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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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[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
Chinae, olim Sinarum Regionis, nova descriptio. Auctore Ludovico Georgio.
WITHOUT TEXT ON VERSO. The first map of China ever to appear in a Western atlas, west to the top. The second state with "Las Philipinas" somewhere in 1587 added...
Place & Date: Antwerp, ca. 1587
Selling price: $2500
Sold in 2019
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, after 1588
Selling price: $4300
Sold in 2015
Chinae, olim Sinarum Regionis, nova descriptio. Auctore Ludovico Georgio.
From the rare Dutch text edition of the Theatrum of which according to van den Broecke only 100 copies are printed.The first map of China ever to appear in a Western atla...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Selling price: $5100
Sold in 2016
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. The second state with "Las Philipinas" somewhere in 1587 added to the plate. When thi...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Selling price: $5000
Sold in 2018
Tabula Asiae VIII.
The third state of Ruscelli's map of central Asia, based upon Claudius Ptolemy. Girolamo Ruscelli first published the map in his "La Geographi di Claudio Tolomeo&quo...
Place & Date: Venice, 1598
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2018
Chinae, olim Sinarum regionis. . .
The first printed map of China. It is signed by Ludovico Georgio, whose real name was Luis Jorge de Barbuda. He was a Portuguese Jesuit cartographer and besides that a sp...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
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, 1601
Selling price: $5400
Sold in 2010
China, Regio Asiae.
This is the miniature version of Ortelius' important map focusing on China. The map is oriented with north to the right and extends to include parts of Indo-China. The Gr...
Place & Date: Antwerp, ca.1602
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2008
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, 1603
Selling price: $4500
Sold in 2016
China.
An important and decorative map of China, Korea and Japan, decorated with three cartouches, ships, China’s great wall, and sea monsters. It shows also a sail-cart and a...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $1650
Sold in 2019
China.
A miniature map of China. It also shows a portion of western America, Indo-China, the Philippines, Borneo, Japan and Korea. Published by Petrus Bertius in Amsterdam, at t...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2019
China.
Rare first issue, first state of Hondius' reduced map of China, from Atlas Minor Gerardi Mercatoris. Most notable differences from the second state include the spelling o...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1607
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2013
China.
Charming small map of the eastern part of China, oriented with west on top. It includes part of Japan and Korea represented as an island.From the first French-text editio...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1608
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2009
Chinae Olim Sinarum Regionis Nova Descriptio auctore Ludovico Georgio.
The first map of China to appear in a western atlas by Abraham Ortelius, based on the work of Jorge de Barbuda, a Portuguese Jesuit also known as Ludovicus Georgius. The...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1587/1608
Selling price: $2550
Sold in 2020
China, regio Asiae.
Miniature map of China, the map is oriented with north to the right and extends into parts of Indo-China, the Philippines and part of Japan. The Great Wall is prominently...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1609
Selling price: $200
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China.
A miniature map of China, including the islands of Mindanao, Philippines, Borneo, Japan, etc. Title cartouche in the upper left corner.First published in 1598 in his Caer...
Place & Date: Amsterdam/Frankfurt 1609
Selling price: $210
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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) 1612
Selling price: $4950
Sold in 2020
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. The second state with "las Philiooinas". When this map appeared, it was by far the mo...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598/1612
Selling price: $3300
Sold in 2014
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. The second state with "las Philiooinas". When this map appeared, it was by far the mo...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598/1612
Selling price: $2700
Sold in 2016
China Regio Asie / Von China.
An attractive example of Barent Langenes's map of China and neighbouring countries, which first appeared in the 1598 edition of Langenes's 'Caert-Thresoor'. This example ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1612
Selling price: $175
Sold in 2020
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, 1598/1613
Selling price: $3500
Sold in 2011
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, 1598/1613
Selling price: $3100
Sold in 2012
China.
Important map of China. Besides China, the map depicts Korea as an elongated island and Japan from the Teixeira model of 1595
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1619
Selling price: $2400
Sold in 2017
China.
