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Tabula Sexta Asia (Arabian Peninsula)
This is a very desirable early Ptolemaic woodblock map of the Arabian Peninsula, here called Arabia Felix. The map is presented on a trapezoidal projection with par...
Place & Date: Vienna, 1525 -1541
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...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1730
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...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cloppenburch, 1621
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...
Place & Date: Paris, 1796
Penisola Dell India di la dal Gange Diusa ne i Regni, che in essasi contengono et accresciuta di varie notizie. Da Giacomo Cantelli da Vignola e conforme le Relationi di alcuni Padri della Compa di Giesu di Monsu Tavernier . . . 1683
Giacomo Rossi's fine late 17th century map of Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia and part of Sumatra.. Engraved by Franciscus Donia. Issued in Il Mercurio geografico In lower r...
Place & Date: Rome, 1683-1688
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...
Place & 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...
Place & Date: Brunswick, 1640
Habillement de l'Empereur de la Chine & des Dames de son Palais..
This impressive engraving is a wonderful example of Chatelain’s elegant plates.Divided in 3 panels, showing examples of costumes of Chinese ladies and those of the king...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1728
Carte de la Mer Rouge, depuis Moka jusqu's Gedda. . . .
Chart of the Red Sea. With 3 inset maps of Shake Omare, Goofs and Gedan. D'Après De Mannevillette (1707-1780) was one of France's first hydrographers. When the first edi...
Place & Date: Paris, 1753
Pecheli, Xansi, Xantung, Honan, Nanking, In plaga Regni Sinensis. . .
A map of the northern provinces of China after the Jesuit Martino Martini, depicting of Hebei (Pecheli), Shanxi (Xansi), Shandong (Xantung), Henan (Honan), and Jangsu (Na...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1660
Quantung, e Fokien, Provincie della China...
A beautifully engraved decorative map of Southern China extending from Hainan in the West to Formosa in the East and centered on the Pearl River Delta with Macao and the ...
Place & Date: Venice, 1691
The Russian Empire in Europe and Asia . . .
Detailed map of the whole of Russia, extending from Poland to the Pacific and from Nova Zembla to Tartaria.The map is of interest for the use of Corea Gulf for the sea be...
Place & Date: London, 1790
The Kingdome of China.
A most sought-after map of China. Decorative border vignettes including views of the cities of Quinzay and Macao along the top border with the wheeled wind machines and p...
Place & Date: London, G. Humble, 1627
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...
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
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...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Karte von den Kusten von Arabien . . .
Manuscript map of Arabia. A close copy of Bellin's map of the Arabian Peninsula. In the lower right margin "Tom A, vol V."A title cartouche in the lower left co...
Place & Date: Germany, ca. 1760
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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...
Place & Date: Ulm, 1692
Carte du Golfe de Bengale, mer des Indes et rivieres du Gange . . .
Detailed scare map of the Southern part of India with Ceylon. Good detail along the coasts of Malabar, Coromandel, the Maldives islands and the Kingdoms of Visipour, Golc...
Place & Date: Leide, 1719
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[Bantam].
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 cla...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cornille Nicolas, 1609
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...
Place & 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. ...
Place & Date: London, 1841
L'illustration, journal officiel hebdomadaire.
L'Illustration, the first French illustrated newspaper from 1843, became the first magazine in the world in 1906 and is distributed in more than 150 countries.The mythica...
Place & Date: Paris, 1908
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...
Place & Date: Venice, 1696
Nouvelle carte des mers comprises entre le détroit de Banca et P°. Timon avec la partie orientale du détroit de Malacca.
Important French chart of the tip of Malaysia with Singapore. Latitude and longitude scales, compass rose and system of rhumb lines, soundings near coast and in bay areas...
Place & Date: Paris, 1745
Overzichtskaart van den Nederlandsch oost Indischen Archipel.
