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Collection of rubbings with portraits and biographies of famous Chinese philosophers, poets and legendary wise old men.
Collection of portraits and biographies of famous Chinese philosophers, poets and legendary wise old men. All portraits and text are original rubbings from stone tables d...
- $15000 / ≈ €14036
Place & Date: China or Korea, c. 1701
Neptune des Côtes Occidentales de France.
Large maritime atlas illustrated with a handwritten title, a table and 47 single or double page charts. The charts show the western coasts of France as well as the Spanis...
- $12000 / ≈ €11229
Place & Date: Paris, 1776-1822
Nieuwe Wassende Graade Zee Kaart over de Spaanse Zee Vant Kanaal tot 't Eyland Cuba in Westindia. . .
¤ Engraved by I.van Anse. A very representative example of a Dutch chart of the Atlantic, showing the north-east coast of America, the coasts of Africa and Europe and So...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1728
Novissima et Accuratissima Brabantiae Ducatus Tabula.
North is to the right. Like all other maps of Brabantiae Ducatus, it encloses the area between the rivers Rhine, Maas and Schelde, with Namur as the most southern town. O...
- $350 / ≈ €328
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1629
Ducatus Limburg.
In 1616 prepared by Aegidio Martini. Includes the towns of Maastricht as well as of Aachen. A very large title cartouche with two putti.
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1639
Carte de l'Ile de Java. . .
An inset plan of Batavia and clearly indicated rice fields, mountains, forests, towns in profile, and even elephants, suggesting the wealth of detail found on this map. M...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Indiae Orientalis nec non Insularum adiacentium.
Fine map of South East Asia from India to New Guinea with Japan and the southern tip of Korea in the upper right. The map leaves the question of Torres Straits unanswered...
- $1800 / ≈ €1684
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1680
Dominia Anglorum in America Septentrionali.
Four maps on one sheet (New Found land/ New England/ Virginia and Carolina/Florida) based on J.B.Homann's map, showing British possessions in North America. At bottom of ...
- $1500 / ≈ €1404
Place & Date: Nuremberg 1740
Plan de la Ville et du port de Nangasaki. Grond tékening van de stad en de haven van Nangasaki.
The map shows a plan of the port and the town of Nagasaki. Deshima, the place where the Dutch traders were allowed to settle, is included. From Prévost's important Colle...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1752
Guinea.
A close copy of the map by Blaeu. Covers the Guinea and Benin coast. A very decorative map with a large title cartouche. At bottom right two putti area carrying an elepha...
- $1100 / ≈ €1029
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1680
Aethiopia Inferior vel Exterior.
The standard map of South Africa throughout the 17th century. The lake out of which the 'Zambere' -the Zambesi- flows is probably based on reports of Lake Ngami, undiscov...
- $750 / ≈ €702
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Virginiae Partis Australis, et Floridae Partis Orientalis.
Blaeu based this map on the Mercator-Hondius of 1606. A number of geographical improvements, however were incorporated, although two large fictions lakes accompanied by e...
- $1800 / ≈ €1684
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Accurate Vorstellung der Orientalisch Kayserlichen Haupt- und Residenz-Stadt Constantinopel samt ihrer Gegend und Zweyen . . .
The upper part shows Constantinople with adjoining regions. The view shows the former Christian church Hagia-Sophia, the Blue Mosque, three Egyptian obelisks, Sultan Sule...
- $1250 / ≈ €1170
Place & Date: Nuremberg 1720
Asia.
Uncommon map of Asia, with a curious shape for Korea. Nice title cartouche in upper left corner with an elephant and a warrior. From his atlas Oorlogs tablessen, Oft uytg...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1706
Aethiopia inferior, vel exterior.
The standard map of South Africa throughout the 17th century. The lake out of which the 'Zambere' -the Zambesi- flows is probably based on reports of Lake Ngami, undiscov...
- $575 / ≈ €538
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1645
Plattegrond der Nederlandse Faktory op het Eiland Desima..
An uncommon Dutch bird's eye plan of Deshima, the Dutch trading post of the V.O.C., published in Isaac Titsingh's important Book on Japan "Bijzonderheden over Japan&...
Place & Date: 's-Gravenhage, widow of J. Allart, 1824-1825
Transisalania provincia vulgo Over-Yssel auctore N.ten Have
Detailed map prepared by Nico ten Have.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1690
Tabula ducatus Limburch et comitatus Valckenburch. . .
