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![[2 sheets] Partie de la Chine. N°.88, 99.](/uploads/cache/33735-500x500.jpg)
[2 sheets] Partie de la Chine. N°.88, 99.
A set of 2 maps covering Taiwan, Ryukyo Islands, Okinawa and southern part of coast of province of Quangdong and part of Fujian. Two columns of text with a historical des...
Publisher: VANDERMAELEN, Ph.
Date: Brussels, 1825-1827
La Chine.
The map is of interest for the use of Sea of Japan / East Sea, the sea between Korea and Japan, here called "Mer Orientale".This small Italian map of China, Kor...
Publisher: REDOLFI, P.
Date: Venice, c.1722
Penisola dell India di là dal Gange et Isole intorno ad essa adiacenti..
Giacomo Rossi's fine late 17th century map of India with Ceylon and Maldives. Issued in Il Mercurio geografico In lower right hand corner a large title cartouche with ded...
Publisher: DE ROSSI, G.
Date: Rome, 1683-1688
Femme Persienne. (59)
Sought-after copper engraved plate of a woman from Persia. Plate from Laonikos Chalcocondyle’s "L'histoire de la décadence de l'empire grec et establissement de c...
Publisher: NICOLAS DE NICOLAY, Thomas Artus (sieur d'Embry).
Date: Paris, Mathieu Guillemot, 1650
Partie de la Chine N°87. (Covers Jiangxi, Fujian and parts of Zhejiang, Guangdong, Hunan and Hubei.)
Covers Jiangxi, Fujian and parts of Zhejiang, Guangdong, Hunan and Hubei.From his famous Atlas Universel . This atlas was one of the most remarkable world atlases ever pr...
Publisher: VANDERMAELEN, Ph.
Date: Brussels, 1825-1827
Waere affbeeldinge wegens het casteel ende stadt Batavia.
A good impression of Batavia's finely engraved and detailed plan, present-day Jakarta, the Dutch center of trading activities in the East Indies. Copied after Clement de ...
Publisher: VANDER AA, P.
Date: Leiden, 1719
Indie moet vrij vecht ervoor.
War propaganda poster by Patrick (Pat) Cokayne Keely, who died in 1970, was a British graphic artist known for his Second World War posters for the Ministry of Informatio...
Publisher: KEELEY, P.
Date: London, J.Haworth / Brother Ltd, 1944
Partie de la Chine N°86. (Covers Guizhou and parts of Yunnan, Guangxi, Hunan, Hubei and Sichuan.)
Covers Guizhou and parts of Yunnan, Guangxi, Hunan, Hubei and Sichuan.From his famous Atlas Universel . This atlas was one of the most remarkable world atlases ever produ...
Publisher: VANDERMAELEN, Ph.
Date: Brussels, 1825-1827
![.Taprobana Ins. Tabula XII Asiae. [Sri Lanka.]](/uploads/cache/27928-500x500.jpg)
.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...
Publisher: PTOLEMY, C.
Date: Lyons, M. Servetus, 1535
Nazareth.
Decorative view of Nazareth, below a decorative cartouche with numbered key and surrounded by 2 cherubins. Taken from a very rare travel book by Anthonius Gonsales, "...
Publisher: GONSALES, A
Date: Antwerpen, Michiel Cnobbaert, 1673
Carte des Principales Ports de Mer Bancs de sable &c: qui sont dans la Mer Rouge..
A sheet including 11 charts of Bays and anchor places along the coasts of Yemen, east coast of the Arabian peninsula and Egypt. One of the early maps to focus on this are...
Publisher: MORTIER, P.
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
![Rama. [Ramah]](/uploads/cache/30789-500x500.jpg)
Rama. [Ramah]
Town plan of Ramah, about 5 miles (8 km) from Jerusalem and near to Gibeah. Below a decorative cartouche with numbered key and surrounded by 2 cherubins.Taken from a very...
Publisher: GONSALES, A
Date: Antwerpen, Michiel Cnobbaert, 1673
Sincapour.
Early view of Singapore after Paris and engraved in aquatint technique by Sigismond Himely (1801-1872). Published as plate 28 in Voyage autour du monde par les mers de l'...
Publisher: HIMELY, S.
Date: Paris, Finot, 1835
Turckschemoniken die onder den goddelycken. . .
