Japonia Regnum.
Very rare map and one of the earliest views of Japan and Korea and was published in a German edition of Botero's "Theatrum Principum Orbis Universi."This is a v...
Place & Date: Cologne, Lambert Andreas, 1596
Selling price: $1800
Sold in 2015
Iaponia regnum.
One of the earliest printed map of Japan and the first copy after Ortelius / Teixeira.Published in the German edition of José de Acosta's De Natura Nova Orbis, first pub...
Place & Date: Cologne c. 1598
Selling price: $2200
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Iapan I.
Map of Japan from the first French-text edition of Jodocus Hondius' Atlas Minor.Shortly after the publication of the big folio-atlases the need was apparently felt for a ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1608
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2008
Iaponiae Insulae Descriptio; Ludoico Teisera Auctore.
This landmark map was the first map of Japan published in a European atlas. Ortelius received the map from Ludovico Teixeira, a Portuguese Jesuit cartographer and mathema...
Place & Date: Antwerp, Robert Bruneau, 1609
Selling price: $1600
Sold in 2019
Iaponia Insula.
A very nice miniature map of Japan, with major cities named, title cartouche at the bottom and the sea is stipple engraved. The map was engraved by the brothers Ambrose a...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1609
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2018
Japonia.
The first map of Japan published in a European atlas. Ortelius received the map from Ludovico Teixeira, a Portuguese Jesuit cartographer and mathematician. While Teixeira...
Place & Date: Antwerp, Robert Bruneau, 1609
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2020
Iaponia.
A close derivative of the Teixeira map introduced by Ortelius in 1595. Hondius, however, makes note of Korea by including an inscription stating that it is not known whet...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1611
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2010
Japoniae insulae descriptio.
The first printed map of Japan to appear in an atlas. It was drawn by the Portuguese Jesuit Luiz Teixeira and depicts Korea as an island. Japan was probably identified wi...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1595-1612
Selling price: $4000
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Japoniae insulae descriptio.
The first printed map of Japan to appear in an atlas. It was drawn by the Portuguese Jesuit Luiz Teixeira and depicts Korea as an island. Japan was probably identified wi...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1595-1612
Selling price: $5100
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Japoniae insulae descriptio.
The first printed map of Japan to appear in an atlas, in a first state. It was drawn by the Portuguese Jesuit Luiz Teixeira and depicts Korea as an island. Japan was prob...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1595-1612
Selling price: $2900
Sold in 2009
Japoniae Nova Descriptio.
Very decorative map of Japan based on the Ortelius/Teixeira model with Honshu, Kyushu, and Shikoku depicted with approximately the correct proportions. Korea is shown as ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1613
Selling price: $650
Sold in 2018
Iaponia.
Beautiful map of Japan as perceived by Europeans at the beginning of the 17th century, first issued in the 1606 Mercator-Hondius atlas, and in subsequent editions over th...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1619
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2020
Japonia.
Jodocus Hondius' fine map early 17th century map of the islands of Japan, first issued as one of the new maps in the expended Mercator Hondius Atlas of 1606.The map is cl...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1606-1620
Selling price: $1600
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Iapan.
Small map of Japan, surrounded by text in Dutch. Nicolaes de Clerck (de Klerc) was active as engraver and publisher in Delft from 1599-1621.Included in the rare book : We...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cloppenburch, 1621
Selling price: $360
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Japonia.
Drawn to a smaller scale than the 1607 map: including Korea and part of China. Engraved by Petrus Kaerius.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1628
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2009
IAPONIA.
This is one of the most significant maps Hondius the elder added to his first publication of the Mercator atlas in 1606. Based on the 1595 Abraham Ortelius map, but with ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1630
Selling price: $1325
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IAPONIA.
This is one of the most significant maps Hondius the elder added to his first publication of the Mercator atlas in 1606.Based on the 1595 Abraham Ortelius map, but with a...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1630
Selling price: $1000
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Iaponia.
Jodocus Hondius' fine map early 17th century map of the islands of Japan, first issued as one of the new maps in the expended Mercator Hondius Atlas of 1606.The map is cl...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1630
Selling price: $2000
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IAPONIA.
Early miniature map of Japan and Korea from the rare Cloppenburg edition slightly larger format and more scarce edition of the Mercator/Hondius "Atlas Minor". E...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Selling price: $240
Sold in 2016
IAPONIA.
Early miniature map of Japan and Korea from the rare Cloppenburg edition "Atlas Sive Cosmographicae Meditationes De Fabrica Mundi Et Fabricati Figura", slightly...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2019
Iaponia.
One of the most significant maps Hondius the elder added to his first publication of the Mercator atlas in 1606. Based on the 1595 Abraham Ortelius map, but with added de...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2019
IAPONIAE Nova Descriptio.
