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IAPONIAE INSULAE DESCRIPTIO. Ludoico Teisera auctore.
RARE in this perfect condition. The map was based upon the manuscript draft supplied to Ortelius in about 1592 by the famous official Portuguese chart maker, Luis Teixeir...
Date: Antwerp, 1601
Selling price: $3500
Sold in 2017
Japonia
One of the earliest views of Japan and Korea. This is a very attractive, boldly engraved map.The map is based on Abraham Ortelius' map which in turn was based on the ma...
Date: Amsterdam, (1606) 1613
Selling price: $1150
Sold in 2011
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...
Date: Amsterdam, Cloppenburch, 1621
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2017
![IAPONIA, Petrus Kaerius Coelavit [Korea as an Island].](/uploads/cache/85228-500x500.jpg)
IAPONIA, Petrus Kaerius Coelavit [Korea as an Island].
An extremely rare variant of the map of Japan and Korea, based on Jodocus Hondius' folio map of Japan. The map follows the Ortelius/Teixeira type for Japan, with Korea sh...
Date: Amsterdam,1676
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2021
![[Lot of 3 maps] Tabula Tartariae et Regni China.](/uploads/cache/100353-(2)-500x500.jpg)
[Lot of 3 maps] Tabula Tartariae et Regni China.
Frederick de Wit (1610-1698) became after the closing of the Blaeu firm one of the most important Amsterdam-based publishers. He published several atlases, Atlas Minor (1...
Date: c. 1680
Selling price: $235
Sold in 2022
An account of the shipwreck of a Dutch vessel on the coast of the Isle of Quelpaert, together with the description of the kingdom of Corea. Translated out of French.
FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. A 26 page description extracted from the first edition of Churchill's "A Collection of Voyages and Travels: Some Now First Printed from Origin...
Date: London, 1704
Selling price: $2600
Sold in 2011
八道分圖– 전라도 (Jeolla Province in Korea)
Map of the Southern part of Korea, showing Jeolla Province which was one of the historical Eight Provinces of Korea during the Kingdom of Joseon in today Southwestern Kor...
Date: Korea, 1710-1718
Description geographique, historique, chronologique, politique, et physique de l'empire de la Chine et de la Tartarie chinoise.
First edition of this cornerstone of any collection of books on China, which is also among the rarest and most desirable of important Americana, included in Rare American...
Date: Paris, P. G. Le Mercier, 1735
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...
Date: The Hague, 1732-1737
Selling price: $1800
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Royaume de Corée.
With a quite elaborately pictorial cartouche, engraved by G.Kondet. One of the earliest separate maps of Korea. Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d' Anville (1697-1782), French c...
Date: The Hague, 1737
Selling price: $1350
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Royaume de Corée.
With a quite elaborately pictorial cartouche, engraved by G.Kondet. One of the earliest separate maps of Korea. Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d' Anville (1697-1782), French c...
Date: The Hague, 1737
Selling price: $4000
Sold in 2010
ROYAUME DE COREE.
The first separate map of Korea by a European cartographer. A fine engraved map of Korea, the title within a fine rococo historiated cartouche middle right, decorated wit...
Date: Paris, 1737
Selling price: $3000
Sold in 2021
Carte du Japon et de la Korea.
Le Rouge's map of Japan follows the type established by D'Anville with the disproportionately large Korean Peninsula.The large title cartouche features three Japanese god...
Date: Paris, 1748
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2017
Le Japon.
The map is of interest for the use of Mer de Corée, for the sea between Korea and Japan. Small detailed map of Japan and Korea. Dated 1749. A note next to island "...
Date: Paris, 1749
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2016
Carte de la Corée.
A rare map of Korea after d'Anville and engraved by Dheulan.
Date: Paris, ca. 1750
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2021
Carte du Katay ou Empire de Kin. . .
The map is of interest for the use of Mer de Corée, for the sea between Korea and Japan .Fine map of Korea and China's Yellow Sea. Complete title in top: Carte du Katay ...
Date: Paris, 1750
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2016
Carte du Katay ou Empire de Kin..
