De golf van Bengalen.
Rare chart of the Indian Ocean, with nice detail on Ceylon (Sri Lanka) with compass roses and a system of rhumb lines, soundings and anchorage's. Many place names. The pl...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, after 1669-1712
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.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...
Place & Date: Lyons, M. Servetus, 1535
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[Taprobana - Sri Lanka]
Wood block printed map and one of earliest printed representation of Ceylon prepared Martin Waldseemüller.Based on the slightly larger map from 1513 published in "P...
Place & Date: Vienna, Trechsel, G., 1525 -1541
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.[Bangladesh, Burma, India, Thailand]
Wood block printed map and one of earliest printed representation of Bangladesh, Burma, India, Thailand prepared Martin Waldseemüller. Based on the slightly larger map f...
Place & Date: Vienna, Trechsel, G., 1525 -1541
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.[India]
Wood block printed map and one of earliest printed representation of India prepared by Martin Waldseemüller. Based on the slightly larger map from 1513 published in &quo...
Place & Date: Vienna, Trechsel, G., 1525 -1541
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...
Place & Date: Rome, 1683-1688
Plan de la ville de Madras et de ses attaques.
Manuscript map, in black, brown and red ink, showing the fortifications of the city of Madras, now Chennai, on the east coast of India, north of Pondicherry.Showing the c...
- $2000 / ≈ €1871
Place & Date: Paris, ca 1760
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 / ≈ €1871
Place & Date: Cologne, 1596
Recueil de cartes géographiques pour la description de l'Indostan . . .
First French edition, the maps revised by Jean Nicholas Buache. The English original edition was published in London in 1783 by Brown under the title "Memoir of a ...
Place & Date: Paris, Poignée, an VIII = 1800
Cochin (today: Ernakulam)
Small but charming 18th water color on paper depicting Cochin (today : Ernakulam) was from 1500, when the first Portuguese fleet called on its port, a firm ally of the Po...
Place & Date: India? c.1750
Nieuwe kaart van 't Koninckryk Bengale. . .
Rare map Bangladesh with the Ganges delta, including Calcutta. Giving great detail with trade routes, European trade settlements, etc. Prepared by Joh. Van Leenen who was...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1726
Karte von den Bengaslishen Meerbussen . . .
Manuscript map including Ceylon, south of India, Bengal gulf with Burma (Myanmar), Thailand and northern tip of Sumatra. Very decorative and colorful compass rose in cent...
- $1750 / ≈ €1638
Place & Date: Germany, ca. 1760
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[7 Indian Patna water colors of crafts.]
Seven Company school, also called Patna painting, style of miniature painting that developed in India in the second half of the 18th century in response to the tastes of ...
- $1500 / ≈ €1404
Place & Date: India, ca.1850
![Plan de Gingy, ville et forteresse d'Asie . . . [An Early Manuscript Map of Pondicherry Prior To Its Reconstruction After The Seven Years War.]](/uploads/cache/43006-250x250.jpg)
Plan de Gingy, ville et forteresse d'Asie . . . [An Early Manuscript Map of Pondicherry Prior To Its Reconstruction After The Seven Years War.]
An early manuscript map of Gingy shortly after The Seven Years War, when the French took possession of large part of India.With an extensive key to the left.Gingee Fort o...
- $1500 / ≈ €1404
Place & Date: Paris, 1765
Isola Di Ceylan. (Manuscript map of Sri Lanka)
Manuscript map of Sri Lanka (Ceylon). Inland filled with a good number of place names, mountains.
Place & Date: Italy, ca. 1750
Insula Ceilon et Madura / Exactissime delineata et nuperrime edita per R. & J. Ottens.
Map of Ceylon shown in remarkable detail, along with the contiguous coast of India. Two large allegorical cartouches. The map was originally issued by Johannes De Ram.Joa...
- $600 / ≈ €561
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1756
Vorstellung der Evangelisch-Ostindischen Kirche Augsburger Protestanten.
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. Ridinger.Dis...
- $1500 / ≈ €1404
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1732
Carte nouvelle des Terres de Cucan..
Prepared by H.Reland (1676-1718) a professor active in Utrecht and specialized in Asian languages, geography and religions. His first map was a map of Japan copied after ...
Place & Date: The Hague, 1728
Carte réduite de l'Océan Oriental, depuis Le Cap de Bonne Espérance jusqu'à l'Isle Formose.
