A chart of the northern part of the Indian Ocean..
Complete title in upper right "A Chart of the Northern Part of the Indian Ocean, Containing a Part of the Coast of Africa from Magadasho River to the Straits of Bab-...
Date: London 1794
Carte des Isles Maldives.
A small detailed map of the Maldives, with rhumb lines and a large compass rose. Includes a decorative title cartouche. One of the maps produced by Nichlas Bellin for Pre...
Date: Paris, 1757
An Accurate Map of the Coast of Coromandel, from Fort St. David to Cape Comorin.
This is a finely engraved map of the south eastern Indian Coromandel coastal regions & the north west Sri Lankan coast through the Gulf of Manar. It was engraved by J...
Date: London, 1782
Goa.
A finely engraved, detailed town-plan of Goa, the main Portuguese trading post in India. It also appeared in Gottfried’s Archontologia (1649). There is a cartouche iden...
Date: Frankfurt, 1680
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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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
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
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
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
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 départ...
Date: Paris, 1826
Bengala.
Small map centered on the Bay of Bengal, surrounded by text in Dutch. Nicolaes de Clerck (de Klerc) was active as engraver and publisher in Delft from 1599-1621.Included ...
- $150 / ≈ €129
Date: Amsterdam, Cloppenburch, 1621
Pars Undecima Orientalis III. Quomodo Pembae incolae Anglos aliquot. . .
Finely engraved view of the arrival of Europeans at Pemba iIsland in Zanziba.Theodore de Bry, a German engraver and book dealer, began a compilation of early voyages in 1...
- $100 / ≈ €86
Date: Frankfurt, 1609
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
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
De Land-Reyse, door Benedictus Goes, van Lahor gedaan, door Tartaryen na China.
Interesting map showing the region of northeastern India, Nepal, Bhutan, Assam and Bangladesh. Canton in lower right corner.The map illustrates the narrative of the trave...
- $200 / ≈ €172
Date: Leiden, 1707
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[ LXXII. Divertimenti de' serpenti ].
Aquatint depicting snake charmers engraved by D.Klemi-Bonatti, Plate N°60.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du gouvernement, de la mil...
- $50 / ≈ €43
Date: Milan, 1827
Pars Undecima Orientalis X. Quomodo in Septentrionalibus insulis prope. (How the inhabitants catch whales off the east coast of Madagascar.)
How the inhabitants catch whales off the east coast of Madagascar. When the natives of Santa Marta, off the east coast of Madagascar see a whale, they row out in their li...
- $100 / ≈ €86
Date: Frankfurt, 1609
Indianorum, Insulae Pugnatan Incolarum. (The natives of the island of Pugnatan)
There was an island called Pugnatan at the western entrance to the Strait of Sudan, where the natives went about completely naked. Like the natives of Brazil, their hair ...
- $100 / ≈ €86
Date: Frankfurt, 1609
Delineatio Foederis Hollandorum cum Rege Calecutanorum pacti.
A treaty between the Dutch and the king of Calicut. The Dutch Admiral, Steffan van der Haagen already knew that the people of Calicut, on the Malabar Coast of India, were...
- $100 / ≈ €86
Date: Frankfurt, 1609
Expressio Germinum Quoque Aliorum, in S. Lavrentii.
Plants found in the island of S. Laurenti [Madagascar]. A’ denotes a tree with only a few twigs on the top. From this tree, canoes and boats are made. ‘B’ is a bush...
- $100 / ≈ €86
Date: Frankfurt, 1609
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
Birds and fish seen during the voyage to India.
During their voyage to India many strange birds were seen, for example, the 'Garayos' that were the size of a chicken, the 'Rabos de Juncos' that are white and about the ...
- $100 / ≈ €86
Date: Frankfurt, 1598
The extraordinary 'Abore Triste' tree of India.
In India there is an extraordinary tree, known as the 'Abore Triste', which is regarded as one of God's miracles. This tree flowers for a whole year but only at night tim...
