Browse Listings in Asia
De terris Asiae minoris.
Sebastian Münster, 1489-1552, outstanding geographer of Basle. Editied Ptolemy's atlas ' Geographia Universalis', editions 1540,-42, -45, -51 and -52. Published his &quo...
Place & Date: Basle, 1554
Selling price: $135
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Sumatra.
A superb example of "the first separate map of any Southeast Asian island to be based on actual observation" (Suarez). It is moreover highly unusual for a map t...
Place & Date: Venice, 1556
Selling price: $900
Sold in 2018
Aedificat Templum Sapientia per Solomonis.
Solomon directing the building of the temple. Rare print by Philips Galle, after Frans Floris and published by Hieronymus Cock, 1558.Solomon sits at right and converses w...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1558
Selling price: $475
Sold in 2020
Soria et Terra Santa nova tavola.
Uncommon first edition of this classical map of the Holy Land, including Cyprus. The map is an enlarged version of Giacomo Gastaldi's published in 1548Girolamo Ruscelli's...
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2016
Tabula Asiae I.
Uncommon first edition of this classical map of Turkey, prepared by Ptolemy.Girolamo Ruscelli's edition of Ptolemy's Geographia included newly engraved copperplates by Gi...
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $170
Sold in 2022
Tabula Asiae IIII.
Uncommon first edition of this classical map of the Holy Land, including Cyprus. The map is an enlarged version of Giacomo Gastaldi's published in 1548Girolamo Ruscelli's...
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2011
Tabvla Asiae XII.
An elegantly engraved early map of Sri Lanka, with left the image of an elephant. Ref.: Paranavitana, maps of Dutch Ceylon, p.7.
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $400
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Tabula Asiae XII. . .
Uncommon first edition of one of the earliest maps of Sumatra.Girolamo Ruscelli's edition of Ptolemy's Geographia included newly engraved copperplates by Giulio and Livio...
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $195
Sold in 2008
India Tercera Nuova Tavola.
Uncommon first edition of this early map of South East Asia.Girolamo Ruscelli's edition of Ptolemy's Geographia included newly engraved copperplates by Giulio and Livio S...
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $485
Sold in 2008
India Tercera Nuova Tavola.
Uncommon first edition of Ruscelli's map is one of the earliest modern maps of Southeast Asia. An enlarged version of Gastaldi's miniature map of 1548, the map is one of ...
Place & Date: Venice / 1561
Selling price: $425
Sold in 2013
Tabula Asiae VI. (Arabian Peninsular)
Scarce FIRST edition of this classical map depicting the Arabian Peninsula, here called Arabia Foelix, Persian Gulf and Red Sea. The map is based upon a map published by ...
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $360
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India Tercera Nuova Tavola.
Early edition of this modern map of South East Asia. Just to the west and south of Malacca one will notice ‘Camatra’ (Sumatra) and Java. Covers the region from the Gu...
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2017
Arabia Felice Nuova Tavola.
Fine early map of this modern depiction of the Arabian peninsula, being one of the earliest modern maps of the region. The map extends from the Arabian Desert south as fa...
Place & Date: Venice, Vincenzo Valgrisi, c.1561
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2017
Tabula Asiae VI.
Scarce FIRST edition of this classical map depicting the Arabian Peninsula.
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $110
Sold in 2018
Calecut Nuova Tavola.
Scarce FIRST edition of this early map of Indian peninsular, being one of the earliest modern maps of the region.Girolamo Ruscelli's edition of Ptolemy's Geographia inclu...
Place & Date: Venice, Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1561
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2021
India Tercera Nuova Tavola.
Uncommon first edition of this early map of South East Asia, showing the Bay of Bengal to southern China in the north, and down just below the Equator to the south. While...
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $800
Sold in 2021
INDIA TERCERA NUOVA TAVOLA.
Ruscelli's map is one of the earliest modern maps of Southeast Asia. An enlarged version of Gastaldi's miniature map of 1548, the map is one of the earliest to introduce ...
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2019
![Taprobana [Ceylon/Sri Lanka].](/uploads/cache/84457-250x250.jpg)
Taprobana [Ceylon/Sri Lanka].
Ptolemy's mythical island of Taprobana originally became associated with Sri Lanka. Later, as this theory was discredited, Sumatra became the next candidate. Almost a dec...
Place & Date: Basle, 1561
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2020
India.
A woodcut from P. Mela's "De Orbis Situ Libri tres". Published by Henric Perti. Almost a decade after the death of Sebastian Münster, his publisher and stepson...
Place & Date: Basle, 1561
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2020
Tabvla Asiae XII.
[Antique map of Sri Lanka] Tabvla Asiae XII. An elegantly engraved early map of Sri Lanka, (misshapen) with left the image of an elephant.
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $130
Sold in 2020
India Tercera Nuova Tavola
An early map of South East Asia after Gastaldi from "La Geographia: Descrittione dell' Asia", 3rd vol., p. 122; published by M. Sessa in Venezia, Italy, showi...
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2021
Tabula Asiae XII. (Taprobana)
Scarce FIRST edition of this map depicting the island of Ceylon (Taprobana), based on Gastaldi's 1548 map. An elephant with descriptive text next to the map.Ptolemy's myt...
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2023
Constantinoble ( Constantinople )
This chorographical view of Constantinople is from Du Pinet's rare city atlas published in Lyon by Jean d'Ogerolles. It is taken from Sebastian Munster's plan and feature...
