Japanese Sketches.
Two woodcut engravings illustrating a Japanese Gentleman and a Japanese Lady. Included in Ballou's Pictorial.The 1840s~50s saw the rapid growth in popularity of the illus...
- $25 / ≈ €23
Place & Date: Boston, 1856
![Femme Kourilienne [together with] Homme Kourilien.](/uploads/cache/36927-250x250.jpg)
Femme Kourilienne [together with] Homme Kourilien.
Set of two originally hand-colored mezzotints of Native Russians engraved by Félix Mixelle and Lachaussée Jeune after Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur.As an etcher, dra...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: Paris,1801-1806
Der Hafen von Nangasaki auf Kiusiu.
A panoramic view of the harbour and city of Nagasaki with extensive shipping.
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Germany, 1847
View of Nagasaki, Japan.
A panoramic view of Nagasaki harbour from the Illustrated Times of November 28th., 1863. With accompanying one column descriptive text on verso of Nagasaki.
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: London, 1863
Vue de Nangasaki
View over the town from the water, identifying clearly Deshima with Japanese sloops in the fore ground. Engraved by Alp.Boilly.
- $120 / ≈ €112
Place & Date: Paris, 1842
Muzijkinstrumenten.
Showing Japanese drums.Von Siebold was born in Würzburg, in Germany, and worked for the Dutch government as a doctor in Java. In Japan, where Von Siebold arrived in 1823...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Leiden, 1832-1852
Johnson's Japan Nippon, Kiusiu, Sikok, Yesso. . .
A detailed steel engraved map of Japan with inset maps of Yes and the Japanese Kuriles and Bay of Nagasaki. The map shows the island Argonaut labeled as Takashima (Ulleun...
- $175 / ≈ €164
Place & Date: New York, 1867
Vue de Nangasaki.
Steel engraved of Nagasaki from the water, identifying clearly Deshima, the V.O.C. trading post and the Dutch flag. Japanese and Chinese sloops in the fore ground. Engra...
- $125 / ≈ €117
Place & Date: Paris, 1842
Küstenansichten von Japan bis Capstadt und St. Helena in 5 Blättern.
Prepared by Officer S.M.S. Arcona during the German expedition of 1860-1861 to South East Asia. Lithographed by Lippold and printed by C.Ulrich of Berlin. Sheet 2 from a ...
Place & Date: Berlin, 1863
Nagasaki. - Vue générale. Dessin de Taylor, après une photographie.
A bird's-eye view showing Nagasaki Bay. After a photograph by Taylor. Engraved in wood by A.Kohl.Showing the town and natural harbour of Nagasaki.In the harbour the islan...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Paris, 1880
Muzijkinstrumenten.
Showing several Japanese string musical instruments, a.o.: Samisen and Kokiu.Von Siebold was born in Wurtzburg, in Germany, and worked for the Dutch government as a docto...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Leiden, 1832-1852
![Burgerdragt. [Japanese citzen in typical dress]](/uploads/cache/39349-250x250.jpg)
Burgerdragt. [Japanese citzen in typical dress]
Showing a Japanese citizen in a typical dress.Von Siebold was born in Wurzburg, in Germany, and worked for the Dutch government as a doctor in Java. In Japan, where Von S...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Leiden 1832-1852
Staatiekleeding.
Showing a Japanese man's in official dress.Von Siebold was born in Wurzburg, in Germany, and worked for the Dutch government as a doctor in Java. In Japan, where Von Sieb...
- $175 / ≈ €164
Place & Date: Leiden 1832-1852
Muzik en dans.
Showing Japanese scenes of music and dance.Von Siebold was born in Wurzburg, in Germany, and worked for the Dutch government as a doctor in Java. In Japan, where Von Sieb...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Leiden 1832-1852
Succession Des Empereurs Du Japon Avec Une Description Du Meurtre De L'Empereur Cubo Et La Reception Des Ambassadeurs Hollandais En Ce Pays . . .
Composite sheet, with a small map of Japan and two detailed views: one depicting the murder of the Emperor Cubo, the other, the reception of the Dutch ambassadors, each w...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1728
Succession Des Empereurs Du Japon Avec Une Description Du Meurtre De L'Empereur Cubo Et La Reception Des Ambassadeurs Hollandais. . .
The plate is showing the murder of the Emperor Cubo at Kyoto, the arrival of one of the early Dutch embassies.A small map of Honshu in a central panel. Plate from his &qu...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Miaco.
