Chungguk-do
Chungguk-do [Map of China] prominently depicting the Great Wall and the Yellow and Yangtze rivers.
Place & Date: Korea, ca. 1820
Selling price: $1400
Sold in 2015
Carte de la Chine et du Japon. Dressée pour l'intelligence de l'histoire général des voyages de Laharpe. . .
Engraved by Tardieu for L'Intelligence de l'histoire generale des Voyages de Laharpe A detailed map of China, Korea, Japan and Taiwan (I.Formose ou Pekan). Physical featu...
Place & Date: Paris, 1821
China Sea. sheet 1.
James Horsburgh early of the coast of China, including Hong Kong, Hainan, Strait of Formosa with lower half of Formosa (Taiwan), Northern part of the Philippines.The cha...
Place & Date: London, 1823
Selling price: $4100
Sold in 2011
Carte réduite de la partie méridionale de l'Île d'Hainan parcourue en 1817...
A scarce sea-chart of a portion of southern Hainan, locating Sanya, Yalong Bay, Lingshui Bay, and a few more places, in the South China Sea. With the tracks of the ships,...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1825
Selling price: $62
Sold in 2016
Plan de la Baie de Lyeoung-Soy en l'Île d'Hainan...
A scarce sea-chart from the explorations of Achille de Kergariou in 1817, showing a part of southern Hainan (Lingshui Bay?). With the tracks of the ships, small rocks and...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1825
Selling price: $45
Sold in 2016
CHINA
Scarce map of China published by John Thomson for the Edinburgh School Atlas.
Place & Date: Edinburgh, 1825
Reise nach China durch die Mongoley in den Jahren 1820 und 1821.
Rare account with the important large map "Charte der Reise von Kiachta nach Peking durch die Mongoley" (55 x 43,5 cm) and a plan of Peking (31x28cm). Extra shi...
Place & Date: Vienna, 1826
Selling price: $230
Sold in 2016
Jeune Fille roulant des feuilles de thé.
Nice hand colored engraving depicting Chinese life.From La Chine, mœurs, usages, costumes, arts et métiers, peines civiles et militaires, cérémonies religieuses, monu...
Place & Date: Paris, 1825-1827
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2011
Femme de Mandarin.
Nice hand colored engraving depicting Chinese life.From La Chine, mœurs, usages, costumes, arts et métiers, peines civiles et militaires, cérémonies religieuses, monu...
Place & Date: Paris, 1825-1827
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2011
Porteur de Palanquin.
Nice hand colored engraving depicting Chinese life.From La Chine, mœurs, usages, costumes, arts et métiers, peines civiles et militaires, cérémonies religieuses, monu...
Place & Date: Paris, 1825-1827
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2012
Jardinier fleuriste.
Nice hand colored engraving depicting Chinese life.From La Chine, mœurs, usages, costumes, arts et métiers, peines civiles et militaires, cérémonies religieuses, monu...
Place & Date: Paris, 1825-1827
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2012
Jeunes Paysans ramassant du fumier.
Nice hand colored engraving depicting Chinese life.From La Chine, mœurs, usages, costumes, arts et métiers, peines civiles et militaires, cérémonies religieuses, monu...
Place & Date: Paris, 1825-1827
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2011
Marchand de Flûtes.
Nice hand colored engraving depicting Chinese life.From La Chine, mœurs, usages, costumes, arts et métiers, peines civiles et militaires, cérémonies religieuses, monu...
Place & Date: Paris, 1825-1827
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2012
Marchand de Bétel.
Nice hand colored engraving depicting Chinese life.From La Chine, mœurs, usages, costumes, arts et métiers, peines civiles et militaires, cérémonies religieuses, monu...
Place & Date: Paris, 1825-1827
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2012
Chaise à porteurs.
Nice hand colored engraving depicting Chinese life.From La Chine, mœurs, usages, costumes, arts et métiers, peines civiles et militaires, cérémonies religieuses, monu...
Place & Date: Paris, 1825-1827
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2011
Colporteur.
Nice hand colored engraving depicting Chinese life.From La Chine, mœurs, usages, costumes, arts et métiers, peines civiles et militaires, cérémonies religieuses, monu...
