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Tabula Superioris Indiae & Tartariae maioris. (Modern Map of China, Japan, etc.)
Important map extending from Tartary in the north, to "Prov. Bocat" (Cambodia) in the south. "Tebet" is shown prominently, as is "Zinpangri"...
Date: Vienne, 1541
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...
Date: Paris, 1575
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 in 1575 in two...
Date: Paris, 1575
Calechut / Ormus / Canonor.
Four panoramic 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 of India i...
Date: Cologne, 1580
A cidade de Angra na ilha de Iesuxpo da Tercera..
Spectacular perspective view of the harbour and town of Angra on the island of Terceira in the Azores. It was at the time an important port and administrative centre of t...
Date: Amsterdam, 1598
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 ...
Date: Frankfurt, 1609
II Pars Indiae Orientalis in qua Johan. Hugonis Linschotani. . .
De Bry's Part II of his "Les Petit Voyages", containing "Pars Indiae Orientalis, in qua Johan. Hugonis Linscotani navagatio in Orientem, 1609", being ...
Date: Frankfurt, Wolffgang Richter, 1609
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[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...
Date: Amsterdam, Cornille Nicolas, 1609
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...
Date: Amsterdam, 1724
A fine bronze cannon.
Cannon built up of two truncated conuses, differing in size, the steps marked by mouldings shaped as flat bands preceded by ogees: base ring similar; breech with ogee-sha...
Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1755
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Sincapour. [Singapore]
Early view of Singapore after Pâris, engraved in aquatint by Sigismond Himely (1801-1872). The view is drawn looking up the Singapore River from South Boat Quay. It sho...
Date: Paris, Finot, 1835
Chikyu Bankoku sankai yochi zenzu setsu. / Sekisui Cho Harutaka. (Map and description of geography of all the countries of the globe).
Reduced version of the famous map "Kaisei chikyu bankoku zenzu" by Sekisui Nagakubo (1717-1801) published ca. 1785, still based on the one by Matteo Ricci. Incl...
- $3500 / ≈ €3062
Date: Tokyo, 1850
COLLECTION OF HONG KONG MAPS, BOOKS & FLYERS. Including CHINA - HONGKONG surveyed by Captn. Sir Edward Belcher, in H.M.S. Sulphur 1841. Corrected to 1901.
A collection of 30 maps, prints, and publications relating to Hong Kong. Including : - BELCHER, E. Sir, An updated version of this most important nautical chart of Hong K...
Date: London, 1841 - 1901
