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Constatinopolis.
Panoramic town-view of Constantinople (Istanbul). Woodcut published in the so-called pirate edition of the "small Schedel" in Augsburg, 1497, Latin edition. Ori...
Place & Date: Augsburg, Johann Schönsperger. 1497
Octava Asie Tabula (The Silk Road Area.)
Woodblock printed large-format map showing Northern India with Central Asia including the Himalayas and China. From the 1513 edition of Waldseemüller's Geographia.In the...
Place & Date: Strasburg, 1513
Septima Asie Tabula (Central Asia.)
A woodblock-printed large-format Ptolemaic map showing the region east of the Caspian Sea is labeled SOGDIANA. Sogdia or Sogdiana was an ancient Iranian civilization betw...
Place & Date: Strasburg, 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...
Place & Date: Strasburg, 1513
![Septima Asie Tabvla. |Walsseemüller's map of Central Asia and the Silk Road]](/uploads/cache/62137-250x250.jpg)
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...
Place & Date: Strasburg, J. Schott, 1513
Tabula X. Asiae hae sunt e cognitis totius orbis.
This is the earliest printed representation of India west of the Ganges River in Ptolemy's time. It is an important map of southwestern Asia, including Persia, Afghanista...
- $1100 / ≈ €964
Place & Date: Lyons, M. Servetus, 1525
Tabula Asiae VII.
Attractive woodblock map, depicting the Caspian Sea, Black Sea and the Persian Gulf, extending to the Imaus Mountains. according to Ptolemy. In the center of the map is...
Place & Date: Basle, 1542
![Sevilla, Hispalis ... [on sheet with] Cadiz [and] Malaga.](/uploads/cache/33642-250x250.jpg)
Sevilla, Hispalis ... [on sheet with] Cadiz [and] Malaga.
Very desirable and early view of Sevilla, Cadiz and Malaga, with the Roman and Moorish citadels on the hills in the background. "In the upper part Sevilla, showing ...
- $500 / ≈ €438
Place & Date: Cologne, (1572) 1577
Constantinopel des Griechischen Keijserthumbs Hauptstatt
Detailed town view of the Golden Horn of Constantinople. The city plan depicts the markets, homes, palaces and churches, including the famous Hagia Sophia, shown prior to...
- $550 / ≈ €482
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1580
Tartariae sive Magni Chami Imperium.
This is a very early depiction of the northern Pacific, with the first mapping of the Northwest Coast of America and probably the first map to name California 'C. Califor...
- $1750 / ≈ €1533
Place & Date: Antwerp, c. 1590
Russiae, Moscoviae et Tartariae Descriptio.
Engraved by Frans Hogenberg from an original of 1562 by Anthony Jenkinson of the English Muscovy Company. The many vignettes are based on the reports of Marco Polo's expl...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Tartaria.
Published in Hondius' editions of the Mercator Atlas from 1606 onwards, China, Korea, and the northern Pacific coast of America are shown as two continents separated by t...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1633
Asiae Nova Descriptio.
Final State of Pieter Van Den Keere's Rare Map of Asia -- The first map of Asia to include decorative panels. Published by N.J.Visscher and engraved by Abraham Goos, embe...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1636
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...
Place & 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 / ≈ €219
Place & 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...
- $275 / ≈ €241
Place & Date: Paris, 1650
Tartaria sive Magni Chami imperium.
This is a detailed and decorative map of the Tartary and northern part of China, including the Chinese Great Wall, the Caspian Sea, and the Volga River east as far as the...
- $700 / ≈ €613
Place & 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 principal...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660
![[Printed on silk] Nova Totius Americae Sive Novi Orbis Tabula, Auct. Hugo Allardt.](/uploads/cache/48420-250x250.jpg)
[Printed on silk] Nova Totius Americae Sive Novi Orbis Tabula, Auct. Hugo Allardt.
Hugo Allard’s ca. 1661 map of the Americas, showing California as an island printed on silk. This separately issued map printed on paper is quite rare on the market. T...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1661
Die Grosse Tartari.