Place & Date: Paris, 1825-1827
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2012
Château-fort près Tien-Sing.
Nice hand colored engraving depicting Chinese life.From La Chine, mœurs, usages, costumes, arts et métiers, peines civiles et militaires, cérémonies religieuses, monu...
Place & Date: Paris, 1825-1827
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2011
Taa, près de la ville de Sou-tcheou.
Nice hand colored engraving depicting Chinese life.From La Chine, mœurs, usages, costumes, arts et métiers, peines civiles et militaires, cérémonies religieuses, monu...
Place & Date: Paris, 1825-1827
Selling price: $70
Sold in 2012
Intérieur d'une Maison chinoise.
Nice hand colored engraving depicting Chinese life.From La Chine, mœurs, usages, costumes, arts et métiers, peines civiles et militaires, cérémonies religieuses, monu...
Place & Date: Paris, 1825-1827
Selling price: $65
Sold in 2011
Prévenu devant un Magistrat.
Nice hand colored engraving depicting Chinese life.From La Chine, mœurs, usages, costumes, arts et métiers, peines civiles et militaires, cérémonies religieuses, monu...
Place & Date: Paris, 1825-1827
Selling price: $70
Sold in 2011
Partie de la Chine N°85. (Covers northeastern India, northern Burma and parts of Tibet, Sichuan and Yunnan.)
Covers northeastern India, northern Burma and parts of Tibet, Sichuan and Yunnan.From his famous Atlas Universel . This atlas was one of the most remarkable world atlases...
Place & Date: Brussels, 1825-1827
Selling price: $200
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Partie de la Chine N°73. (Covers parts of Hubei, Henan, Anhui, Jiangsu, Shanxi and Shandong provinces.)
Covers parts of Hubei, Henan, Anhui, Jiangsu, Shanxi and Shandong provinces.From his famous Atlas Universel . This atlas was one of the most remarkable world atlases ever...
Place & Date: Brussels, 1825-1827
Selling price: $180
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Giuocatori. (Chinese gamblers)
Aquatint with original coloring by Gaetano Zancon, taken from Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume ancien et moderne ou histoire du gouvernement, de la milice, de la religio...
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
Selling price: $95
Sold in 2013
Divinita Cinesi divise in tre classi (shows the Chinese Gods. Confucius, Lanzu, Fe.)
Aquatint with original coloring by Gaetano Zancon, taken from Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume ancien et moderne ou histoire du gouvernement, de la milice, de la religio...
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
Selling price: $85
Sold in 2013
Partie de L'Empire Chinois .
Vandermaelen Philippe (1795 – 1869) was an eminent Belgian geographer and cartographer , famous for having designed a universal authority made Atlas and for having foun...
Place & Date: Brussels, 1827
Selling price: $17
Sold in 2015
Partie de la Chine - No. 48
A detailed map delineating the border between China and Russia. Lithographed by Henri Ode. One of 387 maps of the world produced on the same scale. This map was important...
Place & Date: Brussels, 1827
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2016
[ XXXVIII. Ceremonie funebri].
Aquatint depicting a Chinese funeral ceremony engraved by A. Rancati. Plate N°38.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du gouvernement, de...
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2018
[ LVIII. Arco di Cantone, di Ce-Ceu-Fu].
Aquatint depicting an arch in Canton and Ce-Ceu-Fu, engraved by L Rossi. Plate N°58.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du gouvernement,...
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2018
[XI. Ritratti d'Imperatori e d'uomini celebri].
Aquatint depicting portraits of Chinese emperors and famous men, engraved by Zanconi. Plate N°11.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du ...
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2017
[LXX. Donne della provincia di Kiang-Nan, e piedi delle donne Cinesi].
Aquatint depicting women of the province of Kiang-Nan, and the shoes and feet of Chinese women, engraved by L Bigatti. Plate N°70.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume ...
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
Selling price: $10
Sold in 2018
[XXXVI. Cappelletta di campagna].
Aquatint depicting a chapel of at the Chinese country side, engraved by A. Rancati. Plate N°36.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du go...
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2018
[XXXIV. Bonzo in abito di cerimonia].
