Browse Listings in Asia > Korea (and Japan)
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...
Date: Amsterdam 1650
Part of the island of Quelpart seen 21 may 1787. . . [5 maps on one sheet]
Detailed maps of islands south of Korea. Of interest is the inset map of L'ile Dagelet (The Isle of Dagelet), the note in French says "Discovered by the French friga...
Date: London, G. G. & J. Robinson, Paternoster Row, London, 1798
Plan de la partie des iles, ou archipel de Coree, vue au mois de Mai 1787 par les Fregates Francaises la Boussole et l'Astrolabe. . . .
Showing the track of La Pérouse along the southern most tip of Korea, with Quelpaerts Islands (now-a-days called Jeju, with the vulcano Halla-san (Halla Mountain) clearly...
Date: L'Imprimerie de la Republique, An V, 1797
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
Voyage of his majesty’s ship Alceste, along the Coast of Corea, to the island of Lewchew, with an account of her subsequent shipwreck, by John M’LEOD. Surgeon of the Alceste.
The second and best edition, with a frontispiece portrait of Captain Maxwell and five fine hand-colored aquatint plates, including a plate not present in the first editio...
Date: London, John Murray, 1818
Paldobundo Province.
Woodblock printed map of Jeolla Province which was one of the historical Eight Provinces of Korea during the Kingdom of The map is drawn in "Paldo Bundo," styl...
Date: 1710-1718
Atlas des Missions de la Société des Missions-Étrangères. . .
This scarce atlas contains maps showing the locations of the Catholic missions belonging to the Société des Missions Étrangères in Asia. It covers India, Burma, Siam, Mal...
Date: Lille, 1890
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
The Road Map of Southern Korea.
Offset printing. A large scale, comprehensive road map of South Korea, with a symbol legend and an inset map of 'The Republic of Korea', and inset of the island of Jeju D...
Date: Seoul, ca 1960
Nouvel atlas de la Chine, de la Tartarie chinoise, et du Thibet.
First edition of "the principal cartographic authority on China during the 18th century". It was the second major atlas of China produced in Europe following th...
Date: The Hague, H. Scheurleer, 1737
Asia carta di ciasete piu moderna. (Japan)
Rare FIRST STATE of this important map for Korea and Japan, a map of the Blancus/Moreira type, but adds a huge 'Jesso' filling the top of this old map. The map is of inte...
Date: Florence, 1646-1647
Official War map of Korea.
A large folding map of Korea published in the year of the outbreak of the Korean War, published by the Rand McNally Company. The map is extremely detailed and features a ...
Date: America, ca 1950
Pacific Stars and Strips Map of the War.
A detailed map of the Korean War. Several silhouetted flying military aircraft are shown in formation. The map shows the Korean Peninsula from its northern border with Ru...
Date: America, 1953
Le Isole del Giappone e la Corea delineate sulle ultima osservazioni.
First edition on laid paper. Cassini’s splendid early map of Japan and Korea, with a large decorative title cartouche. The map has a very unusual, almost triangular, repr...
Date: Rome, 1797
Royaume de Corée.
With a quite elaborately pictorial cartouche, engraved by G.Kondet. One of the earliest separate maps of Korea. Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d' Anville (1697-1782), French c...
Date: The Hague, 1737
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