The map describes the southern part of Limburg and reaches into Belgium (Liege, Verviers) and Germany. With two very decorative cartouches.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1690
De Hertochdommen Gulick Cleve Berghe en de Graefschappen...
It is one of Blaeu's early maps: It was only published between 1630 and 1635 in three editions of the "Appendix" and one of the "Theatrum". In the lef...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1635
Brabantia Ducatus.
West is at the top. On the lower left a magnificent cartouche with a sitting female figure carrying a globe and compasses and the coat of arms of Brabant. Like all other ...
- $500 / ≈ €468
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Tabula Tartariae et majoris partis regni Chinae.
Stretching from the Caspian Sea in the west to Formosa in the south-east. Including the peninsula of Korea, Japan and the east coast of Yedso. The Great Wall of China is ...
- $650 / ≈ €608
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1680
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...
- $500 / ≈ €468
Place & Date: Paris, 1756
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
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 / ≈ €1871
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1655
Uplandia.
Covers the area of the modern Uppsala, the vicinity of Stockholm, and includes most of Aland.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1639
Noordoost Cust van Asia van Japan tot Nova Zembla.
Important for its early depiction of Hokkaido and the Islands to the North of Japan. Ships navigate the seas around the Siberian, Chinese and Japanese coast extending as ...
- $3000 / ≈ €2807
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1666
Nieuwe Generale Kaart van Asia.
Uncommon map of Asia, engraved by A.Krevelt. In upper right hand corner inset map of Siberia.
- $120 / ≈ €112
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1792
Vue de Nangasaki.
Steel engraved of Nagasaki from the water, identifying clearly Deshima, the V.O.C. trading post and the Dutch flag. Japanese and Chinese sloops in the fore ground. Engra...
- $125 / ≈ €117
Place & Date: Paris, 1842
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 / ≈ €1871
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1700
Nov' Orbis Sive America Septentrionalis. . .
Miniature map of North America, a reduction of the appropriate part of Seutter's folio map of the Americas, drawn by Albert Seutter. An unusual looking map, its projectio...
- $250 / ≈ €234
Place & Date: Augsburg, J.M.Will, 1778
De Texel Stroom .. vant Marsdiep./ Caarte van De Mase...
Two decorative charts on one sheet, one depicting Texel and the entrance of the Zuider Zee with an inset showing the north coast of West-Friesland, the other depicting th...
- $750 / ≈ €702
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660
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Parthie aus dem Binnensee [Japan]
Anonymous drawing made by a German during his visit to Japan. The drawing shows a lake with two Japanese vessels and a building with a Japanese flag in an mountainous lan...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Japan, c. 1890
Monasteriensis Episcopatus.
The extremely rare first edition of this beautiful map of Munster.Jodocus Hondius Jr. planned to produce a new modern atlas less dependent on the Mercator plates that his...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1629
Westphalia Ducatus.
Extremely rare first edition of this beautiful map of Westphalia.Jodocus Hondius Jr. planned to produce a new modern atlas less dependent on the Mercator plates that his ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1629
Sueviae Nova Tabula.
Extremely rare first edition of this beautiful map of Swaben, including Ulm, Augsburg, Stuttgart, Zurich, Lucerne and Lake Constance.Jodocus Hondius Jr. planned to produc...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1629
Carte de L'Egypte de la Nubie de L'Abissinie..
Prepared by G.de l'Isle. Uncommon issue by Hendrik de Leth. Very detailed map of northeastern Africa, the Red Sea and the Arabian peninsula shows the political divisions ...
- $500 / ≈ €468
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1740
Estats de L'Empire du Grand Seigneur dit Sultan et Ottomans Empereur des Turcs. . .
The map shows the extent of the Ottoman Empire from the Balkans to Persia, including all of Arabia and North Africa (an inset map at lower left shows the continuation of ...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1740
Gemete Kaerte van de Stede Beverwyk, zoo als die tegenwoordigh zich vertoont.
Uncommon plan of Beverwijk made in the year 1739. Published in Hollandsche Arcadia. Title in Dutch and French.
- $75 / ≈ €70
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca.1740
Platte Gront van de Hofstede Waterlant toebehorende den Ed. Achtb. Heer Dirk Trip Schepen te Amsterdam.
