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Plan, et figure de la riche cité de Calecut en la premiere Inde.
A rare and early woodcut view of Calcutta in India. Decorated with several ships on the sea, shipbuilding, fishermen and elephants.This woodcut was published in La Cosmog...
Place & Date: Paris, 1575
Goa fortissima Indiae urbs in Christianorum potestatem anno Salutis 1509. devenit.
A rare and early woodcut view of Goa in India. Decorated with one ship. This woodcut was published in La Cosmographie Universelle de tout le monde, printed 1575 in two vo...
Place & Date: Paris, 1575
II Pars Indiae Orientalis in qua Johan. Hugonis Linschotani. . .
De Bry's Part II of his "Les Petit Voyages", containing "Pars Indiae Orientalis, in qua Johan. Hugonis Linscotani navagatio in Orientem, 1609", being ...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, Wolffgang Richter, 1609
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[Dutch ship Amsterdam].
Text engraving of the Dutch vessel Amsterdam offshore the island of Java near Surabaya from "Premier livre de l'histoire de la navigation aux Indes Orientales, par l...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cornille Nicolas, 1609
Platte Grond vande Stadt Macao.
A fine view of the city of Macao from Lappa Island showing in schematic blocks the structure of the town. With European vessels and junks in the surrounding water. With n...
- $750 / ≈ €702
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1724
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...
- $500 / ≈ €468
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1760
Chikyu Bankoku sankai yochi zenzu setsu. / Sekisui Cho Harutaka. (Map and description of geography of all the countries of the globe).
Reduced version of the famous map "Kaisei chikyu bankoku zenzu" by Sekisui Nagakubo (1717-1801) published ca. 1785, still based on the one by Matteo Ricci. Incl...
- $3500 / ≈ €3275
Place & Date: Tokyo, 1850
(Lübeck) Lvbeca vrbs. imperialis libera. civitatvm. Wandalicarvm. . . .
Impressive more than 3 meters wide panoramic town view after a woodblock engraving from Elias Diebel, initially made in 1552. Of this original woodblock, Bachmann mention...
- $4500 / ≈ €4211
Place & Date: Germany, c. 1855