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Description Generale de L'Asie.

A basic map of Asia published in the 'Atlas Methodique et Elementaire de Geographie et d'Histoire'. Textural information in French flanking the map. De Mornas was Geograp...

$45 / ≈ €42
Maker / Publisher: DE MORNAS.
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1761-62
Selling price: $45
Sold in 2017

 


Four text page with large intitials.

Four text leaves from the Strasburg edition of Ptolemy's atlas edited by Laurent Fries. On VERSO and RECTO 6-lines initials.Each page side has in top a large woodcut titl...

$35 / ≈ €33
Maker / Publisher: PTOLEMY,C./ FRIES,L.
Place & Date: Strassburg 1525
Selling price: $35
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India extrema XXIIII Nova Tabula. (Asia)

One of the first European maps of Asia. Although quite crude, Münster's map does significantly improve upon the Ptolemaic model for the area. The coast of China begins t...

$1485 / ≈ €1390
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Selling price: $800
Sold in 2014

 


India extrema XIX Nova Tabula.

One of the first European maps of Asia. Although quite crude, Münster's map does significantly improve upon the Ptolemaic model for the area. The coast of China begins t...

$1400 / ≈ €1310
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER,S.
Place & Date: Basle, c.1550
Selling price: $1400
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Tabula orientalis regionis, Asiae sciliset extremas complectens terras et regna.

This is one of the earliest maps of the whole continent of Asia, based on the recent geographical discoveries by Portuguese navigators.The outline of the Asian mainland i...

$1600 / ≈ €1497
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $1600
Sold in 2013

 


Die lander Asie nach irer gelegenheit biss in Indiam werden in diser tafel verzeichnet.

One of the first European maps of Asia. Although quite crude, Münster's map does significantly improve upon the Ptolemaic model for the area. The coast of China begins t...

$1150 / ≈ €1076
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER,S.
Place & Date: Basle, c.1550
Selling price: $1150
Sold in 2014

 


Die länder Asie nach irer gelegenheit biss in Indiam werden in diser tafel verzeichnet.

One of the first European maps of Asia. Although quite crude, Münster's map does significantly improve upon the Ptolemaic model for the area. The coast of China begins t...

$1500 / ≈ €1404
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER,S.
Place & Date: Basle, c.1550
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2016

 


Die länder Asie nach irer gelegenheit biss in Indiam werden in disser tafel verzeichnet

This is one of the earliest maps of the whole continent based on the recent geographical discoveries by Portuguese navigators..The outline of the Asian mainland is relati...

$750 / ≈ €702
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2015

 


Die länder Asie nach irer gelegenheit biss in Indiam werden in diser tafel verzeichnet..

One of the first European maps of Asia. Although quite crude, Münster's map does significantly improve upon the Ptolemaic model for the area. The coast of China begins t...

$1700 / ≈ €1591
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basle, c.1550
Selling price: $1700
Sold in 2017

 


Die länder Asie nach irer gelegenheit biss in Indiam werden in diser tafel verzeichnet.

One of the first European maps of Asia. Although quite crude, Münster's map does significantly improve upon the Ptolemaic model for the area. The coast of China begins t...

$1500 / ≈ €1404
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basle, c.1550
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2021

 


Tabula orientalis regionis, Asiae scilicet extremas complectens terras et regna.

Very early woodcut printed map of the Asia, published in the monumental Cosmographia by Sebastian Münster. The maps shows all of Asia, parts of the Indian Ocean with Mad...

$650 / ≈ €608
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basel, ca. 1550
Selling price: $650
Sold in 2019

 


Die Länder Asie nach irer gelegenheit...

Münsters highly important map of Asia, one of the first European maps of the continent. Curious coast lines and geography, missing Japan for example. But with recent Por...

Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1550

 


Tauola della oriental regione dell' Asia. . .

One of the first European maps of Asia. Although quite crude, Münster's map does significantly improve upon the Ptolemaic model for the area. The coast of China begins t...

$900 / ≈ €842
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basle, c.1560
Selling price: $900
Sold in 2013

 


Asiae nova descriptio.

Ortelius' fine map of Asia well represents the continent at a time when Europeans were expanding their power in the far east. The Indian subcontinent and Malaysian penins...

