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
Histoire Naturelle, Civile, Et Ecclésiastique..'
First French edition, published by P.Gosse, J.Neaulme and B.Lakeman. The basic work on Japan from the second half of the 17th century when it was still forbidden to forei...
Date: Amsterdam, 1729
Asia carta di ciasete piu moderna. (Japan)
Rare FIRST STATE of this important map for Korea and Japan map of the Blancus/Moreira type, but adds a huge 'Jesso' filling the top of this old map. The map is of interes...
Date: Florence, 1646-1647
Hern Johann Baptisten Taveniers..Vierzig Jaehrige Reize..
This German edition includes Tavernier's map of Japan in a reduced form (210x315mm) and contains legends about the country's nature, e.g., where gold is mined and plottin...
Date: Nuremberg, 1681
Carte des Isles du Japon Esquelles est remarque la Route..
This uncommon map of Japan, which is on a fairly large scale, contains comments about the nature of the country. For instance, Ocsaqui (Okazaki, near Nagoya) is said to h...
Date: Paris 1679
![Bunken Edo oezu. [Tokyo]](/uploads/cache/12826-500x500.jpg)
Bunken Edo oezu. [Tokyo]
Based on map by Ochikochi Doin. Oriented with north to the right. An extraordinary wood block-printed town-plan now-a-day Tokyo, and a fine example of Edo cartography. Th...
Date: Edo, ca. 1803
![[Complete set of maps of Japan] Imperium Japonicum Per Regiones Digestum Sex et Sexaginta Atque Ipsorum Japonensium Mappis Descriptum Ab Hadriano Relando.](/uploads/cache/41590-500x500.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
Carta terza Generale del' Asia.
Rare first state of this important chart showing part of the north coast of New Guinea and islands of the Pacific Ocean. To the north of Japan the landmass of Isola di Ie...
Date: Florence, 1646
Shinkan Nagasaki no Dzu.
The oldest of these so-called Nagasaki pictures (Nagasaki-zu) were two panoramic prints by the artist Chikujuken that served as guides to the city of Nagasaki for visitor...
Date: Nagasaki, 1801
SETTSU MEISHO ZUE. Illustrations of famous places in Settsu.
Settsu Meisho Zue was printed in two series of 8 and 4 volumes. The principal illustrator was Takehara Shunchosai, but many illustrations in the 4 volumes supplement are ...
Date: Osaka, Yanagiwara Kibei, Kansei 8-10 or 1796-1798
Gezigt op de haven en de baai van Nagasaki.
A very rare birds-eye view showing Deshima and Nagasaki bay. Von Siebold was born in Würtzburg, in Germany, and worked for the Dutch government as a doctor in Java. In J...
Date: Leiden 1832-1852
Japan (poster signed by Georges Mathieu)
Dedicated "Pour Benijs Boulanger" and signed "Georges Mathieu", in black marker. Decorative poster advertising flights to Japan made by Georges Mathie...
Date: Paris, 1967
![Ansicht der stadt Nangasaky. [Nagasaki - title also in Russian characters]](/uploads/cache/24839-500x500.jpg)
Ansicht der stadt Nangasaky. [Nagasaki - title also in Russian characters]
A lively scene in Nagasaki harbor. In the foreground, Japanese junks and the town of Nagasaki in the background, with the warehouses on Deshima, the trading post of the D...
- $3000 / ≈ €2797
Date: St.Petersburg, 1810-1814
Factorij der Nederlanders op Firato.. 1609-1641.
Bird's-eye view of Hirado, a trading post of the V.O.C. from 1609 until 1641.Von Siebold was born in Wurzburg, in Germany, and worked for the Dutch government as a doctor...
- $1500 / ≈ €1398
Date: Leiden, 1832-1852
Hedendaegsche Historie of tegenwoordige staet van alle volkeren 1 deel. (Volume 1 - China, Japan, Phillippines, Moluccas)
This provides an interesting illustrated description of China, Japan, the Phillippines, Moluccas. Including a map of China, Korea, and Japan, with the Sea between Korea a...
Date: Amsterdam, 1734
Isola del Giapone e penisola di Corea.
A most attractive and decorative map of Japan and its near neighbour Korea by Vincenzo Coronelli. An elaborate central title cartouche garlanded with intertwined flowers ...
