Antique Maps of the Far East

[Miniature map of the Far East]

Abraham Ortelius.
Indiae orientalis insularumque adiacentium typus.

Antwerp, Plantin, 1593. 80 x 110mm. Coloured.
Minature map of the East Indies, engraved by Philip Galler for Ortelius's Epitome, this example for an Italian-text edition, translated by Giovanni Paulet KOEMAN: Ort 55.
ORTM0040

[Decorative Map of the East Indies]

Jodocus Hondius.
India Orientalis.

Amsterdam, 1613. 355 x 490mm. Fine original colour. Paper lightly toned.
An early example of this map of the Far East, first issued 1606, showing from India to China & the Philippines. With two fine strapwork cartouches in full original colour.
HOND0030

[Map of the East Indies]

Nicolas De Fer
Les Vrays Indes dits Grand Indes ou Indes Orientales.

Paris, 1705. 225 x 315mm. Coloured,
Map of India and Indochina.
DEFE0025

[Map of the East Indies]

Didier Robert de Vaugondy.
The East Indies distinguishing the Empires and Kingdoms on the Continent commonly call'd India: by the S.r Robert with improvements.

London, c.1760. 210 x 300mm. Coloured.
Map of India and Indo-China with a decorative rococo title cartouche.
ROBE0047

[Map of the East Indies on four sheets]

Rigobert Bonne.
Carte Hydro-Geo-Graphique des Indies Orientales en deça et au dela du Gange et leur Archipel...

Paris, Lattré, 1771. Four plates, each c. 320 x 435mm. Original colour.
A chart of the East Indies from India to the Philippines and Indonesia, but also showing the land in detail.
BONN0030

[East Indies]

Antonio Zatta.
Indie Orientale di Qua e di la Dal Gange col loro Arcipelago. Indie IIIº Foglio.

Venice, c.1785. 320 x 420mm. Original colour.
One sheet only of a four-sheet map of the East Indies, showing Formosa and the northern Philippines. With the title cartouche.
ZATT0018

[East Indies IV]

Antonio Zatta.
[Indie Orientale di Qua e di la Dal Gange col loro Arcipelago.] Indie IVº Foglio.

Venice, c.1785. 320 x 420mm. Original colour.
One sheet only of a four-sheet map of the East Indies, showing the southern Philippines, Singapore and Indonesia.
ZATT0019

[Map of the East Indies with Formosa]

Rigobert Bonne.
Les Isles Philippines, celle de Formose, le Sud de la Chine, Les Royaumes de Tunkin, de Cochinchine, de Camboge, de Siam, Des Laos; avec partie de ceux de Pegu et d'Ava.

Paris, 1788. 225 x 340mm. Coloured.
From Burma to the Philippines and Formosa, with an inset of Guam.
BONN0023

[Map of Tartary]

John Cary.
Chinese and Independent Tartary.

London, c.1830. 250 x 320mm. Original colour.
A colourful map of Central Asia from the Caspian Sea to Manchuria, including Mongolia, Tibet and Bokara.
CARY0023

[Map of the East Indies]

John Tallis.
Malay Archipelago or East India Islands.

London, John Tallis & Co, c.1851. Steel engraving, printed area 270 x 350mm. Original colour. Publication line trimmed at bottom, slight foxing.
From the Andaman Islands to New Guinea and north to the Philippines. Also marking Hong Kong. With four vignettes.
TALL0056

[Map of the the Russian Empire in Asia]

John Tallis.
Russia in Asia.

London, John Tallis & Co, c.1851. Steel engraving, printed area 260 x 330mm. Original colour.
Northern Asia, with Siberia and Kamchatka. With four vignettes.
TALL0057

[Three detailed maps of Burma]

Philippe Vandermaelen.
Partie de L'Empire Birman [Sheets 96, 104 & 109.]

Brussels, 1827. Three sheets, each approx. 470 x 530mm. Original colour.
Three large sheets, joining vertically, showing Burma from Mandalay south to Phuket in Thailand. The Andaman and Nicobar islands are shown to the west. A large French text describes Burma. 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.
VAND0012

[Town plan of Khum Peam Lvek in Cambodia]

Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Eauweck Capitale de Camboye.

