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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...
Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Date: Antwerp, 1598
Philippines Islands.
Pictorial map of Philippines Islands, from the famous illustrator, Ruth Taylor White and published in "Our USA: A Gay Geography".Ruth Taylor White was among the...
Publisher: WHITE, R. T.
Date: Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1935
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[East Asia]
Wood block printed map and one of earliest printed representation of East Asia and centered on Amenia, prepared Martin Waldseemüller. Based on the slightly larger map fr...
Publisher: PTOLEMY,C ./ TRECHSEL, G.
Date: Vienna, 1525 -1541
A large draught of the North part of CHINA. Shewing all the passages and chanells into the harbour of CHUSAN. / To the honourable the court of mannagers for the UNITED TRADE to the EAST INDIES.
A very fine sea chart of China's Zhejiang Province, from the celebrated Third Book of 'The English Pilot'This elegant and large captures China's modern day Zhejiang prov...
Publisher: THORNTON, J.
Date: London, William Mount & Thomas Page, 1734
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[India and China]
Wood block printed map and one of earliest printed representation of India and China prepared Martin Waldseemüller. Based on the slightly larger map from 1513 published ...
Publisher: PTOLEMY,C ./ TRECHSEL, G.
Date: Vienna, 1525 -1541
Iava Maior.
Very fine miniature map of Java, engraved by Benjamin Wright (1575-1613). This early map contains detailed geography and nomenclature around the northern coastline of the...
Publisher: LANGENES
Date: Amsterdam, Cornelis Claes, 1606
Karte von den Kusten von Arabien . . .
Manuscript map of Arabia. A close copy of Bellin's map of the Arabian Peninsular. In the lower right margin "Tom A, vol V."A title cartouche in lower left corne...
Publisher: ANONYMOUS
Date: Germany, ca. 1760
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...
Publisher: BONNART, H.
Date: Paris, ca. 1740
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...
Publisher: JANSSONIUS, J./ VALK, G. / SCHENK, P.
Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1720
Solimannus Turcarum Imperator X. Ex Stirpe Ottomannicae.
The engraving depicts a half length oval portrait of "Solimannus Turcarum Imperator X", signed lower right corner N. de Cleck". Nicolaes de Clerck (de kler...
Publisher: DE CLERCK, N.
Date: Amsterdam, Cloppenburch, 1621
![Morokoshi Meisho Zue [Illustrated Description of Famous Sites of China].](/uploads/cache/34118-500x500.jpg)
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...
Publisher: OKADA GYUKUZAN, OKA YUGAKU, OHARA TOYA MINSEI
Date: Osaka, Edo, slightly later than Bunka 3, year of the tiger - 1806
Province de Fo-Kien.
Important map of Fujian Province, showing the east coast of China and the west coast of Taiwan. With a quite elaborately pictorial cartouche featuring a rococo chinoiseri...
Publisher: ANVILLE, J.B.D'
Date: Paris, P.G. Le Mercier, 1735
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...
Publisher: RUSCELLI, G.
Date: Venice, 1598
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...
Publisher: BÃœNTING, H.
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...
Publisher: BÃœNTING, H.
Date: Brunswick, 1640
'T Eilandje Desima verblyf plaats der Hollanders in Japan.
Bird's-eye view of Dejima copied from a manuscript by Voogt, who was second-in-command on Deshima in 1713. The island is viewed from the landside, depicting the developme...
Publisher: TIRION, I.
Date: Amsterdam, 1739
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...
Publisher: BLAEU, J.
Date: Amsterdam, ca 1660
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 ...
Publisher: HAUSERMANN, R.
Date: Paris, 1880
Parte orientale della China.. / Parte occidentale della China. (2 sheets)
The map depicts the eastern part of China with Korea -correctly- as a peninsula. Formosa is included as well. Japan is partly visible i.e. the area of Yamaguchi, strait K...
Publisher: CORONELLI, V.M.
Date: Venice, 1695
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[Arabia]
A lovely miniature map of the region of Armenia and Georgia, showing both parts of the Black Sea and Caspian Sea. For such a small map it renders a wealth of detail, with...
Publisher: MÃœLLER, J. U.
Date: Ulm, 1692
Carte géologique détaillée. Zahle.
Geological map showing part of Lebanon with Zahle. , including a legend with signs of the different geological ages. Provenance : Fondation P. Fallot
Publisher: DUBERTRET, Louis.
Date: Liban, Service geographique des F.F.L., 1945.
Carte geologique detaillee. Jbail.
Geological or soil map showing part of Lebanon with Jbail antique Byblos Ancien Port phenicien / scale 1 : 50 000., including a legend with signs of the different geologi...
Publisher: DUBERTRET, Louis.
