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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...
Date: Brunswick, ca. 1635
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...
Date: Paris, 1745
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"...
Date: Vienne, 1541
[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...
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...
Date: Antwerp, 1598
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....
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...
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 ...
Date: Paris, ca.1750
Terra Promissions.
A beautifully executed and very rare map of the Promised Land, divided into the 12 Tribes. The shore line runs in north-southwesterly direction from Sidon as far as Pelus...
Date: Paris, c.1655
Insulae Indiae Orientalis.
One of the most decorative maps of the Indonesian Archipelago, centered on the Philippines, Malaya and further India. Ships in the sea and a beautiful title cartouche add...
Date: Amsterdam, 1607-1608