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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
La Reine de la chine.
Very rare and decorative costume plate. In the background : Palais Royal Peking. Beneath the plate a descriptive text about the Queen of China.Bears the address : Se vend...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1685
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
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
IAPONIAE INSULAE DESCRIPTIO.Ludoico Teisera auctore.
The map was based upon the manuscript draft supplied to Ortelius in about 1592 by the famous official Portuguese chart maker, Luis Teixeira , who was the cartographer t...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Impery sino Tartarici Supremus Monarcha.
Decorative costume plate showing Kam Hi son of the Shunzhi Emperor of China [1638 - 1661?], the second emperor of the Manchu Qing dynasty, who apparently supported the fo...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1668
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
Naves Chinensibus usitatae velis arundineis & anchoris ligneis.
A Chinese vessel. Print taken from Linschoten's famous voyages to the East of 1583-92 here published by De Bry the year after they first appeared as a separate book. Fro...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1599
Vue de la Rue des Marchands Chinoises a Nankin.
So-called optical print illustrating a parade of vessels. Engraved by F.X. Habermann (1721-1796). The Academie Imperiale was a well-known publisher of optical prints, est...
- $500 / ≈ €468
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1760
The citie and Castle Zelandia in the Island of Taywan. / Stadt en casteel Zelandia op 't Eilant Taywan.
This important copperplate engraving is one of the earliest European views of Taiwan, depicting the Dutch fortifications and trading settlements on the West coast of the ...
- $1500 / ≈ €1404
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1675
Observatoire de Peking.
The observatory of Mateo Rizzi in Peking, in which there are very large instruments, an Equinoctial Sphere, a Celestial Globe, a Zodiacal Sphere, Azimuthal Horizona, Quad...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Paris, GROSIER Jean-Baptiste, 1785
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
(Lübeck) Lvbeca vrbs. imperialis libera. civitatvm. Wandalicarvm. . . .
Impressive more than 3 meters wide panoramic town view after a woodblock engraving from Elias Diebel, initially made in 1552. Of this original woodblock, Bachmann mention...
- $4500 / ≈ €4211
Place & Date: Germany, c. 1855
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
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
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
Carte particulière de l'entrée de Canton - Plan de Quang-tcheou-fou vulgo Canton .
Beautiful detailed map of the entrance to the city of Canton, showing also the cities of Macao and Quanghai, as well as the islands of the bay, including the island of Sh...
- $450 / ≈ €421
Place & Date: Paris, P.G. Le Mercier, 1735
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
Tingis, Lusitanis, Tangiara. / Tzaffin. / Septa. / Arzilla/ Sala.
Views of the five northern and western African coastal town-view on one sheet: Latin text.From the greatest publication in this genre!. The Civitates was compiled and wri...
- $600 / ≈ €561
Place & Date: Cologne, 1580
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
La Chine Royaume. . .
An important and attractive French map of the whole of China, the northern tip of the Philippines, with a strangely curved Korea and an under-sized Taiwan here called &qu...
- $2600 / ≈ €2433
Place & Date: Paris, 1656
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
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
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
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
Platte Grond vande Stadt Macao.
A fine view of the city of Macao from Lappa Island showing in schematic blocks the structure of the town. With European vessels and junks in the surrounding water. With n...
- $750 / ≈ €702
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1724
Collection of rubbings with portraits and biographies of famous Chinese philosophers, poets and legendary wise old men.
Collection of portraits and biographies of famous Chinese philosophers, poets and legendary wise old men. All portraits and text are original rubbings from stone tables d...
- $15000 / ≈ €14036
Place & Date: China or Korea, c. 1701
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[Drawing of a Tulip]
Very detailed and well executed tulip drawing by an unknown artist belonging to the School of Anthony Claesz (1607/8-1649)This drawing was made for a 'Tulip book' painted...
- $1500 / ≈ €1404
Place & Date: The Netherlands c.1700
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
'Jokisen no zu' (Steamboat)
Nagasaki-e original Japanese woodblock print of a Steamboat. The figurehead is a striking detail.Nagasaki-e are Japanese woodblock prints that depict foreigners (Mostly ...
- $3750 / ≈ €3509
Place & Date: Nagasaki, c.1805
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
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
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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 / ≈ €2807
Place & Date: St.Petersburg, 1810-1814
De Stad Macao.
A fine view of the city of Macao from Lappa Island showing the defenses, the forts, churches and convents: including Fort de Baare, Bon Parto, Fort St Paulo (Monte Fort)....
- $750 / ≈ €702
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1724
Macao.
Early view of Macao after Barthelemy Lauvergne (1805-1875) and engraved in aquatint technique by Sigismond Himely (1801-1872). Published as plate 28 in Voyage autour du m...
- $600 / ≈ €561
Place & Date: Paris, Finot, 1835
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
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
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
Kam Hi Fils de Chien chi Empereur des Tartares orientaux?.plusieurs titres d'honneur Ecrits de sa propre main.
Very rare and decorative costume plate. Underneath the plate a descriptive text in French. Bears the address AParis Chez Nolin rue St. Jacques à l'Enseigne de la Place d...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Paris ca. 1690