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Tabula nova utriusque Indiae.
This is the fourth and last edition of this map based on Waldseemüller's first "modern" map of Asia. It follows that cartography without change but adds an int...
Place & Date: Vienne, 1541
Sumatra.
Gastaldi prepared this map and it was the first separate map of any Southeast Asian island based on actual observation. The general contour of Sumatra is remarkably good ...
Place & Date: Venice, 1556
Indiae Orientalis, Insularumque Adiacentium Typus.
Map of Indonesia. From a French text edition of this illustrated treatise of geography, which is considered as the first modern pocket-atlas.Map engraved by Philip Galle....
- $500 / ≈ €482
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1585
India Tercera Nuova Tavola.
The 1598 edition of this early map of South East Asia. Just to the west and south of Malacca one will notice ‘Camatra’ (Sumatra) and Java. China with Canton in the up...
Place & Date: Venice, 1598
The carcapuli, canella de mato and cassia solutiva.
The ‘caarcapuli’ that grows on the island of Sunda is a tasty, cherry-sized fruit. The Canella de mato that grows in abundance in the forests of Java is wild cinnamon...
- $80 / ≈ €77
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1598
A picture of various trees including the palm tree.
The Jacca fruit grows only on the trunk of the tree, not on its branches, rather like the fruit of the palmates. Then there is a fruit that grows in abundance in Bali, wh...
- $80 / ≈ €77
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1598
Illustrations of Lancuas, Fagaras, Lacca and Cuci fructa.
Common in Bali, Java and Sunda is a plant known as the great Galanga or Galigam. The natives, however, call it Lancuas. The fagaras, particularly found in Sunda, looks li...
- $80 / ≈ €77
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1598
Plants, including the canior, diringuo, pucho and chiabe.
In the Indies there are many delightful plants, which include the ‘costus indicus’ (named by the Malays 'pucho') that has a wonderful aroma. Then there is the ‘cala...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1598
India Tercera Nuova Tavola.
Fine 1598 edition of this early map of South East Asia. Just to the west and south of Malacca, one will notice ‘Camatra’ (Sumatra) and Java. China with Canton in the ...
- $1000 / ≈ €964
Place & Date: Venice, 1598
India Orientalis.
This lovely miniature map shows the East Indies, stretching from Persia to China and Japan, down to Java, and part of Papua new Guinea. Published by Petrus Bertius, in Am...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
India Orien.
A miniature map showing India and the islands of Borneo, New Guinea, Sumatra, Java, etc.Korea as an enlonged peninsular and one town marked.First published in 1598 in his...
- $400 / ≈ €385
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cornelis Claes, 1606
Iava Maior.
Very fine miniature map of Java, engraved by Benjamin Wright (1575-1613). This early map contains detailed geography and nomenclature around the northern coastline of the...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cornelis Claes, 1606
I. Delineatio convivii a Ternatensium rege Generali Neccio exhibiti.
This famous and desirable scene from Roelof Roelofsz's narrative of a voyage by J.C. van Neck to Ternate.Theodore de Bry, a German engraver and book dealer, began a compi...
- $100 / ≈ €96
Place & Date: Frankfurt, Wolfgangi Richteri, 1607
[Chinese Merchants and temple].
Two text engravings of Chinese merchants on Java and a Chines temple from "Premier livre de l'histoire de la navigation aux Indes Orientales, par les hollandois, et ...
- $100 / ≈ €96
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cornille Nicolas, 1609
[Native Flora of Java].
Text engraving of native flora of Java from "Premier livre de l'histoire de la navigation aux Indes Orientales, par les hollandois, et des choses a eux advenues . . ...
- $75 / ≈ €72
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cornille Nicolas, 1609
[Bantam].
Text engraving showing some merchants of Bantam, from "Premier livre de l'histoire de la navigation aux Indes Orientales, par les hollandois, et des choses a eux adv...
- $75 / ≈ €72
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cornille Nicolas, 1609
[Sumatra]
Text engraving from "Premier livre de l'histoire de la navigation aux Indes Orientales, par les hollandois, et des choses a eux advenues . . . ", being the clas...
