Browse Listings in Asia
Damascvs urbs nobilissima ad libanum monteri loti. . . [Damascus]
Uncommon plan of Jerusalem from Francesco Valegio's townbook: Raccolta di le piv illustri et farmose citta di tutto il mondo. On verso another engraving is pasted.
Place & Date: Venice, ca. 1579
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2008
Indiae Orientalis Insularumque Adiacientium Typus.
Famous milestone map of South-East Asia, China, Japan, Indonesia, and the Philippines. The map also includes parts of the West Coast of North America, including several m...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1579
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2012
Asiae Nova Descriptio.
Beautifully colored map of Asia from the 1579 edition of Ortelius’Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern atlas of the world. The map is based upon Ortelius's wall ma...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1579
Selling price: $900
Sold in 2015
Asiae Nova Descriptio.
Second state. Ortelius' fine map of Asia well represents the continent at a time when Europeans were expanding their power in the far east. The Indian subcontinent and Ma...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1579
Selling price: $1300
Sold in 2016
Peregrinationis Divi Pavli Typus Corographicus...
A gorgeous Ortelius map of the travels of St. Paul the Apostle through the Mediterranean, extending west to Italy and east to the Euphrates, including parts of the Red Se...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1579
Selling price: $575
Sold in 2017
Asiae Nova Descriptio.
Second state. Ortelius' fine map of Asia well represents the continent at a time when Europeans were expanding their power in the far east. The Indian subcontinent and Ma...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1579
Selling price: $1400
Sold in 2018
No title (Holy Land)
Attractive full page longitudinal map of Palestine, Syria and Cyprus, cut by Hans Rudolf Manuel Deutsch. The shore line running from Southern Anatolia to the Nile Delta. ...
Place & Date: Basle 1550-1580
Selling price: $220
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Terrae Sanctae Tabula
Attractive woodblock map of the Holy Land drawn with west to the top of the sheet, the map shows the division of the country between the tribes of Israel according to Jos...
Place & Date: Basle c.1580
Selling price: $95
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Constantinople.
A fine detailed woodcut bird's-eye view of Istanbul as seen from the usual perspective showing it out on a spur, with Pera across the water to the right. Seemingly, all t...
Place & Date: Basle 1550-1580
Selling price: $460
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Byzantium nunc Constantinopolis.
One of the finest and most sought-after views of Istanbul. Viewed from the village of Scutari, the City is shown with all its fortifications, the original Genoese distric...
Place & Date: Cologne 1580
Selling price: $1365
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Sumatra ein grosse Insel..
A nice impression of this great map of island of Tabrobana, which was variously thought to be Ceylon or Sumatra.This map depicts Ceylon with the typical misconceptions of...
Place & Date: Basle 1580
Selling price: $200
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Asia wie es jetziger zeit nach den fuernemesten Herzschaften
Map of the continent of Asia, copied after the copper engraved map by Ortelius. It was added to Münster's Cosmographia from 1588 onwards, probably in order to make it mo...
Place & Date: Basle 1580
Selling price: $550
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Calechut Celeberri mum Indiae Emporium/ Ormus/ ..
Four panoramic views on one sheet: the upper approximately two-thirds of this double page sheet contains a fine panoramic view of Calicut which is on the west coast of In...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1580
Selling price: $610
Sold in 2018
Byzantium, Nunc Constantinopolis..
One of the finest and most sought-after views of Istanbul. Viewed from the village of Scutari, the City is shown with all its fortifications, the original Genoese distric...
Place & Date: Cologne 1580
Selling price: $2400
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Indiae Orientalis, Insularumque Adiacientium Typus..
Finely handcolored example of Ortelius' map of SE Asia, Japan, and the Philippines, etc. The map includes Beach and other information drawn from Marco Polo.The map also i...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1580
Selling price: $2000
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Calechut Celeberri mum Indiae Emporium/ Ormus/ ..
Four panoramic views on one sheet: The upper approximately two-thirds of this double page sheet contains a fine panoramic view of Calicut which is on the west coast of In...
Place & Date: Cologne 1580
Selling price: $350
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Sumatra ein grosse Insel..
One of the most interesting fruits of the revamping of the Münster Cosmographia in 1588 was this map of the southern Malay Peninsula and Sumatra, one of the earliest to ...
Place & Date: Basle, 1580
Selling price: $400
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Byzantium nunc Constantinopolis.
One of the finest and most sought-after views of Istanbul. Viewed from the village of Scutari, the City is shown with all its fortifications, the original Genoese distric...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1580
Selling price: $1850
Sold in 2008
[Asia Minor - Turkey]
Very early map of the Asian part of Turkey. From his Cosmographia, that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge. An exciting print.Sebastian Münster was born in Nierde...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1580
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2011
Sarmatia Asie.