Decorative picture of three dervishes dancers. Their whirling dance, also known as the sema, is a serious religious ritual performed by Muslim priests in a prayer trance ...
Publisher: GONSALES, A
Date: Antwerpen, Michiel Cnobbaert, 1673
![Via Bethleem. [The route from Jerusalem to Bethlehem ]](/uploads/cache/30800-500x500.jpg)
Via Bethleem. [The route from Jerusalem to Bethlehem ]
The route from Jerusalem to Bethlehem. Below a lettered key. Taken from a very rare travel book by Anthonius Gonsales, "Hierusalemsche Reyse". The book describe...
Publisher: GONSALES, A
Date: Antwerpen, Michiel Cnobbaert, 1673
![[Tableau Général de l'Empire Ottoman]. 11 plates with the panoramic view of Mecca.](/uploads/cache/41513-500x500.jpg)
[Tableau Général de l'Empire Ottoman]. 11 plates with the panoramic view of Mecca.
A collection of 11 engraved plates (3 folding) from "Tableau Général de l'Empire Ottoman", Paris, Imprimerie de Monsieur, 1790, comprising the famous panorami...
Publisher: MOURADJA D'OHSSON, Ignace.
Date: Paris, 1790
A new & accurate map of Asia drawn from actual surveys. . .
An excellent early engraving of Asia. Curious shape for Japan, with a large island north called Yeso and a coastline marked De Gamma's Land. Numbered "No 52."; ...
Publisher: BOWEN, E.
Date: London, 1747
Arabia.
A handsome map of the Arabian Peninsula drawn on a large scale on which the three classical divisions are shown with some urban centers and topographical features. There ...
Publisher: BLAEU, J.
Date: Amsterdam, 1662
A fan combining views of Hong Kong (right), Canton (center), and Macau.
The fan shows nice images of Macau, Hong Kong and Canton on onside and on verso a garden with 45 characters welcoming a rider on his white horse. Their clothes are height...
Publisher: ANONYMOUS
Date: China, ca. 1850-1860
Standford's map of the empires of China and Japan with the adjacent parts of the Russian Empire, India, Burma &c.
Charming, folding map of China and Japan with the adjacent parts of the Russian Empire, India, Burma. A key identifies railway lines, in red, projected railway lines, in ...
Publisher: STANFORD, E.
Date: London, ca. 1911
Insularum Moluccarum Nova description.
Exquisite map of the famous Spice Islands based on the islands described by Jan Huyghen van Linschoten. This map was the first large scale map of the region and depicts t...
Publisher: SCHENK, P. / VALK, G.
Date: Amsterdam, 1730
Arabia. Sive Regio inter Mare Medium, Arabicum Sinum, . . .
Very detailed map of the Arabian Peninsular, covering the Caspian Sea in the upper right corner and Syria to the Indian Ocean, Somalia and parts of Persia, Syria and Kurd...
Publisher: ARROWSMITH, John
Date: London, 1841
Arabia.
Steel engraved map of the Arabian Peninsular. It shows Arabia and Parts of Persia, Syria and Kurdistan. The regional boundaries are colored and relief shown by hachures. ...
Publisher: ARROWSMITH, John
Date: London, 1841
Die Insel Formosa neu abgemessen auf Befehl Kaysers Kamhi.
One of the earliest obtainable printed map of Taiwan or Formosa Island. It was issued around 1726 to illustrate Joseph Stöcklein's [Stoecklein] compellation of Jesuit mi...
Publisher: STOCKLEIN, J.
Date: Augsburg, 1726
Description geographique, historique, chronologique, politique, et physique de l'empire de la Chine et de la Tartarie chinoise . . . du Thibet, & de la Coree. . .
These volumes accompany Bourguignon d'Anville's Nouvel atlas de la Chine, de la Tartarie chinoise et du Thibet. of 1737. First quarto edition, with a new preface and bibl...
Publisher: DU HALDE, J.-B.
Date: The Hague, H. Scheurleer, 1736
Stanford's Map of Eastern China, Japan and Korea. 1898.
Charming, folding map of east coast of China, Korea and Japan. In lower right corner inset map of Korea (265x512mm.). In lower left a key to Treaty Ports, Submarine Cable...