Rare map showing Siberia, Korea with part of the Caspian Sea to the West, as well as India and North Russia. The title in an oval cartouche in upper right cornerThe map r...
- $1000 / ≈ €876
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1689
A New Map of Great Tartary and China with the adjoining parts of Asia
Two insets show the land to the northeast of China, according to Jesuit information. The map stretches from northern Russia and Nova Zemlya in the northwest to Formosa in...
Place & Date: Oxford, 1700
Les trois Iles, appellées en Allemand Werders, ou sont les Territoires de Dantzic, Marienbourg et Elbing dans la Prusse Royale avec les Côtes de la Mer Baltique, suivant la description de Olaus Jean Gotho...
Decorative regional map including the town of Danzig and the region south of it. East to the top. This well-executed engraving was published in 1729 and 1727 by Pieter va...
- $450 / ≈ €394
Place & Date: Leiden, 1719
La ville de Dantzic dans la Prusse Royale.
Decorative view of Danzig. This well executed engraving was published in 1719 by Pieter van der AA, in Leiden in "Les Voyages tres-curieux et tres-renommez faits en ...
- $400 / ≈ €350
Place & Date: Leiden, 1719
La Moscovie septentrionale . . .
Decorative view of area north of Moscow. This well-executed engraving was published in 1729 and 1727 by Pieter van der AA, in Leiden in "Les Voyages tres-curieux et ...
- $250 / ≈ €219
Place & Date: Leiden, 1719
La Moscovie meridionale . . .
Decorative map centred on Moscow. This well executed engraving was published in 1729 and 1727 by Pieter van der AA, in Leiden in "Les Voyages tres-curieux et tres-re...
- $300 / ≈ €263
Place & Date: Leiden, 1719
Astrakan, ville capitale du royaume du meme nom, en Moscovie. (Astrakhan)
Decorative view of Astrakhan. Astrakhan is where Europe ends and Central Asia begins. Its position on the Caspian Sea has ensured a long history as an important trading h...
- $300 / ≈ €263
Place & Date: Leiden, 1719
Elbing. (Elblag in Northern Poland)
Decorative view of the town of Elblag in Northern Poland. This well executed engraving was published in 1729 and 1727 by Pieter van der AA, in Leiden in "Les Voyages...
- $400 / ≈ €350
Place & Date: Leiden, 1719
![Nouvelle carte de la province de Kilan en Persie . . . (Iran]](/uploads/cache/39437-250x250.jpg)
Nouvelle carte de la province de Kilan en Persie . . . (Iran]
Decorative map of southern part of the Caspian Sea in Northern Iran. This well executed engraving was published in 1729 and 1727 by Pieter van der AA, in Leiden in "...
- $300 / ≈ €263
Place & Date: Leiden, 1719
Carte la plus nouvelle et plus exacte du royaume de Perse . . .
This is a decorative map of Persia and Central Asia. It has very good details of the region east of the Caspian Sea, showing modern-day Uzbekistan. The region is labeled ...
- $400 / ≈ €350
Place & Date: Leiden, 1719
Saba, ville en Perse.
Decorative view of Sabā / Dakān Sorkh) which is a village in Vahdatiyeh Rural District in present-day Iran.In the foreground are camels and horses. This well-executed e...
Place & Date: Leiden, 1719
La grande & belle ville de Kaschan, en Perse. (Kashan in Iran)
Decorative view of Kashan in Iran. A branch of the Silk Road skirts the western and southern edges of Iran's central desert, passing through a string of small cities — ...
- $300 / ≈ €263
Place & Date: Leiden, 1719
Riga.
Decorative view of Riga. This well executed engraving was published in 1729 and 1727 by Pieter van der AA, in Leiden in "Les Voyages tres-curieux et tres-renommez fa...
Place & Date: Leiden, 1719
Michael Federowits . . .
Portrait of Tsar Michail Feodorovich (1596-1645). Engraving by Jacob Christopher Sartorius (1694-1737) engraver, active in Nuremberg. This well executed engraving was pub...
- $75 / ≈ €66
Place & Date: Leiden, 1719
La ville de Berbendt, en Perse.
