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Carte de la province de Quan-tong, ou Lyau-tong et du Royaume de Kau-li ou Corée.
Map of Korea. The map is of interest for the use of East Sea, the sea between Korea and Japan, here called "Mer de Corée. With Seoul named, King-Ki-TaoDecorative ti...
Date: Paris, 1757
![[Lot of 6] Carte de la Baye d'Hocsieu. Fukin. (3 Maps + 3 Gravure of China)](/uploads/cache/IMG_2524-250x250.jpg)
[Lot of 6] Carte de la Baye d'Hocsieu. Fukin. (3 Maps + 3 Gravure of China)
[Lot of 6 items]. (3 Maps +3Â gravure )- Carte de la Baye d'Hocsieu et des Entrees de la Riviere de Chang Situees dans la Province de Fokyen. J.N.Berlin 1748- Carte de lâ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1759
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 / ≈ €518
Date: Paris, 1760
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...
- $450 / ≈ €389
Date: Augsburg, 1760
Vue d'une Rue Nanking.
A well-known publisher of optical prints, established in Augsburg. After a design by P.van Blankaert.In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, there were many popular s...
Date: Augsburg 1760
Karte von den Bengaslishen Meerbussen . . .
Manuscript map including Ceylon, south of India, Bengal gulf with Burma (Myanmar), Thailand and northern tip of Sumatra. Very decorative and colorful compass rose in cent...
Date: Germany, ca. 1760
Vue des Magasins de la Compagnie des Indes à Pondichéry, de l'Amirauté et de la maison du Gouverneur.
Optical print of the French East India Company's warehouses, the Admiralty and the Governor's House at Pondicherry in Tamil Nadu. Pondicherry, on the Coromandel Coast sou...
- $300 / ≈ €259
Date: Paris, ca 1760
Le dedans du Palais de l'Empereur de Chine à Peking.
This so called optical print shows the imperial palace, the Forbidden City in Peking, China. In the foreground a large courtyard is depicted, surrounded by buildings. Thr...
Date: Augsburg, 1760
Plan de la ville de Madras et de ses attaques.
Manuscript map, in black, brown and red ink, showing the fortifications of the city of Madras, now Chennai, on the east coast of India, north of Pondicherry.Showing the c...
- $2000 / ≈ €1727
Date: Paris, ca 1760
Vue perspective de la grande Ceremonie du Couronnement de l'Empereur de la Chine.
So-called optical print illustrating the crowning of the Chinese emperor. It shows the throne at the center.Mondhare was a well-known publisher of optical prints, establi...
- $450 / ≈ €389
Date: Paris, 1761
Les Isles de la Sonde, Moluques, Philippines, Carolines, et Marlannes.
Nice detailed map of southeast Asia, showing the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java and the island of Borneo. Engraved by E. Dussy and the title cartouche by Arrivet. From hi...
- $275 / ≈ €238
Date: Paris, ca. 1762
Nuova et Accurata Carta dell' Isole Filippine, Ladrones, a Moluccos o Isole della Speziarie come anco Celebes &c.
The map has been prepared by Isaac Tirion for his Nieuwe en beknopte Handatlas (New and concise hand-atlas) of which Albrizzi made an imitation and used in the Italian ed...
- $400 / ≈ €345
Date: Venice, 1740-1762
Carta nuova dell' Arabia fatta in Amsterdam per Isauc Tirion.
Detailed map of Arabia and environs, prepared by Albrizzi and published in Thomas Salmon in " Lo Stato Presente di Tutti i popoli del mondo naturale, politico e mora...
- $650 / ≈ €561
Date: Napels, Francesco Ricciardo, 1738 -1762
Suite de l'Histoire de Perse. Depuis l'An 3519, jusqu'Ã l'An 3525.
Showing eastern Europe centered on Greece, Macedonia, Persia and western Turkey. Textural information in French flanking the map. De Mornas was Geographer to Louis XVI, a...