Small map illustrating China with the Great Wall and Korea as an island, surrounded by text in Dutch.Nicolaes de Clerck (de Klerc) was active as engraver and publisher in...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cloppenburch, 1621
Selling price: $350
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China.
A splendid map of China heightened in gold. Besides China, the map depicts Korea as an elongated island and Japan from the Teixeira model of 1595. Decorated with strapwor...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1623
Selling price: $3800
Sold in 2016
The kingdome of China..
Speed?s splendidly embellished map of China and Japan. The upper borders illustrate the cities of Macao and Quinzay (Hangchow). Further images depict the curious Chinese ...
Place & Date: London 1626
Selling price: $4225
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The Kingdome of China.
A most sought-after map of China. Decorative border vignettes including views of the cities of Quinzay and Macao along the top border with the wheeled wind machines and p...
Place & Date: London. Bassett & Chiswell, 1626
Selling price: $2300
Sold in 2016
The Kingdome of China.
A most sought-after map of China. Decorative border vignettes including views of the cities of Quinzay and Macao along the top border with the wheeled wind machines and p...
Place & Date: London, G. Humble, 1626
Selling price: $6000
Sold in 2016
The Kingdome of China.
A most sought-after map of China. Decorative border vignettes including views of the cities of Quinzay and Macao along the top border with the wheeled wind machines and p...
Place & Date: London 1627
Selling price: $3600
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The Kingdome of China.
A most sought-after map of China. Decorative border vignettes including views of the cities of Quinzay and Macao along the top border with the wheeled wind machines and p...
Place & Date: London, 1627
Selling price: $4000
Sold in 2008
China.
Important map of China. Besides China, the map depicts Korea as an elongated island and Japan from the Teixeira model of 1595. Decorated with strap work cartouches, a Eur...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1630
Selling price: $2775
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China.
Important map of China. Besides China, the map depicts Korea as an elongated island and Japan from the Teixeira model of 1595. Decorated with strapwork cartouches, a Euro...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1630
Selling price: $3600
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China.
An important map of China. Besides China, the map depicts Korea as an elongated island and Japan from the Teixeira model of 1595. Decorated with strapwork cartouches, a E...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Selling price: $4500
Sold in 2008
China.
Map of China from the rare Cloppenburg edition slightly larger format and more scarce edition of the Mercator/Hondius "Atlas Minor". Korea is shown as an island...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2018
China / Le Royaume de la Chine.
An attractive miniature map of China from a French edition of the 'Atlas Minor' by Jansson.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2020
China.
Important map of China. Besides China, the map depicts Korea as an elongated island and Japan from the Teixeira model of 1595. Decorated with strapwork cartouches, a Euro...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1633
Selling price: $3000
Sold in 2013
China.
Important map of China. Besides China, the map depicts Korea as an elongated island and Japan from the Teixeira model of 1595. Decorated with strap work cartouches, a Eur...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1633
Selling price: $2300
Sold in 2015
China.
An attractive map of China from the 1634 Latin edition of Mercator's Atlas minor, published by Jan Janssonius. During the production of Mercator's large-format atlas, Hon...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1634
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2020
China.
Scarce English version of Hondius’ smaller map of China set in a page of text.
Place & Date: London, c. 1635
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2012
China Veteribus Sinarum Regio.
This was the first of Blaeu's maps of China. In 1655 he was to publish the famous map of Father Martini, with many of the earlier inaccuracies present on this map correct...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1638
Selling price: $1700
Sold in 2010
China Veteribus Sinarum Regio.
This was the first of Blaeu's maps of China. In 1655 he was to publish the famous map of Father Martini, with many of the earlier inaccuracies present on this map correct...
Place & Date: Paris / Amsterdam, 1638
Selling price: $1300
Sold in 2013
Regni Chinensis Descriptio.
Lugduni Batavorum (Leiden), ex off, Elzeviriana, in-24o, (viii) + 365 pp + (9) nn pp (index), with decorative engraved title depicting a map of China and 2 woodcut costum...
