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Great or Asiatick Tartary, Agreable to Modern History.
Map of Tartary to Peking. The eastern coastline of Asia is almost flat, with no attempt to mark Kamchatka. The Caspian Sea in the lower left, with present-day Uzbekistan ...
Date: London, 1727
Malabar.
Small map illustrating the south western seacoast of India. Oriented with East on top, surrounded by text in Dutch.Nicolaes de Clerck (de Klerc) was active as engraver an...
Date: Amsterdam, Cloppenburch, 1621
IAPONIAE INSULAE DESCRIPTIO.Ludoico Teisera auctore.
The map was based upon the manuscript draft supplied to Ortelius in about 1592 by the famous official Portuguese chart maker, Luis Teixeira , who was the cartographer to...
Date: Antwerp, 1598
De Zuydwest-Kust van Het Eyland Ceylon.
A finely engraved and detailed chart of Nilwella / Kudawella Harbor.Very rare: only included in the 6th volume (so-called secret atlas) of Van Keulen's. A lettered key in...
Date: Amsterdam, 1753
Malacca.
Fine print showing Dutch vessels offshore the city of Malacca, between Singapore to its south and Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia to its north.From the French reiss...
Date: Amsterdam, J.F. Bernard, 1725
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...
Date: Tokyo, 1925
Carte de la province de Quan-tong, ou Lyau-tong et du Royaume de Kau-li ou Corée. . . / Kaart van t' Landschap Quan-Tong . . .
Uncommon issue of this fine 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.Decorative title...
Date: Paris, 1749-1773
Timor. Vue de la rade, de la ville et du fort de Coupang, dans l'île de Timor.
Nice double page view of the town Kupang, formerly known as Koepang. In the center is the Dutch V.O.C. fort. From Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes by François P...
Date: Paris, 1807-1816
Esquisse de la Baie de Coupang (cote S.O. Ile de Timor) par M. M. Peron et Lesueur, an 1803.
Map of Kupang Bay on the Indonesian Island Timor, prepared by Louis Freycinet during his voyage under Captain Thomas Baudin in 1800-1803. Plate no. 14 from the atlas part...
Date: Paris, Langois, 1811
Turcicum Imperium.
A very handsome map featuring a particularly fine cartouche that depicts the Turkish Sultan on his throne, accompanied by allegorical figures on either side, brandishing ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1650
De kusten van Arabie het Roode Meer en Persize Zee..
Map of the Arabian Peninsula till West Coast of India, southern Persia and the 'Horn of Africa'. Although not renowned for the originality of his work, Pieter van der Aa ...
Date: Leiden, 1707
Impero del Gran Mogol.
Attractive copper engraved map of India with Sri Lanka. Showing mountains, towns and the Rama's Bridge (Ponte di Adamo). Included in "Atlante Novissimo che Contiene ...
Date: Venice, 1740
Isola Ceilon.
Attractive copper engraved map of Sri Lanka showing mountains, Towns and the Rama's Bridge (Ponte di Adamo). Included in "Atlante Novissimo che Contiene Tutte le Par...
Date: Venice, 1740
Tabula chronologica historiae Sinicae connexa cum cyclo qui vulgo Kia Tse dictur.
A set of two sheets of colored copper engravings. First published in 1729 in Rome in three sheets. Timeline of China's history with a chronological overview of the dynast...
Date: Augsburg, 1746
Kaart der Moluksche eilanden en vaarwateren … F.A.A. Gregory Luitenant ter zee …
Huge sailing chart centered on the Moluccas Islands. Published by Widow Gerard Hulst van Keulen.The publishing house van Keulen, were the most prominent chart makers at ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1847
Kaart van Het Noordelijk Gedeelte Van Het Eiland Borneo.
A very detailed map of Northern Borneo including Brunei, taken from the "Atlas der Nederlandsche bezittingen in Oost-Indië", which was published by Departement ...