Aquatint depicting a Chinese bronze, engraved by G. Zancon. Plate N°34.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du gouvernement, de la milice...
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
Selling price: $10
Sold in 2018
[LXXIV. Vetture, lettighe].
Aquatint depicting different ways of Chinese transportations, engraved by A. Rancati. Plate N°74.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du ...
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2018
[LVII. Torre di Nan-King].
Aquatint depicting the tower in Nan-King, engraved by L. Rossi. Plate N°57.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du gouvernement, de la mi...
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2014
[XLIII. Aratro, seminatojo].
Aquatint depicting Chinese agricultural life, engraved by G. Bigatti. Plate N°43.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du gouvernement, de...
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2018
[XVII. Trono, Yu-U o scetro].
Aquatint depicting a Chinese throne and a scepter, engraved by A. Rancati. Plate N°17.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du gouvernemen...
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2018
[XX. Armi antiche e machine da guerra].
Aquatint depicting ancient Chinese weapons and war machines, engraved by Bigatti. Plate N°20.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du gouv...
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2018
[LXXIII. Varj giuochi].
Aquatint depicting Chinese games, engraved by G. Zancon. Plate N°73.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du gouvernement, de la milice, d...
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2018
[LXXX. Divinità suprema].
Aquatint depicting Chinese supreme divinity, engraved by G. Zancon. Plate N°80.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du gouvernement, de l...
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2018
[VIII. Animali e Vegetabilidella Cina].
Aquatint depicting Chinese, animals and plants, engraved by G. Zancon. Plate N°8.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du gouvernement, de...
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2018
[XXXIX. Varj sepolcri ].
Aquatint depicting Chinese tombs, engraved by L. Rossi. Plate N°39.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du gouvernement, de la milice, de...
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2018
[Ritratti d'Imperatori e d'uomoni celebri].
Aquatint depicting famous Emperors and men wearing typical Chinese dresses, engraved by L Bigatti. Plate N°11.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou...
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2018
Empire Chinois . . .
Detailed map of Chinese Empire, including Japan, Taiwan, prepared by A. H. Basset, rue Saint-Jacques, no. 64, Paris and published in Atlas classique et Universel de Géog...
Place & Date: Paris, A.H. Basset, 1828
Selling price: $300
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Carte particulière de la chine par L.Vivien, géographe. . .
A detailed map of China, including Korea and Taiwan with beautiful outline coloring and a handsome piano key border.From Louis de Saint-Martin Vivien's Atlas Universel.Wi...
Place & Date: Paris, 1834
[Lot with two maps] Map of the Three Kingdoms / Map of the Great Ming Dynasty.
Two beautifully colored Japanese woodblock maps of China, one of China during the Three Kingdoms period and a second of Ming China, 1368-1644.
Place & Date: Japan, ca.1835
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2012
China.
A very detailed map of China and Korea, filled with place names. Includes Hainan and Taiwan, and a small inset map of Macao.
Place & Date: London, ca. 1835
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2018
CENTRAL ASIA (MIDDLE DIVISION)
Striking lithographed map of Central Asia published for the Proprietors by H.C. Collins. Engraved by J. Archer. Features the Chinese Empire, Mongolia & Tibet.
Place & Date: London, 1836
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2014
Empire Chinois et Japon.
Detailed map of China, Korea, Taiwan and Japan.From Malte-Brun's Atlas Géographie Universelle.., revised by Jean Jacques Nicolas Huot.This very fine executed map has bee...
Place & Date: Paris 1837
Selling price: $30
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Carte de la Mer de Chine.. [Together with] Carte des Cotes orientales de Chine.. [Together with] Carte générale de la Mer des Indes..
A set of 3 printed charts of the China Sea added in manuscripts the tracks of the French frigate "Cleopatre" under command of Adm. Cecille in the years 1846 - 1...
Place & Date: Paris, 1838, 1842, 1837
Selling price: $3500
Sold in 2009
Macao from the Forts of Heang-shan.
A finely delineated view of the city of Macao as seen from one of its fortification areas. The foreground contains a group of religious worshipers. Engraved by S. Fisher....
Place & Date: London, ca. 1840
Selling price: $90
Sold in 2011
Chine et Japon.
