Iapon.
An attractive miniature map of Japan, published by Petrus Bertius, in Amsterdam at the beginning of the seventeenth century.The quirky map is shows the country in a disto...
- $250 / ≈ €217
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Japonia.
Jodocus Hondius' fine map early 17th-century map of the islands of Japan, was first issued as one of the new maps in the expended Mercator Hondius Atlas of 1606.The map i...
- $1500 / ≈ €1301
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606-1620
Japonia Regnum.
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 Rela...
- $2000 / ≈ €1735
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1655
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 / ≈ €1735
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1655
Isola del Giapone e penisola di Corea.
A most attractive and decorative map of Japan and its near neighbour Korea by Vincenzo Coronelli. An elaborate central title cartouche garlanded with intertwined flowers ...
Place & Date: Venice, 1692
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 / ≈ €1735
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1700
L'Empire du Japon, tire des cartes des Japonnois.
A good impression of this decorative map of Japan based on Reland's map of `1715, one of the earliest to use both Latin names and Japanese characters. With inset of the b...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1719
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
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...
Place & Date: Augsburg 1720
Carte des Isles du Japon et la Presqu'Isle de Coree. . .
A fine map of the islands of Japan, including Korea, Taiwan and the coast of China till Macao.Embellished with fine baroque decorations. Bellin influenced other cartograp...
- $275 / ≈ €239
Place & Date: Paris, 1746
Le Japon Par le Sr. Robert de Vaugondy fils de Mr. Robert Geog. Ord du Roi avec Privilege 1749.
Small detailed map of Japan and Korea. From Atlas Portatif Universel, by Robert de Vaugondy.Page 168 outside border top right. First state. The map is of interest for the...
- $220 / ≈ €191
Place & Date: Paris, 1749
L'Empire du Japon divisé en sept principales parties. . .
Large map of Japan and Korea with a distinctively French style title cartouche containing two small landscapes.The map draws heavily on the previous work of Bellin, but i...
- $1000 / ≈ €867
Place & Date: Paris, 1750
L'Empire du Japon..
Very similar to Joan Blaeu's map of 100 years previously: Europeans by then had been expelled, except the Dutch, whose movements were so curtailed that they were not able...
Place & Date: Paris, 1756
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...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1773
L'Impero del Giapon diviso in sette principali parti cive..
The map of the Japanese Empire published by Antonio Zatta (1757-97) continued to show most of the inaccuracies of earlier eighteenth-century maps.
- $550 / ≈ €477
Place & Date: Venice, 1785
Carte des découvertes au Nord du Japon.
Chart of the discoveries to the north of Japan, in 1643 by the Dutch ships Castricum and Breskens. In two small insets in the top of the chart the province of Osju is dep...
- $400 / ≈ €347
Place & Date: Paris, 1798
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Wapenrusting. [Samurai armour]
Showing Japanese Samurai armour.Von Siebold was born in Wurzburg, in Germany, and worked for the Dutch government as a doctor in Java. In Japan, where Von Siebold arrived...
- $300 / ≈ €260
Place & Date: Leiden 1832-1852
Muzik en dans.
Showing Japanese scenes of music and dance.Von Siebold was born in Wurzburg, in Germany, and worked for the Dutch government as a doctor in Java. In Japan, where Von Sieb...
- $150 / ≈ €130
Place & Date: Leiden 1832-1852
MUZJIKINSTRUMENTEN. MUSIKINSTRUMENTE. Tab.VI.
Several Japanese instruments.Philipp Franz von Siebold (1796-1866) was a physician, researcher, and teacher who joined the Dutch East Indian army and traveled to Japan on...
- $350 / ≈ €304
Place & Date: Leiden, 1852
Reisgereedschapp - Reisegeraethschaft.
Showing Japanese travel chests as used during a Dutch tributary embassy to the Tokugawa’s residence.Von Siebold was born in Wurzburg, in Germany, and worked for the Dut...
- $300 / ≈ €260
Place & Date: Leiden 1832-1852
Hofdragt.
