Browse Listings in Asia
Map of Ceylon showing her Tea Industry.
A delightful little brochure highlighting the Ceylonese tea industry, issued by the Ceylon Tea Propaganda Board in the mid 1930s. It features a lovely map of the island o...
Place & Date: Ceylon, ca 1934
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2020
[Original Chinese advertising poster for Donggong Business School]
This poster, an advertisement from the 1930s for Donggong Business School depicts a pretty woman holding a beautiful fan and wearing jewelry. It shows the rise of Western...
Place & Date: Shanghai, 1934
Selling price: $130
Sold in 2020
Philippines Islands.
Pictorial map of Philippines Islands, from the famous illustrator, Ruth Taylor White and published in "Our USA: A Gay Geography".Ruth Taylor White was among the...
Place & Date: Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1935
Selling price: $175
Sold in 2017
Philippines Islands.
Pictorial map of Philippines Islands, from the famous illustrator, Ruth Taylor White and published in "Our USA: A Gay Geography".Ruth Taylor White was among the...
Place & Date: Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1935
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2018
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...
Place & Date: Tokyo, 1937
Selling price: $210
Sold in 2010
[Map of the Current Situation in East Asia].
Uncommon ephemeral map showing areas occupied by the Japanese, Chinese, and Soviet in the Far East at the outbreak of the Second World War. A tank-shaped insert provides ...
Place & Date: Osaka, 1937
Selling price: $1250
Sold in 2010
Grand Map of Eastern China and Manchukuo.
Spectacular scroll map of eastern China and the puppet state of Manchukuo. Published by the Tokyo Electric Company Limited (Tōkyō Denki Kabushiki Kaisha...
Place & Date: Tokyo, 1937
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2012
Hitome de wakaru Shina jihen to Nisso kankei echizu - Map of East Asia and Soviet, detailing the development of the Sino-Japanese Conflict
The main map includes numerous pictorial features of people in each country and region on the map. Names of major cities are given, and several charts, such as a chronolo...
Place & Date: Japan, 1937
Selling price: $265
Sold in 2016
Carte économique de l'Indochine.
Large and uncommon economic map of Indochina published in 1937 by the "Service Géographique de l'Indochine" and printed by the "Service Géographique Nati...
Place & Date: Hanoï, 1937
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2020
Carte Archeologique de la Region d'Angkor.
A detailed map of the region around Angkor Wat on a scale of 1:40,000, that includes a detailed key in the box at lower left corner. Includes the main ruins at Angkor Tho...
Place & Date: Anon, 1939
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2018
Karte vom japanischen Reiche, nach Originalkarten und astronomischen Beobachtungen der Japaner,die Inseln Kiusiu, Sikok und Nippon. / Philipp Franz von Siebold.
An early 20th-century reproduction of this important map of Japan was made in 1840 by German physician and traveler Philipp Franz Balthasar von Siebold. During his travel...
Place & Date: Tokyo, ca. 1940
Selling price: $550
Sold in 2014
Turkey Sets Her Course / Behind Mediterranean Front.
Two unusual pictorial maps on World War II in Europe, from a Toronto based Canadian weekly newspaper. First map shows Turkey and her surrounding countries, with major tow...
Place & Date: Toronto, 1940
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2017
Daily Telegraph War Map of the Far East.
A very large folding map of South-East Asia from Russia until a tip of Australia. Shows transportation routes with distances, oil fields, Allied Naval Bases, and the terr...
Place & Date: London, ca. 1940
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2018
Imperial Defense Map.
Interesting piece of ephemera from a supplement in a Japanese boys' magazine published during World War II showing battle scenes and American & Japanese naval positio...
Place & Date: Japan, c. 1941
Selling price: $508
Sold in 2012
The Map of the East Indies.
A rare map of the East Indies issued by the Singapore branch of the World Book Company, one of China's major bookstores, and edited by Kying Wa Wang and Guan Ching Shy, a...
Place & Date: Singapore, 1941
Selling price: $145
Sold in 2018
Pilgrim's map of the Holy Land : for biblical research, the journey's and deed's of Jesus Christ.
Fine map of the Holy Land with extensive color keys, short legend and key list to the main towns of the region.The map was prepared by Th.F.Mathesy Ph.D. and according to...
Place & Date: Jerusalem, 1942
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2010
New Map of Singapore Island - Besieged by Japanese. Chicago Daily Tribune, Monday, February 9, 1942
color pictorial map designed by , single sheet from the Chicago Daily Tribune, "This is a new map of Singapore Island, now being besieged by the Japanese. North of t...
Place & Date: Chicago, 1942
Selling price: $575
Sold in 2019
Pilgrim's Map of the Holy Land. . .
A large and striking map of the Holy Land, published in Nazareth during the Second World War. The map shows from the Port of Sidon in the north, south to Gaza, mentioning...
Place & Date: Nazareth, 1942
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2020
Le pavillon victorieux du Japon flotte au dessus du Pacifique (THE VICTORIOUS FLAG OF JAPAN FLIES OVER THE PACIFIC).
Cartographic propaganda World War II & the Japanese empire. A magnificent large-format propaganda broadside, or ‘wall newspaper’ made in December 1942, during Wor...
Place & Date: Spain, 1942
Selling price: $95
Sold in 2019
[Phuket - Harbour]
Scarce Japanese chart of Phuket prepared by Daisuke Soejima Daikin and probably the first detailed chart of the region made just after the capture of Thailand by the Japa...
