Search Listings matching "curated-collection" in Asia
Quinta Asie Tabvla.
A woodblock map of ancient Median and Persian lands in modern-day Iran is from Martin Waldseemüller's 1513 edition of Ptolemy, a landmark work that contributed to major ...
Date: Strasbourg, J. Schott, 1513
![Septima Asie Tabvla. |Walsseemüller's map of Central Asia and the Silk Road]](/uploads/cache/62137-250x250.jpg)
Septima Asie Tabvla. |Walsseemüller's map of Central Asia and the Silk Road]
Trapezoidal woodcut map showing the area east of the Sarygamysh Lake, about midway between the Caspian Sea and the (former) Aral Sea. It is one of the earliest obtainabl...
Date: Strasburg, J. Schott, 1513
Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae. Das ist: Ein Reisebuch...
Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae. Das ist: Ein Reisebuch, Uber die gantze heilige Schrifft, in zwey Bücher geteilet... Zuvor gemehret mit einem Büchlein De monetis et mens...
Date: Magdeburg, 1587
Peregrinatie Jesu Christu Een ordentliche beschrijvinge des Heijligen landts....
Very rare separately map of the Holy Land engraved by Joannes van Doetecum Jr. Oriented to the east. The shoreline runs from "Antaradus" in Syria to "Rhino...
Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1595
Calecuty Regnum
A rare and unusual depiction of the Indian Ocean between Madagascar, Ethiopia, southern Arabia, and south India and Ceylon.The calligraphy is florid and decorative. The e...
- $2000 / ≈ €1702
Date: Cologne, 1596
Vorstellung der Evangelisch-Ostindischen Kirche Augsburger Protestanten.
It is a very decorative and rare print to commemorate the 200-year Confession of the Augsburg Protestant Confession. Engraved by J. Kleinschmidt after a design of E. Ridi...
Date: Augsburg, 1732
Constantinopolis Constantinopel.
Very rare and decorative panoramic view of Istanbul prepared by Friedrich Berhard Werner and published by Martin Engelbrecht. The engraving is done by Johann Georg Ringli...
Date: Augsburg, M.Engelbrecht, ca.1730-1740
Manuscript map of the Bay of Nagasaki.
An extremely rare manuscript chart in brown ink and wash color on a printed sheet of paper with a system of rhumblines and latitude scales. This chart shows the Bay of Na...
Date: Amsterdam, 1750
![[Complete set of maps of Japan] Imperium Japonicum Per Regiones Digestum Sex et Sexaginta Atque Ipsorum Japonensium Mappis Descriptum Ab Hadriano Relando.](/uploads/cache/41590-250x250.jpg)
[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
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...
Date: Germany, ca. 1760
Mapa De la parte de la Isla Formosa sa perteneciente al Emperadotde la China sacado por Ord. De S.M.
Extremely rare map of the west coast of Taiwan, the Punghu or Pescadore Islands, and the Fokien or Fujian coast of China. Several ancient Taiwanese cities are noted, incl...
Date: Manilla, Seminario Conciliar, y Real de San Carlos, 1788-1792
Eastern passage to China. sheet 1.
James Horsburgh early chart of the coasts of Java, Bali, Lombok, with part of Sulawesi, and Borneo. Insets of "Sketch of Bally Strait", Sketch of Lombock Strait...
- $2500 / ≈ €2128
Date: London, 1824
Straat Riouw onder opzicht van de commissie tot verbetering der Indische Zeekaarten..
Very large and rare so-called Blue Back centered on the strait passing between the Riau Islands. It contains an inset map with enlarged details of Riouw Harbor on Bintang...
Date: Amsterdam 1843
Kaart van de Gaspar Straaten volgens opnemingen van J.Stolze, D.Ross, enz.
Very large and rare chart centered on the strait between Bangka's southeastern seacoast and Belitung's western shores.Short front views of the coastal relief are shown in...
Date: Amsterdam 1843
Carte d'unne partie de l'Arabie Septentrionale Pour suivre les Voyages de Mr. G.A. Vallin. . .
This is the original hand-drawn map by Victor Adolphe Malte-Brun of "Carte d'unne partie de l'Arabie Septentrionale Pour suivre les Voyages de Mr. G.A. Wallin",...
Date: Paris, November 1855
Kaart van Het Noordelijk Gedeelte Van Het Eiland Borneo.
A very detailed map of Northern Borneo including Brunei, taken from the "Atlas der Nederlandsche bezittingen in Oost-Indië", which was published by Departement...
Date: The Hague, 1883-1885
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