French chart covering the seas between the Cape of Good Hope until Taiwan and the West Coast of Australia. Prepared by Jacques-François L'Abbé Dicquemare (1733-1789). L...
- $1000 / ≈ €936
Place & Date: Paris, Brest, chez Demonville, 1775
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Tabula XII - Asiae [Taprobana Ins]
Map of Taprobana (Sri Lanka) which depicts the typical misconceptions of Ptolemy showing the island greatly enlarged, surrounded by imaginary islands, and with a small pa...
Place & Date: Vienne, 1541
Calechut Celeberri mum Indiae Emporium/ Ormus/ Canonor, St.Georgii.
Four panoramic town-views on one sheet: The upper approximately two-thirds of this double page sheet contains a fine panoramic view of Calicut which is on the west coast ...
- $750 / ≈ €702
Place & Date: Cologne, 1580
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
Festivals of India.
A large eye-catching poster of five women, dancing against a black background, dressed in stunning sari's of red, yellow and blue, produced in India by the Government, wi...
- $750 / ≈ €702
Place & Date: Calcutta, 1959
Plan, et figure de la riche cité de Calecut en la premiere Inde.
A rare and early woodcut view of Calcutta in India. Decorated with several ships on the sea, shipbuilding, fishermen and elephants.This woodcut was published in La Cosmog...
Place & Date: Paris, 1575
De Zuydwest-Kust van Het Eyland Ceylon.
A finely engraved and detailed chart of Punta Gala harbour.Very rare: only included in 6th volume (so-called secret atlas) of Van Keulen's. A lettered key in upper left c...
- $1000 / ≈ €936
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1753
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Calechut Celeberrimum Indiae Emporium [on sheet with] Ormus [and] Canonor [and] S. Georgii Oppidum Mina.
Four very desirable and early town-plans of Kozhikode, Hormuz, Kannur and Almina. "KOZHIKODE (CALICUT) : "The city is viewed from the sea, just as it would hav...
- $800 / ≈ €749
Place & Date: Cologne, (1572) 1577
Partie de la nouvelle grande carte des Indes Orientales. . .
Sheet 1 of Joachim Ottens' Southeast Asia map in four sheets, showing the Bay of Bengal and extending from the Pakistani border across India to the Indo-Chinese peninsula...
- $800 / ≈ €749
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1792
Nieuwe kaart van het Eyland Ceylon. . .
Fine map depicting the Island of Ceylon/Sri Lanka, oriented with north to the left.. Good interior detail is given with settlements, roads, etc. An attractive early map, ...
- $850 / ≈ €795
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1726
Tabula X. Asiae hae sunt e cognitis totius orbis.
The earliest printed representation of India west of the Ganges River in Ptolemy's time. Considerable detail of river systems and mountain ranges.The first issue of this...
- $1000 / ≈ €936
Place & Date: Lyons, M. Servetus, 1525
Plan de Thiagar, prise par l'arméé française en 1759.
An early manuscript map of Thiagar. With an extensive unfinished key to the left. The map was drawn shortly after the end of the Seven Years War, when the French took pos...
- $750 / ≈ €702
Place & Date: Paris, 1769
Nieuwe Kaart van Choromandel ende Malabar. . .
Fine map depicting the southern part of India and the northern tip of Ceylon. Much detail is given along the coastlines, settlements and principal coastal features are id...
- $650 / ≈ €608
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1726
![(2 charts of Shri Lanka) Mer des Indes - Ile de Ceylan - Partie Nord. Détroit de Palk et Golfe de Manaar.. [with] Partrie Sud...](/uploads/cache/23493-250x250.jpg)
(2 charts of Shri Lanka) Mer des Indes - Ile de Ceylan - Partie Nord. Détroit de Palk et Golfe de Manaar.. [with] Partrie Sud...
Two very large charts representing the northern and southern part of Sri Lanka and giving details about the Indian seacoast around the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait....
- $750 / ≈ €702
Place & Date: Paris, 1866
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Bay of Bengal, compiled chiefly from government survey.. [2 sheets]
Large scale chart in 2 sheets focused on the Bay of Bengal.It covers Sri Lanka, the whole Indian eastern coast, the seacoast of Bangladesh, Myanmar and Thailand as far as...
- $1200 / ≈ €1123
Place & Date: London (1863), corrections to 1871
Magni Mogolis Imperium.