Place & Date: Leiden, Elzevier,1639
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2010
China Veteribus Sinarum Regio nunc Incolis Tame dicta.
Elegant 17th century map of China and Japan. The map is closely modelled on Janssonius' map of 1633. The detail includes the eastern part of China (bounded in the west by...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1640
Selling price: $1050
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China Veteribus Sinarum Regio.
Based on Jesuit surveys, the map represents the next major revision in the cartography of China after Ortelius' 1584 map. Korea, however, is still an island, and Japan co...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1640
Selling price: $1050
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China Veteribus Sinarum Regio nunc Incolis Tame dicta
Willem and Johan Blaeu's map of China, with Japan and Korea. With the Great Wall forming the northern boundary of China and the fictitious lake Chiamay.Title in a cartouc...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1640
Selling price: $625
Sold in 2023
China.
Detailed miniature map of the eastern part of China, from a German text edition of his Atlas Minor. Engraved by Petrus Kaerius.
Place & Date: Amsterdam (1628) 1648
Selling price: $190
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China veteribus Sinarum Regio nuc incolis Tame dicta.
A very fine example of this classic 17th century map, and Blaeu’s first of China, in attractive strong original color. The map further shows the whole of Japan, the 'is...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Selling price: $950
Sold in 2020
Royaume de la Chine.
Map of the eastern part of China, with Korea shown as an island, from the first edition of the atlas L'Asie en plusieurs cartes nouvelles, et exactes & en divers trai...
Place & Date: Paris, 1652
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2014
China Veteribus Sinarum Regio.
This was the first of Blaeu's maps of China. In 1655 he was to publish the famous map of Father Martini, with many of the earlier inaccuracies present on this map correct...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1653
Selling price: $1700
Sold in 2021
China Veteribus Sinarum Regio.
This was the first of Blaeu's maps of China. In 1655 he was to publish the famous map of Father Martini, with many of the earlier inaccuracies present on this map correct...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1653
Selling price: $2550
Sold in 2016
Imperii Sinarum.
A very decorative map of China. In the ocean, six vessels are depicted. Title cartouche on the lower left hand corner.Joannes van Loon was an accomplished mathematician a...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1655
Selling price: $650
Sold in 2009
Imperii Sinarum Nova Descriptio
A important general map of China, Korea and Japan, published by Joan Blaeu in the Jesuit Martino Martini's Atlas Sinensis , the first western atlas of China. Incorporates...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1655
Selling price: $2650
Sold in 2010
The History of That Great and Renowned Monarchy of China.
An important account of China, written by the Portuguese Jesuit Alvarez de Semedo (1586-1658), who was stationed in China from 1613 to 1637. On his return to Europe, Seme...
Place & Date: London, 1655
Selling price: $1600
Sold in 2017
Imperii Sinarum Nova Descriptio.
A superb map of the Chinese Empire based on the compilation of the Jesuit Father Martino Martini who travelled through the region between 1643 and 1650.This was a period ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1655
Selling price: $950
Sold in 2017
La Chine Royaume. . .
An important and attractive French map of the whole of China, the northern tip of the Philippines, with a strangely curved Korea and an under-sized Taiwan here called &qu...
Place & Date: Paris, 1656
Selling price: $2000
Sold in 2016
La Chine.
A very uncommon map of China by Picart. With rivers, mountains, lakes and many place names given.
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1657
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2021
Chinae Compendiosa Descriptio.
A scarce early map of China with beautiful geographic detail. Published in "Historiae Universalis Auctarium". Page marked "XXVIII".
Place & Date: Ulm, 1658
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2020
Imperii Sinarum.
Very attractive example of Van Loon's map published by Jan Janssonius. Superb coloring.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c. 1660
Selling price: $1200
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Imperii Sinarum Nova Descriptio.
Rare map of the easternmost part of China, from a book by Cluver Introductionis in Universam Geograpicam published by Johannis Bunonis.A first state.
