[Quemoey] On these Islands which are now bècom a Kingdom used the famous Pyrates : Yquon J Kocksinga to Resort.
Fine chart of the Taiwanese island group of Quemoy just off Fujian province on mainland China. Taken from Ogilby's translation of Joan Nieuhof's comprehensive work about ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1669
Selling price: $210
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Vile et le chateu de Zélandia dans l' isle de Tayovan.
This important copperplate engraving is one of the earliest European views of Taiwan, depicting the Dutch fortifications and trading settlement on the West coast of the i...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1675
Selling price: $1400
Sold in 2020
The citie and Castle Zelandia in the Island of Taywan. / Stadt en casteel Zelandia op 't Eilant Taywan.
This important copperplate engraving is one of the earliest European views of Taiwan, depicting the Dutch fortifications and trading settlement on the West coast of the i...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1675
Selling price: $1000
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Orientalische Reise-Beschreibung. . . [with section on Taiwan]
Fascinating travelogues by Joergen Andersen and Volquard Iversen, edited by Adam Olearius. The accuracy of the travel accounts is difficult to confirm, however, as both a...
Place & Date: Hamburg, 1696
Selling price: $3000
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[2 text pages with views of Fort Zeelandia on Taiwan]
Each page with a depiction of a sea battle offshore Fort Zeelandia on Taiwan. The "81" page in September 1661. The Siege of Fort Zeelandia of 1661-1662 ended th...
Place & Date: Hamburg, 1696
Selling price: $1700
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[Text page a with view of Fort Zeelandia on Taiwan]
Showing a sea battle offshore Fort Zeelandia on Taiwan in September 1661. The Siege of Fort Zeelandia of 1661-1662 ended the Dutch East India Company's rule over Taiwan a...
Place & Date: Hamburg, 1696
Selling price: $850
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T'Eylandt Formosa.
Scarce panoramic view of "Fort Zeelandia" on the island of Formosa.
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1700
Selling price: $1025
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Fort de Zeelande ou de Taiovang.
A rare view of Fort Zeelandia, which was a fortress built over ten years from 1624–1634 by the Dutch East India Company, in the town of Anping (Tainan) on the island of...
Place & Date: ca, 1705
Selling price: $140
Sold in 2016
Description de l'île Formosa en Asie, du gouvernement, des loix, des mœurs & de la religion des habitans. . .
First French edition of one of the most famous fictitious travel books ever published. It offered a complete and detailed description of the island Formosa and the life a...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, d'Estienne Roger, 1705
Selling price: $1700
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l'Isle de Formosa ou sont exactement marquez les bancs de Sables . . .
A decorative map of the west coast of Taiwan and the Pescadores Islands (Penghu), showing little detail of the Taiwanese inland, apart from the immense mountain range. Fo...
Place & Date: Leiden, 1720
Selling price: $2500
Sold in 2008