An attractive map of the northern part of India, Tibet, Iran to Burma. The travel route from Kabul to Surat is the most prominent feature of the map. Richly decorated wit...
- $650 / ≈ €608
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1658
Partie Meridionale De L'Inde En deux Presqu'Isles l'une deca et l'autre Gange . . . 1654
Sanson's important mid-seventeenth-century map of India and Southeast Asia. At a scale of about 1:9,000,000, it covers most of modern India, Bangladesh and Burma, the who...
- $600 / ≈ €561
Place & Date: Paris, 1654
![ИНДIИ [Map of India in Cyrillic].](/uploads/cache/44340-250x250.jpg)
ИНДIИ [Map of India in Cyrillic].
A map of India. This Cyrillic version of the map appeared in one of the first world atlases published in Russia, "Novy Atlas, ili sobranie kart ..." which trans...
- $750 / ≈ €702
Place & Date: Paris / St.Petersburg, ca. 1790
Un Reclutatore in India. Papagallo No. 42. Anno VI.
British in India. Design by Augusto Grossi. Taken from the Italian satirical newspaper Il Papagallo, a satirical magazine founded in January 1873 by Augusto Grossi (1835-...
Place & Date: Bologne, 1878
Tabula Asiae XI.
Attractive early woodblock map of the Indian Ocean, extending from Southeast Asia to the Ganges River and north to the Himalayas.In upper left inset panel of tiger, cocke...
- $600 / ≈ €561
Place & Date: Basle, H. Petri, c. 1552
A chart of the northern part of the Indian Ocean..
Chart of the northern part of the Indian Ocean, including part of Arabia, India and Sri Lanka prepared by D'Apré de Mannevillette and published in London by Laurie and W...
- $750 / ≈ €702
Place & Date: London 1794
Isola Ceilon.
Attractive copper engraved map of Sri Lanka showing mountains, Towns and the Rama's Bridge (Ponte di Adamo). Included in "Atlante Novissimo che Contiene Tutte le Par...
- $500 / ≈ €468
Place & Date: Venice, 1740
Goa Indiae orientalis metropolis.
A fine example of a rare plan of this important Indian city and port, the focal point for Portuguese trading activity in southern Asia. Pictorial map by Pieter Boudewyn v...
- $600 / ≈ €561
Place & Date: Leiden, 1719
Carte d'une Partie des Indes Orientales, Etats du Mogol les Cotes de Malabar et de Coromandel.
A fine and highly detailed depiction of India and the surrounding region, this map extends from the Straits of Hormuz to the Gulf of Bengal. The Amsterdam publishing firm...
- $550 / ≈ €515
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1700
Les Vrays Indes dits Grands Indes ou Indes Orientales Par N. de Fer. Geographe de Sa Majeste Catoliques et de Monseigneur le Dauphin.
Detailed map on India, Thailand, the Malay Peninsular and the south coast of China up to Macao. The map was engraved by C. Inselin.
- $600 / ≈ €561
Place & Date: Paris, 1705
Goa fortissima Indiae urbs in Christianorum potestatem anno Salutis 1509. devenit.
A rare and early woodcut view of Goa in India. Decorated with one ship. This woodcut was published in La Cosmographie Universelle de tout le monde, printed 1575 in two vo...
Place & Date: Paris, 1575
Penisola dell'Indo di qua del Gange, e l isola di Ceilan..
India below the Tropic of Cancer, with an inset of Ceylon and Trincomalee.The remarkable Vincenzo Coronelli (1650-1718), encyclopaedist, geographer, inventor and Doctor o...
- $800 / ≈ €749
Place & Date: Venice, 1698
Le Grand Mongol. . .
Rare full portrait of the Mongol emperor of Indostan, published by map seller, François Jollain, the Elder (1641-1704), active in Paris, rue St. Jacques à la ville de C...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1686
Tabula Asiae XII (Sri Lanka, with Elephant)
The FIRST edition of Munster's first modern map of Sri Lanka, which appeared in his "Geographia Universalis", first published in 1540. The Geographia was a new ...
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Magni Mogolis Imperium.
An attractive map of northern part of India, Tibet, Iran to Burma. The travel route from Kabul to Surat is the most prominent feature of the map. Richly decorated with st...
- $500 / ≈ €468
Place & Date: Amsterdam, after 1638
Calechut / Ormus / Canonor.
