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Septima Asie Tabvla. |Walsseemüller's map of Central Asia and the Silk Road]
Trapezoidal woodcut map showing the area east of the Sarygamysh Lake, about midway between the Caspian Sea and the (former) Aral Sea. It is one of the earliest obtainabl...
Date: Strasburg, J. Schott, 1513
Secunda Asiae Tabula (Ukraine and Russia)
Woodblock-printed a large-format Ptolemaic map showing Russia, Ukraine, and the Black Sea region. From the 1513 edition of Waldseemüller's Geographia.One of the earliest ...
Date: Strasburg, 1513
Octava Asie Tabula.
PTOLEMY, C. / WALDSEEMÃœLLER, M. - The Silk Road Area.
Date: Strasburg, 1513
Tabula Asiae VII.
1542 MÃœNSTER, S. - Woodblock map, depicting the Caspian Sea, Black Sea and the Persian Gulf, extending to the Imaus Mountains
Date: Basle, 1542
Russiae, Moscoviae et Tartariae Descriptio.
The map was engraved by Franz Hogenberg from an original by Anthony Jenkinson of the English Muscovy Company, drawn in 1562. Jenkinson traveled to Bukhara in 1557-59 and ...
Date: Antwerp, 1598
Asia noviter delineata. . .
From 1633 the members of the Blaeu family were official cartographers to the United East India Company and, as such, had access to the most up-to-date cartographic inform...
Date: Amsterdam, 1644
Isfahan.
An early of Isfahan in central Iran,. From the rare first edition "Offt begehrte Beschreibung der newen orientalischen Rejse, so durch Gelegenheit einer Holsteinisc...
- $250 / ≈ €215
Date: Schleßwig, Zur Glocken, 1647
Description de l'Empire du Sophi des Perses tiree en partie de l'Arabe de Nubie, et en partie de plusieurs et diverses Relations.
The map of the Empire of Persia is shown to extend from Baghdad almost to the present-day borders of India. Including part of Saudi Arabia and Oman. Including "Golfe...
Date: Paris, 1650
Tartaria sive Magni Chami imperium.
This is a detailed and decorative map of Tartary and northern China, including the Great Wall of China, the Caspian Sea, and the Volga River, extending east as far as the...
Date: Amsterdam, 1658
Constantinopolitanae urbis effigies ad vivum expressa.
A rare panoramic town view of Istanbul, with over the whole length of the lower part 3 columns of poems in Latin, Dutch, and French, and a numbered key 1-29 to the princi...
Date: Amsterdam, 1660
A Map of Turky, Arabia And Persia. Corrected from the latest Travels. . .
FIRST EDITION - Fine Turkish Empire map centered on Saudi Arabia, Cyprus and the Mediterranean Sea. Dated 1711, "Sold by John Senex at the Globe aga inst St. Dunstan...
- $1750 / ≈ €1504
Date: London, 1721
Carte des Pays Voisins de la Mer Caspiene dressee pour l' usage du Roy. . .
The map shows the area east of the Caspian Sea, including parts of Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and northern Iran. The area eastward from the Caspian is marked '...
Date: Paris, 1723
Historic Map - Naaukeurige Kaart Van Tartaryen, Soo als dat door W De Rubruquis doorreyst.
This attractive map published by Pieter van der Aa shows Tartary and the ancient Silk Road region. The map shows the track of William of Rubruck (Willem van Rubroeck or i...
Date: Amsterdam, 1713-1729
Imperii Persici in omnes suas Provincias . . . Exacte Divisi Nova Tabula Geographica. . .
Showing the eastern part of Turkey and Cyprus, Palestine, Persian Gulf, including Gulf of Oman, Caspian Sea, Iran and the north-west territories of India.Embellished with...
Date: Ausburg, 1730
Great Tartary, with the tract of the Moscovite Ambassador's Travels from Moscow to Pekin in China.
An interesting map illustrating the route taken by the Russian Ambassador on his travels east to Beijing. Shows the Great Wall, "Somer Houses" and "parts u...
Date: London, 1732
Oriens, Persia, India etc.
Uncommon map of Persia, Armenia, Arabian Peninsular and part of India. Prepared by Christoph Cellarius (1638-1707). From Geographia Antiqua...
Date: Leipzig, Gledisch, 1732
Carte la plus generale et qui comprend la Chine, la Tartarie chinoise et le Thibet. . .
It has a quite elaborate pictorial cartouche engraved by G. Kondet. It is a very detailed map of China, Tibet, and Korea.In the upper left corner is very good details of ...
Date: The Hague, 1737
Nieuwe kaart van Tartarie.
A map of Tartary, Korea and part of Japan. The map is most notable for the confusion between Kamchatka and Iesso.There are very good details of towns and trade routes in ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1750
Constantinople ville de Romanie et capitale de l'Empire des Turcs.
A very decorative and extremely rare town view of Istanbul, including a numbered legend in the lower part. Published by Jacques Chéreau, (1688 - 1776). Engraved by Avelin...
Date: Paris, ca.1750
Carte de la Turquie de L'Arabie et de la Perse.
This is the Amsterdam issue of De L'Isle's map of the Turkish Empire and Arabian Peninsula. It includes the Turkish Empire, the Mediterranean, Central Asia, and parts of ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1751
Spatiosissimum Imperium Russiae Magnae juxta recentissimas Observationes Mappa Geographica . . .
This is a decorative map of Greater Russia, extending from Livonia in the west to Kamchatka, China, Tibet, Taiwan, Korea, and part of Japan in the east. To the south, it ...
Date: Augsburg, 1757
Alexandri Magni Imperium et Expeditio per Africam et potissimum per Aslam.
Rare map of the Empire of Alexander the Great, prepared by J.B.Nolin and published by Monhare for his Atlas Général a l'usage des colleges et maisons d'education.. Center...
Date: Paris, 1783
Carte d'Asie.
Fine map of Asia, with an interesting representation of Japan, Hokkaido, Sakhalin Island, Kamchatka, and Korea. Engraved by Alexandre Blondeau, who also worked for the De...
- $175 / ≈ €150
Date: Paris, c. 1810
Tablaeu géographique statistique &C. de l'empire Russe actuel en Europe et en Asie avec ses aquisitions graduelles et caractérisées.
Map showing the extension of the Russian Empire at the beginning of the 19th century. Several letterpress notations are present on the map.Surrounding letterpress explana...
Date: Paris, Paul Renouard, 1828
Perse Afghanistan et Balouchistan . . .
Detailed map of Iraq and Iran, prepared by A. H. Basset, rue Saint-Jacques, no. 64, Paris and published in Atlas classique et Universel de Géographie . . . .The top three...
Date: Paris, A.H. Basset, 1828
Carte physique et politique de l'Asie. Publiée pour la première fois en 1822 par J. GOUJON. Revue et augmentée par l'éditeur d'après de nouveaux matériaux.
This is a detailed map of Asie. It provides very good details of towns in modern-day Uzbekistan. The region is labeled as "Usbecs." The important cities on the...
Date: Paris, J. Goujon et J. Andriveau, 1837
Orbis Veteribus Notus.
This is a detailed steel-engraved map of the ancient world, stretching from Europe eastwards to the Black Sea and beyond, southwards through northern Africa, Arabia, Indi...
Date: London, 1839
