Antique Maps of Central Asia

[Map of Central Asia]

Rigobert Bonne.
Carte de la Perse, de la Géorgie, et de la Tartarie Indépendante...

Paris, c.1780. 230 x 340mm. Coloured.
Central Asia from the Persian Gulf to Bhutan, marking Bahrain, the Caspian Sea, Afghanistan, Bukhara and Tibet.
BONN0036

[Afghanistan at the outbreak of the First Anglo-Afghan War.]

Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.
Bokhara, Cabool, Beloochistan &c,

London, SDUK, 1838. Steel engraving, sheet 410 x 350mm. Original colour.
Detailed map, centred on Afghanistan but showing the borders of Persia, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, although the Khyber Pass is not shown in its entirety. The map was published in 1838, when the 'Great Game' evolved into the disasterous First Anglo-Afghan War, 1838-1842.
SDUK0072

[Map of Afghanistan, Pakistan and the North West Frontier]

John Tallis.
Cabool, the Punjab and Coloochistan.

London Printing and Publishing Co., c.1860. Steel engraving, printed area 270 x 340mm. Original colour.
Drawn and engraved by Rapkin, with three vignettes including a propect of Lahore.
TALL0054

[Early miniature map of Bengal]

Petrus Bertius.
Bengala.

Amsterdam, Jodocus Hondius, 1616. 100 x 135mm.
The Bay of Bengal, from Bertius' 'Tabularum Geographicarum Contractarum'.
BERT0030

[Bengal]

Philippe Vandermaelen.
Bengale.

Brussels, 1827. 470 x 540mm. Original colour.
North east India, marking Calcutta and the Mouths of the Ganges. Published in the first atlas of the world to have every map on the same scale, 'Atlas Universel de Geographie', thus showing some of the more remote areas of the world in unprecedented detail.
VAND0023

[Chart of the Caspian Sea]

J. Harrison.
A New Chart of the Caspian Sea, From the Original by D'Anville.

London, 1788. 515 x 265mm. Coloured.
The Caspian Sea, marking Baku and Astracan.
HARR1001

[Map of the Caucasus]

Nicolas Sanson.
L'Empire du Sophy de Perses.

Paris, c.1692. Sheet 220 x 320mm. Coloured.
Map of the Caucasus, with Chechnya, Georgia, Azerbajian and Armenia, engraved by A. de Winter for the quarto edition of Sanson's atlas.
SANS0071

[Caucasus]

Philippe Vandermaelen.
Partie de la Perse. Asie No. 52.

Brussels, 1827. 520 x 570mm. Original colour. Some spotting.
Very detailed map of the southern Caucasus, with the borders of Persia, Turkey, Armenia, Georgia and Azabaijan. Marked are the cities of Baku, Yerevan & T'Bilisi, and Mount Ararat. The map was published in the first atlas of the world on the same scale, some of the more remote areas of the world such as this are shown in unprecedented detail.
VAND0003

[Miniature Map of Georgia & Armenia]

Alain Manesson Mallet.
Georgie Armenie &c.

Paris, 1683. 155 x 110mm. Coloured.
Map of Georgia and Armenia, with a decorative title cartouche.
MALL0023

[Miniature Portrait of Natives of Georgia]

Alain Manesson Mallet.
Georgiens.

Frankfurt, 1685. 155 x 110mm. Coloured.
Georgian costume.
MALL0024

[Map of India and Ceylon]

Pierre Du Val.
Presqu'Isle de L'Inde de ca le Gange.

Paris, c.1680. 105 x 130mm. Some minor foxing.
The Indian peninsula and Ceylon.
DUVA0002

[Miniature map of India]

Alain Manesson Mallet.
Presqu-Isle de L'Inde deca le Golfe de Bengala.

Paris, c.1683. 145 x 115mm. Coloured.
Map of India.
MALL0046

[Miniature map of Northern India]

Alain Manesson Mallet.
Partie de la Terre Ferme de L'Inde ou L'Empire du Mogol.

Paris, c.1683. 145 x 115mm. Coloured.
With a decorative title cartouche.
MALL0066

[Miniature map of India]

Robert Morden.
India on this side Ganges.

London, c.1688. 115 x 135mm. Original outline colour
Map of India from Morden's uncommon world atlas 'Geography Rectified...'.
MORD0010

[Miniature map of the Mogol Empire]

Robert Morden.
Empire de Mogol.