Four panoramic town-view on one sheet: the upper approximately two-thirds of this double page sheet contains a fine panoramic view of Calicut which is on the west coast o...
- $875 / ≈ €819
Place & Date: Cologne, 1575
Vicariati E prefetture apostoliche nelle Indie Orientalis
Map showing the boundaries of Catholic dioceses in South and Southeast Asia in 1850s, with some detail of India, Malacca, Thailand and Hainan. This finely engraved and be...
- $500 / ≈ €468
Place & Date: Rome, 1858-1859
Outposts of Empire. Ceylon.
A large colored lithograph by John Vickery (1906-1983), he was an Australian artist. He worked in the fields of painting, illustration and advertising. He is the only Aus...
Place & Date: London, ca 1937
Colombo Harbour From Surveys supplied by Sir. John Coode. . .
Sir John Coode's highly detailed map of the Harbour at Colombo (Sri Lanka), with manuscript notations and corrections in pencil. With red pencil "INCORRECT".The...
- $500 / ≈ €468
Place & Date: London, 1885 -1896
India Orientalis.
FIRST IMPRINT FROM THE NEWLY ENGRAVED PLATES IN 1616. - A rare miniature map of the East Indies.First published in 1598 in his Caert-Thresoor, the plates were executed by...
- $400 / ≈ €374
Place & Date: Amsterdam, J. Hondius, 1616
Charte von Ostindien disseits des Ganges im gegenwärtigen Zustande.
A uncommon issue of this detailed map of India, including Ceylon.
Place & Date: Weimar, 1807
Impero del Gran Mogol.
Attractive copper engraved map of India with Sri Lanka. Showing mountains, towns and the Rama's Bridge (Ponte di Adamo). Included in "Atlante Novissimo che Contiene ...
- $450 / ≈ €421
Place & Date: Venice, 1740
Casablanca (Anfa) - Azemmour (Azamor) - Diu - Old Goa (Velha Goa)
Four fine coastal views of these harbors cities which were important to Portuguese trade. Goa and Diu on the western coast of India, together with Anfa (Casablanc) and Az...
- $450 / ≈ €421
Place & Date: Cologne, 1618
Indiae Orientalis.
This map covers an area including India, part of Malaysia, Borneo and China.From the first French-text edition of Jodocus Hondius' Atlas Minor.Shortly after the publicati...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1608
Carte de la Baye et du Port de Trinquemalay dans L'Isle de Ceylan.
Chart showing the bay of Trincomalee, Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Trincomalee is natural deep water port on the east coast of Sri Lanka, about 110 miles northeast of Kandy. It is...
- $450 / ≈ €421
Place & Date: Paris, 1775
Les Vrays Indes dits Grands Indes ou Indes Orientales Par N. de Fer. Geographe de Sa Majeste Catoliques et de Monseigneur le Dauphin.
Detailed map on India, Thailand, the Malay Peninsular and the south coast of China up to Macao. The map was engraved by C. Inselin.
- $500 / ≈ €468
Place & Date: Paris, 1703
Calecut Nuova Tavola.
Early map of India, extending from west of the Gujarat peninsula eastward to Bengal and south as far as northern Ceylon (“Ceilam”). Girolamo Ruscelli first published ...
- $350 / ≈ €328
Place & Date: Venice, 1564
The Coast of India, from Point Gordeware to the Ganges Comprehending Part of the Coast of Golconda . . .
Detailed sea chart of the coast of India, from the mouths of the Ganges Rivers in the northeast to Point Gordeware in the south west. Includes numerous sailing channels a...
- $400 / ≈ €374
Place & Date: London, 1794
Carte du Golfe de Bengale, Mer de Indes, et Riviere du Gange, Avec les Pais et Iles d'alentour, Savoir les Cotes de Malabar, Cormandel, Ile de Ceylon, Les Maldives . . .
Detailed 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, Golconda, ...
- $375 / ≈ €351
Place & Date: Leiden, 1719
Inde.
Decorative poster advertising flights to India made by Georges Mathieu. The poster is one of a series of 15 composed of posters of Greece, Israel, Germany, Great Britain,...
Place & Date: Paris, 1967
Tabula Asiae XII. (Sri Lanka)
Gastaldi's map showing Sri Lanka, based upon Ptolemy's twelfth map of Asia depicting Taprobana. With a decorative scene with elephant and descriptive text next to the map...