Showing different Japanese men's clothing at court.Von Siebold was born in Wurzburg, in Germany, and worked for the Dutch government as a doctor in Java. In Japan, where ...
- $250 / ≈ €217
Place & Date: Leiden 1832-1852
Een Veldheer.
Showing a Japanese cavalier.Von Siebold was born in Wurzburg, in Germany, and worked for the Dutch government as a doctor in Java. In Japan, where Von Siebold arrived in ...
- $300 / ≈ €260
Place & Date: Leiden 1832-1852
Harddravers.
Showing a Japanese scene of cavaliers training.Von Siebold was born in Wurzburg, in Germany, and worked for the Dutch government as a doctor in Java. In Japan, where Von ...
- $200 / ≈ €173
Place & Date: Leiden 1832-1852
Ruiters.
Showing Japanese types of cavaliers.Von Siebold was born in Wurzburg, in Germany, and worked for the Dutch government as a doctor in Java. In Japan, where Von Siebold arr...
- $150 / ≈ €130
Place & Date: Leiden 1832-1852
Wapenen.
Showing Japanese swords.Von Siebold was born in Wurzburg, in Germany, and worked for the Dutch government as a doctor in Java. In Japan, where Von Siebold arrived in 1823...
- $200 / ≈ €173
Place & Date: Leiden 1832-1852
Wapenoefeningen - Tab XXII. (Kendo training)
Showing Japanese Kendo training.Von Siebold was born in Wurzburg, in Germany, and worked for the Dutch government as a doctor in Java. In Japan, where Von Siebold arrived...
- $300 / ≈ €260
Place & Date: Leiden 1832-1852
Wapenoefeningen - Tab XXIII. (Kendo training)
Showing Japanese scenes of Kendo training.Von Siebold was born in Wurzburg, in Germany, and worked for the Dutch government as a doctor in Java. In Japan, where Von Siebo...
- $300 / ≈ €260
Place & Date: Leiden 1832-1852
Wapenoefeningen - Tab XXIV. (Japanese martial art techniques)
Showing Japanese scenes of different martial art techniques.Von Siebold was born in Wurzburg, in Germany, and worked for the Dutch government as a doctor in Java. In Japa...
- $200 / ≈ €173
Place & Date: Leiden 1832-1852
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Eene Vorstin. [Japanese Empress]
Showing Japanese Empress in kimono.Von Siebold was born in Wurzburg, in Germany, and worked for the Dutch government as a doctor in Java. In Japan, where Von Siebold arri...
- $200 / ≈ €173
Place & Date: Leiden 1832-1852
Burgerdragt.
Showing a Japanese citizen woman in kimono.Von Siebold was born in Wurzburg, in Germany, and worked for the Dutch government as a doctor in Java. In Japan, where Von Sieb...
- $200 / ≈ €173
Place & Date: Leiden 1832-1852
Eene Voorname Dame.
Showing a wife of a high-ranking person dressed in typical kimono. The tenno, kugyo (court officials), shogun and daimyo often had several wives to ensure the birth of an...
- $200 / ≈ €173
Place & Date: Leiden 1832-1852
Staatiekleeding.
Showing a Japanese man's in official dress.Von Siebold was born in Wurzburg, in Germany, and worked for the Dutch government as a doctor in Java. In Japan, where Von Sieb...
- $175 / ≈ €152
Place & Date: Leiden 1832-1852
![Burgerdragt. [Japanese citzen in typical dress]](/uploads/cache/39349-250x250.jpg)
Burgerdragt. [Japanese citzen in typical dress]
Showing a Japanese citizen in a typical dress.Von Siebold was born in Wurzburg, in Germany, and worked for the Dutch government as a doctor in Java. In Japan, where Von S...
- $150 / ≈ €130
Place & Date: Leiden 1832-1852
Een Japansch Meisje - Ein japanisches Madchen.
Portrait of a Japanese girl. Lithography made after a drawing made to nature by de Villeneuve., Von Siebold was born in Wurzburg, in Germany, and worked for the Dutch gov...
