Xansi, e Xensi Provincie della China . . .
A beautiful map depicting part of China and showing a stretch of the Great Wall and the Deserto de Xamo. With decorative title cartouche, scale cartouche and a cartouche ...
Place & Date: Venice, 1690
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2012
Chekiang, e Kiangsi, Provincie della Cina. . .
Impressive map of Zhejiang and Jiangxi from Coronelli's set of six maps showing thirteen Chinese provinces, is modeled on the earlier maps by Joan Blaeu and the Jesuit Ma...
Place & Date: Venice, 1690
Selling price: $650
Sold in 2012
CONFUCIUS le Philosphe le plus estimé parmi les Chinois. . .
A very rare and decorative portrait of Confusius. Underneath the plate a descriptive text in French. Bears the address : A Paris Chez N. Langlois rue St.Jacques a l'Ensei...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1690
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2012
Iunan, Queicheu, e Quangsi Provincie della China...
Large early map of the Chinese provinces of Yunan, Guizhou, Guangxi, from Coronellis "Corso Geografico Universalle".The map includes many place names and topogr...
Place & Date: Venice, c1690
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2015
Quantung, e Fokien, Provincie della China..
A beautifully engraved decorative map of Southern China extending from Hainan in the West to Formosa in the East and centered on the Pearl River Delta with Macao and the ...
Place & Date: Venice 1691
Selling price: $3500
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Quantung, e Fokien, Provincie della China. . .
A beautifully engraved decorative map of Southern China extending from Hainan in the West to Formosa in the East and centered on the Pearl River Delta with Macao and the ...
Place & Date: Venice, 1691
Selling price: $3200
Sold in 2019
Quantung, e Fokien, Provincie della China. . .
A beautifully engraved decorative map of Southern China extending from Hainan in the West to Formosa in the East and centered on the Pearl River Delta with Macao and the ...
Place & Date: Venice, 1691
Selling price: $3000
Sold in 2019
Quantung, e Fokien, Provincie della China. . .
A beautifully engraved decorative map of Southern China extending from Hainan in the West to Formosa in the East and centered on the Pearl River Delta with Macao and the ...
Place & Date: Venice, 1691
Selling price: $1400
Sold in 2021
Parte orientale della China..
The map depicts the eastern part of China with Korea -correctly- as a peninsula. A lettered index (A=G) at mid-right, in the sea., Decorative cartouche with scientific in...
Place & Date: Venice, 1694
Selling price: $2850
Sold in 2018
Xantun, e Peking..
An attractive map of this northern province. Curiously, although Peking had been thus named since the 15th century (after a spell as Kublai Khan's Cambaluc ), it is here ...
Place & Date: Venice, 1695
Selling price: $765
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Nanking, et Honan provincie della China..
An attractive map of this north eastern province of China. Including the town of Kiangning, in contemp. manuscript ou Nankin. The remarkable Vincenzo Coronelli (1650-1718...
Place & Date: Venice, 1695
Selling price: $765
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Xantun, e Peking..
An attractive map of this northern province. Curiously, although Peking had been thus named since the 15th century (after a spell as Kublai Khan's Cambaluc ), it is here ...
Place & Date: Venice 1695
Selling price: $1262
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Parte orientale della China.. / Parte occidentale della China (2 sheets)
The map depicts the eastern part of China with Korea -correctly- as a peninsula. Formosa is included as well. Japan is partly visible i.e. the area of Yamaguchi, strait K...
Place & Date: Venice 1695
Selling price: $3200
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Parte orientale della China.. / Parte occidentale della China (2 sheets)
The map depicts the eastern part of China with Korea -correctly- as a peninsula. Formosa is included as well. Japan is partly visible i.e. the area of Yamaguchi, strait K...
Place & Date: Venice, 1695
Selling price: $5000
Sold in 2022
Imperii Sinarum Nova Descriptio
A reduced and much rarer version of Blaeu's map of 1655. Even the cartouche is faithfully copied from the Blaeu map. Adam Olearius was a German scholar and geographer who...
Place & Date: Hamburg, 1696
Selling price: $1800
Sold in 2009
Orientalische Reise-Beschreibung. . .
Fascinating travelogues by Joergen Andersen and Volquard Iversen, edited by Adam Olearius. The accuracy of the travel accounts is difficult to confirm, however, as both a...
Place & Date: Hamburg, 1696
Selling price: $1800
Sold in 2012
Imperii SINARUM Nova Descriptio
A reduced and much rarer version of Blaeu's map of 1655. Even the cartouche is faithfully copied from the Blaeu map. Adam Olearius was a German scholar and geographer who...