A late 17th century miniature view of the skyline of Miaco (Kyoto). By Allain Manneson Mallet (1630-1706), a well traveled military engineer and geographer who worked in ...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Paris, 1683
Vue de Nangasaki
View over the town from the water, identifying clearly Deshima with the V.O.C. trading post. Japanese sloops in the fore ground. Engraved by Alp.Boilly.
- $180 / ≈ €168
Place & Date: Paris 1842
![Parthie aus dem Binnensee [Japan]](/uploads/cache/01312-250x250.jpg)
Parthie aus dem Binnensee [Japan]
Anonymous drawing made by a German during his visit to Japan. The drawing shows a lake with two Japanese vessels and a building with a Japanese flag in an mountainous lan...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Japan, c. 1890
Iedo. (Tokyo)
A late 17th century miniature view of the skyline of Jedo (Tokyo). By Allain Manneson Mallet (1630-1706), a well traveled military engineer and geographer who worked in 1...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Paris, 1683
Harddravers.
Showing a Japanese scene of cavaliers training.Von Siebold was born in Wurzburg, in Germany, and worked for the Dutch government as a doctor in Java. In Japan, where Von ...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Leiden 1832-1852
Carte des Isles du Japon.. Coree, Avec .. De la Chine..
Uncommon map of Japan, with Hokkaido, Ryukhu, Korea, Taiwan and the southeast coast of China from Peking till Macao.A mysterious "Corree" shows only a scant few...
- $250 / ≈ €234
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1773
Ruiters.
Showing Japanese types of cavaliers.Von Siebold was born in Wurzburg, in Germany, and worked for the Dutch government as a doctor in Java. In Japan, where Von Siebold arr...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Leiden 1832-1852
REISGEREEDSCHAPP. REISEGERAETHSCHAFT. Tab. II.
Japanese travel chests as used in a Dutch tributary embassy to the Tokugawa’s residence.Philipp Franz von Siebold (1796-1866) was a physician, researcher and teacher wh...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Leiden, 1852
Der Hafen und die Bai von Nagasaki.
A bird's-eye view showing Deshima and Nagasaki Bay with Dutch ships and two Dutch flags on Deshima.
- $250 / ≈ €234
Place & Date: Germany, 1850
Iapon.
An attractive miniature map of Japan, published by Petrus Bertius, in Amsterdam at the beginning of the seventeenth century.The quirky map is shows the country in a disto...
- $250 / ≈ €234
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Volksphysionomien.
Showing farm and city boy and girl in typical dress and haircut.Von Siebold was born in Wurzburg, in Germany, and worked for the Dutch government as a doctor in Java. In ...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Leiden 1832-1852
De Vrouw - Die Gemahlin der Sjogun.
Showing the wife of a shogun in typical kimono and hair cut. A Shogun and daimyo often had several wives to ensure the birth of an heir.Von Siebold was born in Wurzburg, ...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Leiden 1832-1852
Miaco.
A late 17th century miniature view of the skyline of Miaco (Kyoto). By Allain Manneson Mallet (1630-1706), a well traveled military engineer and geographer who worked in ...
- $225 / ≈ €211
Place & Date: Paris, 1683
Plan de la Ville et du port de Nangasaki. Grond tékening van de stad en de haven van Nangasaki.
The map shows a plan of the port and the town of Nagasaki. Deshima, the place where the Dutch traders were allowed to settle, is included. From Prévost's important Colle...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1752
Japan.
A detailed lithographed map of Japan including Hokkaido and including a small inset of the environs of Tokyo & Yokohama. Lower part map a numbered key to divisions an...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Edinburg, 1884
Een Japansch Meisje - Ein japanisches Madchen.
Portrait of a Japanese girl. Lithography made after a drawing made to nature by de Villeneuve., Von Siebold was born in Wurzburg, in Germany, and worked for the Dutch gov...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Leiden 1832-1852
Wapenen.
Showing Japanese swords.Von Siebold was born in Wurzburg, in Germany, and worked for the Dutch government as a doctor in Java. In Japan, where Von Siebold arrived in 1823...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Leiden 1832-1852
Eene Voorname Dame.
Showing a wife of a high-ranking person dressed in typical kimono. The tenno, kugyo (court officials), shogun and daimyo often had several wives to ensure the birth of an...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Leiden 1832-1852
Carte des Isles Kouriles.
A good impression of a detailed, finely engraved map of the north of Honshu. Derived from Russian maps resulting from the expeditions of Bering, Cherikov and others, one ...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Paris, 1750
Burgerdragt.