Decorative view of Derbendt - Derbent, a city in the Republic of Dagestan, Russia, located on the Caspian Sea, north of the Azerbaijani border. It is the southernmost cit...
- $350 / ≈ €307
Place & Date: Leiden, 1719
Carte des Indes, de la Chine & des Isles de Sumatra, Java &c..
This fine and quite detailed general map extends from northern Japan to Timor and from India to New Guinea.There are very good details of towns and trade routes in modern...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720
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 / ≈ €1533
Place & 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 '...
- $750 / ≈ €657
Place & Date: Paris, 1723
Zariza, petite ville des Moscovites, dans le royaume d'astracan, sur le bord du Wolga.
Decorative view of the town of Volgograd (Zarizyn) on the Volga River. This well executed engraving was published in 1729 and 1727 by Pieter van der AA, in Leiden in &quo...
- $300 / ≈ €263
Place & Date: Leiden, 1719-1727
La Ville de Bagdad, dans la Turquie.
Decorative view of the town of Bagdad. This well executed engraving was published in 1729 and 1727 by Pieter van der AA, in Leiden in "Voyages tres-curieux et tres-r...
- $350 / ≈ €307
Place & Date: Leiden, 1719-1727
Soratof, ville de Tartarie Moscovite. / Tzornogar, Petite Ville des Moscovites, dans le Royaume d'Astracan, sur le bord du Volga.
Decorative engraving of two panoramic views in top Saratov with in the foreground the Volga River and in bottom a view of Chernyy Yar on the Volga River. This well execut...
- $300 / ≈ €263
Place & Date: Leiden, 1719-1727
Cassimogorod ville de la Tartarie Moscovite.
Decorative view of the town of Kasimov on the Oka River, east from Moscow and south from Murom near the northern shore of the Caspian Sea. The city is seen from across th...
- $300 / ≈ €263
Place & Date: Leiden, 1719-1727
Moruma ville de la Tartarie Moscovite.
Decorative view of the town of Moruma, Russian city near the northern shore of the Caspian sea as seen from across the river Oka. This well executed engraving was publish...
- $300 / ≈ €263
Place & Date: Leiden, 1719-1727
![[Printed on silk] Nieuw Wassende Graaden Paskaart Vertoonende alle de bekende Zeekusten en Landen op den geheelen Aard Boodem of Werelt door Gerard van Keulen. . .](/uploads/cache/31640-250x250.jpg)
[Printed on silk] Nieuw Wassende Graaden Paskaart Vertoonende alle de bekende Zeekusten en Landen op den geheelen Aard Boodem of Werelt door Gerard van Keulen. . .
A very scarce and beautiful chart on Mercator's projection printed on silk. With the name of Gerard van Keulen and the privilege. The map shows great interior detail, inc...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1728
Carte de L'Empire des Turcs en Asie & en Afrique..
Including the Arabian Peninsula, Egypt, Cyprus, and part of the Mediterranean. In the upper right corner is a large Caspian Sea, filled with notes. To the right, the Rive...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1728
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 abd the ancient Silk Road region. The map shows the track of William of Rubruck (Willem van Rubroeck or ...
Place & 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...
Place & Date: Ausburg, 1730
Oriens, Persia, India etc.
Uncommon map of Persia, Armenia, Arabian Peninsular and part of India. Prepared by Christoph Cellarius (1638-1707). From Geographia Antiqua...
Place & Date: Leipzig, Gledisch, 1732
Derbent.
View of Derbent, the southernmost city in Russia from a scarce series of city views by Daniel de la Feuille (1640-1709). Engraving shows the ancient fortress and ruins of...
- $100 / ≈ €88
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1734
Nova Maris Caspii et Regionis Usbeck cum Provincijs adjacentibus vera Delineatio
This is the first printed map specifically of the Uzbek region. It shows the area around the Caspian Sea and northern Iran. The area eastward from the Caspian is marked '...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1735
Imperium Turcicum in Europa, Asia et Africa Regiones proprias, tributarias, clientelares sicut et omnes eusdem Beglirbegatus seu Præfecturas Generales exhibens. . .