- $60 / ≈ €52
Date: Paris, 1762
Histoire universelle depuis le commmencement du monde jusqu'a present. Tome Vingt-unieme. Portugais, Espagnols, Hollanois etc
Volume 21 of this informative publication with a description of the discoveries, conquests, and settlements by the Portuguese, Spaniards, English, and Dutch in Southeast ...
- $1200 / ≈ €1036
Date: Amsterdam, Leipzig, 1763
Asia.
Uncommon miniature map of Asia. The map is of interest for the use of Sea of Corea, for the sea between Korea and Japan.Engraved by J.Ellis for "A New General and Un...
- $150 / ≈ €130
Date: London, 1761-1763
![East Indies. {India]](/uploads/cache/38623-250x250.jpg)
East Indies. {India]
Uncommon miniature map of India, engraved by Thomas Kitching for "A New General and Universal Atlas Containing Forty five Maps by Andrew Dury".This miniature at...
- $100 / ≈ €86
Date: London, 1761-1763
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[65] Surie.
Charming chart of the harbour of the town of St Jean d'Acre in Syria. Showing town and harbour plan, with soundings, anchorages, rocks, shoals, fortifications and lightho...
- $120 / ≈ €104
Date: Marseille, 1764
Karte von den neuen philippinen.
Small map of the southern Philippines. In: "Allgemeine Historie der Reisen zur Wasser und zu Lande: oder Sammlung aller Reisebeschreibungen.. in Englischen zusammen ...
- $200 / ≈ €173
Date: Leipzig, Arkstee und Merkus, 1764
Plan de Maye a la Coste de Malabar.
From Bellin's "Le Petit Atlas Maritime", a plan of the bay of Maye, off the Malabar coast of southern India. Map relief shown pictorially. Shows settlements, po...
- $100 / ≈ €86
Date: Paris, 1764
Baye Ville et Forts d'Andarajapour a la Coste de Malabar.
From Bellin's popular "La Petit Atlas Maritime", showing the bay, fort and town of Andarajapour in the Malabar region of India. The map is furnished with a comp...
- $110 / ≈ €95
Date: Paris, 1764
Coste de Coromandel depuis Gondagamas jusqu'a Narzapour.
This map is taken from Bellin'spopular 'Petit atlas maritime'. It shows a portion of the Indian coastline in the region of Coromandel from Montepdly through Mazulipatam o...
- $110 / ≈ €95
Date: Paris, 1764
Plan de Maye a la Coste de Malabar.
From Bellin's 'Le Petit Atlas Maritime', a plan of the bay of Maye, off the Malabar coast of southern India. Relief shown pictorially. It shows settlements, ports, and ma...
- $85 / ≈ €73
Date: Paris, 1764
l'Arabie et l'Egypte pour la Concorde de la Géographie des different Ages.
Uncommon map of Arabian Peninsular with a title inland "Arabie Heureuse. . .".More about Mapping of Arabia [+]
Date: Paris, 1765
![Plan de Gingy, ville et forteresse d'Asie . . . [An Early Manuscript Map of Pondicherry Prior To Its Reconstruction After The Seven Years War.]](/uploads/cache/43006-250x250.jpg)
Plan de Gingy, ville et forteresse d'Asie . . . [An Early Manuscript Map of Pondicherry Prior To Its Reconstruction After The Seven Years War.]
An early manuscript map of Gingy shortly after The Seven Years War, when the French took possession of large part of India.With an extensive key to the left.Gingee Fort o...
- $1500 / ≈ €1296
Date: Paris, 1765
Carte de la Babylonie nommée aujourd'hui Hierac-Arab avec les noms, tant anciens que modernes et les routes des expéditions de Cyrus et de Julien l'Apostat, aussi bien que celles de Teixera, Benjamin. . .