Showing a Japanese citizen woman in kimono.Von Siebold was born in Wurzburg, in Germany, and worked for the Dutch government as a doctor in Java. In Japan, where Von Sieb...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Leiden 1832-1852
![Eene Vorstin. [Japanese Empress]](/uploads/cache/39353-250x250.jpg)
Eene Vorstin. [Japanese Empress]
Showing Japanese Empress in kimono.Von Siebold was born in Wurzburg, in Germany, and worked for the Dutch government as a doctor in Java. In Japan, where Von Siebold arri...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Leiden 1832-1852
Wapenoefeningen - Tab XXIV. (Japanese martial art techniques)
Showing Japanese scenes of different martial art techniques.Von Siebold was born in Wurzburg, in Germany, and worked for the Dutch government as a doctor in Java. In Japa...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Leiden 1832-1852
Le Japon Par le Sr. Robert de Vaugondy fils de Mr. Robert Geog. Ord du Roi avec Privilege 1749.
Small detailed map of Japan and Korea. From Atlas Portatif Universel, by Robert de Vaugondy.Page 168 outside border top right. First state. The map is of interest for the...
- $220 / ≈ €206
Place & Date: Paris, 1749
Nangasaki appellé par les Chinois Tchangki.
Attractive bird's-eye view of Nagasaki, with reference key to principal points of interest, including the Dutch V.O.C. Company House. The Dutch/Chinese enclave is central...
- $250 / ≈ €234
Place & Date: Paris, 1727
Hofdragt.
Showing different Japanese men's clothing at court.Von Siebold was born in Wurzburg, in Germany, and worked for the Dutch government as a doctor in Java. In Japan, where ...
- $250 / ≈ €234
Place & Date: Leiden 1832-1852
Travellers' Map of Japan, Chosen (Korea), Taiwan (Formosa) with Brief Descriptions of the Principal Tourist Points of Japan.
An early 20th century map which wss published in Tokyo for English speaking tourists.Very detailed set of maps of Japan and parts of Korea, Taiwan and part of China, show...
- $250 / ≈ €234
Place & Date: Tokyo, 1925
MUZJIKINSTRUMENTEN. MUSIKINSTRUMENTE. Tab.VI.
Several Japanese instruments.Philipp Franz von Siebold (1796-1866) was a physician, researcher, and teacher who joined the Dutch East Indian army and traveled to Japan on...
- $350 / ≈ €328
Place & Date: Leiden, 1852
Carte des Isles du Japon et la Presqu'Isle de Coree. . .
A fine map of the islands of Japan, including Korea, Taiwan and the coast of China till Macao.Embellished with fine baroque decorations. Bellin influenced other cartograp...
- $275 / ≈ €257
Place & Date: Paris, 1746
Wapenoefeningen - Tab XXIII. (Kendo training)
Showing Japanese scenes of Kendo training.Von Siebold was born in Wurzburg, in Germany, and worked for the Dutch government as a doctor in Java. In Japan, where Von Siebo...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Leiden 1832-1852
Wapenoefeningen - Tab XXII. (Kendo training)
Showing Japanese Kendo training.Von Siebold was born in Wurzburg, in Germany, and worked for the Dutch government as a doctor in Java. In Japan, where Von Siebold arrived...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Leiden 1832-1852
Kaisei dosen Dai Nihon yochi zenzu.
Title in top : "Dai Nihon yochi zenzu.". Showing Japan, Korea and in an inset Hokkaido. Folding copperplate print in Japanese. Relief shown by hachures. Include...
- $350 / ≈ €328
Place & Date: Tokyo, Meiji 10 or 1877
Een Veldheer.
Showing a Japanese cavalier.Von Siebold was born in Wurzburg, in Germany, and worked for the Dutch government as a doctor in Java. In Japan, where Von Siebold arrived in ...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Leiden 1832-1852
![Wapenrusting. [Samurai armour]](/uploads/cache/39403-250x250.jpg)
Wapenrusting. [Samurai armour]
Showing Japanese Samurai armour.Von Siebold was born in Wurzburg, in Germany, and worked for the Dutch government as a doctor in Java. In Japan, where Von Siebold arrived...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Leiden 1832-1852
North Pacific Ocean LOO CHOO and adjacent Islands 1855.