- $80 / ≈ €69
Date: Frankfurt, 1598
The bamboo, the tree of roots and the Durian fruit.
In India there is a kind of cane, known as Bambus, which has a stem as thick as a human leg. This is used for many things as it is light and yet strong. There is also a k...
- $80 / ≈ €69
Date: Frankfurt, 1598
The trees that bear Cayus and Jambos and other plants.
Here are shown two trees that produce good fruits but it is the Jambos that is the best and most beautiful according to written accounts. Also shown is how the Perrer pla...
- $80 / ≈ €69
Date: Frankfurt, 1598
Pineapple, Bettel, palma dactylifera, Samaca & Mango.
These are all Indian fruits, of which the pineapple has the best flavour and aroma. The Bettel plant is also shown here climbing up long rods and canes, just as the peppe...
- $100 / ≈ €86
Date: Frankfurt, 1598
Colombo Harbour From Surveys supplied by Sir. John Coode. . .
Sir John Coode's highly detailed map of the Harbour at Colombo (Sri Lanka), with manuscript notations and corrections in pencil. With red pencil "INCORRECT".The...
- $500 / ≈ €431
Date: London, 1885 -1896
Negapatam.
Bird's-eye view of Nagapattinam or Negapatam, India, printed for the first Dutch edition of Baldaeus' work "A true and exact description of the most celebrated East-...
- $200 / ≈ €172
Date: Amsterdam, 1672
Carte des Isles Nicobar... (with) Plan particulier du Port compris entre les Isles Nacaveri, Souri, et Tricutte.
French chart of Isles of Nicobar in Gulf of Bengal near Birmanie and Sumatra. Prepared by Jacques-François L'Abbé Dicquemare (1733-1789). Latitude and longitude scales,...
Date: Paris, Brest, chez Demonville, 1775
Ceylan, et les Maldives.
Exquisite map of Sri Lanka and the Maldives, with the southern tip of India shown at the top. Sri Lanka is shown in an inset named Ceylan Isle, qui est la Taprobane des A...
Date: Amsterdam 1700
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[British soldiers in India].
A decorative print showing a group of English soldiers being attacked by Indian locals. After design of A. van Eschen. From a series Englischer Dienst. 10 Service d'Angle...
Date: Germany, c.1830
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...
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 in 1575 in two...
Date: Paris, 1575
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
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
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.Taprobana Ins. Tabula XII Asiae. [Sri Lanka.]
Ptolemy's mythical island of Taprobana originally became associated with Sri Lanka although it was sometimes confused with Sumatra. Taprobana, as it was called on most ea...
Date: Lyons, M. Servetus, 1535
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Tabula XII - Asiae [Taprobana Ins - Ceylon/Sri Lanka]
Map of Taprobana (Sri Lanka) which depicts the typical misconceptions of Ptolemy showing the island greatly enlarged, surrounded by imaginary islands, and with a small pa...
Date: Vienne, 1541
Un Reclutatore in India. Papagallo No. 42. Anno VI.
A British recruter in India. Design by Augusto Grossi. Taken from the Italian satirical newspaper Il Papagallo, a satirical magazine founded in January 1873 by Augusto Gr...
Date: Bologne, 1878
Vue de la Pondichery dans les Indes Orientales
Pondicherry is the capital city of Indian union territory of Puducherry. Pondicherry is situated in Puducherry district of the union territory in India. The vue was produ...
Date: Paris, 1780
Madirass. Ville Indienne don't les Maisons sont basses & plates.
A small plan of Fort St. George, Madras/Chennai in India. It highlights both inner and outer fortifications, fences, town entrances and the sea, together with the church,...
Date: Unknown, ca 1780
L'India e L'Isola di Seilan.
Uncommon map of India prepared by Francesco Costantino Marmocchi. Above the map "Geografia Commerciale". From "Il Globo Atlante di carte Geografiche compil...