Date: The Hague, 1883-1885
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[Persia, Afghanistan and Pakistan map with Ottoman script]
Postcard size map in Ottoman script showing Persia, Afghanistan and Pakistan prepared by Mehmet EŞREF in a small atlas : عمومولاياةىشهانيىحاوىكوچكاطلاس [Umum-i vilayat-ı...
Date: Istanbul, 1325 or 1909
Grande Tartarie (de L'Asie / Figure V).
A fine and uncommon early 17th century map of Tartary with Korea. and the name USBECK showing in present-day Usbekistan.From the French text edition of "Description ...
Date: Paris, 1683
Le Royaume de Siam avec les Royaumes. . .
Influential map of the Malay peninsula, Sumatra, Java and Borneo, centered on Singapore. Mortier incorporated information provided by the French Jesuits and charts the ro...
Date: Amsterdam, 1700
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[Asia map with Ottoman script]
Postcard size map in Ottoman script showing Asia, prepared by Mehmet EŞREF in a small atlas : عمومولاياةىشهانيىحاوىكوچكاطلاس [Umum-i vilayat-ı Şahaneyi havi küçük at...
Date: Istanbul, 1325 or 1909
Charte von China und den angränzenden Ländern und Völkerschaften so wie den letzten Kaiser Tschien-Long. . .
Uncommon map of China on a scale of ca. 1:6,000,000. The map's complete title is “Charte von China und den angränzenden Ländern, und Völkerschaften so wie sie dem letzten...
Date: Parague, 1812
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Übersichtskarte von Ost-Asien im Maßstabe 1: 5.000.000 mit 14 Beikarten in großen Maßstäben . . .
A large, uncommon map of East Asia prepared by Karl Peucker, and published by Ataria & Co. Striking and heavily annotated with information on China, Korea, Japan, and...
Date: Vienna, Artaria, 1904
Grande Tartarie.
A very nice small map of Central Asia extending from the Caspian Sea to the Pacific Ocean. From Francisco Giustiniani for El Atlas abreviado o el nuevo compendio de la Ge...
Date: Leon de Francia (Lyon), Jaime Certa, 1739
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Une Kirguisiene par devant. [together with] Une Kirguisienne par derriere.
1780 - ROTH, Ch. M. Two costume plates showing natives of Kyrgyzstan
Date: St. Petersbourg, C.G. Müller, 1776-1780
El Indostan por D. Juan Lopez.
Uncommon map of India and Shri Lanka published by Juan Lopez (1765-1830) and included in his "Atlas Universal o collection de mapas nuevos. . ." first published...
Date: Madrid, 1817
A Mapp of Batavia with all itts Forts.
Wonderful, scarce, and decorative plan of present-day Jakarta, showing the City and its immediate environs, the surrounding rice fields intersected by a network of waterw...
Date: London, Printed for A. and J. Churchill, 1703
Plan de la Ville et du Chateau de Batavia en l'Isle de Iava / Ware affbeeldinge wegens het Casteel ende Stadt Batavia gelegen opt groot Eylant Java.
Detailed East oriented plan of Jakarta former Batavia on Java / Indonesia. With bird eye view from sea side, various ships and a lion. Two inset keys with detailed descri...
Date: Leiden, 1730
Tartariae sive Magni Chami Imperium.
This is a very early depiction of the northern Pacific, with the first mapping of Northwest Coast of America and probably the first map to name California 'C. Califormio...
Date: Antwerp, c. 1608-1612
Prospectus septem turrium in urbe Constantinopolitana / Vüe des sept Tours ou Prisons d'etat à Constantinople. . .
Imaginary view inside Istanbul showing the State prison, the seven towers to Constantinople, a so-called optical print.
Date: Augsburg 1750
Insulae Palaos seu Novae Philippinae 87 Alias Archipelagus S. Lazari ven Carolinae . . .
Map of Philippine archipelago. Stöcklein's work is a compound of letters of the Jesuit missionaries from all over the world and here particularly the ones stationed at th...