Finely engraved map of China, Korea, Formosa and Tibet, prepared by A.H.Dufour and engraved by Giraldon-Bovinet. Published by Jules Renouard in his uncommon atlas "L...
Place & Date: Paris, Jules Renouard, ca.1840
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2015
Entrance of the Hoang-ho, or Yellow River.
Superb view of the mouth of the Yellow River or Huáng Hé in the Bohai Sea (a gulf of the Yellow Sea). With numerous very detailed boats and ships shown. Engraved by Adl...
Place & Date: London, ca. 1840
Selling price: $46
Sold in 2016
Bridge of Chains in China.
An interesting scene with a rope bridge over waterfalls. In the front several people are seen, including one angling.With nice hand color.
Place & Date: London, ca 1840
Selling price: $12
Sold in 2017
Canton. (Two gouaches).
Two so-called export paintings of the Thirteen Factories at Canton (Guangzhou). The flags of Denmark, France, the U.S., Sweden, Britain, and the Netherland are visible on...
Place & Date: China, ca. 1840
Selling price: $4300
Sold in 2020
Macao from the Forts of Heang shan.
A finely engraved view of the city of Macao, as seen from the Heang-shan forts. In the foreground is a group that is gathered for a worship or blessing of some kind. Two ...
Place & Date: London and/or Paris, ca. 1841
Selling price: $50
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China WOOSUNG RIVER surveyed by Capt. H.Kellett C.B. & R.Collinson C.B.
Important Anglo-Chinese War ("Opium war") of 1838 - 1842 map.Detailed drawing of the Woosung river, as fair south as Shanghai. Prepared by the British commander...
Place & Date: China 1842
Selling price: $1400
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Carte de la Chine.
Rare, incredibly detailed map of China prepared by the renowned German historian, linguist, orientalist, and explorer Julius Klaproth. Originally intended to accompany Kl...
Place & Date: Paris, 1842
Selling price: $420
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A map to illustrate the war in China...
Scarce map of China during the Opium Wars, extending from Peking to Kanton (Guangzhou), Macau, and Hong Kong . North oriented to the right. Very detailed map including s...
Place & Date: London, 1842
Selling price: $325
Sold in 2013
Carte de la Chine.
Rare, incredibly detailed map of China prepared by the renowned German historian, linguist, orientalist, and explorer Julius Klaproth. Originally intended to accompany Kl...
Place & Date: Paris, 1842
Selling price: $420
Sold in 2017
China.
A highly detailed map of China, extending from Tibet until South Korea. Names many towns, areas, rivers, islands,... Includes a tip of Japan and the Philippines.
Place & Date: London, ca. 1843
Selling price: $11
Sold in 2017
Tiger Island. Entrance of the Canton River.
A superb view of the mouth of the Pearl River, near Guangzhou and Hong Kong. With three very detailed boats and ships shown.Engraved by Goodall, drawn by Standfield, sket...
Place & Date: London, 1844
Selling price: $16
Sold in 2017
HONG KONG surveyed by Captn. Sir Edward Belcher, in H.M.S. Sulphur 1841. Corrected to 1845.
Nautical chart of Hong Kong. Engraved by J. & C. Walker, it is based on the observations of Sir Edward Belcher, a British naval officer and explorer.Belcher entered t...
Place & Date: London 1841 - 1845
Selling price: $12500
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China.
A large scale map of China by Johnston, with an inset of the Canton River andit shows the small island of HK.It also shows the islands of Hainan & Taiwan and the Kore...
Place & Date: London, 1845
China-Propria oder das eigentliche China.
This map of China shows the mainland, and the islands of Formosa and Taiwan. This map is well engraved, with excellent topographical detail, but has minimal decoration.
Place & Date: Hildburghausen, 1846
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2017
Chart to the coast of China from the Canton River to the Yang Tze Keang, prepared by John Walker, geographer to the Honble. East India Company.
Detailed chart to the coast of China, including Taiwan. The map has numerous insets (Hong Kong, River Woo-sung to Shanghai, Killon Harbour and Merope Bay Formosa, River M...
