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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
La Ville et le Château de Zélandia dans l' île de Tayovan.
This important copperplate engraving is one of the earliest European views of Taiwan, depicting the Dutch fortifications and trading settlement on the West coast of the i...
Date: Amsterdam, 1675
Paradigma XV Provinciarum et CLV Urbium Capitalium Sinensis Imperij Cum Templis quae Cruce X Signatur Et Domiciliis S.I.
First edition of this rare Jesuit map of China, published by Jean Baptiste Nolin in Paris and based on Philippe Couplet's map of 1686. The map shows China's 15 provinces ...
Date: Paris, 1686
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...
Date: Venice, 1695
Die Insel Formosa neu abgemessen auf Befehl Kaysers Kamhi.
One of the earliest obtainable printed maps of Taiwan or Formosa Island. It was issued around 1726 to illustrate Joseph Stöcklein's [Stoecklein] compilation of Jesuit mis...
Date: Augsburg, 1726
Lo Stati Presente di Tutti i Paesi e Popoli del Mondo..
This most uncommon work provides an interesting focus on the dissemination of the outline of Japan provided by Kaempfer. Beside the description of Japan, the book include...
Date: Venice, 1734
Description geographique, historique, chronologique, politique, et physique de l'empire de la Chine et de la Tartarie chinoise.
1770 DU HALDE, Jean Baptiste. - Description geographique, historique […] de la Chine et de la Tartarie chinoise. The first definitive European work on the Chinese empire....
Date: Paris, P. G. Le Mercier, (vol. 1-3) 1770 / (vol.4),1735
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Kantong [The Dutch Folly Fort off Canton]
Charming 18th water color on paper depicting The Dutch "Folly Fort" off Canton. Probably made by a western artist visiting China.Forts were built in several pla...
Date: Canton?, c.1750
Vue de la Rue des Marchands Chinoises a Nankin.
1760 - OPTICAL PRINT - Illustrating a street in 18th-century Nanjing, one of China’s most important historic capitals.
Date: Augsburg, 1760
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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...
Date: Japan, Kansei 4, 2nd month, 9th day, 30 March? 1792
A Plan of the city and harbour of Macao : a colony of the Portugueze, situated at the southern extremity of the Chinese Empire. . .
A large chart of Macao engraved by Benjamin Baker (fl. 1766-1824) and published by George Nicol. The town of Macao is shown in detail, with a 37-point key in English list...
Date: London, 1796
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Sincapour. [Singapore]
Early view of Singapore after Pâris, engraved in aquatint by Sigismond Himely (1801-1872). The view is drawn looking up the Singapore River from South Boat Quay. It show...
Date: Paris, Finot, 1835
A fan combines views of Hong Kong (right), Canton (left), China, ca 1850-1860.
The fan shows nice images of Hong Kong and Canton on onside and on verso a garden with 39 characters welcoming a rider on his white horse. Their clothes are heightened in...
Date: China, ca. 1850-1860
COLLECTION OF HONG KONG MAPS, BOOKS & FLYERS. Including CHINA - HONGKONG surveyed by Captn. Sir Edward Belcher, in H.M.S. Sulphur 1841. Corrected to 1901.
A collection of 30 maps, prints, and publications relating to Hong Kong. Including : - BELCHER, E. Sir, An updated version of this most important nautical chart of Hong K...
Date: London, 1841 - 1901
Plan commercial de la Région Saïgon-Cholon.
Decorative publicity plan of Ho Chi Minh City, also known by its former name of Saigon and Cholon, prepared by Ngo-Trinh, surrounded by advertisements of local stores. Th...
Date: Saigon, 1948