London, c.1688. 115 x 130mm.
From Morden's uncommon world atlas 'Geography Rectified...'.
MORD0017

[Map of the Mogol Empire in Northern India]

Henricus Hondius.
Magni Mogolis Imperium.

Amsterdam, Schenk & Valk, c.1700. 370 x 495mm. Original colour.
Hondius's map of Northern India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, also marking Kabul in Afganistan. For this state Schenk & Valk have added their name and lines of longitude and latitude, and have used body colour rather than outline.
HOND0091

[Chart of the Arabian Sea]

Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Carte des Costes de Perse, Gusarat et Malabar...

Paris, c.1760. 255 x 210mm. Coloured.
Chart of the Arabian Sea, showing Oman with Muscat clearly marked, with the coasts of Persia, Pakistan and the western coast of India, with the Maldives.
BELL0156

[India]

Charles Smith.
Peninsula of India.

London, c.1808. 385 x 295mm. Original colour. Stitch marks just inside platemark.
Detailed map of British India.
SMIT0001

[Map of the environs of Agra, India.]

Philippe Vandermaelen.
Pays d'Ajemeer D'Agra &a.

Brussels, 1827. 480 x 520mm. Original colour.
Detailed map of Northern India, published in the first atlas of the world to have every map on the same scale, 'Atlas Universel de Geographie', thus showing some of the more remote areas of the world in unprecedented detail. Thirty years later the names of this map acquired notoriety in the India Mutiny of 1857: Delhi, Lahore, Jaipur, Jhansi & Lucknow.
VAND0025

[Map of Northern India, Bangladesh and the Himalayan Kingdoms]

John Tallis.
Northern India, with the Presidency of Calcutta.

London, J. & F. Tallis, c.1851. Steel engraving, printed area 250 x 320mm. Original colour.
Northern India, with Nepal, Sikkim and Bhotan. Drawn and engraved by Rapkin, with six vignettes including a view of a tiger hunt.
TALL0055

[Decorative map of Northern India and Bangladesh]

John Tallis.
Northern India.

London, London Printing & Publishing Company, c.1861. Steel engraving, printed area 270 x 350mm. Original colour.
Coloured to depict British Possessions, States under British Protection and Independent States. The six vignettes include the Seal of the East India Company.
TALL0043

[Townplan of Calcutta]

Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.
Calcutta.

London: Chapman & Hall, 1842. Steel engraving, printed area 325 x 380mm. Original colour. Narrow right margin, as issued.
Detailed plan, with the views underneath.
SDUK0050

[Map of Coromandel]

Thomas Bowen.
Coromandel from D'Anville's Atlas.

London: J.Harrison, 1788. 500 x 350mm. Coloured. Some spotting, narrow left margin.
Detailed map of Coromandel, on India's east coast, marking Madras.
BOWE1001

[Miniature Map of Gujarat]

Petrus Bertius.
Cambaia.

Amsterdam, Jodocus Hondius, 1616, First edition. 100 x 135mm. Coloured.
Hondius engraved new plates for his edition of the Bertius atlas 'Tabularum Geographicarum Contractarum', which he sold alongside the Mercator 'Atlas Minor'. KOEMAN: Lan 11a, 'With the new plates, the work was certainly improved'.
BERT0058

[Natives of Malabar]

Churchill.
A Malabar Man and Wooman.

London, c.1746. 280 x 190mm. Coloured.
Engraved by vander Gouwen for an edition of 'Churchill's Voyages'.
CHUR0001

[Miniature Map of South West India]

Petrus Bertius.
Malabar.

Amsterdam, Jodocus Hondius, 1616, First edition. 100 x 135mm. Coloured.
Hondius engraved new plates for his edition of the Bertius atlas 'Tabularum Geographicarum Contractarum', which he sold alongside the Mercator 'Atlas Minor'. KOEMAN: Lan 11a, 'With the new plates, the work was certainly improved'.
BERT0085

[Miniature Map of Southern India]

Petrus Bertius.
Narsinga.