Very detailed map of Indonesia, taken from "Atlas van Nederlandsch Oost- en West-Indie," prepared by a doctor I. Dornseiffen, and published by Seyffardt's Boekh...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Seyffardt, 1884
Asia Concinnata Secundum Observationes Academiae Regalis . . .
A version of De L'Isle's map. T.C. Lotter married M. Seutter's daughter in 1740 and succeeded him in 1756. Lotter used the copperplate of Seutter, he only changed the nam...
Place & Date: Augsburg, ca. 1770
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Le Royaume de Siam avec Les Royaumes Qui Luy sont Tributaries & c. / La Royaume de Siam avec les royaumes qui luy sont Tributaires, et les Isles de Sumatra, Andemaon, etc. . . [two sheet map]
Influential map of Southeast Asia and the East Indies including modern day Thailand, southern Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia, Singapore, Borneo, Sumatra and Java. Ottens inc...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1710
CARTE de la Côte Occidentale de COREE, Plan Croquis de la Rivière HAN-KANG ou de SEOUL, depuis son Embouchure jusqu'à Séoul, dressée en 1866 ...
Uncommon chart of the Han-Kang River from its mouth to Seoul, prepared in 1866 by order of C.A. ROZE, Commander-in-Chief of the French " la Station des Mers de Chine...
Place & Date: Paris, 1868
Mocha, in Arabien. (View of Mocha, Yemen.)
Magnificent bird's eye-town-view of Mocha in Yemen.. Etched by Gaspar Bouttats (1640-1695).The Antwerp based publisher Jacques Peeters published ca. 1690 a series of prin...
Place & Date: Antwerp, c.1690
Insulae Indiae Orientalis.
Map of South East Asia with good detail on the Philippines from the rare Cloppenburg edition slightly larger format and more scarce edition of the Mercator/Hondius "...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Tabula nova utriusque Indiae.
This is the fourth and last edition of this map based on Waldseemüller's first "modern" map of Asia. It follows that cartography without change but adds an int...
Place & Date: Vienne, 1541
Tabula Superioris Indiae & Tartariae maioris. (Modern Map of China, Japan, etc.)
Important map extending from Tartary in the north, to "Prov. Bocat" (Cambodia) in the south. "Tebet" is shown prominently, as is "Zinpangri"...
Place & Date: Vienne, 1541
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. A cert...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1662
Charte von China und den angränzenden Ländern und Völkerschaften so wie den letzten Kaiser Tschien-Long. . .
Uncommon map of China on a scale of ca. 1:6,000,000. The map's complete title is “Charte von China und den angränzenden Ländern, und Völkerschaften so wie sie dem le...
Place & Date: Parague, 1812
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2023
L'Empire des Turcs.
Rare map of the Turkish empire, published by Jollain in 1667. Published in "Trésor Des Cartes Geographiques Des Principaux Estats de Lunivers".Showing "&q...
Place & Date: Paris, 1667
Temple de la Mecque fidelement copiée sur un dessein de la bibliothèque Bodléienne, à Oxford.
View of the Mecca Temple.
Place & Date: Pqris, ca. 1780
Meine Hochzeitsreise durch Korea während des Russisch-japanischen Krieges.
Illustrated with ca. 200 illustrations. All photographs are taken by the author.
Place & Date: Altenburg, S.-A., Stephan Geibel Verlag, 1906
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...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1598
Indiae extra Gangem Pars Septentrionalis. Indiae extra Gangem Pars Meridionalis.
The map on the left depicts the northern portion of the India Ganges region, representing Burma (Myanmar), Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos. The right one depicts th...
Place & Date: Utrecht / Amsterdam, J.Halma, 1683
La Penisola delle Indie di la' dal Gange con parte delle Isole della Sonda delineate sulle ultima osservazioni.
First edition on laid paper. Cassini’s splendid early map of Indochina, from Bangladesh in the west to central Borneo in the east, and southern China in the north, to B...
Place & Date: Rome, 1797