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
Hedendaegsche Historie of tegenwoordige staet van alle volkeren 1 deel. (Volume 1 - China, Japan, Phillippines, Moluccas)
This provides an interesting illustrated description of China, Japan, the Phillippines, Moluccas. Including a map of China, Korea, and Japan, with the Sea between Korea a...
Date: Amsterdam, 1734
Hern Johann Baptisten Taveniers..Vierzig Jaehrige Reize..
This German edition includes Tavernier's map of Japan in a reduced form (210x315mm) and contains legends about the country's nature, e.g., where gold is mined and plottin...
Date: Nuremberg, 1681
Carte des Isles du Japon Esquelles est remarque la Route..
This uncommon map of Japan, on a reasonably large scale, includes comments on the country's nature. For instance, Ocsaqui (Okazaki, near Nagoya) is said to have the most ...
Date: Paris 1679
Topographical map of Hokkaido with localities of useful minerals.
Bilingual (English/Japanese) topographic map (1:1,500,000) of Hokkaido Island detailing the distribution of mineral deposits and mining sites (“useful minerals”), pub...
Date: Hokkaidōchō (Gouvernement de Hokkaidō), Sapporo, 1891
Mountain system of Hokkaido.
Bilingual English/Japanese map of Hokkaido showing elevations, volcanoes and roads for geological observations, with an inset of Chishima (Kuril Islands).
Date: Hokkaidōchō (Gouvernement de Hokkaidō), Sapporo, 1892
Napha from the Sea.
Decorative lithograph W. Heine and published by P. S. Duval & Co. From Commodore Matthew C. Perry's "Narrative of an Expedition of an American Squadron to the C...
Date: New York, 1856
Geological Survey of Japan. Reconnaissance map. Geology. Division 1. 2. 3. 4.
According to Original Surveys and Designs by Dr. Edmund Naumann ; assisted by Takao Fujitani, Akira Yamada, Ichitaro Ban, Shogo Nishiyama ; engraved by S. Takenouchi, K. ...
- $1500 / ≈ €1288
Date: Tokyo, Toyodo Engraving Office, 1886
'T Eilandje Desima verblyf plaats der Hollanders in Japan.
Bird's-eye view of Dejima copied from a manuscript by Voogt, who was second-in-command on Deshima in 1713. The island is viewed from the landside, depicting the developme...
Date: Amsterdam, 1739
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
Femme Kourilienne [together with] Homme Kourilien.
Set of two originally hand-colored mezzotints of Native Russians engraved by Félix Mixelle and Lachaussée Jeune after Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur.As an etcher, dra...
- $50 / ≈ €43
Date: Paris,1801-1806
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 / ≈ €258
Date: Amsterdam, 1752
North Pacific Ocean LOO CHOO and adjacent Islands 1855.
Large scale chart of Okinawa in the Japan Sea. With scale and vignette of Typographical office. Map nr. 2416.An interesting note in lower right "The coast line of al...
- $300 / ≈ €258
Date: London, 1855
Description des Isles du Iapon. . .
Map of Japan prepared by N.Sanson and published by Pierre Mariette.Published in an early edition of the small Sanson atlas L'Europe Dediée a Monseigneur . . . Le Tellier...
Date: Paris, P. Mariette, 1656
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
Manuscript map of the Bay of Nagasaki.
An extremely rare manuscript chart in brown ink and wash color on a printed sheet of paper with a system of rhumblines and latitude scales. This chart shows the Bay of Na...
Date: Amsterdam, 1750