Publisher: STANFORD, E.
Date: London, ca. 1898
Corea and Japan.
A fine large-scale map of Japan and Korea showing an increasingly refined outline to the Japanese islands but still oversized Korean peninsula. The strait south of Korea,...
Publisher: THOMSON, J.
Date: Edinburgh, 1816
Allerneuester geographisch- und topographischer Schau-Platz von Africa und Ost-Indien. . .
An early issue of this important book by Johann Wolfgang Heydt's describing the Dutch factories, settlements and stations at the hands of the Dutch East India Company in ...
Publisher: HEYDT, J. W.
Date: Wilhermsdorf, Tetscher u. Nürnberg, Homanns Erben, 1744
Nangasakij.
Charming 18th watercolor on paper depicting a panoramic view of Nagasaki and the factory Deshima of the V.OC. Probably made by a Western artist visiting Japan.RARE. Due ...
Publisher: ANONYMOUS
Date: c.1750
Carte de la Turquie, de l'Arabie et de la Perse..
Large map of the Near East, based upon earlier maps by De L'Isle. Shows also most part of the Mediterranean basin as well as north-eastern Africa. Relief shown pictoriall...
Publisher: COVENS, J. / MORTIER, C.
Date: Amsterdam c. 1745
SETTSU MEISHO ZUE. Illustrations of famous places in Settsu.
Settsu Meisho Zue was printed in two series of 8 and 4 volumes. The principal illustrator was Takehara Shunchosai, but many illustrations in the 4 volumes supplement are ...
Publisher: AKIZATO, Rito - TAKEHARA, Shunchosai
Date: Osaka, Yanagiwara Kibei, Kansei 8-10 or 1796-1798
![[Manuscript map of Kangwon Province part of North Korea]](/uploads/cache/38788-500x500.jpg)
[Manuscript map of Kangwon Province part of North Korea]
Detailed map of eastern part of North Korea, centered on Wonsan, previously known as Wonsanjin, Port Lazarev, and Gensan, a port city and naval base located in Kangwon Pr...
Publisher: ANONYMOUS
Date: ca, 1820 - 1840
Carte Générale de l'Empire des Russes et de la Tartarie Universelle.
Rare map of Tartary and Russia, including Korea and Japan prepared after J.B.Nolin and published by Monhare for his Atlas Général a l'usage des colleges et maisons d'ed...
Publisher: MONDHARE / NOLIN, J.B.
Date: Paris, 1783
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....
Publisher: ROSSI, G.
Date: Rome, 1682
Gezigt op de haven en de baai van Nagasaki.
A very rare birds-eye view showing Deshima and Nagasaki bay. Von Siebold was born in Würtzburg, in Germany, and worked for the Dutch government as a doctor in Java. In J...
Publisher: VON SIEBOLD, P.Fr.B.
Date: Leiden 1832-1852
Encyclopedie des Voyages. Tom 3 ASIE.
There are in this volume as many as 89 color plates, all done by the author himself. Containing dresses of people of China, Persia, Armenia, Philippines, Java, India, Tar...
Publisher: GRASSET DE SAINT SAUVEUR,J.
Date: Paris, 1796
A new & accurate map of Asia, drawn from the most approved Modern Maps & Charts.
An excellent engraving of Asia. The map renders the entire continent in excellent detail with mountains, rivers, lake and forests. The map is of interest for the use of S...
Publisher: BOWEN, Thomas.
Date: London, ca 1771
Plan of part of the islands or archipellago of Corea seen in May 1787 by the Boufsole and Astrolabe.
This is a representing the visit of the French Admiral and explorer, le Comte de La Pérouse to Korea in 1786. The tracks of La Perouse are shown.From 'Atlas du Voyage d...
Publisher: LA PEROUSE, J.F.G.
Date: London, 1798
China Veteribus Sinarum Regio.
Based on Jesuit surveys, the map represents the next major revision in the cartography of China after Ortelius' 1584 map. Korea, however, is still an island, and Japan co...
Publisher: JANSSONIUS, J.
Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Ce que les Anglo-Saxons ont perdu en Extrême-Orient.
Illustrated Vichy propaganda War & Propaganda poster showing a map of South East Asia, with Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, etc., among photos and explanations abou...
Publisher: VICHY
Date: Paris, 1943