‚¬4679
Maker / Publisher: OTTENS, R. / J. / KAEMPFER, E.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1751

 


Chinae, olim Sinarum regionis. . .

The first printed map of China. It is signed by Ludovico Georgio, whose real name was Luis Jorge de Barbuda. He was a Portuguese Jesuit cartographer and besides that a sp...

$5000 / ≈ â‚¬4679
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598

 


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...

$5000 / ≈ â‚¬4679
Maker / Publisher: PTOLEMY, C. / WALDSEEMĂśLLER, M.
Place & Date: Strasbourg, J. Schott, 1513

 


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...

$5000 / ≈ â‚¬4679
Maker / Publisher: TAVENIER, J.B.
Place & Date: Paris 1679

 


Account of a voyage of discovery to the west coast of Corea.

BRITAIN'S FIRST ACCURATE ACCOUNT OF KOREA & OKINAWANS. With an appendix containing charts and various hydrographical and scientific notices by captain Basil Hall and ...

$5000 / ≈ â‚¬4679
Maker / Publisher: HALL,B.
Place & Date: London, 1818

 


Bunken Edo oezu. [Tokyo]

Based on map by Ochikochi Doin. Oriented with north to the right. An extraordinary wood block-printed town-plan now-a-day Tokyo, and a fine example of Edo cartography. Th...

$5000 / ≈ â‚¬4679
Maker / Publisher: SUHARAYA MOHE
Place & Date: Edo, ca. 1803

 


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....

$4500 / ≈ â‚¬4211
Maker / Publisher: ROSSI, G.
Place & Date: Rome, 1682

 


Ch'onha chido. [Atlas of all under Heaven]

A late 18th century Ch'onha chido atlas with 10 woodblock maps showing the World, China and the 8 province maps of Korea, bound into thicker mulberry paper covers. One ma...

$4500 / ≈ â‚¬4211
Maker / Publisher: ANONYMOUS
Place & Date: Korea, ca. 1780

 


Constantinople ville de Romanie et capitale de l'Empire des Turcs.

A very decorative and extremely rare of Istanbul, including a numbered legend in lower part. Published by Jacques Chéreau, (1688 - 1776). Engraved by Aveline and first ...

$4000 / ≈ â‚¬3743
Maker / Publisher: CHEREAU, J. / AVELINE, P.A.
Place & Date: Paris, ca.1750