Fine map of Korea and China's Yellow Sea. Complete title in top: Carte du Katay ou Empitre de Kin, pour servir de l'Histoire de Jenghiz Khan. Raportée dans histoire Gene...
Date: Paris 1750
Selling price: $200
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Carte du Katay ou Empire de Kin, Pour servir a l'histoire de Jenghiz Khan. raportée dans l'histoire generale des voyages. Tirée de l'Anglois.
Fine map of Korea and China's Yellow Sea. Complete title in top: Carte du Katay ou Empire de Kin, pour servir de l'Histoire de Jenghiz Khan. Raportée dans histoire Gén...
Date: Paris, 1750
Selling price: $375
Sold in 2011
Carte du Katay ou Empire de Kin. . .
Fine map of Korea and China's Yellow Sea. Complete title in top: Carte du Katay ou Empire de Kin, pour servir de l'Histoire de Jenghiz Khan. Raportée dans histoire Gén...
Date: Paris, 1750
Selling price: $420
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A MAP OF QUAN-TONG OR LEA-TONGE PROVINCE and the KINGDOM OF KAU-LI OR COREA.
Detailed map of Korea, Liaodong, and the tip of Shandong Province prepared by Thomas Kitchin for Thomas Salmon's Universal Traveller, based on D'Anville's landmark map of...
Date: LONDON, 1753
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2010
L'Empire du Japon. . .
Very similar to Joan Blaeu's map of 100 years previously: Europeans by then had been expelled, except the Dutch, whose movements were so curtailed that they were not able...
Date: Paris, 1756
Selling price: $195
Sold in 2019
Carte de la province de Quan-tong, ou Lyau-tong et du Royaume de Kau-li. . .
Map of Korea. The map is of interest for the use of East Sea, the sea between Korea and Japan, here called "Mer de Corée.Decorative title cartouche in lower left co...
Date: Paris, 1757
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2013
Carte de la province de Quan-tong, ou Lyau-tong et du Royaume de Kau-li. . .
Map of Korea. The map is of interest for the use of East Sea, the sea between Korea and Japan, here called "Mer de Corée".Decorative title cartouche in lower l...
Date: Paris, 1757
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2021
CARTE DE LA PROVINCE de Quan-tong ou Lyau-tong et du ROYAUME DE KAU-LI ou COREE (Korea).
An uncommon issue of this fine map of Korea. The map is of interest for the use of East Sea, the sea between Korea and Japan, here called "Mer de Corée". With ...
Date: Paris, 1749-1773
Selling price: $270
Sold in 2019
Carte de la Province de Quantong ou Lyau tong et du Royaume de KAU-LI ou COREE
Uncommon issue of this fine map of Korea. The map is of interest for the use of East Sea, the sea between Korea and Japan, here called "Mer de Corée.Decorative titl...
Date: Paris, 1749-1773
Selling price: $270
Sold in 2019
A map of Quang-Tong or Lea-Tonge Province..
Detailed and decorative map of Korea in lower left corner a charming title cartouche. To the right "Sea of Korea".
Date: London, 1777
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2020
Carte de la Province de Quantong ou Lyau-tong et du Royaume de Kau-Li ou Corée . . .
Map of Korea. The map is of interest for the use of East Sea, the sea between Korea and Japan, here called "Mer de Corée Meer von Korea." Decorative title car...
Date: Paris, 1780
Selling price: $700
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Carte de la Province de Quantong ou Lyau-tong et du Royaume de Kau-Li ou Cor�e . . .
Map of Korea. The language on the map is Dutch and French. The notation at the bottom indicates that the prime meridian is set at Ferro Island, otherwise known as El Hier...
Date: Paris, 1780
Selling price: $480
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A map of Quan-Tong or Lea-Tonge province, and the kingdom of Kau-Li or Corea . . .
Detailed map of Korea, Liaodong, and the tip of Shandong Province prepared by Thomas Kitchin for Thomas Salmon's Universal Traveler, based on D'Anville's landmark map of ...
Date: London, 1780
Selling price: $600
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Carte de la Province de Quantong ou Lyau-tong et du Royaume de Kau-Li ou Corée . . .