Uncommon plan of Hofstede Waterlant. Published in Hollandsche Arcadia. Title in Dutch and French "Plan de la Maison et Jardins appartenant a l'Illustre Dirk Trip Ech...
- $40 / ≈ €37
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1740
Vertoog van het regt, Dat de Vereenigde Nederlandsche Oost-Indische maatschappye Heeft op de Vaart en Koophandel naar Oost-Indiën, Tegen de inwooners van de Spaanse, nu de Oostenrykse Nederlanden.
Dutch translation of the Latin edition, published in 1723. Westerveen was the secretary of the Dutch East India Company and writes on the right of the VOC to trade as wel...
- $1200 / ≈ €1123
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1724
De Tesselstroom met de Gaten van Marsdiep./ De Mase met. . .
Three charts on one sheet depicting the entrances to the Zuiderzee between Holland, Texel and Vlieland. The entrances of the Maas with Rotterdam and in a small inset the ...
- $500 / ≈ €468
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1662
Nieuwe gemeten kaart van de colonie de Berbice : met der zelver plantagien en de namen der bezitters in het ligt gebragt door Reiner & Iosua Ottens kaartverkopers te Amsterdam 1740.
Rare separately published map of the colony of Berbice in present-day Guyana showing the Berbice River Valley and the plantations along the river. North on map of the col...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1740
Die innere Aussicht des Castells in Batavia . . .
Showing the inside-square of the V.O.C. headquarters in Jakarta.The hand colored engraving is much perforated and the windows are cut out, a thin transparent paper is mou...
- $500 / ≈ €468
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1750
Ambassades mémorables de la Compagnie des Indes orientales des Provinces Unies vers les empereurs du Japon.
First edition in French of this important work on Japan, a work whose illustrations "represent a high-water mark in book illustrations of the 17th century" (Lac...
- $5500 / ≈ €5146
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1680
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 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Edinburg, 1884
Der Hafen von Nangasaki auf Kiusiu.
A panoramic view of the harbour and city of Nagasaki with extensive shipping.
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Germany, 1847
View of Nagasaki, Japan.
A panoramic view of Nagasaki harbour from the Illustrated Times of November 28th., 1863. With accompanying one column descriptive text on verso of Nagasaki.
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: London, 1863
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 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Paris, 1772
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.Engraved by J.Keyser in 1731.
- $250 / ≈ €234
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1731 / 1750
China as surveyed by the Jesuit Misionaries between the years 1708 & 1717 with Korea & the adjoining parts of Tartary.
The map is of interest for the use of Eastern Sea or Sea of China, the sea south of Korea. In the sea along the coast line of Korea : "Kau-Li-Qua or King:m of Korea&...
Place & Date: London, c. 1760
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2014
Asie.
Map of Asia still showing Corey as an island. Including Americas West coast.More about Western mapping of Korea maps. [+]
- $500 / ≈ €468
Place & Date: Paris, 1650
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Oceanie. [Manuscript on paper]
Decorative manuscript map on paper covering South East Asia, Australia and New Zealand.
Place & Date: France ?, ca. 1850
Introduction a la Geographie
Engraved title, with 91 double-page engraved maps mostly including European nations, but including World and continents, Turkey, the Holy Land, Persia, China, Japan, Egyp...
- $3000 / ≈ €2807
Place & Date: Paris, 1756
A chart of the northern part of the Indian Ocean..
Chart of the northern part of the Indian Ocean, including part of Arabia, India and Sri Lanka prepared by D'Apré de Mannevillette and published in London by Laurie and W...
- $750 / ≈ €702
Place & Date: London 1794
Océanie.
In lower right hand corner a view of Nouméa. Showing the Pacific including California. Engraved by L.Smith.
- $90 / ≈ €84
Place & Date: Paris, 1874
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 / ≈ €561
Place & Date: Paris, 1760
Bernoise.
A decorative costume print from "Costume de div. Pays", No.17. Engraved by Getine after Lanté.
- $80 / ≈ €75
Place & Date: Paris, c. 1827
Arragonia et Catalonia.
Aragon and Catalonia. Decorative map with mountain relief and river. 2 finely engraved sailing boats.Mercator was born in Rupelmonde in Flanders and studied in Louvain un...