Johann Baptist Homann's well-engraved map of the Ottoman Empire centered on Cyprus. With good detail in the Arabian Peninsular. In the lower left, a decorative title cart...
- $500 / ≈ €438
Place & Date: Nurnberg, 1737
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 ...
Place & Date: The Hague, 1737
A Map of Western Tartary Drawn from the Survey of the Jesuits and Mr. Kyrillow's Map of the Russian Empire.
Uncommon map of the Gobi Desert and the eastern portion of the Silk Route region by Thomas Kitchin. Covers from Lake Baikal in the north as far south as Beijing, east to ...
- $110 / ≈ €96
Place & Date: London, 1745-1747
![[Set of 3 optical prints] Vue du Pallais du l'Empereur de Perse avec la Mosquée, ou Eglise a Ispahan.](/uploads/cache/49123-250x250.jpg)
[Set of 3 optical prints] Vue du Pallais du l'Empereur de Perse avec la Mosquée, ou Eglise a Ispahan.
An optical print of the court of the Persian Emperor. Engraved by F.X. Habermann (1721-1796). The Academie Imperiale was a well-known publisher of optical prints establis...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1750
Constantinople ville de Romanie et capitale de l'Empire des Turcs.
A very decorative and extremely rare of Istanbul, including a numbered legend in lower part. Published by Jacques Chéreau, (1688 - 1776). Engraved by Aveline and first ...
Place & Date: Paris, ca.1750
Vue du Pallais du l'Empereur de Perse avec la Mosquée, ou Eglise a Ispahan.
An optical print of the court of the Persian Emperor. Engraved by F.X. Habermann (1721-1796). The Academie Imperiale was a well-known publisher of optical prints, establi...
- $300 / ≈ €263
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1750
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 ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 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 ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1751
Perse.
Scarce small map of Persia based on cartography of Guillaume Delisle (. Published in "Nouveau traité de geographie par M ", published by La veuve Lottin & ...
Place & Date: Paris, P.G. Le Mercier, 1752
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 ...
- $1300 / ≈ €1139
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1757
Vue des Promenades et les Fontaines d'Ispahan.
Carmine was a well-known publisher of optical prints, established in Augsburg.Isfahan was once one of Central Asia's largest and most important cities, at the crossroads ...
- $250 / ≈ €219
Place & Date: Augsburg 1770
Le Royaume de Perse suivant les nouvelles observations Par J.B.Nolin.
This is a rare map of Persia with modern-day Uzbekistan to the north. The region is labeled as "Grande Tartarie" and "Pays des Usbeks." Bocara (Bukhar...
- $300 / ≈ €263
Place & Date: Paris, 1783
Carte de l'Empire de Perse...
Finely and crisply engraved map of the Persian Empire during the 18th century. It shows the Caspian Sea in the north to the Persian Gulf in the south, and from Armenia in...
Place & Date: Venice, 1779 - 1784
L'Asie divisée en ses principaux Etats..
A finely and crisply engraved map of Asia is decorated with an ornamental title cartouche in the lower-left corner.There are very good details of towns in modern-day Uzbe...
Place & Date: Venice, 1776 - 1784
A scarce Real Compañia de Filipinas 250 Pesos deed issued in 1785
A scarce Real Compañia de Filipinas 250 Pesos deed issued in 1785. Share nº 23726, hand signed by several company officials.Engraved by Fernando Selma (1752-1810) after...
Place & Date: Spain, 1785
A scarce Real Compañia de Filipinas 250 Pesos deed issued in 1785.
A scarce Real Compañia de Filipinas 250 Pesos deed issued in 1785. Share nº 24665, hand signed by several company officials.Engraved by Fernando Selma (1752-1810) after...
- $1750 / ≈ €1533
Place & Date: Spain, 1785
![A New and Correct Map of Asia Laid down from the latest and best Observations Humbly Inscribed to his Royal Highness George, Prince of Wales. . . [2 subtitles:] Several Representations of the Customs Manners etc. of Divers Parts of Asia. . .](/uploads/cache/35765-250x250.jpg)
A New and Correct Map of Asia Laid down from the latest and best Observations Humbly Inscribed to his Royal Highness George, Prince of Wales. . . [2 subtitles:] Several Representations of the Customs Manners etc. of Divers Parts of Asia. . .