- $2000 / ≈ €1865
Date: Venice, 1692
![Das Fahrzeug auf welchem der Russische Gesandte zuert in Nangasaky ans Land fuhr. [Nagasaki]](/uploads/cache/24830-500x500.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 / ≈ €1632
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&...
Date: 's-Gravenhage, widow of J. Allart, 1824-1825
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 / ≈ €1865
Date: Amsterdam, 1700
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...
Date: Amsterdam, 1719
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 / ≈ €1865
Date: Amsterdam, 1655
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 / ≈ €1398
Date: Amsterdam, 1606-1620
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 / ≈ €1398
Date: Leiden, 1832-1852
![Ansicht des Papenbergs. [title also in russian]](/uploads/cache/24828-500x500.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 / ≈ €1398
Date: St.Petersberg, 1810-1814
![Ansicht von Megasaky. [Nagasaki - title also in Russian characters]](/uploads/cache/24829-500x500.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 / ≈ €1398
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 / ≈ €1398
Date: Leiden, 1832-1852
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 / ≈ €1771
Date: Augsburg 1720
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 / ≈ €1865
Date: Amsterdam, 1655
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...
Date: Leiden, 1832-1852
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 ...
Date: Japan, c.1860
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 / ≈ €932
Date: Paris, 1750
Carte des Isles du Japon Sequels est remarque la Route..
This uncommon map of Japan, which is reduced version of his larger map, contains comments about the nature of the country. For instance, Ocsaqui (Okazaki, near Nagoya) is...
- $750 / ≈ €699
Date: Paris / Amsterdam, 1679
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 / ≈ €699
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
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 / ≈ €932
Date: Leiden, 1832-1852
内務省地理局 (Administratif atlas of the Empire of Japan.)
Atlas of Japan published by the Home Ministry shortly after the start of Meiji period. The atlas contains 16 double page maps, with the border in original out line colors...
- $550 / ≈ €513
Date: Tokyo, Meiji 14 or 1881
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 / ≈ €466
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 / ≈ €559
Date: Paris, 1760
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 / ≈ €466
Date: Paris, 1756
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 / ≈ €513
Date: Venice, 1785
'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...
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 / ≈ €699
Date: Japan, ca. 1880
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 / ≈ €373
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 / ≈ €420
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
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 ...
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 / ≈ €373
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
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 / ≈ €466
Date: Paris, A. Nepveu, 1820
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 / ≈ €280
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 / ≈ €280
Date: Leiden 1832-1852
![Wapenrusting. [Samurai armour]](/uploads/cache/39403-500x500.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 / ≈ €280
Date: Leiden 1832-1852
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 / ≈ €256
Date: Paris, 1746
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 / ≈ €326
Date: Tokyo, Meiji 10 or 1877
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 / ≈ €280
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 / ≈ €280
Date: Leiden 1832-1852
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 / ≈ €280
Date: Leiden 1832-1852
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 / ≈ €326
Date: Leiden, 1852
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 / ≈ €233
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 / ≈ €233
Date: Tokyo, 1925
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 / ≈ €233
Date: Paris, 1727
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 / ≈ €186
Date: Edinburg, 1884
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 / ≈ €280
Date: Paris, 1750
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 / ≈ €233
Date: Germany, 1850
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 / ≈ €210
Date: Paris, 1683
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 / ≈ €205
Date: Paris, 1749
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 / ≈ €186
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 / ≈ €186
Date: Leiden 1832-1852
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 / ≈ €186
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 / ≈ €186
Date: Leiden 1832-1852
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 / ≈ €186
Date: Leiden 1832-1852
![Eene Vorstin. [Japanese Empress]](/uploads/cache/39353-500x500.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 / ≈ €186
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 / ≈ €186
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 / ≈ €186
Date: Leiden 1832-1852
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 / ≈ €233
Date: Amsterdam, 1606
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 / ≈ €280
Date: Amsterdam, 1752
Bateau Japonais. Two prints on one sheet.
Engraving of 18th century Japanese boat drawn by Lt. Blondela. Done during the expedition of comte de Jean-Francois de Galaup La Perouse in the Pacific Ocean in 1785-1788...
Date: Paris, 1812
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 / ≈ €280
Date: Leiden, 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 ...
- $200 / ≈ €186
Date: Paris, 1683
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 / ≈ €186
Date: Paris, 1683
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 / ≈ €233
Date: Amsterdam, 1773
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
Date: Paris 1842
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 / ≈ €280
Date: Amsterdam, 1728