Date: Augsburg, 1726
Terra Sancta A Petro Laicstain perlustrata, et ab eius ore
Oriented to the east. Shows the shoreline from Beirut to Gaza. P. Laicksteen, a Dutch astronomer… collected topographic material on Palestine during his stay there in 155...
Date: Antwerp, 1598
Der Hafen und die Bai von Nagasaki.
A bird's-eye view showing Deshima and Nagasaki Bay with Dutch ships and two Dutch flags on Deshima.
Date: Germany, 1850
Femme tatare de Katchin.
Uncommon copper-engraved costume plate from Johann Gottlieb Georgi "Beschreibung aller Nationen des russischen Reichs" (1776), the work stands out for the hand-...
Date: St. Petersbourg, C.G. Müller, 1776-1780
Presqu''isle de L'Inde de ça le Gange.
Uncommon miniature map of India from Pierre Duval's La Geographie Universeille dated 1676. Following his Cartes de geographie in 1657, Pierre Duval published this smaller...
Date: Paris, 1676
Asiae Nova Apud Hudo Allardt. / Nova et exacta Asiae geograpicha descriptio.
Rare map of Asia, with relief shown pictorially. Shows Great wall of China and the mythical island of Yedso north of Japan. Title at head of map: Nova et exacta Asiae geo...
Date: Amsterdam, 1660-1665
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Fille Jakoute par derrière [together with] Fille Jakoute par devant.
Uncommon copper-engraved costume plate from Johann Gottlieb Georgi "Beschreibung aller Nationen des russischen Reichs" (1776), the work stands out for the hand-...
Date: St. Petersbourg, C.G. Müller, 1776-1780
Tabula Asiae I.
Uncommon first edition of this classical map of Turkey, prepared by Ptolemy.Girolamo Ruscelli's edition of Ptolemy's Geographia included newly engraved copperplates by Gi...
Date: Venice, 1561
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[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...
Date: Augsburg, 1750
Vue de la Rue des Marchands Chinoises a Nankin.
1760 - OPTICAL PRINT - Illustrating a street in 18th-century Nanjing, one of China’s most important historic capitals.
Date: Augsburg, 1760
Karte von dem groessten Theil des Landes Jemen Imame, Kaukeban &c.
Large map of Yemen from "Allgemeiner grosser Atlas" published by P. J. Schalbacher - 1786-1800. Based on the observations of the Danish explorer Carsten Niebuhr...
Date: Vienna, 1789
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 eng...
Date: Leiden, 1719
De Landvoogdy der Moluccos met de Aangrenzende Eylanden . . .
Two charts on one sheet depicting the Moluccas islands. Little interior detail is given but the coastlines, settlements and principal coastal features are identified. To ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1726
Great or Asiatick Tartary, Agreeable to Modern History.
A map from the Frozen Ocean in the north to Usbec Tartary in the south, from Moscow in the west to China Tartary and Peking in the east. Rivers and mountains feature prom...
Date: London, ca. 1727
Carte des Détroits Singapore, Durain..
An exceptionally rare nautical chart of Singapore and direct vicinity issued by Urban Dortet de Tessan, under the patronage of Louis Philippe I of France. When Singapore...
Date: Paris, 1848
The island of Formosa.
A small, but historically important map of Taiwan (the first American lithograph of Taiwan) made by the American Commodore Matthew C. Perry and published by Ackerman. The...
Date: New York, 1856
Pecheli sive Peking imperii sinarum provincia prima.
The map of the province of Peking from Joan Blaeu's Novus Atlas Sinensis , the first atlas of China with maps by the hand of the Italian Jesuit Martino Martini. A beautif...
Date: Amsterdam, 1640
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...
Date: Basle, 1542
Vue de Nangasaki
View over the town from the water, identifying clearly Deshima with Japanese sloops in the fore ground. Engraved by Alp.Boilly.
Date: Paris, 1842
Carte de L'Egypte de la Nubie de L'Abissinie..
Including the Arabian Peninsula. Giving good detail on Egypt. Engraved by Desrosiers. Address and date changed, now with the imprint "A Paris Chez l’Auteur sur le Qu...