- $200 / ≈ €173
Place & Date: Leiden 1832-1852
De Vrouw - Die Gemahlin der Sjogun.
Showing the wife of a shogun in typical kimono and hair cut. A Shogun and daimyo often had several wives to ensure the birth of an heir.Von Siebold was born in Wurzburg, ...
- $200 / ≈ €173
Place & Date: Leiden 1832-1852
Volksphysionomien.
Showing farm and city boy and girl in typical dress and haircut.Von Siebold was born in Wurzburg, in Germany, and worked for the Dutch government as a doctor in Java. In ...
- $200 / ≈ €173
Place & Date: Leiden 1832-1852
REISGEREEDSCHAPP. REISEGERAETHSCHAFT. Tab. II.
Japanese travel chests as used in a Dutch tributary embassy to the Tokugawa’s residence.Philipp Franz von Siebold (1796-1866) was a physician, researcher and teacher wh...
- $300 / ≈ €260
Place & Date: Leiden, 1852
Muzijkinstrumenten.
Showing several Japanese string musical instruments, a.o.: Samisen and Kokiu.Von Siebold was born in Wurtzburg, in Germany, and worked for the Dutch government as a docto...
- $200 / ≈ €173
Place & Date: Leiden, 1832-1852
Muzijkinstrumenten.
Showing Japanese drums.Von Siebold was born in Würzburg, in Germany, and worked for the Dutch government as a doctor in Java. In Japan, where Von Siebold arrived in 1823...
- $200 / ≈ €173
Place & Date: Leiden, 1832-1852
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 / ≈ €867
Place & Date: Leiden, 1832-1852
Japan ten tyde van Zin-mu-ten-won 660 v.c.
Showing Japan 660 B.C. Japan was known as "Jama-to v. Aki-Tsu-Sima". The southern tip of Korea is shown and labeled "Kan", the island of Tsushima is l...
Place & Date: Leiden, 1832-1852
North Pacific Ocean LOO CHOO and adjacent Islands 1855.
Large scale chart of Okinawa in the Japan Sea. With scale and vignette of Typographical office. Map nr. 2416.An interesting note in lower right "The coast line of al...
- $300 / ≈ €260
Place & Date: London, 1855
Küstenansichten von Japan bis Capstadt und St. Helena in 5 Blättern.
Prepared by Officer S.M.S. Arcona during the German expedition of 1860-1861 to South East Asia. Lithographed by Lippold and printed by C.Ulrich of Berlin. Sheet 2 from a ...
Place & Date: Berlin, 1863
Johnson's Japan Nippon, Kiusiu, Sikok, Yesso. . .
A detailed steel engraved map of Japan with inset maps of Yes and the Japanese Kuriles and Bay of Nagasaki. The map shows the island Argonaut labeled as Takashima (Ulleun...
- $175 / ≈ €152
Place & Date: New York, 1867
Kaisei dosen Dai Nihon yochi zenzu.
Title in top : "Dai Nihon yochi zenzu.". Showing Japan, Korea and in an inset Hokkaido. Folding copperplate print in Japanese. Relief shown by hachures. Include...
- $350 / ≈ €304
Place & Date: Tokyo, Meiji 10 or 1877
A folding fan with a map of Japan, double hemisphere world map and views of Yokohama and Edo.
The folding fan showing a map of Japan on one side, and on the other side a double hemisphere world map, two city views, and a train. Read more about folding fans andcar...
- $750 / ≈ €651
Place & Date: Japan, ca. 1880
Japan.
A detailed lithographed map of Japan including Hokkaido and including a small inset of the environs of Tokyo & Yokohama. Lower part map a numbered key to divisions an...
- $200 / ≈ €173
Place & Date: Edinburg, 1884
Travellers' Map of Japan, Chosen (Korea), Taiwan (Formosa) with Brief Descriptions of the Principal Tourist Points of Japan.
An early 20th century map which wss published in Tokyo for English speaking tourists.Very detailed set of maps of Japan and parts of Korea, Taiwan and part of China, show...
- $250 / ≈ €217
Place & Date: Tokyo, 1925