Place & Date: Hamburg, 1696
Selling price: $950
Sold in 2020
Iunan, Queicheu, e Quangsi Provincie della China . . .
Striking early map of the Chinese provinces of Iunan (Yunan), Queicheu (Guizhou), e Quangsi (Guangxi). With a highly decorative title and mileage-scale cartouches. In top...
Place & Date: Venice, 1698
Selling price: $367
Sold in 2012
Xansi, e Xensi, provincie della China . . .
A beautiful and flamboyantly engraved large-scale map of Province of Xansi (Shanxi) and Xensi (Shaanxi) including a depiction of the Great Wall and the Deserto de Xamo. T...
Place & Date: Venice, 1698
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2012
Xantung, e Peking provincie della china. . .
A beautiful map depicting the area of Beijing with decorative title cartouche and scale cartouche. Information about the area at the top of the map.To the right the west ...
Place & Date: Venice, 1698
Selling price: $550
Sold in 2012
Parte occidentale della China / Parte orientale della China . . .
The two sheet map depicts the eastern part of China with Korea -correctly- as a peninsula. The maps are still on separate uncut sheets, each map measuring 607x450mm., tog...
Place & Date: Venice, 1698
Selling price: $6900
Sold in 2013
Xantung, e Peking provincie della china. . .
A beautiful map depicting the area of Beijing with decorative title cartouche and scale cartouche. Information about the area at the top of the map.To the right the west ...
- $350 / ≈ €328
Place & Date: Venice, 1698
Chine.
Scarce and interesting map of China printed from a reworked Cloppenburgh plate. Latin names and hachuring have been burnished from the plate and the original title “Chi...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1700
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2012
Chine.
RARE miniature map of China, Korea, Japan and Taiwan. The map is of interest for the use of East Sea, the sea between Korea and Japan, here called "Mer Orientale&quo...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1700
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2014
Chine.
The rare second state of this early map of China, Korea, and Japan. From "Nouvelle Geographie. . . Par Mr. D. Martineau Du Plessis... A Amsterdazm, Chez George Galle...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1700
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2017
China.
A detailed copper engraved map of China including Taiwan and South Korea. Shows the Great Wall. With good details of towns, rivers, and islands. With interesting text abo...
Place & Date: London, 1701
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2021
Macao.
Uncommon fanciful view of Macao, with a Dutch vessel in the foreground. From the French reissue of the account of early Dutch voyages first published in 1608 by Commelin....
Place & Date: Amsterdam, E. Roger, 1703
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2013
La partie orientale de L'Asie ou se trouvent le Grand Empire des Tartares chinois ...
The map includes China, an elonged Korea and the islands of Taiwan and Japan. Hokkaido is curiously shown as an Asian peninsula. Taiwan labeled: Isle Formosa ou Bel-Isle ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1705
Selling price: $290
Sold in 2009
La partie orientale de l'Asie où se trouvent Le Grand Empire des Tartares Chinois et celuidu Iapon.
A map of China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan and northern India, by Nicolas De Fer, Royal French Geographer. The island of Taiwan is labeled "I.Formosa ou Bel Isle" and...
Place & Date: Paris, 1706
Selling price: $800
Sold in 2018
La China.
Map of China from Laso’s extremely rare atlas “El Atlas Abreviado”. The plates for the atlas were based on those for Don Francisco De Afferden’s earlier atlas pub...
Place & Date: Madrid, 1711
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2012
Directions between Amoye and Chusan.
Text page with woodblock plofiles by Samuel Thornton showing the approaching coast lines of The Island of Quesan, Sampanna, Lamjett and Island of Hightan on the verso dir...
Place & Date: London 1711
Selling price: $90
Sold in 2014
Three double sided pages No's 65 & 66 ‘Directions from the River Siam to the River of Cambodia.' Directions between Pulo Timoan and Amoye in China. 67 & 68 Directions between Pulo Timoan and Amoye in China. 69 & 70,
Six woodblock chart’s on three double sided sheets by Samuel Thornton showing the approaching coast lines China by John How and Samuel Thornton.Published in "The E...
Place & Date: London, 1711
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2014
Wakan Sansai Zue - 和漢三才図会 [Illustrated Sino-Japanese Encyclopedia - one volume]
The Wakan Sansai Zue (和漢三才図会, lit. "Illustrated Sino-Japanese Encyclopedia") is an illustrated...
Place & Date: Edo, 1712
Selling price: $301
Sold in 2017
La Chine.