Map of Korea. The language on the map is Dutch and French. The notation at the bottom indicates that the prime meridian is set at Ferro Island, otherwise known as El Hier...
Date: Paris, 1780
Selling price: $475
Sold in 2010
A map of Quan-Tong or Lea-Tonge province, and the kingdom of Kau-Li or Corea . . .
Detailed map of Korea, Liaodong, and the tip of Shandong Province prepared by Thomas Kitchin for Thomas Salmon's Universal Traveller, based on D'Anville's landmark map of...
Date: London, 1780
Selling price: $600
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LA TARTARIA CHINESE.
An attractive copper engraved map of the Far East covering parts of China, South Korea, Mongolia, Russia and Japan (Jeso-Gasima). Includes the Chinese Wall, the Gobi dese...
Date: Venice, 1784
Selling price: $165
Sold in 2019
LA TARTARIA CHINESE
Attractive copper engraved map of the Far East covering parts of China, Korea, Mongolia, Russia and Japan (Jeso-Gasima). Includes the Chinese Wall, the Gobi desert, Lake ...
Date: Venice, 1784
Selling price: $105
Sold in 2011
Royaume de Corée.
One of the earliest separate maps of Korea. The map engraved by the master engraver Delahaye, with a quite elaborately pictorial cartouche, engraved by G.Kondet. Jean Bap...
Date: Paris, Ph.-D. Pierres, Clousier [- Moutard], 1785
Selling price: $2600
Sold in 2017
Chosen hachido no zu (or) Chosen koku zenzu (General map of korea)
Bold, beautifully colored road-map of Korea by the great Hayashi Shihei. Banned by the Edo government in 1792. A banned map !In 1785 Hayashi Shihei made the Sangoku Tsura...
Date: Edo, Suharaya Shihei, in Temmei 5 or 1786
Selling price: $2000
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Chosen hachido no zu (or) Chosen koku zenzu (General map of korea)
Bold, beautifully colored road-map of Korea by the great Hayashi Shihei. Banned by the Edo government in 1792. A banned map !In 1785 Hayashi Shihei made the Sangoku Ts&am...
Date: Edo, Suharaya Shihei, in Temmei 5 or 1786
Selling price: $3500
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Plan de la partie des Îles, ou Archipel de Corée, Vue au Mois de Mai 1787 par les Frégates Francaises la Boussole et l'Astrolabe.
La Pérouse's important and detailed sea-chart showing the route of his ships the Boussoule & Astrolabe between the South Korean island of Jeju (here called Ile Quelp...
Date: Paris, 1797
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2016
Plan de la partie des iles, ou archipel de Coree, vue au mois de Mai 1787 par les Fregates Francaises la Boussole et l'Astrolabe. . . .
Showing the track of La Perouse along the southern most tip of Korea, with Quelpaerts Islands (now-a-days called Jeju, with the vulcano Halla-san (Halla Mountain) clearly...
Date: L'Imprimerie de la Republique, An V, 1797
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2014
Plan de la partie de l'ile de quelpaert. . . / Plan de l'ile Hoapinsu. . . / Plan de l'ile Dagelet. . . / Plan de la partie de l'ile de Botol. . . / Plan de l'ile de Kumi. . .
Five plans on a folio sheet. These charts include Cheju Do, Korea (Quelpaert Is.), Kume-Shiwa, Okinawa (Kumi), and Ullung Do (Dagelet).Including one of the earliest maps ...
Date: Paris, 1797
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2011
Part of the Island of Quelpaert, Hoapinsu, Dagelet, Botol & Kumi.
A fine copper engraved chart with inserts of the Islands of Quelpaert, Hoapinsu, Dagelet, Botol & Kumi. From Ls Perouse’s ATLAS DU VOYAGE DE LA PEROUSE. Published ...
Date: London, 1798
Selling price: $32
Sold in 2018
Plan of part of the Islands or Archipelago of Corea.
Showing the track of La Perouse along the southern most tip of Korea, with Quelpaerts Islands (now-a-days called Jeju, with the vulcano Halla-san (Halla Mountain) clearly...