$1500 / ≈ €1404
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS,A.
Place & Date: Antwerp 1572
Selling price: $1500
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Tartariae sive Magni Chami Regni typus. . .

An early edition of the famous and important map of Tartary, Japan, and the west coast of North America, from Ortelius'Theatrum Orbis Terarrum, the first modern atlas of ...

$700 / ≈ €655
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, ca 1573
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2018

 


Asiae nova descriptio.

Ortelius' fine map of Asia well represents the continent at a time when Europeans were expanding their power in the Far East. The Indian subcontinent and Malaysian penins...

$2100 / ≈ €1965
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1574
Selling price: $2100
Sold in 2015

 


Die Länder Asie nach ihrer gelegenheit biß in India...

One of the earliest maps of the whole continent of Asia, published in Sebastian Münster’s "Cosmographia." The Pacific Ocean shows an archipelago of 7448 is...

Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basle, c1574

 


Asiae nova descriptio.

The much rarer first plate of Ortelius' fine map of Asia. The first plate has "La Farfana", in the lower right corner. It is estimated that only 1575 copies are...

$1750 / ≈ €1638
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1575 - 1575
Selling price: $1750
Sold in 2008

 


Asie.

Uncommon wood-cut map of Asia. New Guinea has disappeared and Japan is represented as a turtle-shaped island. An important innovation is the appearance of the Straits of ...

$1550 / ≈ €1450
Maker / Publisher: THEVET, A.
Place & Date: Paris, 1575
Selling price: $1550
Sold in 2010

 


Asie.

Scarce wood-cut map of Asia. New Guinea has disappeared and Japan is represented as a turtle-shaped island. An important innovation is the appearance of the Straits of An...

$2000 / ≈ €1871
Maker / Publisher: THEVET, A.
Place & Date: Paris, 1575
Selling price: $2000
Sold in 2017

 


Asiae novissima tabula.

Map of Asia, including the most western part of America from the extremely rare first edition. De Jode describes this map as new, as he extended the map westward from Ort...

$6000 / ≈ €5614
Maker / Publisher: DE JODE,G.
Place & Date: Antwerp 1578
Selling price: $6000
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Asia, die Länder Asie nach ihrer gelegenheit biss in Indiam werden in dieser Tafeln verzeichnet.

This is one of the earliest maps of the whole continent of Asia, based on the recent geographical discoveries by Portuguese navigators. The outline of the Asian mainland ...

$1400 / ≈ €1310
Maker / Publisher: Münster, Sebastian.
Place & Date: Basel, 1578
Selling price: $1400
Sold in 2018

 


Asiae Nova Descriptio.

Beautifully colored map of Asia from the 1579 edition of Ortelius’Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern atlas of the world. The map is based upon Ortelius's wall ma...

$900 / ≈ €842
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1579
Selling price: $900
Sold in 2015

 


Asiae Nova Descriptio.

Second state. Ortelius' fine map of Asia well represents the continent at a time when Europeans were expanding their power in the far east. The Indian subcontinent and Ma...

$1300 / ≈ €1216
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1579
Selling price: $1300
Sold in 2016

 


Asiae Nova Descriptio.

Second state. Ortelius' fine map of Asia well represents the continent at a time when Europeans were expanding their power in the far east. The Indian subcontinent and Ma...

$1400 / ≈ €1310
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1579
Selling price: $1400
Sold in 2018

 


Asia wie es jetziger zeit nach den fuernemesten Herzschaften

Map of the continent of Asia, copied after the copper engraved map by Ortelius. It was added to Münster's Cosmographia from 1588 onwards, probably in order to make it mo...

$550 / ≈ €515
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER,S.
Place & Date: Basle 1580
Selling price: $550
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Asiae nova descriptio.

Beautiful colored map of Asia. From the 1580 German edition of Theatrum Orbis Terrarum by Abraham Ortelius. The cartographical source of this map comes from Ortelius own ...

$1600 / ≈ €1497
Maker / Publisher: Ortelius, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1580
Selling price: $1600
Sold in 2009

 


Tabula orientalis regionis Asiae. . .