Date: Paris, November 1707
Carte De L'Indostan Servant à Indiquer Les Possessions Françaises En Asie.
Map of a part of Asia, with Sri Lanka, From " Nouvel Atlas du royaume de France, ou cartes détaillées des Gaules, de la France à l'époque de 1789, des 86 département...
Date: Paris, 1826
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...
Date: Napels, Francesco Ricciardo, 1738 -1762
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Penisola dell'Indo di qua del Gange, e l isola di Ceilan..
India below the Tropic of Cancer, with an inset of Ceylon and Trincomalee.The remarkable Vincenzo Coronelli (1650-1718), encyclopaedist, geographer, inventor and Doctor o...
Date: Venice, 1698
Prequ Isle de L'Inde deca Le Golfe du Gange (and) Prequ Isle de l'Inde dela le Golfe du Gange.
A very rare double map of India, Sri Lanka and the Maldives islands, together with a separate map of Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia and North Sumatra. The map shows Bangkok...
Date: Brussels, Antwerp, 1706
Nieuwe kaart van Tartarie. . .
A map of Tartary, Korea and part of Japan. Map place names in Korea are marked. The map is most notable for the confusion between Kamchatka and Jesso.The Caspian Sea in t...
Date: Amsterdam, 1731 / 1750
Grundriss von Goa.
A beautifully detailed and engraved town-plan of the Portuguese colony of Goa in India, with a number key (1-29) to the city's major monuments and sites, enclosed in a de...
Date: Amsterdam, 1752
Carte des Cotes de Malabar et de Coromandel..
Detailed and attractive map of India and the northern tip of Sri Lanka. With decorative title cartouche and two compass roses.Rare edition with address : A Paris chez l’A...
Date: Paris, 1723
Plan de la ville de Pondicheri.
The first detailed French plan of Pondicherry. In the lower part, a lettered and numbered key and the coat of arms of Mr. Joseph-François Dupleix.The Compagnie des Indes,...
Date: Paris, 1800
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[8 sheets - Partie du THIBET]
A set of 8 maps covering Tibet region and the Himalayas.From his famous Atlas Universel . This atlas was one of the most remarkable world atlases ever produced, anticipat...
Date: Brussels, 1825-1827
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Fille tatare à Kousnetsk par devant. [together with] Fille tatare Kousnetsk par derriere.
Uncommon copper-engraved costume plate from Johann Gottlieb Georgi "Beschreibung aller Nationen des russischen Reichs" (1776), the work stands out for the hand-...
Date: St. Petersbourg, C.G. Müller, 1776-1780
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...
Date: Paris, 1764
Genealogie des empereurs Mogols . . .
Text sheet with two inset maps of "Carte de l'empire du grand Mogol (122x158mm.) and inset map of Kahsmire "carte nouvelle du royaume de Kachemire" (120x15...
Date: Amsterdam, 1728
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Un Jacout en habit de chasse par devant [together with] Un Jakout en habit de chasse par derriére.
Uncommon copper-engraved costume plate from Johann Gottlieb Georgi "Beschreibung aller Nationen des russischen Reichs" (1776), the work stands out for the hand-...
Date: St. Petersbourg, C.G. Müller, 1776-1780
Accuratissima totius Asiae tabula..
The map includes a detailed depiction of South East Asia and the Far East. The northern tip of Australia (Hollandia Nova) is shown as are the important discoveries made t...
Date: Amsterdam, 1680
Southern - Concan.. - The falls of Gokank..
Hand colored lithography representing a view of the Gokak Falls, located on the Ghataprabha River. The Ghataprabha river in India is an important right-bank tributary of ...
Date: Paris, 1843
Nouvelle Carte De L'Asie Avec Des Tables Alphabetiques Pour Trouver Sans Peine Les Etats Des Principaux Princes De Cette Partie Du Monde . . .
Chatelain's map of Asia. The title is split across two lines on the map. On each side, the border appears as an index to the map's contents. The map is based on Guillaume...
