Octava Asie Tabvla.
Wood block map of Central Asia and China from Martin Waldseemüller's 1513 edition of Ptolemy, who was a landmark work that contributed to major advances in both Renaissa...
Place & Date: Strasbourg, J. Schott, 1513
Selling price: $4000
Sold in 2018
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No title. [China and Japan.]
The earliest printed representation of the China and Japan region in a European Atlas. The first issue of this engraving with minor titular amendments appeared in the 152...
Place & Date: Lyons, M. Servetus, 1535
Selling price: $4900
Sold in 2009
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No title. [China and Japan.]
The earliest printed representation of the China and Japan region in a European Atlas. The first issue of this engraving with minor titular amendments appeared in the 152...
Place & Date: Vienne 1541
Selling price: $1800
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Tabula octava Asiae continet.
Woodblock map illustrating the Ptolemaic concept of the region of ancient Schytia Extra in a trapezoidal projection. Title is on verso.Central Asia and China with the cou...
Place & Date: Vienne, 1541
Selling price: $180
Sold in 2009
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[Lot of 17 leaves with maps and views relating to India, Sri Lanka, China, Indonesia]
Seventeen text pages illustrated with wood block prints relating to India, Sri Lanka, China, Indonesia illustrated with animals : elephants, rhinoceros... From the 1552 L...
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
Selling price: $51
Sold in 2022
Chinae, olim Sinarum Regionis, nova descriptio. auctore Ludovico Georgio.
The first map of China ever to appear in a Western atlas, west to the top. When this map appeared, it was by far the most accurate one of China.Japan is shown on a curiou...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1584
Selling price: $3850
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Chinae, olim Sinarum regionis, nova descriptio. Auctore Ludovico Georgio.
Engraved map of China with an elaborate baroque title and scale cartouches, galleons and masted land-vehicles. Latin text on verso.This map, drawn by Ludovicus Georgius (...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1584
Selling price: $2700
Sold in 2011
Chinae Olim Sinarum Regionis Nova Descriptio auctore Ludovico Georgio.
The first map of China which appeared in a western atlas. From a Latin edition of 1592 (latin text on verso, page 101, last line"moribus exilat...").This map, i...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1584
Selling price: $3900
Sold in 2017
Chinae, olim Sinarum Regionis, nova descriptio. Auctore Ludovico Georgio.
A first state, the first issue of the first map of China to appear in a Western atlas [without "Las Philippinas"; Latin text to verso, the last line starts &quo...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1584
Selling price: $3900
Sold in 2018
Chinae, olim Sinarum Regionis, nova descriptio. Auctore Ludovico Georgio.
The first map of China ever to appear in a Western atlas, west to the top. When this map appeared, it was by far the most accurate one of China.Japan is shown on a curiou...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1587
Selling price: $5700
Sold in 2014