A very fine map centered on Arabia and in top Iraq with Baghdad. With a very attractive title cartouche on the lower left-hand corner. Published by Joseph-Nicolas De l' I...
- $550 / ≈ €475
Date: Paris/ Bordeaux, 1766
L'Empire des Turcs.
With decorative title cartouche upper right. Good detail in the Arabian peninsula.More about Mapping of Arabia [+]
Date: Paris, 1767
La Chine.
With decorative title cartouche lower right. Good detail of China's mainland with Taiwan and Hainan Province.
- $300 / ≈ €259
Date: Paris, 1767
De l'Asie. . .
On the left and on the right two explication cartouche. The text is in French, interesting for its documentation of contemporary European attitudes and preconceptions reg...
- $300 / ≈ €259
Date: Paris, ca. 1767
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Plans de Quelques Villes de la Province de Hou-Quang. / Grondtekening [floor plan] van eenige Steden van't Landschap Hu-Quang.
Interesting set of three local town plans each with extensive titles :"Yong Chew Fu, ou Yong Tcheou Fou." Centre: "Vu Chang Fu, ou Vou-Tchang-Fou Capitale:...
Date: The Hague, Pieter de Hondt, 1747-1767
Cité de Nang Hyong Fu, tiree the Nieuhof. De Stad van Nan-Hyong-Fu, uit Nieuhof.
Interesting view of Nan-Hyong-Fu with harbour and fort.Prepared by Jacques Nicolas Bellin and included in a Dutch edition of Prévost d' Exile's "Histoire des Voyage...
Date: The Hague, Pieter de Hondt, 1747-1767
Les Isles de la Sonde.
Small detailed map of southeast Asia, showing the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java and the island of Borneo. Dated 1769.From Atlas Portatif Universel, by Robert de Vaugondy...
- $200 / ≈ €173
Date: Paris, later than 1769
Plan de Thiagar, prise par l'arméé française en 1759.
An early manuscript map of Thiagar. With an extensive unfinished key to the left. The map was drawn shortly after the end of the Seven Years War, when the French took pos...
- $750 / ≈ €648
Date: Paris, 1769
Terra Sancta sive Palaestina. . .
Map of Palestine divided among the Tribes on both sides of Jordan and into Kingdoms of Judah and Israel. Cartouche at bottom right features a small map of the Exodus.T.C....
- $750 / ≈ €648
Date: Augsbourg, 1770
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 ...
Date: Augsburg 1770
Turquie d'Europe et partie de celle d'Asie…
An attractive map of Turkey, Greece, Cyprus. Prepared by Janvier.
Date: Paris, 1771
Carte des parties Nord et est de l'Asie.. (5 maps on one sheet)
Five maps on one sheet, showing California, Alaska and Syberia, Korea and Japan. South to Korea the island "Quelpaerts".The map is from Diderot's "Encyclop...
- $200 / ≈ €173
Date: Paris, 1772
Asia secundum novas celeberrimi de l'Isle Projectiones aliorumque. . .
A pleasant map of the continent of Asia, with each country displayed in a different color. Plain oval title cartouche. A set of 5 different mileage scales lower left corn...
Date: Augsburg, 1772
Nouvelle Representation des Cotes Nord et Est de L'Asie. . .
Three overlaid maps on one sheet. This interesting map shows northern coast of Europe and Asia, focusing on the idea of a North East Passage. Japan and Korea are shown on...
Date: Paris, 1772
Carte des parties Nord et Est de L'Asie. . .
Five maps on one sheet, showing the Northern Russian territories in Europe and Asia, including the western coastline from Siberia, with Japan and Korea with the island of...
Date: Paris, 1772
Carte de L'Indoustan. . .
Uncommon edition of this fine map of the northern part of India.From Atlas Portatif pour servir a l'intelligence de l'Histoire Philosophique et Politique des etablissemen...
- $150 / ≈ €130
Date: Amsterdam, 1773
Carte Particuliere des Isles Moluques.