- $350 / ≈ €328
Place & Date: Venice, 1548
Carte du Golfe de Bengale, Mer de Indes, et Riviere du Gange, Avec les Pais et Iles d'alentour, Savoir les Cotes de Malabar, Cormandel, Ile de Ceylon, Les Maldives . . .
Detailed 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, Golconda, ...
- $375 / ≈ €351
Place & Date: Leiden, 1719
Grundriss von Goa.
A beautifully detailed and engraved town-plan of the Portuguese colony of Goa in India, with a number key (1-29) to the city's major monuments and sites, enclosed in a de...
- $450 / ≈ €421
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1752
Carte de la Côte de Guzerat, Du Golf de Cambaye et des Côtes de Concan et De Canara.
French sea chart of West India from Gujarat to Mangalore. With inset chart Plan de la Rivière de Surate.Prepared by Jacques-François L'Abbé Dicquemare (1733-1789). La...
Place & Date: Paris, ca 1775
Plan de Goa.
A beautifully detailed and engraved town-plan of the Portuguese colony of Goa in India, with a number key (1-29) to the city's major monuments and sites, enclosed in a de...
- $250 / ≈ €234
Place & Date: Paris, 1750
Carte des Côtes de Malabar et de Coromandel Presentée au Roy. . .
Large and attractive map of the Indian coasts of Malabar and Coromandel, embellished with title cartouche and 2 compass roses. It shows the most northern part of Ceylon.T...
- $500 / ≈ €468
Place & Date: Amsterdam c. 1745
Southern - Concan.. - Nalkind or Kates Point..
Lithography representing a rocky landscape in the Western Ghats. Plate N° 12. From Souvenirs d'un voyage dans l'Inde, exécuté de 1834 à 1839, by A. Delessert.Adolphe ...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Paris, 1843
Les Vrays Indes dits Grands Indes ou Indes Orientales Par N. de Fer. Geographe de Sa Majeste Catoliques et de Monseigneur le Dauphin.
Detailed map on India, Thailand, the Malay Peninsular and the south coast of China up to Macao. The map was engraved by C. Inselin.
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Paris, 1703
Vue des Magasins de la Compagnie des Indes à Pondichéry, de l'Amirauté et de la maison du Gouverneur.
Optical print of the French East India Company's warehouses, the Admiralty and the Governor's House at Pondicherry in Tamil Nadu. Pondicherry, on the Coromandel Coast sou...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Paris, ca 1760
India extra Gangem . . .
Map covering the subcontinent from the Bay of Bengal and the Gulf of Cambay to Ceylon (Sri Lanka) and offers impressive detail given that the interior of India was largel...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Utrecht / Amsterdam, J.Halma, 1683
Pondichery - Vue de l'Eglise des Jésuites.
Lithography representing a view of a church belonging to the Jesuit order. Plate N° 11.From Souvenirs d'un voyage dans l'Inde, exécuté de 1834 à 1839, by A. Delessert...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Paris, 1843
El Indostan por D. Juan Lopez.
Uncommon map of India and Shri Lanka published by Juan Lopez (1765-1830) and included in his "Atlas Universal o collection de mapas nuevos. . ." first published...
- $375 / ≈ €351
Place & Date: Madrid, 1817
Impero del Gran Mogol.
A very fine map showing India divided into its regions with major towns and cities marked and also parts of its neighbouring kingdoms.
Place & Date: Venice, 1740
Goa.
A finely engraved, detailed plan of Goa. It also appeared in Gottfried’s Archontologia (1649). There is a cartouche identifying 43 buildings and the plan includes the h...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1680
El Indostan por D. Juan Lopez.
Uncommon map of India and Shri Lanka published by Juan Lopez (1765-1830) and included in his "Atlas Universal o collection de mapas nuevos. . ." first published...
- $400 / ≈ €374
Place & Date: Madrid, 1817
Magni Mogolis Imperium.
An attractive map of the region from Iran through Afghanistan, Tibet, and northern India across to Burma. The travel route from Kabul to Surat is the most prominent featu...
- $350 / ≈ €328
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1644
Maldivae Insulae.
Very fine early miniature map of Maldives Islands. East is at the top. Title cartouche on the lower right corner. A dolphin and two ships are depicted.First published in ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam / Frankfurt, 1609