- $50 / ≈ €48
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cornille Nicolas, 1609
[Ternate].
Text engraving showing a bay on the Island of Ternate, an island in the Maluku Islands (Moluccas) of eastern Indonesia. Above the map a lettered key (A-E). Text engraving...
- $100 / ≈ €96
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cornille Nicolas, 1609
[Ambon].
Text engraving showing a bay on the Island of Ambon, an island in the Maluku Islands (Moluccas) of eastern Indonesia. Above the map a lettered key (A-D). Text engraving f...
- $150 / ≈ €145
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cornille Nicolas, 1609
[Plants and fruits of the East Indies].
Two text engravings from "Premier livre de l'histoire de la navigation aux Indes Orientales, par les hollandois, et des choses a eux advenues . . . ", being the...
- $50 / ≈ €48
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cornille Nicolas, 1609
[Celebrating the arrival of the Dutch in Turban].
Text engravings of a tournament in Turban. On 23rd January 1599, the Dutch landed at Turban (on the north coast of Java) with several small boats. Great crowds of people ...
- $150 / ≈ €145
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cornille Nicolas, 1609
[Dutch ship Amsterdam].
Text engraving of the Dutch vessel Amsterdam offshore the island of Java near Surabaya from "Premier livre de l'histoire de la navigation aux Indes Orientales, par l...
- $150 / ≈ €145
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cornille Nicolas, 1609
[Javanese Vessels]
Two text engravings from "Premier livre de l'histoire de la navigation aux Indes Orientales, par les hollandois, et des choses a eux advenues . . . ", being the...
- $100 / ≈ €96
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cornille Nicolas, 1609
[Foreign Merchants at Bantam].
Two text engravings from "Premier livre de l'histoire de la navigation aux Indes Orientales, par les hollandois, et des choses a eux advenues . . . ", being the...
- $100 / ≈ €96
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cornille Nicolas, 1609
[Bantam].
Text engraving showing the arrival of the Dutch fleet at Bantam from "Premier livre de l'histoire de la navigation aux Indes Orientales, par les hollandois, et des c...
- $150 / ≈ €145
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cornille Nicolas, 1609
[Bantam]
Two text engravings from "Premier livre de l'histoire de la navigation aux Indes Orientales, par les hollandois, et des choses a eux advenues . . . ", being the...
- $100 / ≈ €96
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cornille Nicolas, 1609
[Description de la Figure de la ville de Gammelamme - Description du N° 15]
View of the town of Gammelamme [Gamalama] on Ternate, where the Dutch established a trading post. Text engraving from "Premier livre de l'histoire de la navigation a...
- $50 / ≈ €48
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cornille Nicolas, 1609
XXVII. Triremes seu Galiottae et Fustae Iavenenfium. 21. ( A typical Javanese man-of-war ship)
A typical Javanese man-of-war ship. The Javanese call their man-of-war ships, Cathurs. The slaves are all seated below deck and do the rowing with oars, while the warrior...
- $150 / ≈ €145
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1609
[View of the arrival of Cornelis de Houtman's fleet at Bantam, Java.].
Engraved map of Bantam on Java with a lettered key (A-N) showing the arrival of Cornelis de Houtman’s fleet at Bantam, Java in 1596. Houtman’s four vessels, the Amste...
- $200 / ≈ €193
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cornille Nicolas, 1609
[How the genteel folk of Bali are transported]
Text engraving with explanation how the royalty and high-ranking citizens of Bali are transported about on light decorative chairs, with a shelter above to protect them f...
- $100 / ≈ €96
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cornille Nicolas, 1609
Delineatio Civitatis et Castelli Amboinae.
Early view of Ambon, with 6 Dutch vessels offshore.Theodore de Bry, a German engraver and book dealer, began a compilation of early voyages in 1590 and had published six ...
- $150 / ≈ €145
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1609
[Tropical fruits of Java].
Two text engravings of fruits on Java from "Premier livre de l'histoire de la navigation aux Indes Orientales, par les hollandois, et des choses a eux advenues . . ....
