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Plan, et figure de la riche cité de Calecut en la premiere Inde.
A rare and early woodcut view of Calcutta in India. Decorated with several ships on the sea, shipbuilding, fishermen and elephants.This woodcut was published in La Cosmog...
Place & Date: Paris, 1575
Goa fortissima Indiae urbs in Christianorum potestatem anno Salutis 1509. devenit.
A rare and early woodcut view of Goa in India. Decorated with one ship. This woodcut was published in La Cosmographie Universelle de tout le monde, printed 1575 in two vo...
Place & Date: Paris, 1575
De Stad Macao.
A fine view of the city of Macao from Lappa Island showing the defenses, the forts, churches and convents: including Fort de Baare, Bon Parto, Fort St Paulo (Monte Fort)....
- $750 / ≈ €702
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1724
Imperium Japonicum in sexaginta et octo provincias divisum. Ex ipsorum Japonensium mappis & observationibus Kaempferianis. . .
The most important influence on European maps of Japan during the early years of the eighteenth century was that of E. Kaempfer based upon the manuscripts compiled during...
Place & Date: The Hague, 1727
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2022
Plan de la Ville et du Chateau de Batavia en l'Isle de Iava / Ware affbeeldinge wegens het Casteel ende Stadt Batavia gelegen opt groot Eylant Java.
Detailed East-oriented plan of Jakarta former Batavia on Java / Indonesia. With bird's-eye view from sea side, various ships and a lion. Two inset keys with detailed desc...
Place & Date: Leiden, 1730
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2019
A fine bronze cannon.
Cannon built up of two truncated conusses, differing in size, the steps marked by mouldings shaped as flat bands preceded by ogees: base ring similar; breech with ogee-sh...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1755
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Shintei Bankoku Zenzu [Revised Comprehensive Map of All Countries]
Compiled by Kageyasu Takahashi, the finest world map of the Edo period, copper plate print, 1810. Bunka 7 is dated from the preface on this map,This world map, published ...
- $26000 / ≈ €24329
Place & Date: Kyoto, Bunka 7 or 1810