2nd state of Hondius map. Janssonius replaced the Japanese ship with a European one. Korea shown as an island.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1639
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2019
IAPONIAE Nova Descriptio.
2nd state of Hondius map. Janssonius replaced the Japanese ship with a European one.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1639
Selling price: $1870
Sold in 2009
Asia carta di ciasete piu moderna. (Japan)
Rare Japan map of the Blancus/Moreira type. The place names follow Ginnaro, though he invented numerous additional imaginative names. From the first edition of hisDell'Ar...
Place & Date: Florence 1646
Selling price: $4075
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Iaponia et Terra Eso.
Detailed miniature map of Japan with Korea as an island, from a German text edition of his Atlas Minor. Engraved by Petrus Kaerius.
Place & Date: Amsterdam (1628) 1648
Selling price: $160
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Les Isles du Iapon.
A very pleasant map of the island of Japan as seen in the mid-seventeenth century by the important and influential French cartographer, Nicolas Sanson. The map also shows...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1652
Selling price: $165
Sold in 2019
LES ISLES DU IAPON (Japan.)
A very pleasant map of the island of Japan as seen in the mid-seventeenth century by the important and influential French cartographer, Nicolas Sanson. The map also shows...
Place & Date: Paris, ca 1652
Selling price: $240
Sold in 2019
Nova et accurata Japoniae terrae Esonis, ac Insularum. . .
Johannes Janssonius' important map of Japan, notable for its detail of Hokkaido, the first printed map to use the detailed manuscript charts of Maarten de Vries from his ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1658
Selling price: $1350
Sold in 2011
Nova et Accurata Japoniae, Terrae Esonis, ac Insularum Adjacentium ex Novissima Detectione Descriptio. Apud Ioannem Ianssonium
This edition is without text on the back.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c. 1660
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2008
Die rechte See farte von der Gelegenheit dess Landes IAPAN.
Rare map of Japan, Hokkaido (Iezzo), Korea and part of China's coast.From the account of Japan by Francis Caron, who was Director of the Dutch Trade there and spent more ...
Place & Date: Nuremberg 1663
Selling price: $3500
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Description des Isles du Iapon. . .
Map of Japan prepared by N.Sanson and published by Pierre Mariette.Published in an early edition of the small Sanson atlas L'Europe Dediée a Monseigneur . . . Le Tellier...
Place & Date: Paris, P. Mariette, 1667
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2008
Afbeeldinge vant Maghtich Keyserlyck Casteel Osacca...
Bird's eye view of the castle of Osaka, from the first description of Japan based on information from the Dutch who served in the V.O.C. (united East-India Company) and f...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1669
Selling price: $200
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Afbeeldinge vant Maghtich Keyserlyck Casteel Osacca geleegen int groot Ryck Jappan besuyden de Stadt Osacca inde provinsie Qioo
A fantastic bird's-eye plan of the castle at Osaka. With many details and an extensive 35 number key at the bottom.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1669
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2013
Miako - Kyoto.
A large, rare, copper engraving by Arnoldus Montanus. "Denkwürdige Gesandschaften der Ostindischen Gesellschaft in den vereinigten Niederlanden an unterschiedliche ...
Place & Date: Amsterdm, 1669
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2021
Iedo - Tokyo.
A large, rare, copper engraving by Arnoldus Montanus. "Denkwürdige Gesandschaften der Ostindischen Gesellschaft in den vereinigten Niederlanden an unterschiedliche ...
Place & Date: Amsterdm, 1669
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2021
Daibots Gotzenhaus Tempel Van Dajboth Dayboths Temple.
This fascinating 'busy' engraving is that of the inside of a Buddhist temple in Japan depicts a funeral procession for two ambassadors leading up to a somewhat hermaphrod...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1669
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2021
Iedo.
Fine panoramic view of Jedo ( Tokyo) from Joan Nieuhof's comprehensive work about Japan. The view shows fields and landscapes, with the city in the background. With numbe...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1669
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2023
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[Japan, Imperial Palace Kyoto]
A copper engraved view of a Dutch Embassy at the Japanese Imperial Palace in Kyoto. Rare to be found in fine contempory coloring. From Ogilby's translation of Montanus's ...
Place & Date: London, 1670
Selling price: $135
Sold in 2022
Royaume de Japon.
The second state of Père Philippe's map of Japan.
Place & Date: Paris, N. Sanson,1676
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2015
Carte des Isles du Japon Sequels est remarque la Route..
This uncommon map of Japan, which is reduced version of his larger map, contains comments about the nature of the country. For instance, Ocsaqui (Okazaki, near Nagoya) is...
Place & Date: Paris/Amsterdam 1679
Selling price: $350
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