A large, attractive and rare, separately issued map of Asia with figured side borders. With large decorative title cartouche ad address "By Thomas Kitchin. London, p...
Place & Date: London, 1787
Carte d'Asie divisée en ses principaux Etats.
Uncommon and decorative "carte à figures" - wall map, prepared by Clouet, with superb decoration, including a wonderful rococo border with 20 decorative vignet...
Place & Date: Paris, Mondhare, 1787
![[Asia and part of Australia]](/uploads/cache/26453-250x250.jpg)
[Asia and part of Australia]
An engraved map of Asia shows an oversized Japan and part of Australia, called Neu Holland. To the east of the Caspian Sea, we see the area of present-day Uzbekistan and ...
- $450 / ≈ €394
Place & Date: Tübingen, Heerbrandt, 1790
Kirguisienne.
Originally hand-colored mezzotint from 'Costumes civils actuels de tous les peuples connus', showing a native of Kyrgyzstan, a Central Asian country along the Silk Road, ...
- $25 / ≈ €22
Place & Date: Paris,1801-1806
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 Depôt...
- $175 / ≈ €153
Place & Date: Paris, c. 1810
Voyage of his majesty’s ship Alceste, along the Coast of Corea, to the island of Lewchew, with an account of her subsequent shipwreck, by John M’LEOD. Surgeon of the Alceste.
The second and best edition, with a frontispiece portrait of Captain Maxwell and five fine hand-colored aquatint plates, including a plate not present in the first editio...
Place & Date: London, John Murray, 1818
Perse Afghanistan et Balouchistan . . .
Detailed map of Irak and Iran, prepared by A. H. Basset, rue Saint-Jacques, no. 64, Paris and published in Atlas classique et Universel de Géographie . . . .The top thre...
Place & Date: Paris, A.H. Basset, 1828
A Chinese official with a ceremonial hat, holding a fan and a silk purse.
A colored wood block print of a Chinese official with a ceremonial hat, holding a fan and a silk purse.
Place & Date: Nagasaki, c. 1830
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...
- $500 / ≈ €438
Place & 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...
Place & Date: London, 1839
(Portrait of Joseph-Marie Jacquard).
A rare woven silk portrait of Joseph-Marie Jacquard after Bonnefonds, completed on the Jacquard punched-card loom. Woven by Carquillat in the silk factory of Didier Petit...
Place & Date: France, ca. 1840
Maschinenfabrik Rüti, vormals Caspar Honegger tex.
Extremely rare woven silk portrait of Jean-Marie Jacquard drawn by Fritz Kaeser after the painting by C. Bonnefond, produced on the famous Honneger mechanical loom in Rü...
Place & Date: Zürich, Rüti, ca. 1847
A fan combining views of Hong Kong (right), Canton (center), and Macau.
The fan shows nice images of Macau, Hong Kong and Canton on onside and on verso a garden with 45 characters welcoming a rider on his white horse. Their clothes are height...
Place & Date: China, ca. 1850-1860
Chinese painting on silk of a couple in a love-making position.
Fine oriental miniature of an erotic scene of a Chinese couple engaged in amorous pursuit. Quin Dynasty, late 19th. century.This type of Chinese painting, usually anonymo...
Place & Date: China, ca. 1880
Chinese painting on silk.
Fine oriental miniature of a Chinese couple engaged in amorous pursuit. Quin Dynasty, late 19th. century.This type of Chinese painting, usually anonymous, also called &qu...
Place & Date: China, ca. 1880
![Schat-Kamer ofte konst der stuurlieden, behelzende een duidelyke onderwyzinge in de navigatie. . . [bound with] Tafelen bevattende De Sinussum, tangenten en Secanten. . . [bound with] Geographische Tadfel...](/uploads/cache/33112-250x250.jpg)