Place & Date: Lyon, 1564
Selling price: $650
Sold in 2013
![Sinus Persicus [Arabia]](/uploads/cache/39581-250x250.jpg)
Sinus Persicus [Arabia]
Rare wood block printed map of the Arabian Peninsular from "De orbis situ libri tres accuratissime emendati". Underneath the map a lettered key (A-E) in letter ...
Place & Date: Basle, Henri Petri, 1564
Selling price: $425
Sold in 2017
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Sinus Persicus [Arabia]
Rare wood block printed map of the Holy Land, Syria, Cyprus, northern Arabia from "De orbis situ libri tres accuratissime emendati". Underneath the map a letter...
Place & Date: Basle, Henri Petri, 1564
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2017
De Terra Sancta (Jerusalem)
One Latin text page with on verso three illustrations of Salomon's Temple, View of Jerusalem and stairs to Mount Calvaria. On recto the Holy Sepulchre (Sacri sepulchri te...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1564
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2018
De Terris Asiae Maioris de India Ultra Gangem Fluvium Sita.
One text page with a woodcuts of a fanciful creatures along the River Ganges in India from Münster's Cosmographia Universalis.The Cosmographia by Sebastian Munster from ...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1564
Selling price: $10
Sold in 2018
Calecut Nova Tavola.
A fine early map of Indian peninsula,it being one of the earliest modern maps of the region, extending from west of the Gujarat peninsula eastward to Bengal and south as ...
Place & Date: Venice, 1564
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2020
Calecut Nuova Tavola.
Early map of India, extending from west of the Gujarat peninsula eastward to Bengal and south as far as northern Ceylon (“Ceilam”). Girolamo Ruscelli first published ...
Place & Date: Venice, 1564
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2020
Tabula Asiae XI.
Early map of part of India. Girolamo Ruscelli first published the map in his "La Geographi di Claudio Tolomeo" (Venice, 1561). In 1574 a new plate was used whic...
Place & Date: Venice, 1564
Selling price: $70
Sold in 2020
![[untitled] Judaea, Chaldaea, Syria, Mesopotamia, Asia Minor, Dioscurias, Mecha, Arabia Felix, Saba et al](/uploads/cache/85878-250x250.jpg)
[untitled] Judaea, Chaldaea, Syria, Mesopotamia, Asia Minor, Dioscurias, Mecha, Arabia Felix, Saba et al
Johannes Honter was a Protestant reformer from Transylvania, mentioned in 1570 by Abraham Ortelius in his ground-breaking atlas. Honter’s 'Rudimentorum Cosmographicorum...
Place & Date: Zurich, 1564
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2021
![[Tevarya] Lago di Tiberia.](/uploads/cache/16894-250x250.jpg)
[Tevarya] Lago di Tiberia.
Extremely rare map centered on the town and Lake Tevarya, including Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Sichem, Damascus and the island of Cyprus.Engraved by Paolo Furlani (active 1561...
Place & Date: Venice 1568
Selling price: $1925
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Al S. Alberto Lavezzola.. Con questa bellissima et ordinatissima ordinanza suole il gran sig.or Turco ..
Extremely rare print of the Great Turk and his army.The print is addressed and dated Paolo Forlani Veronese.. Merzaria all'insegna della Colonna.Engraved by Paolo Furlani...
Place & Date: Venice 1568
Selling price: $205
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![[Tevarya] Lago di Tiberia.](/uploads/cache/22050-250x250.jpg)
[Tevarya] Lago di Tiberia.
Extremely rare map centered on the town and Lake Tevarya, including Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Sichem, Damascus and the island of Cyprus.Engraved by Paolo Furlani (active 1561...
Place & Date: Venice 1568
Selling price: $1750
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![Situs Terra Sancta iuxta numeru[m] filior, Israel, apices, seu pu[n]cta divisus.](/uploads/cache/25018-250x250.jpg)
Situs Terra Sancta iuxta numeru[m] filior, Israel, apices, seu pu[n]cta divisus.
This is ultimately derived from the materials of Marino Sanudo, drawn in the 1320s, perhaps via Berlinghieri's map of 1482. Oriented to the east. The shoreline runs from ...
Place & Date: Venice, c. 1568
Selling price: $30500
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Constantinopoli
Rare Lafreri School town-plan of Constantinople, engraved by Paolo Forlani, of the Lafreri school of mapmakers, first published in "Il Primo Libro Delle Citta, Et Fo...
Place & Date: Venice, Zaltieri, (1567) 1569
Selling price: $890
Sold in 2015
La Saincte cité de Ierusalem iadiz metropolitaine..
A particularly attractive example of this early wood cut view of Jerusalem from an French text edition. The Holy city appears well laid out, and is surrounded by a vast w...
Place & Date: Basle 1570
Selling price: $140
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Costantinopoli.
Very rare plan of Istanbul, with in the lower part a numbered key (1-58) to the important places in town by Claudio Ducheto. Collector's item. A unique opportunity to acq...
Place & Date: Rome, 1570
Selling price: $2700
Sold in 2012
La famosa citta de Constantinopoli.
A separately published decorative and very rare panoramic of of present-day Istanbul, viewed from the village of Scutari. The City is shown with all its fortifications, ...
Place & Date: Venice, c. 1570
Selling price: $4000
Sold in 2013
Constantinopel.
An early, fine, extremely detailed woodcut depicting a bird's-eye view of Istanbul as seen from the perspective showing it out on a spur, with Pera across the water to th...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1570
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2022