Date: Amsterdam, 1719
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Prospectus, quem Solimanni et Mohameti. . . - Vue aupres de la Mosquee du Sultan Soliman, et de Mohamet . . .
Imaginary view inside Istanbul showing Sultan Soliman in his carriage , a so-called optical print.
Date: Augsburg 1750
Habillement des femmes de Smyrnes, des Grecques et des Juifs de cette ville.
Four portraits of Smirne women in typical dress, each with a descriptive engraved text. From Chatelain's monumental 7 volume "Atlas Historique".Henri Abraham Ch...
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Presqu Isle de L'Inde. deca la Gange.. .
Two maps together on one sheet. General map showing the southern part of India, including the northern part of Shri Lanka. In an inset a detailed map of the most southern...
Date: Amsterdam, 1700
Royaume de la Chine. . .
Detailed map of China. Engraved by A.Winter. Attractive miniature map, depicting Korea as an island and parts of Japan, i.e. western part of Honshu and Kyushu.
Date: Paris, 1656
Magni Mogolis Imperium.
Important map of India, based upon William Baffin's map of India, first published in about 1619. The map is bounded by Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh and extends in...
Date: Amsterdam, 1650
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Fille Jakoute par derrière [together with] Fille Jakoute par devant.
Uncommon copper-engraved costume plate from Johann Gottlieb Georgi "Beschreibung aller Nationen des russischen Reichs" (1776), the work stands out for the hand-...
Date: St. Petersbourg, C.G. Müller, 1776-1780
Mogol.
A very nice map of Northern India and Pakistan. From Francisco Giustiniani for El Atlas abreviado o el nuevo compendio de la Geografia universal, politica, historica, i c...
Date: Leon de Francia (Lyon), Jaime Certa, 1739
Imperii Russici tabula generalis quo ad fieri potuit / accuratissime descripta opera et studio Ioannis Kyrilow, …
General 1734 large-format map of the Russian Empire compiled by Ivan Kirilov (1689/1695]-1737), the Chief Secretary of the Governing Senate in St. Petersburg in 1734. Th...
Date: Saint Petersburg : [Academy of Sciences], 1734
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The Fan palm, in the island of Cracatoa.
The Fan palm, on the island of Krakatoa (Indonesian name: Krakatau), in the Sunda Strait, taken from "Views in the South Seas" being a very important and early ...
Date: London, Boydell and Co., 1808
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Femme tatare à Kousnetsk par devant. [together with] Femme tatare à Kousnetsk par derriere.
Uncommon copper-engraved costume plate from Johann Gottlieb Georgi "Beschreibung aller Nationen des russischen Reichs" (1776), the work stands out for the hand-...
Date: St. Petersbourg, C.G. Müller, 1776-1780
A New and Accurate Map of the Whole Russian Empire as contained both in Europe and Asia. . .
Detailed map of Russia, from the Sea of Anadyr, Sea of Kamchatka and the Kuril Islands to St.Petersburg. Also includes Tibet, Korea and part of China, with the Great Wal...
Date: London, c. 1747
Kirgise à cheval.
Uncommon copper-engraved costume plate from Johann Gottlieb Georgi "Beschreibung aller Nationen des russischen Reichs" (1776), the work stands out for the hand-...
Date: St. Petersbourg, C.G. Müller, 1776-1780
Hinterindien und Malayischer Archipel.
Map of South East Asia with four insets. Shows settlements, roads, railways, telegraph cables, etc. A color key to Dutch, French, British, and Portuguese occupations. Inc...
Date: Leipzig, 1905
Le Indie Orientali.
A nice map of the East Indies, published in Rome at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Shows from the Persian Gulf across Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh, then sout...
Date: Rome, ca 1803
Indoustan ou Inde.
Map of India. The map is based on the Paris Meridian. Only in 1884, at the International Meridian Conference in Washington, D.C., was the Greenwich Meridian accepted.Engr...
Date: Paris, c. 1810