Date: London, G.G. and J.Robinson, 1798
Selling price: $360
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Empire of Japan. (with Korea)
Detailed map of Japan and including Korea. Japan with good detail, gold mines and more. An island in the Pacific is called "Fatsisio, or Unhappy I. The Place of Exil...
Date: London, 1807
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2020
Empire of Japan. (With Sea of Corea)
Detailed map of Japan and including Korea. Japan with good detail, gold mines and more. An island in the Pacific is called "Fatsisio, or Unhappy I. The Place of Exil...
Date: London, 1807
Napakiang Roads on the S.W.Side of the Great Loo Choo Island Laid Down from Actual Survey by Captain Basil Hall R.N., H.M.Sloop Lyra 1816
An interesting sea chart executed by Basil Hall during BRITAIN'S FIRST ACCURATE ACCOUNT OF KOREA & OKINAWANS. From the book “Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the...
Date: London, 1816
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2016
Track of His Majesty's Ship Alceste and Lyra Sloop Along the Western Coast of the Peninsula of Corea by Captain Basil Hall R.N.
An interesting sea chart executed by Basil Hall during BRITAIN'S FIRST ACCURATE ACCOUNT OF KOREA & OKINAWANS. From the book “Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the...
Date: London, 1816
Selling price: $8
Sold in 2021
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...
Date: Paris, 1821
Coréen.
A nice plate showing a Korean man. Most probably by Wahlen Auguste (also called Jean-Francois-Nicolas Loumyer) and his "Asie: Moeurs, Usages et Costumes de tous les ...
Date: Brussels, ca 1843
Quelpartians.
Attractive scene depicting natives of Jeju (Quelpart) Island from Marryat’s “Borneo and the Indian Archipelago”. Marryat was a mid-shipman on the H.M.S. Samaran, wh...
Date: London, 1848
Selling price: $205
Sold in 2010
KOORAI. Kumtsjun. Nippon VII. TAB. VIII.
Kumtsjun from Korea, lithography from his very rare book "Nippon".Philipp Franz von Siebold (1796-1866) was a physician, researcher and teacher who joined the D...
Date: Leiden, 1852
Selling price: $600
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KOORAI. Hosatsem. Nippon VII. TAB. IX.
Hosatsem from Korea, lithography from his very rare book "Nippon".Philipp Franz von Siebold (1796-1866) was a physician, researcher and teacher who joined the D...
Date: Leiden, 1852
Selling price: $600
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Temple at Tumai, Lew Chew.
Lithography of Americans visiting Korea. After a drawing by Heine, who was one of the members of Captain Perry's mission to Japan and Korea.One of the Americans is a phot...
Date: New York, 1865
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2012
TYO SYEN Corée par les Missionnaires de Corée de la société des missions etrangéres.
A very nice map and rare map of Korea. Prepared by R.P.Carceri who was an missioner active for de la Sociéte des Missions Etrangères.Published as a supplement to Journa...
Date: Lyon, 1872
Selling price: $900
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Atlas des Missions de la Société des Missions-Étrangères. . .
This scarce atlas contains maps showing the locations of the Catholic missions belonging to the Société des Missions Étrangères in Asia. It covers India, Burma, Siam,...
Date: Lille, 1890
![[Views of Korea, Thailand, Cambodia and its inhabitants and princes. Including one or more phographes by Hippolyte Frandin.]](/uploads/cache/48426-500x500.jpg)
[Views of Korea, Thailand, Cambodia and its inhabitants and princes. Including one or more phographes by Hippolyte Frandin.]
A collection of 95 photographs, of which about 60 photos feature Korea or its people, printed on albumen paper. Captions in French. The others from Thailand, China, India...
- $25000 / ≈ €22990
Date: C. 1892
Korea, eine Sommerreise nach dem Lande der Morgenruhe, 1894
Hesse-Wartegg arrived in Busan from Nagasaki, and travelled in the South of Korea to Seoul. Chapters on the Emperor and his government, soldiers, calendar, ceremonies, re...