Amsterdam, Jodocus Hondius, 1616, First edition. 100 x 135mm. Coloured.
Hondius engraved new plates for his edition of the Bertius atlas 'Tabularum Geographicarum Contractarum', which he sold alongside the Mercator 'Atlas Minor'. KOEMAN: Lan 11a, 'With the new plates, the work was certainly improved'.
BERT0086

[Northern India]

Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Carte de L'Indoustan...

Paris, 1752. 240 x 360mm. Coloured.
Northern India & Pakistan with parts of Afghanistan & Bangladesh.
BELL0167

[The Punjab during the First Anglo-Afghan War.]

Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.
The Panjab with part of Afghanistan, Kashmeer, Sinde &c.

London, SDUK, 1839. Steel engraving, sheet 410 x 350mm. Original colour.
Detailed map, of the borders between modern Afghanistan, India and Pakistan. On importance is the Khyber Pass, the main link between British India and Afghanistan , at a time when the 'Great Game' had evolved into the disasterous First Anglo-Afghan War, 1838-1842.
SDUK0073

[Unusual map of the Environs of Basra, Iraq.]

Olfert Dapper.
Delineatio regionis Bassora cum pagis, Flumeinibus et Insulis, quæ Christiani Sancti Ioannis incolunt.

Amsterdam, J. van Meurs, 1680. 295 x 370mm.
From Dapper's 'Naukeurige beschryving van Asie', shortly after the area was captured by the Ottoman Empire in 1668.
DAPP0004

[Maldives & Sri Lanka and southern India]

Robert Morden.
The Maldives and Ceylon Islands.

London, c.1688. 130 x 110mm.
Map of the Maldives, Sri Lanka and southern India, from Morden's uncommon world atlas 'Geography Rectified...'.
MORD0015

[Detailed Maldives]

Philippe Vandermaelen.
Iles Maldives et Laquedives. [Sheet 107]

Brussels, 1827. 470 x 530mm. Original colour. Paper lightly toned.
Because of the length of the chain, most of the Maldives appear as an inset. The map was published in the first atlas of the world on the same scale, some of the more remote areas of the world such as this are shown in unprecedented detail.
VAND0020

[Chart of the Northern Mariana Islands.]

Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Carte de l'Archipel de St Lazare ou les Isles Marianes...

Paris, c.1752. 240 x 165mm. Coloured.
Chart of the Northern Mariana Islands, with an inset of Guam.
BELL0141

[Detailed Mongolia]

Philippe Vandermaelen.
Partie de L'Empire Chinois.

Brussels, 1827. Two sheets, ea. c. 480 x 520mm. Original colour.
Very detailed map of eastern Mongolia, with 'Oloa Baytin' marked in the region of Ulan Bator. The map was published in the first atlas of the world on the same scale, some of the more remote areas of the world such as this are shown in unprecedented detail.
VAND0006

[Miniature Map of Persia]

Petrus Bertius.
Persicum Regnum.

Amsterdam, Jodocus Hondius, 1616, First edition. 100 x 135mm. Coloured.
Hondius engraved new plates for his edition of the Bertius atlas 'Tabularum Geographicarum Contractarum', which he sold alongside the Mercator 'Atlas Minor'. KOEMAN: Lan 11a, 'With the new plates, the work was certainly improved'.
BERT0087

[Map of Persia]

Henricus Hondius.
Persia Sive Sophorum Regnum.

Amsterdam, 1641, French text edition. 385 x 490mm. Original colour.
Persia, with decorative cartouches for the title and scale.
HOND0055

[Miniature plan of the city of Ardebil, Iran]

Alain Manesson Mallet.
Ardeuil où Ardebil.

Paris, 1683. 145 x 110mm. Coloured.
The largest city in North Western Iran.
MALL0084

[Map of Persia]

Nicolas Sanson.
L'Empire du Sophy de Perses.

Paris, c.1692. Sheet 220 x 320mm. Coloured.
Map of the Persia, engraved by A. de Winter for the quarto edition of Sanson's atlas.
SANS0070

[Map of Persia]

Christoph Weigel.
Imperii Persici delineatio...

Nuremburg, 1718. 335 x 410mm. Original colour.
Persia, with vignettes of ancient monuments.
WEIG0033

[Plan of Hormuz at the mouth of the Persian Gulf]

Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Ile D'Ormus ou de Jerun.

Paris, c.1748. 205 x 250mm.
Plan of Hormuz at the mouth of the Persian Gulf, within a decorative engraved border.
BELL0154

[Map of Persia]

Antonio Zatta.
L'Impero della Persia.