Amsterdam, 1761. 190 x 280mm. Coloured.
From a Dutch edition of Bellin's atlas.
BELL0144

[Miniature map of China]

Petrus Bertius.
China Regio Asie.

Amsterdam, c.1606. 90 x 125mm. Coloured. Paper lightly toned.
Despite the title this map shows most of the Far East, including India, China, Korea, Japan and the Philippines, with north west America top right. This is an example of the first plate, engraved by Pieter van den Keere rather than Jodocus Hondius.
BERT0104

[Early map of China]

Johannes Jansson.
China Veteribus Sinarum Regio nunc Incolis Tame dicitur.

Amsterdam, 1647. 415 x 505mm. Coloured.
China, Japan and the northern Philippines, with Korea shown as an island. KOEMAN: Me 58.
JANS0012

[Chart of the environs of Xiamen, China]

G. Child.
A Chart of the Bay of Chin-Chew in China. from Montanus.

London: Thomas Salmon, 1747. 160 x 215mm. Coloured.
A map of the environs of Xiamen & Zhangzhou, published in the 'Universal Traveller'. Nieuhof describes the place: 'The place is small, but well-built, has a wealthy suburb, and drives a great trade. The revenue arising from the custom paid by vessels is very considerable'.
CHIL0001

[Chart of the environs of Xiamen, China]

Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Carte de la Baye de Chin-Chew ou Chang-Chou Avec les Isles d'Amowi et de Quemowi.

Paris, c.1750. 230 x 320mm. Coloured.
A map of the environs of Xiamen & Zhangzhou.
BELL0185

[Map of Chinese Tartary, with the Silk Road, Great Wall of China & Tibet.]

Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Carte de l'empire de Hya et Partie de Tangut...

The Hague, c.1760. 240 x 320mm. Coloured. Split in margin of a binding fold.
Engraved by Schley for a Dutch edition of Prevost, illustrating the story of Gengis Khan.
BELL0135

[View of the Chinese city Jo-Si-Wo]

Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Jo Si Wo entre Tyen-Tsing-Wey et Peking, tiré de Nieuhof.

Paris, c.1760. 210 x 290mm. Coloured.
A view of Jo Si Wo after Nieuhof, here engraved by Schley for a Dutch edition of the Bellin/Prévost 'Histoire des Voyages'. Nieuhof describes the place: 'The place is small, but well-built, has a wealthy suburb, and drives a great trade. The revenue arising from the custom paid by vessels is very considerable'.
BELL0186

[Map of China, Korea and Japan]

Rigobert Bonne.
Carte de L'Empire de la Chine, de la Tartary Chinoise, et du Royaume de Corée; avec les Isles du Japon.

Paris, c.1780. 340 x 230mm. Coloured.
China, Korea and Japan, with the northern Philippines.
BONN0041

[A Chinese bridge]

Middleton.
View of the Flying Bridge, over the River Whang-Ho in China.

London, c.1780. 190 x 300mm.
A high bridge above a river, believed to be in Shensi province.
MIDD0005

[A costume plate of a Chinese lady]

J. Hall
Habit of a Chinese Lady, from du Halde.

London, 1781. 270 x 190mm.
'Engraved for the Geographical Dictionary'.
HALL1002

[A Chinese street trader]

A. Freschi.
Toyman. Shuttlecock Playing.

London: J.J. Stokdale, 1812. Stipple engraving with original colour. 170 x 105mm.
A illustration of a Chinese street trader with children kicking a shuttlecock into the air. It was engraved by Freschi for an English edition of Jean-Baptiste Joseph Breton de la Martinier's 'China: Its Costume, Arts, Manufactures, &c.'.
FRES0001

[China, marking Hong Kong.]

Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.
China. The Interior chiefly from Du Halde and the Jesuits 1710 to 1716 and the Sea Coast from Modern Authorities.

London: Baldwin & Cradock, 1843. Steel engraving, printed area 400 x 340mm. Original outline colour.
One of the earliest maps to mark Hong Kong, leased to Britain only the year before.
SDUK0008

[Prospect of the European settlement at Canton]

Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Vuë de Quang-Cheu-Fu ou Canton.