- $75 / ≈ €72
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cornille Nicolas, 1609
[Java Fruits].
Text engraving of fruits on Java from "Premier livre de l'histoire de la navigation aux Indes Orientales, par les hollandois, et des choses a eux advenues . . . &qu...
- $75 / ≈ €72
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cornille Nicolas, 1609
[Bantam].
Text engravings from "Premier livre de l'histoire de la navigation aux Indes Orientales, par les hollandois, et des choses a eux advenues . . . ", being the cla...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cornille Nicolas, 1609
Habitus Moresque Insulae Sumatra Incolarum. (People of Sumatra)
People of Sumatra.Theodore de Bry, a German engraver and book dealer, began a compilation of early voyages in 1590 and had published six parts at the time of his death in...
- $100 / ≈ €96
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1609
XVI. Civitas Bantam Tormentis nostris oppugnata . . .
Attack of Bantam (Banten), a city and former sultanate on Java island.Theodore de Bry, a German engraver and book dealer, began a compilation of early voyages in 1590 and...
- $100 / ≈ €96
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1609
XXV. Quo Ritu Bantani Concilia Militaria Agant. 19. (Councils meeting at Bantam)
Councils meeting at Bantam (Banten), a city and former sultanate on Java island. Theodore de Bry, a German engraver and book dealer, began a compilation of early voyages ...
- $100 / ≈ €96
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1609
Delineatio Piscationum Ternatensis.
Fishing scene on Ternate island, Maluku, Indonesia.Theodore de Bry, a German engraver and book dealer, began a compilation of early voyages in 1590 and had published six ...
- $80 / ≈ €77
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1609
Milites in Bantam Gregarii Gum Suis armis. (Warriors of Bantam)
The warriors of Bantam carry both small and large shields made of leather, also swords or long lances with sturdy spear-heads. Their clothing is made with little square p...
- $75 / ≈ €72
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1609
Solemnitas Nuptialis Bantam Incolarum. (A wedding ceremony in the city of Bantam)
When a young couple become engaged they do not leave their homes until the wedding takes place. On their wedding day they are dressed up and happy, and visited by all the...
- $75 / ≈ €72
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1609
Mercatorum Ex China in Bantam Negotiantium Schema.
An early portrait of Chinese merchants in Banten (Bantam), a small port town near Java's western end.Theodore de Bry, a German engraver and book dealer, began a compilati...
- $100 / ≈ €96
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1609
[Sunda].
Text engraving and coastal profiles in wood block from "Premier livre de l'histoire de la navigation aux Indes Orientales, par les hollandois, et des choses a eux ad...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cornille Nicolas, 1609
[Javanese gamelan orchestra]
Two text engravings from "Premier livre de l'histoire de la navigation aux Indes Orientales, par les hollandois, et des choses a eux advenues . . . ", being the...
- $75 / ≈ €72
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cornille Nicolas, 1609
[Java].
Wood block engraved coastal profiles set in text from "Premier livre de l'histoire de la navigation aux Indes Orientales, par les hollandois, et des choses a eux adv...
- $20 / ≈ €19
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cornille Nicolas, 1609
Sumatra Insula.
A miniature map of Sumatra containing detailed geography and nomenclature around the entire island. The neighbouring coast of the Malay Peninsula is shown, including Sing...
- $450 / ≈ €434
Place & Date: Amsterdam/Frankfurt 1609
India Orientalis.
Published in Hondius' editions of the Mercator Atlas from 1606 onwards, showing the Indian subcontinent, the Malay Peninsula, Siam and Cambodia, China and the Philippines...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
India Orientalis.
Published in Hondius' editions of the Mercator Atlas from 1606 onwards, showing the Indian subcontinent, the Malay Peninsula, Siam and Cambodia, China and the Philippines...
- $2000 / ≈ €1927
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Insulae Indiae Orientalis.
Map of South East Asia with good detail on the Philippines from the rare Cloppenburg edition slightly larger format and more scarce edition of the Mercator/Hondius "...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
India Orientalis.