Date: Liban, Service geographique des F.F.L., 1945.
Asia recens summa cura delineata.
This is the rare early issue with decorative paneled borders. In upper border views and plans of Famagusta, Rhodos, Damascus, Jerusalem, Aden and Ormus. Originally engrav...
Publisher: JANSSONIUS, J.
Date: Amsterdam, 1632
India Tercera Nuova Tavola.
The 1598 edition of this early map of South East Asia. Just to the west and south of Malacca one will notice ‘Camatra’ (Sumatra) and Java. China with Canton in the up...
Publisher: RUSCELLI, G.
Date: Venice, 1598
Turcici Imperii Imago.
The map shows the Ottoman Empire with Turkey, Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Arabia and North Eastern Africa. The map is decorated with a title cartouche and a portrait of...
Publisher: MERCATOR, G. / HONDIUS, J.
Date: Amsterdam, 1629
Militairy manuscript map of the end of Yangzi River across Shanghai, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang areas, with 3 red seals of the Ever-Victorious Army.
In lower left corner an inset plan of Songjiang District with Shanghai with a grid and the area is divided with red doted border lines.The map has three red seals of the ...
Publisher: MILITAIRY MAP
Date: China, ca 1862
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[ LANDSKROON ]. Oranda Fune no zu [= Depiction of a Dutch Ship].
A very large and extremely detailed Japanese drawing on rice paper of a Dutch ship at the artificial island Deshima, the VOC's outpost in Nagasaki harbour. In the drawing...
Publisher: ANONYMOUS
Date: Japan, Kansei 4, 2nd month, 9th day, 30 March? 1792
Designs for porcelain plate with Chinese design.
In right hand side "Planche d'aquarelle N° 06502". And the numbers 11.153, 11.154, 11.155. Original design created by the Sevres artist Gabriel Fourmaintraux (...
Publisher: Gabriel FOURMAINTRAUX / DESVRES
Date: Desvres, 1905 - 1925
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...
Publisher: VISSCHER, N.
Date: Amsterdam, 1664
Designs for Porcelain ware with Chinese design.
In left hand side "Planche d'aquarelle N° 05501". Original design created by the Sevres artist Gabriel Fourmaintraux ( 1886 - ) at about 1910 to serve as guide...
Publisher: Gabriel FOURMAINTRAUX / DESVRES
Date: Desvres, 1905 - 1925
Designs for two porcelain bowls with Chinese design.
With numbers 4.601, 4.818. In top "Planche N° d'ordre : 03004.Original design created by the Sevres artist Gabriel Fourmaintraux ( 1886 - ) at about 1910 to serve a...
Publisher: Gabriel FOURMAINTRAUX / DESVRES
Date: Desvres, 1905 - 1925
Isola Di Ceylan. (Manuscript map of Sri Lanka)
Manuscript map of Sri Lanka (Ceylon). Inland filled with a good number of place names, mountains.
Publisher: ANONYMOUS
Date: Italy, ca. 1750
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...
Publisher: CHATELAIN, H.
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
L'Arabie.
Small detailed map of the Arabian Peninsula. From Atlas Portatif Universel, by Robert de Vaugondy.Page 162 outside border top right.
Publisher: VAUGONDY, R. de
Date: Paris, later than 1749
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Province de Fo-Kien. [Includes West Coast of Taiwan]
Important map of Fujian Province, showing the east coast of China and the west coast of Taiwan. It shows that for the Manchu Qing, only the western half of Formosa was co...
Publisher: ANVILLE, J.B.D'
Date: The Hague, H. Scheurleer, 1737
Nouvel atlas de la Chine, de la Tartarie chinoise, et du Thibet.
First edition of "the principal cartographic authority on China during the 18th century". It was the second major atlas of China produced in Europe following th...
Publisher: DU HALDE, J.-B.
Date: The Hague, H. Scheurleer, 1737
Sumatra Insula.
A miniature map of Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula, including Singapore and the various islands directly south of it. Containing detailed geography and nomenclature aroun...
Publisher: LANGENES, B.
Date: Amsterdam, 1609
Isole dell'Indie. . .
A beautiful and flamboyantly engraved large-scale map of the East Indies, including the Malay Peninsula, Cambodia, the Philippines and all of Indonesia and the Spice Isla...
Publisher: CORONELLI, V.M.
Date: Venice, 1696
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...
Publisher: MERIAN, M.
Date: Frankfurt, 1635
Chorographia Terrae Sanctae in Angustiorem. . .
Rare. Large visually rich map decorated with illustrations of the sacred objects and places of Judaism. In the bottom center is a plan of ancient Jerusalem, and the route...
Publisher: ANONYMOUS
Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1700