A very nice map centered on the island of the Moluccas.From Atlas Portatif pour servir a l'intelligence de l'Histoire Philosophique et Politique des etablissements et du ...
- $75 / ≈ €65
Date: Amsterdam, 1773
Carte des Isles du Japon.. Coree, Avec .. De la Chine..
Uncommon map of Japan, with Hokkaido, Ryukhu, Korea, Taiwan and the southeast coast of China from Peking till Macao.A mysterious "Corree" shows only a scant few...
Date: Amsterdam, 1773
Nouvelle carte de l'Isle de Java.
A very nice map centered on the island of Java. With French text in title cartouche and an additional title in Dutch underneath the map.Read more Early maps of South East...
Date: Amsterdam, 1773
Carte de La Tartarie Orientale..
Uncommon edition of this fine map of Tartary with the Island of Sakhalin. In lower right engraved 21b.From Atlas Portatif pour servir a l'intelligence de l'Histoire Philo...
Date: Amsterdam, 1773
Carte Particuliere des Isles Moluques. . .
A very nice map centered on the island of the Moluccas.Title in French and in Dutch underneath the map.
Date: Amsterdam, 1773
Nouvelle carte du Royaume de Bengale.
Uncommon issue of this detailed map of Bangladesh with the Ganges delta, including Calcutta. Giving great detail with trade routes, European trade settlements, etc. Prepa...
- $380 / ≈ €328
Date: Amsterdam, 1773
The Russian Empire, from the Best Authorities, by Thos. Kitchin, Geographer.
Showing the Asian part of Russia, with interesting note to a coast line north of Siberia "Land seen in 1723", likely referring to Vitus Bering (1681–1741), wh...
- $150 / ≈ €130
Date: London, c. 1773
L'Empire de La Chine../ 't Keizerryk van China..
An attractive map of China with Korea and Taiwan (I.Tay-wan, ou Formosa) and "Mer de Coree'. There are decorative title cartouches in three corners of the map. The u...
- $200 / ≈ €173
Date: The Hague, 1773
Carte Plate de la partie Septentrionale du Detroit de Malac, depuis de la rade d'Achem jusqu'a Malac.
French chart of the Island of Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula separated by the strait of Malacca in Indonesia.Latitude and longitude scales, compass rose and system of rh...
Date: Paris, ca. 1775
Carte réduite de l'Océan Oriental, depuis Le Cap de Bonne Espérance jusqu'à l'Isle Formose.
French chart covering the seas between the Cape of Good Hope and Taiwan and the West Coast of Australia. Prepared by Jacques-François L'Abbé Dicquemare (1733-1789). Lat...
Date: Paris, Brest, chez Demonville, 1775
Carte de l'Entrée du Golf de la Mer Rouge. / Plan de La Rade de Moka.
French sea chart of the entry of the Red Sea showing both the African and Arabian coasts. With two inset charts: Plan de La Rade de Moka. and one with the coasts south of...
Date: Paris, ca 1775
Carte de la Côte de Guzerat, Du Golf de Cambaye et des Côtes de Concan et De Canara.
French sea chart of West India from Gujarat to Mangalore. With inset chart Plan de la Rivière de Surate.Prepared by Jacques-François L'Abbé Dicquemare (1733-1789). La...
Date: Paris, ca 1775
Carte de la Côte Orientale du Golfe du Bengale.
French sea chart of coast northeast of India. Latitude and longitude scales, compass rose and system of rhumb lines, soundings near coast and in bay areas.D' Après de Ma...
- $150 / ≈ €130
Date: Paris, ca 1775
Vues des Cap d'Aden, de St. Antoine, et de Bab-El-Mandeb, sur la Côte Méridionale de l'Arabie Heureuse. Vues de l'Isle de Socotra
Coast profiles near Cape Aden in Yemen and in the lower part coastal profiles near Socotra, an island east of the Horn of Africa and 380 kilometers (240 mi) south of the ...