The map is showing the area of Armenia and Kazakhstan. From his Cosmographia, that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge. An exciting print.Sebastian Münster was bor...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1580
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2008
[Cyprus]
Two woodcuts on one page. In upper part a map of Cyprus, in lower part a jumping deer and a sheep drinking water. The drinking sheep with old pen scratches. From his Cosm...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1580
Selling price: $185
Sold in 2008
[Map of the Holy Land, including Cyprus]
Attractive full page longitudinal map of Palestine, Syria and Cyprus, cut by Hans Rudolf Manuel Deutsch. The shore line running from Southern Anatolia to the Nile Delta. ...
Place & Date: Basle 1550-1580
Selling price: $70
Sold in 2008
Asiae nova descriptio.
Beautiful colored map of Asia. From the 1580 German edition of Theatrum Orbis Terrarum by Abraham Ortelius. The cartographical source of this map comes from Ortelius own ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1580
Selling price: $1600
Sold in 2009
ANFA. / AZAAMURUM. / DIU. / GOA.
Four fine coastal views of these fortified cities, which were important to European trade with Asia. Goa (130x465mm.) and Diu on the western coast of India, together with...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1580
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2011
Byzantium, Nunc Constantinopolis..
One of the finest and most sought-after views of Istanbul. Viewed from the village of Scutari, the City is shown with all its fortifications, the original Genoese distric...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1580
Selling price: $2500
Sold in 2009
ANFA. / AZAAMURUM. / DIU. / GOA.
Text on the back in Latin.Four fine coastal views of these fortified cities, which were important to European trade with Asia. Goa (130x465mm.) and Diu on the western coa...
Place & Date: Cologne 1580
Selling price: $230
Sold in 2009
Byzantium nunc Constantinopolis.
One of the most sought-after views of Istanbul. Perspective from the village of Scutari, with all its fortifications, the original Genoese district of Galata. Galleons an...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1580
Selling price: $1200
Sold in 2013
De Graecia Constantinopolitanae urbis effigies, quamhodie sub Turccae inhabitatione habet.
Early bird's eye view of Constantinople. From a French text edition of S. Münster's Cosmographia, which is a short and complete summary of Renaissance knowledge.
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1580
Selling price: $230
Sold in 2009
Tartariae sive Magni Chami Imperium.
This is a very early depiction of the northern Pacific, with the first mapping of Northwest Coast of America and probably the first map to name California 'C. Califormio'...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1580
Selling price: $1600
Sold in 2009
Persici.
Abraham Ortelius' map of the Persian empire. The map of the Persian Empire depicts nowadays Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, the Caspian Sea and the north eastern tip of the...
Place & Date: Antwerp, c. 1580
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2020
Constantinopel. . .
A fine detailed woodcut bird's-eye view of Istanbul as seen from the usual perspective showing it out on a spur, with Pera across the water to the right. The city plan de...
Place & Date: Basle, 1580
Selling price: $600
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Sumatra Ein Grosse Insel / So Von Den alten Geographen Taprobana
An interesting map of Sumatra and the southern part of Malaysia. Singapore is identified at the tip of Malay peninsula as Cingafufa. Large textual cartouche which quotes ...
Place & Date: Basle, 1580
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2011
Tabula Asiae XII [Sri Lanka -- with Elephant]
Attractive woodblock map, depicting Sri Lanka as known to Ptolemy. Left of the map a large elephant with descriptive text identifies the island of Taprobana with Sumatra ...
Place & Date: Basle, 1580
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2017
Indiae Orientalis, Insularumque Adiacientium Typus. . .
Finely handcolored example of Ortelius' map of SE Asia, Japan, and the Philippines, etc. The map includes Beach and other information drawn from Marco Polo.The map also i...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1580
Selling price: $1850
Sold in 2012
Byzantium nunc Constantinopolis.
One of the finest and most sought-after views of Istanbul. Viewed from the village of Scutari, the City is shown with all its fortifications, the original Genouse distric...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1580
Selling price: $2000
Sold in 2012
[Asia Minor - Turkey]
Very early map of the Asian part of Turkey. From his Cosmographia, that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge. An exciting print.Sebastian Münster was born in Nierde...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1580
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2017
[Cyprus]
Very early map of Cyprus, by Sebastian Münster from his Cosmographia. On a full sheet with text on both sides in German, and a print of deer.
Place & Date: Basel, 1550-1580
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2013
Tabula orientalis regionis Asiae. . .
Central and East Asia. Woodcut map from a Latin edition of Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia, Basel c. 1580. Verso typogr. text: "Nova Tabula Indiae orientalis..&quo...
Place & Date: Basel, c. 1580
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2013
[Dragons and Gryfons].
On recto an early representation of a dragon from India and Ethiopia. VERSO : Snakes and scorpions (65x135 mm) and a griffon.From a French text edition of his Cosmographi...
Place & Date: Basle 1575 - 1580
Selling price: $5
Sold in 2016
Sumatra Ein Grosse Insel / So Von Den alten Geographen Taprobana...
A fine map of what is regarded as the island of Sri Lanka, by the early, important, and influential German cartographer, Sebastian Munster. The map title, in old German s...
Place & Date: Basle ca. 1550 - 1580
Selling price: $170
Sold in 2016