Place & Date: Wolfenbüttel 1661
Selling price: $95
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Imperii Sinarum Nova Descriptio.
Detailed small map of China engraved by Bertius.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1661
Selling price: $45
Sold in 2012
La Chine. (21).
Scarce map of China published by Antoine de Fer in 1661 or 1662 in "Cartes de géographie revues et augmentées". Korea shown as an island.With number 21 in low...
Place & Date: Paris, Antoine de Fer, 1657 but 1661 or 1662
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2020
Imperii Sinarum Nova Descriptio.
A most uncommon and scarce map of China, including Korea, Formosa (Taiwan) and Japan, published in the collection of Voyages "Relation de Divers Voyages Curieux"...
Place & Date: Paris 1663
Selling price: $1375
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Imperii Sinarum Nova Descriptio
A scarce and extremely uncommon map of China. The work also includes Korea, Formosa (Taiwan) and Japan. It was published in the collection of Voyages, RELATION DE DIVER...
Place & Date: Paris, 1663
Selling price: $2500
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t Koonincklyck BANKET.
A decorative copperplate print of a diplomatic Dutch delegation, led by Van Hoorn, dining with a Chinese viceroy. A sumptuous feast is in progress, with many tables of fo...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, J. van Meurs, 1663
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2016
Carte du Voyage des Ambassadeurs de la Compagnie Orientale des Provinces Unies, vers le Tartare Empereur de la Chine. . .
A scarce map of China illustrating the Dutch expedition to China led by Johan Nieuhof in 1655-57.
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1665
Selling price: $240
Sold in 2020
Royaume de la Chine. . .
Map of China including the current island of Taiwan prepared by N.Sanson and published by Pierre Mariette. Korea shown as an insular.Published in an early edition of the ...
Place & Date: Paris, P. Mariette, 1667
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2008
Imperium Sinicum Quindecupartitum.
An attractive, well made map of China, divided in its respective provinces. Formosa and the greater part of Japan are included. At bottom right a finely colored cartouche...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1667
Selling price: $575
Sold in 2019
Reys-Kaerte vande Ambassade der Nederlandse Oost Indise Compagnie door China aen den Grooten Tartarsen Cham door Johan Nieuhoff. . .
Fine map of China, Korea, Taiwan (Il.Formosa) from Joan Nieuhof's comprehensive work about China. The map shows the track of the Dutch Ambassy of the V.O.C through China....
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1669
Selling price: $2550
Sold in 2016
Reys-Kaerte vande Ambassade der Nederlandse Oost Indise Compagnie door China aen den Grooten Tartarsen Cham door Johan Nieuhoff. . .
Fine map of China, Korea, Taiwan (Il.Formosa) from Joan Nieuhof's comprehensive work about China. The map is embellished with sailing ships and junks and a title cartouch...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1669
Selling price: $1650
Sold in 2017
A New Mapp of y Empire of China With its severall Provinces or kingdomes . . .
Richard Blome's scarce early map of China, with coat of arms and dedication to the Honbl. Sr. Thomas Peylon of Knolton in the County of Kent Baronet. Blome's map is close...
Place & Date: London, 1669
Selling price: $2400
Sold in 2019
![[ Set of 2 maps ] Abbregé de la Carte de la Chine du R.P. Martinius Jesuiste / du R.P. Bouyn Jesuiste.](/uploads/cache/90965-250x250.jpg)
[ Set of 2 maps ] Abbregé de la Carte de la Chine du R.P. Martinius Jesuiste / du R.P. Bouyn Jesuiste.
Extremely rare set of maps by Nicolas Sanson. Unlike most mapmakers, who readily adopted Martini’s map of China after it appeared in Blaeu's Novus Atlas Sinensis in 165...
Place & Date: Paris, 1670
Selling price: $5800
Sold in 2009
The Kingdome of China.
A most sought-after "carte à figures" map of China. Decorative border vignettes including views of the cities of Quinzay and Macao along the top border with th...
Place & Date: London, 1627-1676
Selling price: $4500
Sold in 2009