Place & Date: Japan, August 1942
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2023
LAOS Région Nord.
Very decorative, informative map of the northern region of Laos. With a compass rose in upper left corner, the map is filled with buildings, animals, figures and two loca...
Place & Date: France, 1943
Selling price: $152
Sold in 2010
LAOS ANNAN Région Sud.
Very decorative, informative map of the region of Laos and Annan. The map is filled with buildings, animals, figures and two locals in their typical dress.In lower left c...
Place & Date: France, 1943
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2010
AAF Cloth chart Spassk-Dal'Niy. Eastern Asia 1:1,000,000 First edition.
Beautiful escape chart, printed on synthetic silk cloth. These extremely detailed aeronautical charts were issued to pilots during WWII to be worn as neck kerchiefs under...
Place & Date: 1943
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2012
Ryukyo-Retto Photo maps 1:10,000 Secret. First edition. (Six maps)
A group of six printed maps for the US army of photos made in September 1944 of Nakagami-gun (country) including Okinawa. Kin m (Sheet 3626-II m), Yonaburu b (sheet 3625-...
Place & Date: Washington, September 1944
Selling price: $5
Sold in 2014
Ryukyo-Retto Photo maps 1:10,000 Secret. First edition. (Six maps)
A group of six printed maps for the US army of photos made in September 1944 of Nakagami-gun (country) including Okinawa. Kin m (Sheet 3626-II m), Yonaburu b (sheet 3625-...
Place & Date: Washington, September 1944
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2012
Nav War map No.2 The South China Sea Area.
An unusual and large colored lithograph Pictorial Map of the area around the South China Sea, distributed by the Educational Service Section, Bureau of Naval Personnel, N...
Place & Date: Washington, 1944
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2017
[No title : Map centered on Philippines]
BONUS Map depicting a bird's-eye map centered on Philippines. Design by Ted Kautzky (1896-1953) (Enlargement of original map drawn for Life)."For report documenting ...
Place & Date: New York , Life Magazine, 1944
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2017
Honorable War Plants [in Japan]
Map depicting Japan and industrial war-plants. Design by Robert Macfarlane Chapin Jr.. In right hand side : Enlargement of original map drawn for TIME The Weekly News Mag...
Place & Date: New York , Time Magazine, 1944
Selling price: $375
Sold in 2017
[No title : Map of China with US air bases]
BONUS Map depicting China, Taiwan, part of Japan and Philippines in lower right corner. With a key to US air bases in China. Upper right : Enlargement of original map dra...
Place & Date: New York , Life Magazine, 1944
Selling price: $235
Sold in 2017
Pacific and the Far East.
A very large US Army and Naval map of The Pacific Ocean and the Far East, published during the second world war. Map covers the western Pacific, as far as Hawaii and the ...
Place & Date: [New York], 1944
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2017
War Map of the Far East.
A large multi-colored poster of the War in the Far East, published by the Daily Mail Newspaper. Map extends from the northern tip of Australia in the south, northward up ...
Place & Date: London, 1944
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2018
[No title : War Map centered on Philippines]
BONUS Map depicting a bird's-eye map centered on Philippines. Design by Ted Kautzky (1896-1953) (Enlargement of original map drawn for Life)."For report documenting ...
Place & Date: New York , Life Magazine, 1944
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2018
Western Okinawa Beaches Sheet 4 of 6. Top Secret reduced to restricted upon departure for the operation. (Lot contains 2 copies of the map.)
Top secret intelligy map of Western Okinawa Beaches prepared by Comphisgroup twelve and Phisspac Intelligence. With several inset maps and keys. On verso the Hourly heigh...
Place & Date: Washington, 1945
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2012
Plan of Shanghai - Sheet 1
An exceptionally fine and very detailed map of Shanghai, drawn up by the US Army in 1945 by the Geographical Section of the General Staff, War Office.Originally made in 1...
Place & Date: Washington, 1945
Selling price: $1150
Sold in 2017
Mapa de las yslas Philipinas Luzon . . .
Map of the Philippines. printed on a publication of YANK The army weekly, February 16, 1945. The map has an inset of Manila and vicinity, legend and a key to rail road a...
Place & Date: New York, 1945
Selling price: $255
Sold in 2017
Formosa. (304)
Nice color printed map of Formosa. With key in upper left corner. Published by The Serial Map Service, who was active from Letchworth and London. The company published on...
Place & Date: Letchworth, Herts, London, The Serial Map Service, 1945
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2020
Korea.
A vintage manuscript map, a rare 'Printers Proof' (Unique). Published about 1945 in "The Geographical Journal" by the RGS. On very thick paper.
Place & Date: London, ca 1945
Selling price: $35
Sold in 2019
[ Pictorial map of the Philippine battlefield ]
Pictorial map of central Luzon showing the Japanese Philippine battlefield by HR BIENNETT. Showing a road system, with the land and waters filled with war scenes. In uppe...
Place & Date: Philippines ?, 1945
Selling price: $375
Sold in 2019
Indochine Française.
Poster in the form of a pictorial map showing Vietnam, Indochina in red on yellow, showing Hanoi, Pnom Penh. Designed by Lucien Boucher (1889–1971) for "l'associat...
Place & Date: Paris, Perceval, ca. 1945
Selling price: $2550
Sold in 2019
Philippines Islands.
Wall map sized map of the Philippines on "water proof map no 3 Philippines" according note on lower right corner. No date or publisher. In right corner a key to...
Place & Date: USA, ca. 1945
Selling price: $425
Sold in 2020