- $250 / ≈ €234
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1628
Der Zeug=Platz gegen S.Morizen Plaz zu Augspurg.
A well-known publisher of optical prints, established in Augsburg.In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there were many popular speciality establishments in Paris, A...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1760
Vue des Promenades et les Fontaines d'Ispahan.
Carmine was a well-known publisher of optical prints, established in Augsburg.In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there were many popular specialty establishments ...
- $250 / ≈ €234
Place & Date: Augsburg 1770
(Berlin) Prospectus Armamentarii regnii versus arcem principis regis haereditarii Berolini.
A square in Berlin. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there were many popular speciality establishments in Paris, Augsburg and London which produced optical view...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Italy, 1770
Nova Totius Westphaliae descriptio.
Map of the northern provinces of Germany, including the Wad islands. West to the top. Including Bremen, Hildesheim, Kassel, Düsseldorf, etc. Also including the Dutch pro...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1680
Nova Hispaniae, Chili, Peruviae, et Guatimalae Littorae..
A superbly decorative chart, oriented with north to the left of the sheet, covering the coasts of Central America, Peru, Chile, Jamaica and part of Cuba and Porto Rico. S...
- $1000 / ≈ €936
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660
Nederlandsche Factory DEZIMA 1828.
Bird's-eye view of the manmade island of Deshima, a trading post of the V.O.C. from 1641 onward.Underneath the map a legend in Dutch and German with names of all the buil...
Place & Date: Leiden, 1832-1852
Charte von Ostindien Diesseits Und Jenseits Des Ganges / nach den neuesten astronomischen Beobachtungen auch andern sichern Hülfsmitteln neu entworfen. . .
Prepared by I.C.M.Reinecke giving good detail in India, Indonesia and the Philippines.
- $800 / ≈ €749
Place & Date: Weimar, 1822
Carte d'Amerique dressée par Pierre Tardieu. . .
Detailed map prepared by Pierre Tardieu. With good detail on Alaska. Including New Zealand.
- $450 / ≈ €421
Place & Date: Paris, 1831
Analytique des différentes positions de la Sphère, des différens systemes, des révolutions et des distances des Planètes, &c
Containing "Globe Celeste", "Sphere de Copernic", "Globe Terrestre", "Systeme de Ptolomee" ; including diagrams of the solar syste...
Place & Date: Paris, 1780
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...
- $450 / ≈ €421
Place & Date: Paris, 1775
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...
- $500 / ≈ €468
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1775
Belgium Foederatum emendate auctum et novissimé editum.
Fine detailed map of the area of the modern Netherlands less the southern part of Limburg. Title cartouche representing the commerce, the arts and the sciences. The Lion ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1680
Comitatus Namurci Tabula in Lucem. . .
Centered on Namen, with decorative title cartouche upper right.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1680
Tempum S.Joannis in Laterano Romae. . .
A so-called optical print. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there were many popular specialty establishments in Paris, Augsburg and London which produced optica...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Italy, ca.1780
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
Congi regnu.
Samuel Purchas' edition of the Mercator/Hondius Atlas Minor . Early map of Congo published in his famous collection of voyages His Pilgrimes . With descriptive text in En...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: London, 1645
Japoniae Nova Descriptio.
The map is identical in cartographic detail to the Hondius map of 1606 but newly designed ornate cartouches have been added. The three main islands of Japan are shown wit...
- $1800 / ≈ €1684
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1650
Carte de L'Egypte de la Nubiede L'Abissinie. . .
Including the Arabian Peninsula. Giving good detail on Egypt. Engraved by Desrosiers.More about Mapping of Arabia [+]
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Paris, 1707
L'Empire des Turcs.
With decorative title cartouche upper right. Good detail in the Arabian peninsula.More about Mapping of Arabia [+]
- $240 / ≈ €225
Place & Date: Paris, 1767
Maris Assoviensis vel de Zabache et Paludis Maeotidis. . .
A very detailed map showing the Black Sea, Azow and Rostow area.
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1720
Carte de Moscovie. . .
Centred on Moscow, including Lapland. With fine uncolored title cartouche.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Seconde partie de la Crimee la Mer Noire. . .
The lower part of a set of two maps from the observations of Guillaume Delisle focuses on the Black Sea with wonderful detail of the surrounding regions. Includes Constan...
- $500 / ≈ €468
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720