- $250 / ≈ €216
Date: Paris, Brest, chez Demonville, 1775
Carte Plate qui comprend La partie septentrionale de LA Cöte de Coromandel et les Côtes de Golconde , D' Orcha et de Bengale.
French chart of Coromandel in India. West to the top.Latitude and longitude scales, compass rose and system of rhumb lines, soundings near coast and in bay areas.D' Aprè...
- $150 / ≈ €130
Date: Paris, Brest, chez Demonville, 1775
Carte de la Baye et du Port de Trinquemalay dans L'Isle de Ceylan.
Chart showing the bay of Trincomalee, Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Trincomalee is natural deep water port on the east coast of Sri Lanka, about 110 miles northeast of Kandy. It is...
- $250 / ≈ €216
Date: Paris, 1775
Carte de la Mer Rouge, depuis Moka jusqu'a Gedda.
Chart of the Red Sea. With 3 inset maps of Shake Omare, Goofs and Gedan.D'Après De Mannevillette (1707-1780) was one of France's first hydrographers. When the first edit...
- $450 / ≈ €389
Date: Paris, 1775
Vues diverses du fort de l'Agouade pres de l'isle de Goa . . . Sumatra . . .
French sea sea chart with 9 coastal views near Goa in India and Sumatra. The titles above the main profiles reading as following : Vues diverses du fort de l'Agouade pre...
- $200 / ≈ €173
Date: Paris, Brest, Demonville, 1775
A chart of the China Sea inscribed to Monsr. D'APRES de MANNEVILLETTE .. To A.Dalrymple.
Most important milestone sea chart is based upon the surveys made from navigational surveys by Alexander Dalrymple (1737-1808]. He was the first Hydrographer of the Briti...
Date: Paris, ca. 1775
Carte de la sibérie et des Pays voisins.
An interesting detailed map of Siberia, extending from the White Sea and the Caspian Sea in the west to Irkuckoi Province .Prepared by Jacques Nicolas Bellin after Dutch ...
Date: Paris, 1738-1775
Carte des Isles Kouriles, d'après la carte Russe dréssée et gravée par Laurent.
An interesting map of the Kuril Islands, northeast from Hokkaido, Japan, to Kamchatka, Russia, separating the Sea of Okhotsk from the North Pacific Ocean.Prepared by Jacq...
Date: Paris, 1738-1775
Suite de la carte de La Sibérie et le pays de Kamtschatka...
An interesting map of Siberia, with a view on Ochozk Sea. Prepared by Jacques Nicolas Bellin after Dutch sources and included in Prévost d' Exile's "Histoire des Vo...
- $75 / ≈ €65
Date: Paris, 1738-1775
Carte de la sibérie et des Pays voisins.
An interesting detailed map of Siberia, extending from the White Sea and the Caspian Sea in the west to Irkuckoi Province .Prepared by Jacques Nicolas Bellin after Dutch ...
- $50 / ≈ €43
Date: Paris, 1738-1775
Carte de la Baye et du Port de Trinquemalay Dans L'Isle de Ceylan.
French chart of the harbor of Trinquemalay on the island of Ceylon. Prepared after Samuel Cornish who was a vice admiral for the English East India company.Latitude and l...
- $350 / ≈ €302
Date: Paris, Brest, chez Demonville, 1775
Carte de la Tartarie Occidentale.
An interesting map of Tartary and northeast Asia, from Lake Baykal, Partie du Siberia in the north, Pays des Kalkas at the center, as well as Desert de Sable, and down to...
- $95 / ≈ €82
Date: Paris, ca. 1775
Neue Carte des Baikal Sees welche bey Umschiffung desselben in den Iahren 1773 und 1773 aufgenommen worden.
Rare engraved map by Johanna Dorothea Sysang, showing Lake Baikal. Johanna Dorothea Sysang (1729 - 1791) was a copper engraver from and was a daughter of Johann Christoph...