Large scale chart of Okinawa in the Japan Sea. With scale and vignette of Typographical office. Map nr. 2416.An interesting note in lower right "The coast line of al...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: London, 1855
Reisgereedschapp - Reisegeraethschaft.
Showing Japanese travel chests as used during a Dutch tributary embassy to the Tokugawa’s residence.Von Siebold was born in Wurzburg, in Germany, and worked for the Dut...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Leiden 1832-1852
La factorerie chinoise a nagasaki, dans la rue Teng-chan (fondée en 1688).
The Chinese traders at Nagasaki were confined to a walled compound which was located in the same vicinity as Dejima island; and the activities of the Chinese, though less...
- $500 / ≈ €468
Place & Date: Paris, A. Nepveu, 1820
Simori.
Portrait of Simori.Von Siebold was born in Wurtzburg, in Germany, and worked for the Dutch government as a doctor in Java. In Japan, where Von Siebold arrived in 1823 at ...
Place & Date: Leiden, 1832-1852
Succession Des Empereurs Du Japon Avec Une Description Du Meurtre De L'Empereur Cubo Et La Reception Des Ambassadeurs Hollandais. . .
The plate is showing the murder of the Emperor Cubo at Kyoto, the arrival of one of the early Dutch embassies.A small map of Honshu in a central panel. Plate from his &qu...
- $400 / ≈ €374
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Carte des découvertes au Nord du Japon.
Chart of the discoveries to the north of Japan, in 1643 by the Dutch ships Castricum and Breskens. In two small insets in the top of the chart the province of Osju is dep...
- $400 / ≈ €374
Place & Date: Paris, 1798
Vue et description de la Ville de Meaco Capitale du Japon. . .
Top part of the print shows the town of Meaco (Kyoto) at that time the capital of Japan, with a coach and horses in the foreground. Other parts show among other things th...
- $450 / ≈ €421
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720
L'Empire du Japon..
Very similar to Joan Blaeu's map of 100 years previously: Europeans by then had been expelled, except the Dutch, whose movements were so curtailed that they were not able...
- $500 / ≈ €468
Place & Date: Paris, 1756
'T Eilandje Desima verblyf plaats der Hollanders in Japan.
Bird's-eye view of Dejima copied from a manuscript by Voogt, who was second-in-command on Deshima in 1713. The island is viewed from the landside, depicting the developme...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1739
A folding fan with a map of Japan, double hemisphere world map and views of Yokohama and Edo.
The folding fan showing a map of Japan on one side, and on the other side a double hemisphere world map, two city views, and a train. Read more about folding fans andcar...
- $750 / ≈ €702
Place & Date: Japan, ca. 1880
L'Impero del Giapon diviso in sette principali parti cive..
The map of the Japanese Empire published by Antonio Zatta (1757-97) continued to show most of the inaccuracies of earlier eighteenth-century maps.
- $550 / ≈ €515
Place & Date: Venice, 1785
Japan ten tyde van Zin-mu-ten-won 660 v.c.
Showing Japan 660 B.C. Japan was known as "Jama-to v. Aki-Tsu-Sima". The southern tip of Korea is shown and labeled "Kan", the island of Tsushima is l...
- $500 / ≈ €468
Place & Date: Leiden, 1832-1852
Plan du port et de la ville de Nangasaki.
This plan originates from Charlevoix's work Histoire et description Générele du Japon . His first in 1715 published work was the Histoire de l'etablissement du christia...
- $600 / ≈ €561
Place & Date: Paris, 1760
Insularum Japonicarum tabulae geographicae secundum opus NIPPON JO TSI RO TEI SEN TSU Tab. I Kiusui Insularum. . .
Fine map of the island if Kyushu, together with Tsushima Island with the bay of Nagasaki where in 1641 the man-made island of Deshima, trading post of the V.O.C. was est...
- $1000 / ≈ €936
Place & Date: Leiden, 1832-1852
Vue et description de la Ville de Meaco Capitale du Japon. . .
The top part of the print shows a panoramic view of Meaco (Kyoto) at that time the capital of Japan, with a coach and horses in the foreground. Other parts show among oth...
- $750 / ≈ €702
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720
L'Empire du Japon divisé en sept principales parties. . .
Large map of Japan and Korea with a distinctively French style title cartouche containing two small landscapes.The map draws heavily on the previous work of Bellin, but i...
- $1000 / ≈ €936
Place & Date: Paris, 1750
Nikko oyama no ezu (Pictorial Illustration of the Nikko mountains).