Date: Genova, Paolo Rivara fu Giacomo, 1858
Grund=Riss und Prospect der Koniglichen Danischen auf der Kuste Choromandel in Ost-Indien belegenen Vestung und Stadt Dansburg u Trankenbar . . .
The Danish East India Company was founded in 1616. A first expedition was sent out in November 1618, which led to the purchase of a parcel of land on the Coromandel coast...
Date: Augsburg ca 1740
De foro Goae frequentato..
An attractive panorama view of the market square at Goa, with Indians and Portuguese traders, buying and selling various merchandise, with a row of colonial buildings in ...
Date: Frankfurt, 1607
Les Vrays Indes dits Grandes Indes ou Indes Orientales Par N. de Fer. Geographe de Sa Majeste Catoliques et de Monseigneur le Dauphin.
Detailed map on India, Thailand, the Malay Peninsular and the south coast of China up to Macao. The map was engraved by C. Inselin.
Date: Paris, 1703
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
The Southern provinces of Hindoostan . . .
An attractive map showing Hindoostan and Ceylon. Shows towns, rivers, mountains, lakes, etc. In pretty original wash colors. Robert Wilkinson was active in London as a ca...
Date: London, 1808
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Narsinga. [India]
Small map illustrating the Indian peninsular. Oriented with East on top, surrounded by text in Dutch.Nicolaes de Clerck (de Klerc) was active as engraver and publisher in...
Date: Amsterdam, Cloppenburch, 1621
Pondichery - Vue de l'Eglise des Jésuites.
Constructed in 1791, it is regarded as the main mother church of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Pondicherry and Cuddalore. To one’s surprise, this famous church in Pondi...
- $300 / ≈ €259
Date: Paris, 1843
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...
Date: Paris, 1723
Nieuwe Kaart van Choromandel ende Malabar. . .
Fine map depicting the southern part of India and the northern tip of Ceylon. Much detail is given along the coastlines, settlements and principal coastal features are id...
- $550 / ≈ €474
Date: Amsterdam, 1726
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
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
Calecut Nuova Tavola.
Early map of India, extending from west of the Gujarat peninsula eastward to Bengal and south as far as northern Ceylon (“Ceilam”). Girolamo Ruscelli first published ...
Date: Venice, 1564
Quo habitu vulgus Lusitanorum in India per publicum incedat. (Portuguese citizens and soldiers in Goa)
This famous and desirable scene is showing comportment and dress of the Portuguese citizens and soldiers in East India as they appear in the streets from 1599. From Part ...
Date: Frankfurt, 1599
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[Afghanistan].
A scarce Russian relief map (in Russian) of Afghanistan published in Moscow during the Soviet occupation of the country during the early 1980s. Complete with a separate b...
Date: Moscow, 1982
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Hindostan [India]
A fine copper engraved map of Hindoostan (now India) drawn and engraved by Alexander Findlay and published by Thomas Kelly, London in 1814
Date: London, 1814
India Orientalis.
Published in Hondius' editions of the Mercator Atlas from 1606 onwards, showing the Indian subcontinent, the Malay Peninsula, Siam and Cambodia, China and the Philippines...
Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Inde.
Decorative poster advertising flights to India made by Georges Mathieu. The poster is one of a series of 15 composed of posters of Greece, Israel, Germany, Great Britain,...
Date: Paris, 1967
Outposts of Empire. Ceylon.
A large colored lithograph by John Vickery (1906-1983), he was an Australian artist. He worked in the fields of painting, illustration and advertising. He is the only Aus...
Date: London, ca 1937
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ИНДIИ [Map of India in Cyrillic].
A map of India. This Cyrillic version of the map appeared in one of the first world atlases published in Russia, "Novy Atlas, ili sobranie kart ..." which trans...
Date: Paris / St.Petersburg, ca. 1790
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
Some of the animals that are found in India.
Although most elephants are found in Ethiopia, there are also many in India too. They are called 'Caffres' by the inhabitants and are slaughtered for their tusks, which t...