Date: 1777
Une Kabardinienne.
Uncommon copper engraved costume plate from the French translation of Johann Gottlieb Georgi "Beschreibung aller Nationen des Russischen Reichs" (1776), the wor...
Date: St. Petersbourg, C.G. Müller, 1776-1777
Femme Barabinzoise.
Uncommon copper engraved costume plate from the French translation of Johann Gottlieb Georgi "Beschreibung aller Nationen des Russischen Reichs" (1776), the wor...
Date: St. Petersbourg, C.G. Müller, 1776-1777
Fille Barabinzoise.
Uncommon copper engraved costume plate from the French translation of Johann Gottlieb Georgi "Beschreibung aller Nationen des Russischen Reichs" (1776), the wor...
Date: St. Petersbourg, C.G. Müller, 1776-1777
Une Baskirienne.
Uncommon copper engraved costume plate from the French translation of Johann Gottlieb Georgi "Beschreibung aller Nationen des Russischen Reichs" (1776), the wor...
Date: St. Petersbourg, C.G. Müller, 1776-1777
Une Metcherèke.
Uncommon copper engraved costume plate from the French translation of Johann Gottlieb Georgi "Beschreibung aller Nationen des russischen Reichs" (1776), the wor...
Date: St. Petersbourg, C.G. Müller, 1776-1777
Terra Sancta vocata quae olim XII tribus . . .
Miniature map of the Holy Land, among the 12 Tribes and divided into 6 provinces. In the upper left near the title cartouche Pharaoh''s daughter discovers Moses in the Ri...
- $300 / ≈ €259
Date: Augsburg, J.M.Will, 1778
A new and accurate map of Asia, Drawn from the most approved modern maps & charts / by Thos. Bowen.
The map is of interest for the use of Sea of Korea for the sea between Korea and Japan.Detailed map of Asia from Saudi Arabia, Persia, Russia, India, China, Japan to Sout...
Date: London, J.Cooke, 1777-1778
Magni Turcarum dominatoris Imperium . . .
Uncommon version of this small map of the Ottoman Empire extending from the Balkans and the north African coast through Arabia the Black Sea. Decorated with a small compa...
Date: Augsburg, J.M.Will, 1778
China.
A nice mid-eighteenth-century map of China, extending from the island of Hainan in the south, to the Kobi Desert in the north, from Lake Puka in Tibet in the west to Kore...
- $150 / ≈ €130
Date: Edinburgh, 1778
![The country Coromandel from the Coleroon to Cape Comorin. . . [with] The carnatic from the Pennar to the Coleroon. .](/uploads/cache/48363-250x250.jpg)
The country Coromandel from the Coleroon to Cape Comorin. . . [with] The carnatic from the Pennar to the Coleroon. .
Coromandel from the Coleroon to Cape Comorin. Elegant map in two sheets compiled for the East-India Company. In lower right margin : Writing by W. Harrison.
- $300 / ≈ €259
Date: London, 1778
Carte géographique contenant le royaume de Sibérie . . .
Scarce and highly detailed map of Siberia subdivided into three provinces, namely Tobolsk, Jenissejesk, Irkutsk, and outer parts of the Tartary.In upper right corner inse...
Date: Augsburg, c. 1770-1780
Ceremonie de la grande Feste que les Chinois celebre le 24 de la Lune d'Aoust dans la principale Place de Pekin.
So-called optical print illustrating the festivities on the 24th of August in Beijing.Mondhare was a well-known publisher of optical prints, established in Paris, at rue ...
Date: Paris, c.1780
Vue perspective de la grande Rue de Nanquin ancienne Ville de la Chine.
So-called optical print of a street in Nanking. The wide boulevard is lined with merchants displaying their wares with colorful flags and signs. The street is filled with...
Date: Paris, c.1780