Map covering India, Thailand, Philippines, Northern Borneo and the coast of Southern China. From the rare Cloppenburg edition "Atlas Sive Cosmographicae Meditationes...
- $550 / ≈ €530
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
[Borneo Insula.]
Important map of Bornea based on a map by Olivier van Noort (1558-1627), who on his turn mostly adapted information from earlier maps such as those by Langenes and van Li...
- $300 / ≈ €289
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
[The Dutch reach Annabon.]
Eight days after leaving the mainland, the Dutch arrived at one of the Annabon islands (Pagalu), where they asked the Portuguese and Moors, who were occupying the island,...
- $100 / ≈ €96
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Solor.
Scarce print on German text sheet showing the Island of Solor. From "Petits Voyages". The island Solar, to the north of Timor, has a high mountain and has a ver...
- $100 / ≈ €96
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Les Petit Voyages [Solor].
This work by de Bry comprises probably the greatest single collection of material on early voyages to the East Indies, and are unique in their extraordinary wealth of car...
- $100 / ≈ €96
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1601 - 1633
India quae Orientalis dicitur, et Insulae Adiacentes.
Map of South East Asia, noteworthy for being one of the first maps to include, albeit incompletely, the discoveries made by the Dutch vessel Duyfken in 1605-1606 in the G...
- $1750 / ≈ €1686
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1638
Insularum Moluccarum Nova descriptio.
Exquisite map of the famous Spice Islands based on the islands described by Jan Huyghen van Linschoten.This map was the first large scale map of the region and depicts th...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Selling price: $130
Sold in 2018
India quae Orientalis dicitur, et Insulae adiacentes.
A fine map of South East Asia, extending from India to Tibet to Japan to New Guinea. Formosa appears on this map, and even parts of Japan and Australia are seen. A handso...
- $1850 / ≈ €1783
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Moluccae Insulae Celeberrimae.
Showing the geographical features of the islands, and decorated with ships, sea monsters and a handsome cartouche. With an inset of Bachian island. From early on Willem ...
- $750 / ≈ €723
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1644
India quae Orientalis dicitur, et insulae adiacentes.
Extending from India to Japan and showing parts of Australia. It is indeed one of the first printed maps to show identifiable parts of Australia. It was not revised until...
- $2500 / ≈ €2409
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1644
Moluccae Insulae Celeberrimae.
Showing the geographical features of the islands and decorated with ships, sea monsters and a handsome cartouche. With an inset of Bachian island. From early on Willem J...
- $750 / ≈ €723
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca.1645
Ins. de Cerno a. Nostatibus Mauritius Nominata [on sheet with] Gunnanappi Labetacq [and] Civitas Gammelamme [and] Rex Tubatus.
Three views and one map on one page: Shows natives on Mauritius fishing and building a boat, with a dodo and two turtles at right; The Banda islands; A procession for th...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c.1646
Carta prima Generale dell' Asia.
FIRST STATE of Robert Dudley's general chart of the Persian Gulf, going east through India to the southeastern coast of China showing Macau and the area of present-day Ho...
Place & Date: Florence, 1646
Insulae Iavae Cum parte insularum Borneo Sumatrae..
An elegant sea chart of the island of Java with parts of Sumatra, Borneo and Bali. The map includes only coastal detail and shows the Dutch capital in the East Indies at ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1652
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 / ≈ €578
Place & Date: Paris, 1654
India Orientalis Nova.
Charming uncommon miniature map showing the northern two-thirds of Australia pre-discoveries by Captain Cook, but showing discoveries by Abel Tasman in 1642. The map show...
- $750 / ≈ €723
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1659
Sumatrae et insularum Locorumque nonnullorum circumiacentium. . .
Fine depicting the Island of Sumatra and the southern coasts of Malaysia from Quedo to Johore.North is orientated to the left of the page.Singapore is probably identifie...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660
Inde Orientale. (22).
Scarce map of India, the East Indies, Philippines and Malaysia published by Antoine de Fer in 1661 or 1662 in "Cartes de géographie revues et augmentées". Wit...