A charming small map of China, Taiwan, Philippines, Korea and Kyushu (Japan).From the "Des berühmten Königlichen geographi" the German Edition of "Descri...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1719
Selling price: $131
Sold in 2017
Habillement De L'Empereur De La Chine & Des Dames De Son Palais Avec Quel-ques Usages & Coutumes Observees en ce Pais.
A decorative and interesting folio sheet of engravings showing the costumes of the Chinese king and his wives in the Royal Palace. A finely engraved print from Chatelain'...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1719
Selling price: $57
Sold in 2020
Description d' un des plus Fameux Temples des Chinois, avec leurs Principales Idoles telles que la Figure. . .
An interesting folio sheet with three engravings illustrating Chinese religion. The central engraving is of a pagoda in the Province of Fokien, which is flanked by two dr...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1719
Selling price: $26
Sold in 2020
Habillemens d'Hommes & Femmes de diverses provinces de la Chine avec.....la Pont volant de la Provence de Xensi.
Henri Abraham Chatelain was a Amsterdam-based geographer and publisher. His main product is the 'Atlas Historique et Méthodique', in seven volumes, published between 171...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c. 1720
Selling price: $170
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Habillement de l'Empereur de la Chine & des Dames de son Palais
Henri Abraham Chatelain was a Amsterdam-based geographer and publisher. His main product is the 'Atlas Historique et Méthodique', in seven volumes, published between 171...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c. 1720
Selling price: $170
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Iunnan, Queicheu, Quangsi, et Quantung..
A beautifully engraved map of Southern China covering Hainan and the Pearl River Delta with Macao and the islands around present-day Hong Kong.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Selling price: $1800
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Description d'un des plus fameux temples des Chinois..
This impressive engraving is a wonderful example of Chatelain?s elegant plates.Divided in 3 panels, respectively showing the most important gods in the Chinese deities sy...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1720
Selling price: $100
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Habillement de l'Empereur de la Chine & des Dames de son Palais..
This impressive engraving is a wonderful example of Chatelain?s elegant plates.Divided in 3 panels, showing examples of costumes of Chinese ladies and those of the king o...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1720
Selling price: $150
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Habillemens d'Hommes et Femmes de diverses provinces de Chine..
This impressive engraving is a wonderful example of Chatelain?s elegant plates.Very nice view representing a bridge in the upper central part. Surrounded with panels show...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1720
Selling price: $150
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Habillemens d'hommes & de femmes de diverses provinces de la Chine. . .
An attractive view of the flying bridge in the province of Xensi, surrounded by 11 costume prints.The ethnographic studies show various types of people including physicia...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2012
La Chine.
The map is of interest for the use of Sea of Japan / East Sea, the sea between Korea and Japan, here called "Mer Orientale".This small Italian map of China, Kor...
Place & Date: Venice, c.1722
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2023
De Stad Macao.
A fine view of the city of Macao from Lappa Island showing the defenses, the forts, churches and convents: including Fort de Baare, Bon Parto, Fort St Paulo (Monte Fort)....
- $750 / ≈ €702
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1724
La Chine.
Scarce map based on a map published by Nicholas DeFer in Paris.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1725
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2012
Chine.
Very uncommon state of Chevigni's map of China based on De L'Isle from "La Science des Personnes de la Cour..." published by Lottin, Genneau, and Morin. The map...
Place & Date: Paris, 1725
Selling price: $110
Sold in 2011
Embouchure de la rivière de Chincheo à la Chine.
This map is a view of Quanzhou Bay. Quanzhou was established in 718 during the Tang Dynasty (618–907). In those days, Guangzhou was China's greatest seaport, but this s...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, F. Bernard, 1725
Selling price: $110
Sold in 2014
La Chine, suivant les nouvelles observations..
Uncommon edition of this map of China. With decorative title cartouche lower right corner. Including the island of Taiwan.This example is unusual in having the additional...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1728
Selling price: $540
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A Chart of the Coast of China.
Rare English chart of the China coast and seas by famed astronomer and comet tracker Edmond Halley. This chart comes from Halley's rare Atlas Maritimus et Commercialis. D...
Place & Date: London, 1728
Selling price: $4300
Sold in 2009
Habillemens d'hommes et de femmes de diverses provinces de la Chine avec un des plus beaux monumens de ce païs là.
In top a view of a bridge in Xensi Province bordered by eleven examples of Chinese dress from different provinces. Showing various people in their typical dress including...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1728
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2023
Paradigma XV Provinciarum et CLV Urbium Capitalium Sinensis Imperij Cum Templis...