Date: Frankfurt, 1598
The bird called 'Eeme' and other creatures of India.
Especially on the island of Java and in India, a strange bird called an 'Eeme' is found. It is almost as large as an ostrich with strong and sturdy legs, but it has no to...
Date: Frankfurt, 1598
Les Vrays Indes dits Grands Indes ou Indes Orientales Par N. de Fer. Geographe de Sa Majeste Catoliques et de Monseigneur le Dauphin.
Detailed map on India, Thailand, the Malay Peninsular and the south coast of China up to Macao. The map was engraved by C. Inselin.
Date: Paris, 1705
Carte du Golfe de Bengale, mer des Indes et rivieres du Gange . . .
Detailed scare map of the Southern part of India with Ceylon. Good detail along the coasts of Malabar, Coromandel, the Maldives islands and the Kingdoms of Visipour, Golc...
Date: Leiden, 1719
Nouvelle carte du royaume de Bengale.
Map of Bengal Kingdom prepared by J.N.Bellin.
Date: Amsterdam, Leipzig, 1763
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
Theatre de la guerre sur la coste de Coromandel.
Map of Coromandel coast prepared by J.N.Bellin.
Date: Amsterdam, Leipzig, 1763
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
Carte du Golfe de Bengale, Mer de Indes, et Riviere du Gange, Avec les Pais et Iles d'alentour, Savoir les Cotes de Malabar, Cormandel, Ile de Ceylon, Les Maldives . . .
Detailed map of the Southern part of India with Ceylon. Good detail along the coasts of Malabar, Coromandel, the Maldives islands and the Kingdoms of Visipour, Golconda, ...
Date: Leiden, 1719
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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.[Bangladesh, Burma, India, Thailand]
Wood block printed map and one of earliest printed representation of Bangladesh, Burma, India, Thailand prepared Martin Waldseemüller. Based on the slightly larger map f...
Date: Vienna, Trechsel, G., 1525 -1541
Vorstellung der Evangelisch-Ostindischen Kirche Augsburger Protestanten.
It is a very decorative and rare print to commemorate the 200-year Confession of the Augsburg Protestant Confession. Engraved by J. Kleinschmidt after a design of E. Ridi...
Date: Augsburg, 1732
Carte du Golfe de Bengale, Mer de Indes, et Riviere du Gange, Avec les Pais et Iles d'alentour, Savoir les Cotes de Malabar, Cormandel, Ile de Ceylon, Les Maldives . . .
Detailed map of the Southern part of India with Ceylon. Good detail along the coasts of Malabar, Coromandel, the Maldives islands and the Kingdoms of Visipour, Golconda, ...
Date: Leiden, 1719
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.[India]
Wood block printed map and one of earliest printed representation of India prepared by Martin Waldseemüller. Based on the slightly larger map from 1513 published in &quo...
Date: Vienna, Trechsel, G., 1525 -1541
Recueil de cartes géographiques pour la description de l'Indostan . . .
First French edition, the maps revised by Jean Nicholas Buache. The English original edition was published in London in 1783 by Brown under the title "Memoir of a ...
Date: Paris, Poignée, an VIII = 1800
Calechut Celeberri mum Indiae Emporium/ Ormus/ Canonor, St.Georgii.
Four panoramic town-views on one sheet: The upper approximately two-thirds of this double-page sheet contains a fine panoramic view of Calicut which is on the west coast ...
Date: Cologne, 1580
De golf van Bengalen.
Rare chart of the Indian Ocean, with nice detail on Ceylon (Sri Lanka) with compass roses and a system of rhumb lines, soundings and anchorage's. Many place names. The pl...
Date: Amsterdam, after 1669-1712
Le Grand Mongol. . .
Rare full portrait of the Mongol emperor of Indostan, published by map seller, François Jollain, the Elder (1641-1704), active in Paris, rue St. Jacques à la ville de C...
Date: Paris, ca. 1686