Central and East Asia. Woodcut map from a Latin edition of Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia, Basel c. 1580. Verso typogr. text: "Nova Tabula Indiae orientalis..&quo...

$700 / ≈ €655
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basel, c. 1580
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2013

 


Asia secunda pars terrae in forma Pegasi.

An exceptionally decorative woodcut of Asia in the form of a 'Pegasus'. In the oceans there are several sea monsters. Many major cities are indicated and named. Professio...

$1100 / ≈ €1029
Maker / Publisher: BUNTING, H.
Place & Date: Magdeburg, ca. 1580
Selling price: $1100
Sold in 2018

 


Asiae Nova Descriptio.

Second plate. Ortelius' fine map of Asia well represents the continent at a time when Europeans were expanding their power in the far east. Nova Guinea, with part of the...

$1500 / ≈ €1404
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, after 1581
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2016

 


Asia secunda pars terrae in forma Pegasi. [Asia is presented as the mythical winged horse Pegasus.]

An exceptional, most sought after symbolic map of Asia in the form of a Pegasus. In the seas, several sea monsters; many major cities are indicated and named.Bünting's f...

$1600 / ≈ €1497
Maker / Publisher: BÜNTING, H.
Place & Date: Magdeburg, ca. 1581
Selling price: $1600
Sold in 2016

 


Asia secunda pars terrae in forma Pegasi. [Asia is presented as the mythical winged horse Pegasus.]

Wood block map of Asia in the form of a Pegasus. The seas are adorned with sea monsters and many major cities are indicated and named. There are several states, of this m...

Maker / Publisher: BÜNTING, H.
Place & Date: Magdeburg c. 1581

 


Deze tweede Caerte van Asia

Very rare early woodcut map of Asia; on of the earliest maps of the continent.Covers the area from Scandinavia/Egypt to Borneo/Japan. No separate title, only an indicatio...

Maker / Publisher: BÜNTING, H.
Place & Date: Magdenburg, after 1581
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2023

 


Asia wie es Jetziger Zeit nach den Furnemesten Herrschafften Abgetheilet und Beschriben ist .

Nice full color example Sebastian Munster's second map of Asia, first published in 1588.It is filled with numerous small woodcut vignettes of towns and a lone sea monster...

$1000 / ≈ €936
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basle, S. H. Petrie, 1588
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2013

 


Asia wie es Jetziger Zeit nach den Furnemesten Herrschafften Abgetheilet und Beschriben ist.

Münster’s decorative final map of Asia, from a German edition of Münster’s "Cosmographia", one of the most influential geographical works of the 16th Cent...

$600 / ≈ €561
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, Sebastian.
Place & Date: Basle, 1588
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2018

 


Asia wie es Jetziger Zeit nach den Furnemesten. . .

Sebastian Münster (1489-1552) is one of the most renowned cartographers of the sixteenth century, Mercator and Ortelius are considered at the same level. Munster's two m...

$490 / ≈ €459
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basle, 1588
Selling price: $490
Sold in 2020

 


Asiae Nova Descriptio.

Second state. Ortelius' fine map of Asia well represents the continent at a time when Europeans were expanding their power in the far east. The Indian subcontinent and Ma...

$1400 / ≈ €1310
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1580/1589
Selling price: $1400
Sold in 2020

 


Asiae Nova Descriptio.

Second state. Ortelius' fine map of Asia well represents the continent at a time when Europeans were expanding their power in the far east. The Indian subcontinent and Ma...

$1500 / ≈ €1404
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1580/1589
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2018

 


Asia.

An attractive map of the Asian continent by Rosaccio who was an Italian cartographer and the author of several atlases which were re-issued in various Italian cities from...

$110 / ≈ €103
Maker / Publisher: ROSACCIO, Guiseppe
Place & Date: ca. 1590
Selling price: $110
Sold in 2018

 


Asia is presented as the mythical winged horse Pegasus.

Copper engraved map of Asia in the form of a Pegasus. This is a very rare issue of the map from a Czech edition. The original woodcut map was re-engraved on copper with a...

$2500 / ≈ €2339
Maker / Publisher: BÜNTING, H.
Place & Date: Magdeburg, 1592
Selling price: $2500
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