Date: Dresde, Leipzig, Carl Reissner, 1895
Selling price: $475
Sold in 2018
Korea - Korean Archipelago Southern Portion..
Large chart representing the southern part of Korea. A couple of places are highlighted in red and yellow.Relief shown pictorially.
Date: London, 1901
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2019
Nord-Korea Auf grundlage des offiziellen russischen kartenmateriales ausgeführt im k.u.k. miltärgeographischen institute zu Wien. . .
Detailed folding map of North Korea. Text in German, with a key in lower right giving references to the road and rail road and military objects as forts and batteries. Ac...
Date: Vienna, 1904
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2009
Quelpaërt Séoul.
Very detailed (1:1.000.000) map showing the southern tip of Korea with the island Jeju and southern Jeolla province with Gwangju, showing soundings.Heliogravure was initi...
Date: Paris, 1898 updated for june 1904
Selling price: $550
Sold in 2009
Korea. Das Land des Morgenrots. Nach seinen Reisen geschildert von Angus Hamilton. Autorisierte Übersetzung aus dem Englischen.
With 114 illustrations after photographes and one map.
- $175 / ≈ €161
Date: Leipzig: Spamer, 1904
Hotel refreshment and dining car services.
Advertising leaflet for 3 hotels along the Chosen Railway stations of Fusan, Shingishu and Ghosen Hotel in Seoul. Among an impression of the dining car restaurant.On vers...
Date: Korea, 1914
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2016
Map of Chosen (Korea)
A more than 100 years old publicity and time table for foreigners published by Chosen Railways for traveling in Korea.On one side a map of Korea (480 x 300mm.), with inse...
Date: Korea, 1914
Selling price: $65
Sold in 2017
UNTITLED
Rare map of three Roman Catholic apostolic vicariates in Korea. The first of Korea was established in 1831 from the Diocese of Peking. In 1911, it was renamed the Apostol...
Date: c. 1920
Selling price: $650
Sold in 2010
Côte Est d'Asie. Iles et Mers du Japon Mer Jaune.
Large French sea chart featuring the northern part of the Pacific Ocean and the Yellow Sea with Korea and Quelpaert Island, Japan and the coasts of Manchuria, and China t...
Date: France, 1906-1925
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2020
Korea.
Decorative color printed map of Korea in Manga style. From Nihon Manshu Panorama Chiri (Panoramic Geography of Japan and Manchuria) by Ryushiro Kato (map design and text)...
Date: Dai Nihon Yubenkai Kodan Sha, Japan, 1933
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2017
![Chousen Annai [Guide to Korea].](/uploads/cache/99672-500x500.jpg)
Chousen Annai [Guide to Korea].
6-panel tourist brochure featuring a lovely full-color bird’s-eye view of the Korean peninsula supplemented by copious text in Japanese and Korean about the country. Th...
Date: Tokyo, 1937
Selling price: $210
Sold in 2010
Korea.
A vintage manuscript map, a rare 'Printers Proof' (Unique). Published about 1945 in "The Geographical Journal" by the RGS. On very thick paper.
Date: London, ca 1945
Selling price: $35
Sold in 2019
The Republic of Korea.
A large, folding map of The Republic of Korea, published before the country split into two (1950) with the "Democratic People's Republic of Korea" (North Korea)...
Date: Seoul, ca 1948
Selling price: $525
Sold in 2020
(Map of Korea) 1950 Portsmouth 1952 H.M. Ceylon.
A fine folding pamphlet produced for the H.M.S. Ceylon, a British Navy Ship, taking part in the "Operation War Dance, when patrolling Korea in 1952 during the Korean...
Date: Hong Kong, The local printing press, Ltd., 1952
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2014
Voyage of his majesty’s ship Alceste, along the Coast of Corea, to the island of Lewchew, with an account of her subsequent shipwreck, by John M’LEOD. Surgeon of the Alceste.
Second and best edition, with frontispiece portrait of Captain Maxwell and five fine hand-colored aquatint plates, including a plate not present in the first edition of t...
- $1000 / ≈ €920
Date: London, John Murray, 1818.