Venice, 1796. 330 x 420mm. Original colour.
Persia, with a vignette title cartouche, published by Zatta in the second edition of his 'Atlante Veneto'.
ZATT0074

[Iran]

John Tallis.
Persia.

London & New York, John Tallis & Co., c.1855. Steel-engraving, original outline colour. 355 x 265mm.
Map of Persia with engraved vignette scenes. Also shows Azerbijan.
TALL0032

[Ptolemy's map of Scythia]

Giovanni Antonio Magini.
Tabula Asiae VIII.

Venice, Galignani, 1596. 140 x 180mm. Coloured.
Map of Sythia, based on the geography of Ptolemy of Alexandria, c.100 AD. On verso is Ptolemy's map of Central Asia.
MAGI0034

[Decorative map of Sri Lanka]

Guillaume De L'Isle.
Carte de L'Isle de Ceylan.

Amsterdam, Covens & Mortier, c.1730. 500 x 575mm. Original colour.
A large and colourful map of Sri Lanka, with rococo cartouches for title and scale.
DELI0001

[Sri Lanka]

Philippe Vandermaelen.
Partie de l'Inde et Ile de Ceylan. [Sheet 108]

Brussels, 1827. 470 x 530mm. Original colour. Small hole in sea area.
Southern India and Sri Lanka, with a text in French describing the island. The map was published in the first atlas of the world on the same scale, some of the more remote areas of the world such as this are shown in unprecedented detail.
VAND0019

[Detailed map of playing fields of the Great Game]

John Tallis.
Independent Tartary.

London, the London Printing and Publishing Company, 1861. Steel-engraving, original outline colour. 260 x 330mm.
Showing parts of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan & Turkestan, markin Bukhara, Samarkand and Tashkent, with engraved vignette scenes of Tartar nomadic life. The 'Great Game' was the name for the Anglo-Russian rivalry in Central Asia, with Russia pushing south to threaten British India through Afghanistan. At the time this map was published the Crimean War and the India Mutiny had made the Game more intense. Less than a decade later Independent Tartary had gone: Tashkent was annexed by Russia in 1865, and Samarkand & Bukhara came under Russian control in 1868.
TALL0048

[Early view of Tibet.]

Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Chateau de Putala. tiré de Grueber.

Paris, c.1760. 205 x 160mm.
The famous Putala Palace in Lhasa. Johann Grüber was a Jesuit who entered Tibet in 1661.
BELL0112

[Early map of Tibet]

Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Carte de Grand Thibet... Kaart van Groot-Tibet, ontworpen op die der Lama-Wiskunstenaaren, gemaakt in 1717; en uit de Engelsche in dit Bestek gebragt...

Amsterdam, c.1750. 240 x 320mm.
Engraved by Schley for a Dutch edition of Prevost's 'Histoire Generale des Voyages'.
BELL0157

[Four detailed maps of Tibet]

Philippe Vandermaelen.
Partie du Thibet [Sheets 68 to 71.]

Brussels, 1827. Four sheets, each c.475 x 550mm. Original colour.
Four very detailed maps of Tibet, running east from Cashmir to the eastern borders of Tibet & China The maps were published in the first atlas of the world on the same scale, some of the more remote areas of the world such as this are shown in unprecedented detail.
VAND0008

[Tibet-China border]

Philippe Vandermaelen.
Partie de la Chine [Sheet 85.]

Brussels, 1827. 470 x 510mm. Original colour.
South east Tibet, and the eastern part of Yunnan Province in China. The map was published in the first atlas of the world on the same scale, some of the more remote areas of the world such as this are shown in unprecedented detail.
VAND0009

[Costume of Tibet]

Mercier.
Tibetano (Asia).

Italian?, c.1855. Wood engraving, printed area c.180 x 100mm. Original colour.
Costume of Tibet, modelled by a very Italian looking man!
MERC1001

[Tibet]

John Tallis.
Thibet, Mongolia, and Mandchuria.

London: London Printing and Publishing Company, 1861. Steel-engraving, original outline colour. 265 x 330mm.
Map of Tibet,Mongolia and Manchuria with engraved vignette scenes, including the Palace of the Dalai Lama in Lhasa.
TALL0034