Rare map of China from Stocklein's "Neuer Welt Bolt", a German translation of the Jesuit Lettres Edifiantes. Based on Philippe Couplet's map of 1686, the map sh...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1729
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2010
Imperii Sinarum
Map with a fair number of provinces & cities in the interior. The Great Wall is depicted along the northern border. A large fictitious interior lake labeled Kia Lacus...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1729
Selling price: $300
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Imperii Sinarum.
Map of China. Along the northern border the Great Wall is visible. Note a large, fancyful lake named Kia Lacus which is the source of five large rivers. The map shows als...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1729
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2016
[Antique map of China] Opulentissimum Sinarum Imperium
A highly decorative and strongly engraved map of China that includes the islands of Hainan and Formosa (Taiwan), the Korean peninsula and western Japan.The cartography is...
Place & Date: Augsburg, ca 1730
Selling price: $1550
Sold in 2017
Opulentissimum Sinarum Imperium.
"Opulentissimum Sinarum Imperium". A highly decorative and strongly engraved map of China that includes the islands of Hainan and Formosa (Taiwan), the Korean p...
Place & Date: Nuernberg, ca 1730
Selling price: $425
Sold in 2021
Opulentissimum Sinarum Imperium juxta Recentissimam Delineationem in suas Provincias Disterminatum
A superb and detailed map of China, Korea, Taiwan and southern tip of Japan. Large, ornate decorative, cartouche symbolizing European trade with the East.Comes from M. Se...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1730
The Empire of China and Island of Japan, Agreeable to Modern History by H.Moll.
Map of China, Korea, Japan, the island Taiwan (Formosa I.). The map is of interest for the use of East Sea, the sea between Korea and Japan, here called "Sea of Core...
Place & Date: London, Thos. Bowles and John Bowles, 1729-1732
Selling price: $720
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The Empire of China and Island of Japan, Agreeable to Modern History by H.Moll.
Map of China, Korea, Japan, the island Taiwan (Formosa I.). The map is of interest for the use of East Sea, the sea between Korea and Japan, here called "Sea of Kore...
Place & Date: London, Thos. Bowles and John Bowles, 1729-1732
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2010
The Empire of China and Island of Japan, Agreeable to Modern History by H.Moll.
With page number 1 added in upper right corner of the scale. Map of China, Korea, Japan, the island Taiwan (Formosa I.). The map is of interest for the use of East Sea, t...
Place & Date: London, Thos. Bowles and John Bowles, 1729-1732
Selling price: $720
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The Empire of China and Island of Japan, Agreeable to Modern History by H.Moll.
With page number 1 added in upper right corner of the scale. Map of China, Korea, Japan, the island Taiwan (Formosa I.). The map is of interest for the use of East Sea, t...
Place & Date: London, Thos. Bowles and John Bowles, 1729-1732
Selling price: $720
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[10 Maps] Carte generale du Thibet ou Bout-Tan et des Pays de Kashgar et Hami Dress'ee sur les Cartes et Memoires des RR PP Jesuites de la Chine . . .
A general map of Tibet together with 9 regional maps. The first accurate cartographic depiction of Tibet that is available in the western world. Jean Baptiste Bourguignon...
Place & Date: Paris, Le Mercier, 1735
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2012
[11 Maps] . . . Feuille particuliere de la Tartarie Chinoise. . .
A group of 11 maps, together forming a large map of Tartary. The first accurate cartographic depiction of Tartary available in the western world. Jean Baptiste Bourguigno...
Place & Date: Paris, Le Mercier, 1735
Selling price: $900
Sold in 2010
Land-Taffel der Insel Sanciano. Grab-Statt des Heiligen Franc. Xaverii auf der Insel Sanciano
A map (21,5:21 cm) of the southern coast of China with Macau, the Xiachuan Island and the Shangchuan Island, where Francis Xavier was buried. With the ground plan of Xavi...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1735
Selling price: $130
Sold in 2011
Carte Generale de la Chine Dressée sur les Cartes Particulieres Que l' Empereur Chang-Hi a fait lever sur les lieux..
Large map showing the traditional limits of China, including Hainan and Formosa in the South, and Quantong and parts of the Gobi Desert in the North.As the title notes, t...
Place & Date: Paris , 1735
Selling price: $1750
Sold in 2016
Carte Generale De La Tartarie Chinoise Dressee sur les Cartes Particulieres Faits Sur Les Lieux Par Les R.R. P.P. Jesuites . . . .MDCCXXXII
D'Anville is very important for Korean cartography as he made the cartography of Korea widely available. The map is the first fairly accurate western map of Korea, though...
Place & Date: Paris, 1735
Selling price: $2500
Sold in 2018
Carte la plus generale et qui comprend la Chine, la Tartarie chinoise et le Thibet. . .