- $250 / ≈ €241
Place & Date: Paris, Antoine de Fer, 1657 but 1661 or 1662
Tabula Geographica Hydrophylacium Asiae Majoris exhibens, quo Omnia Flumina sive proxime sive remote per occultos maeandros Originem suam Sortiuntur.
Rare and Interesting map showing Asia from Arabia in the west until China, Japan, Korea and Philippines with Indonesia. From Kircher's "Mundus Subterranaeus". ...
- $300 / ≈ €289
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1665
Les Iles Molvcques, Celebes, Gilolo. . .
Map of the Indian Ocean Islands of the Moluccas Islands prepared by N.Sanson and published by Pierre Mariette.Published in an early edition of the small Sanson atlas L'Eu...
Place & Date: Paris, P. Mariette, 1667
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2009
Paskaerte Zynde t'Oosterdeel Van Oost Indien, met alle de Eylanden daer ontrendt geleegen van C. Comorin tota aen Iapan.
An eye-catching chart of Pieter Goos' sea chart of Australia, Southeast Asia, China, Japan, Korea and India. The chart shows the regions from Cape Comorin (Southern India...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1669
Indiae Orientalis nec non Insularum adiacentium.
Fine map of South East Asia from India to New Guinea with Japan and the southern tip of Korea in the upper right. The map leaves the question of Torres Straits unanswered...
- $1800 / ≈ €1734
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1680
Waere affbeeldinge wegens het casteel ende stadt Batavia.
A good impression of this finely engraved and detailed plan of Batavia, present-day Jakarta, the Dutch center of trading activities in the East Indies. Copied after Cleme...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1681
Habitants des Isles de la Sonde.
A fine and uncommon early 17th century print of two inhabitants of the Sunda Islands, East Indies (Indonesia).From the French text edition of Description d'Univers, 1683....
- $75 / ≈ €72
Place & Date: Paris, 1683
Isole dell 'India cioè le Molucche le Filippine e della Sonda . . . [East Indies].
In lower left hand corner a large title cartouche, decorated with mermaids, mermen and playful putti. A scarce, uncommon, late 17th century map of South East Asia, based ...
- $1800 / ≈ €1734
Place & Date: Rome, 1683
Molucquois (De L'Asie / figure LX).
A fine and uncommon early 17th century print of two people from Moluccas.From the French text edition of "Description d'Univers", 1683. by Allain Manneson Malle...
- $80 / ≈ €77
Place & Date: Paris, 1683
Von den Einwohnerne der Insulen Sonde (Fig LXIII).
A fine and uncommon early 17th century print of two inhabitants of the Sunda Islands, East Indies (Indonesia). Engraved by Joh. Jak. Vogel.By Allain Manneson Mallet (1630...
- $75 / ≈ €72
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1684
Insulae Sondae.
Rare small map of South East Asia, from "Kurtze bundige abbild und vorstellung der gantzen welt." by Johann Ulrich Muller. A second edition was published in Fra...
- $300 / ≈ €289
Place & Date: Ulm, 1692
Isole dell'Indie. . .
A beautiful and flamboyantly engraved large-scale map of the East Indies, including the Malay Peninsula, Cambodia, the Philippines and all of Indonesia and the Spice Isla...
Place & Date: Venice, 1696
Le Royaume de Siam avec les Royaumes. . .
Influential map of the Malay peninsula, Sumatra, Java and Borneo, centered on Singapore. Mortier incorporated information provided by the French Jesuits and charts the ro...
- $500 / ≈ €482
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1700
Nova Et Vera Exhibitio Gerographica Insularum Marianarum . . .
Attractive map of the Philippines, Japan, Korea and Indonesia with an inset of the island Guam, by the Jesuit Heinrich Scherer, printed in for Scherer's 'Atlas Novus'. Se...
- $1200 / ≈ €1156
Place & Date: Munich, c.1702
Anabon. (Ambon)
A fanciful view of a landscape on the island Ambon.From the French reissue of the account of early Dutch voyages first published in 1608 by Commelin. The French translati...
- $120 / ≈ €116
Place & Date: Amsterdam, E. Rogers, 1703