Fine map of the famous and well known pilgrimage site with pictorial temples and shrine labeled, and woods. Woodblock printed map, Edo Period (1615-1868), with publisher ...
Place & Date: Japan, c.1860
Nederlandsche Factory DEZIMA 1828.
Bird's-eye view of the manmade island of Deshima, a trading post of the V.O.C. from 1641 onward.Underneath the map a legend in Dutch and German with names of all the buil...
Place & Date: Leiden, 1832-1852
Carte des Isles du Japon Sequels est remarque la Route..
This uncommon map of Japan, a reduced version of his larger map, contains comments about the nature of the country. For instance, Ocsaqui (Okazaki, near Nagoya) is said t...
Place & Date: Paris / Amsterdam, 1679
Imperium Japonicum.
The map is based on Engelbert Kaempfer's map of 1727. It shows a much-distorted outline for the Island of Japan and a wonderful decorative cartouche top left.Tobias Conra...
- $1900 / ≈ €1778
Place & Date: Augsburg 1720
![Ansicht des Papenbergs. [title also in russian]](/uploads/cache/24828-250x250.jpg)
Ansicht des Papenbergs. [title also in russian]
View at Takahoko at the mouth of Nagasaki Harbour. In center Papenberg known for Christian martyrs. In foreground Japanese junks and a Russian vessel. German title preced...
- $1500 / ≈ €1404
Place & Date: St.Petersberg, 1810-1814
Gezicht op het Meer Tokaitç / Biwa-ko.
View of Lake Biwa near Kyoto.Von Siebold was born in Wurtzburg, in Germany, and worked for the Dutch government as a doctor in Java. In Japan, where Von Siebold arrived i...
- $1500 / ≈ €1404
Place & Date: Leiden, 1832-1852
![Ansicht von Megasaky. [Nagasaki - title also in Russian characters]](/uploads/cache/24829-250x250.jpg)
Ansicht von Megasaky. [Nagasaki - title also in Russian characters]
The print shows Nagasaki harbor with n the foreground the Russian delegation with Krusenstern in a boat with 3 Chinese. Japanese junks and the town of Nagasaki in the ba...
- $1500 / ≈ €1404
Place & Date: St.Petersburg, 1810-1814
Simonoseki.
Bird's-eye view of Simonoseki, an important trading post in earlier times. Von Siebold was born in Wurtzburg, in Germany, and worked for the Dutch government as a doctor ...
- $1500 / ≈ €1404
Place & Date: Leiden, 1832-1852
Japonia.
Jodocus Hondius' fine map early 17th-century map of the islands of Japan, was first issued as one of the new maps in the expended Mercator Hondius Atlas of 1606.The map i...
- $1500 / ≈ €1404
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606-1620
Japonia Regnum.
It is the first map to correctly show Korea as a peninsula.This was to remain the standard form of Japan until the eighteenth century and although replaced by the maps of...
- $2000 / ≈ €1871
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1655
![Das Fahrzeug auf welchem der Russische Gesandte zuert in Nangasaky ans Land fuhr. [Nagasaki]](/uploads/cache/24830-250x250.jpg)
Das Fahrzeug auf welchem der Russische Gesandte zuert in Nangasaky ans Land fuhr. [Nagasaki]
View of Nagasaki Harbour, with on foreground Japanese junks bringing the members of the first Russian expedition a shore. In the back ground the artificial island of Deji...
- $1750 / ≈ €1638
Place & Date: St.Petersburg, 1824
Plattegrond der Nederlandse Faktory op het Eiland Desima..
An uncommon Dutch bird's eye plan of Deshima, the Dutch trading post of the V.O.C., published in Isaac Titsingh's important Book on Japan "Bijzonderheden over Japan&...
Place & Date: 's-Gravenhage, widow of J. Allart, 1824-1825
L'Empire du Japon, tire des cartes des Japonnois.
A good impression of this decorative map of Japan based on Reland's map of `1715, one of the earliest to use both Latin names and Japanese characters. With inset of the b...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1719
Nova et accurata Japoniae terrae Esonis, ac Insularum adjacentium.
The map is of interest in showing Korea as a curiously shaped island and in revising the shape of the three main Islands of Japan. A re-issue of Janssonius' map with the ...
- $2000 / ≈ €1871
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1700
Japonia Regnum.
The first map to correctly show Korea as a peninsula. This was to remain the standard form of Japan until the eighteenth century and although replaced by the maps of Rela...
- $2000 / ≈ €1871
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1655