With a quite elaborately pictorial cartouche, engraved by G.Kondet. Very detailed map of China, Tibet and Korea. Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d' Anville (1697-1782), French ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1735
Selling price: $3000
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Province de Quang-Si. [Quang-si 广西 [Guangxi] province]
Important map of Quang-si 广西 [Guangxi] province. With a quite elaborately pictorial cartouche featuring a rococo chinoiserie ornamentation, engraved...
Place & Date: Paris, P.G. Le Mercier, 1735
Selling price: $170
Sold in 2020
Province d'Yun-Nan. [Yun-nan 云南 [Yunnan] province.]
Important map of Yun-nan 云南 [Yunnan] province. With a quite elaborately pictorial cartouche featuring a rococo chinoiserie ornamentation, engraved b...
Place & Date: Paris, P.G. Le Mercier, 1735
Selling price: $250
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Province de Kiang-Nan. [Kiang-nan 江南 [Jiangnan] province.]
Important map of Kiang-nan 江南 [Jiangnan] province. With a quite elaborately pictorial cartouche featuring a rococo chinoiserie ornamentation, engrav...
Place & Date: Paris, P.G. Le Mercier, 1735
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2017
Province de Chen-Si. [Chen-si 陕西 [Shaanxi] province.]
Important map of Chen-si 陕西 [Shaanxi] province. With a quite elaborately pictorial cartouche, engraved by Guélard, the map by Delahaye, featuring a...
Place & Date: Paris, P.G. Le Mercier, 1735
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2017
Plan du Ti-tang ou du temple, où l'empereur sacrifie à Chang-ti sous le titre de souverain seigneur de la terre
Nice example of d'Anville's plan of Tien-tang 天堂 [Tiantang] temple, from "Atlas général de la Chine..." prepared by Jesuit missionaries ...
Place & Date: Paris, P.G. Le Mercier, 1735
Selling price: $14
Sold in 2017
Plan du Tien-tang ou du temple, où l'empereur sacrifie à Chang-ti sous le titre de souverain seigneur de la terre.
Nice example of d'Anville's plan of Tien-tang 天堂 [Tiantang] temple, from "Atlas général de la Chine..."" prepared by Jesuit mission...
Place & Date: Paris, P.G. Le Mercier, 1735
Selling price: $8
Sold in 2017
Dedication page to the King of France.
Text page showing an engraving (130x210mm.) of the young King followed by a letter addressed to him. Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d' Anville (1697-1782), French cartographer...
Place & Date: Paris, P.G. Le Mercier, 1735
Selling price: $27
Sold in 2018
Description geographique, historique, chronologique, politique et physique de l'Empire de chine et de la Tartarie / De la Religion des Chinois.
Text page with a copper engraving (90x175mm.) showing an interior with Chinese persons. Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d' Anville (1697-1782), French cartographer. Compiled ov...
Place & Date: Paris, P.G. Le Mercier, 1735
Selling price: $10
Sold in 2018
Au vrai principe de toutes choses.
Text page with an engraving. Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d' Anville (1697-1782), French cartographer. Compiled over 200 maps. This map is from his most important work Nou...
Place & Date: Paris, P.G. Le Mercier, 1735
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2017
Villes de la province de Tche-kiang. (Hang-tcheou-fou, Ping hou hien, Hou-tcheou-fou, Hia-hing-fou and Ku-tcheou-fou.)
Five towns plans : Hang-tcheou-fou, Ping hou hien, Hou-tcheou-fou, Hia-hing-fou and Ku-tcheou-fou.From "Description geographique, historique, chronologique, politiqu...
Place & Date: Paris, P.G. Le Mercier, 1735
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2022
Villes de la province de Kiang-nan.
Eight town plans : Nan-king, Sou-tcheou-fou, Koen-chan-hien, Tsi-ki-hien, Vou-si-hien, Kia-ting-hien, Tchan-chou-hien and Tsing-pou-hien.From "Description geographiq...
Place & Date: Paris, P.G. Le Mercier, 1735
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2022
Villes de la province de Hou-Quang.
4 town plans : Yong-tcheou-fou, Vou-tchang-fou, Hoang tcheou fou and Siang-yang-fou. From "Description geographique, historique, chronologique, politique, et physiqu...
Place & Date: Paris, P.G. Le Mercier, 1735
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2022
Villes de la province de Chensi.
Six town plans : Si-ngan-fou, capitale…, Tchouang-lan, Lan-tcheou, Can-tcheou, King-tcheou and Cou-yuen-tcheou. From "Description geographique, historique, chronol...
Place & Date: Paris, P.G. Le Mercier, 1735
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2017