Place & Date: London 1847
Selling price: $1000
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To Chas. Majoribanks esq.re and the other members of the hon.ble East India Company's factory at Canton, this Chart of Choo Keang or Canton river, is inscribed ... by James Horsburgh.
The chart stretches from north to south from Canton (Guangzhou) to Canzhou Island, and west to east from Dashi Bay to Hong Kong. Includes inset of Pearl River segment fro...
Place & Date: July 1831 corrections to 1847
Selling price: $6900
Sold in 2018
Sizhou city, Jiangsu Province.
An original Qing Dynasty era Chinese manuscript map of Sizhou city in Jiangsu province, China.Sizhou was destroyed by floods during emperor Kangxi reign about 300 years a...
Place & Date: China, ca. 1850
Selling price: $950
Sold in 2019
Das Chinesische Reich und die Japanischen Jnseln.
A fine steel-engraved map from a scarce German Atlas: 'Schuberth's Hand-Atlas'. It shows China, Korea and Japan, as well as surrounding areas including Mongolia, Siberia,...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, ca 1850
Selling price: $17
Sold in 2021
Manuscript map of Shang hai region.
Very fine caligraphy.
Place & Date: China, ca. 1850
China and Birmah.
A highly decorative and detailed map of China and Burma which was drawn and engraved by J. Rapkin (vignettes by A. H. Wray & J. B. Allen).Showing British Factories in...
Place & Date: London & New York: John Tallis & co, c.1851
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2017
China and Birmah.
A highly decorative and detailed map of China and Burma drawn and engraved by J. Rapkin.Drawn by A.H. Wray and J.B. Allen, the map's vignettes include British factories i...
Place & Date: London & New York, c. 1851
Selling price: $130
Sold in 2018
China and Birmah.
A highly decorative and detailed map of China and Burma which was drawn and engraved by J. Rapkin (vignettes by A. H. Wray & J. B. Allen).Showing British Factories in...
Place & Date: London, Edinburgh & Dublin 1851
Selling price: $195
Sold in 2019
China
A highly detailed and attractive map of China drawn and engraved by William Hughes – Sidney Hall, steel engraved.Published by Adam & Charles Black in the ‘General...
Place & Date: Edinburgh, 1854
Selling price: $85
Sold in 2016
China.
A lovely, large map of China, with insets the Island of Chusan, and the Estuary of the Canto River from Hong Kong to Canton. Korean peninsula shown. Good detail and excel...
Place & Date: Edinburgh, 1854
Selling price: $95
Sold in 2018
Map of the Punjab: western Himalaya and adjoining parts of Tibet from recent Surveys, and based upon the Trigonometrical survey of India, . . .
Rare separately published map of the Western Himalayas, Tibet and part of Punjab, published as part of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India. The map was issued by th...
Place & Date: London, W.H. Allen & Co., 1854
Selling price: $650
Sold in 2021
CHINA and BIRMAH
This is the uncommon and slightly later edition by Rapkin based on Tallis' maps. The vignettes have been removed and the map is issued in black and white.A rare and desir...
Place & Date: London, 1855
Selling price: $60
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China and Birmah.
Very detailed and up-to-date map, from the Bay of Bengal to Formosa (Taiwan). Includes also a part of Luzon. Filled with place names! This is the uncommon and slightly l...
Place & Date: London, ca. 1855
Selling price: $26
Sold in 2013
Chart of the Coast of China and of the Japan Islands including the Marianes and a Part of the Philippines.
Commodore Perry’s Sailing Directions for China and Japan with large map of Asian waters including the Mariana Islands and a part of the Philippines. Compiled by order o...
Place & Date: Washington, 1855
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2015
Colton's China
A map of China, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao. Surrounded by Colton's typical spiral motif border. From Colton's "ALAS OF THE WORLD".Joseph Hutchins Colton...
Place & Date: New York, 1855
Selling price: $42
Sold in 2016
Das Chinesische Reich mit seinen Schutz Staaten...Japanischen Insel Reiche.
A map of the Chinese and Japanese Empires published during the middle of the nineteenth century by Grassl, a German cartographer and engraver, who part worked in collabor...
Place & Date: Hildburghausen, 1856
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2017