Paris, 1748. 185 x 275mm. Split on upper centrefold repaired.
An early view of Canton (Guangzhou) from the sea. with the harbour full of European ships.
BELL0197

[View of the Porcelain Tower, Nanjing]

Millar.
A Prospect of the Porcelane Tower at Nan King in China.

London, c.1785. 210 x 305mm.
The famous Porcelain Tower of Nanjing, built from porcelain bricks during the Ming dynasty in the 15th century. Destroyed in 1856, during the Taiping Rebellion, there are currently plans to rebuild it. Engraved by Sparrow for 'Millar's New Complete & Universal System of Geography'.
MILL0006

[View of Nanking with a Pagoda]

Johan Nieuhof.
Vüe de Nanking tirée de Nieuhof.

Paris, 1748. 185 x 275mm.
Johan Nieuhoff (1618-72) was a Dutch traveler who made a trip of 2,400 km from Canton to Peking in 1655-1657. His account, published 1665, was the most authoritative description of China. This example was published for Prevost's 'Histoire Generale des Voyages'.
NIEU0001

[A Nanking street scene]

Johan Nieuhof.
A Street of Nan-king from Nieuhof.

London, c.1747. 160 x 210mm.
Johan Nieuhoff (1618-72) was a Dutch traveler who made a trip of 2,400 km from Canton to Peking in 1655-1657. His account, published 1665, was the most authoritative description of China.
NIEU0002

[View of Peking]

Smith.
Pekin in China.

London: Sherwood, Neely & Jones, 1810. Printed area 130 x 180mm. Paper toned.
A view of Beijing at the beginning of the 19th century.
SMIT1001

[Map of the Far East.]

Giovanni Antonio Magini.
India Orientalis.

Venice, 1617. 140 x 185mm. Coloured.
The East Indies, with unrecognisable Japan & Philippines, also featuring 'Quivira' in north west America and 'Beach' as part of the Terra Australis.
MAGI0012

[Miniature map of Burma, Thailand & Indochina]

Alain Manesson Mallet.
Presquisle de L'Inde a L'Orient du Golfe de Bengala.

Paris, c.1683. 150 x 110mm. Coloured.
Miniature map showing from the Bay of Bengal south to parts of Sumatra, the Malay Peninsula and Borneo, with Vietnam and Combodia, and east to Hainan in China,
MALL0132

[Miniature map of Burma, Thailand & Indochina]

Alain Manesson Mallet.
Partie Orientale de la Terre Ferme de L'Inde Moderne.

Paris, c.1683. 150 x 110mm. Coloured.
Miniature map showing from the Bay of Bengal, east to Hainan in China, with Vietnam and Combodia.
MALL0133

[Sea chart of the coasts of Vietnam and China to Canton]

Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Carte des Costes de Cochinchine Tunquin et Partie de celles de la Chine.

Paris, c.1750. 230 x 160mm. Coloured.
From Prévost's 'Histoire des Voyages'.
BELL0196

[Fine map of the East Indies]

Jodocus Hondius.
Insulæ Indiæ Orientalis Præcipuæ, In quibus Moluccæ celeberrime sunt.

Amsterdam, 1613, French text edition. 334 x 475mm. Original colour. Paper lightly toned.
An early example of this map of the East Indian islands, first issued 1606. It is highly decorative, with strapwork cartouches for the title, scale and description of the Moluccas, and a vignette sea-battle.
HOND0029

[Map of Eastern Indonesia]

Nicolas Sanson.
Les Isles Molucques; Celebes, Gilolo, &c.

Paris, c.1692. Sheet 220 x 320mm. Coloured.
Eastern Indonesia, with the Moluccas and Timor, and Papua shown separate from New Guinea. Engraved by A. de Winter for the quarto edition of Sanson's atlas.
SANS0038

[Map of East Indies with Philippines]

Nicolas De Fer
Les Isles Philippines et celles Des Larrons oude Marianes, Les Isles Moluques et de la Sonde, avec la Presqu'isle de L'Inde de la le Gange ou Orientale.

Paris, 1705. 235 x 340mm. Original colour.
The East Indies from Sumatra to the Ladrones. With a separate page of French text.
DEFE0003

[Chart of Indonesia and Malaysia]

Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Carte Des Isles de Java, Sumatra, Borneo &a. Les Détroits de la Sonde Malaca et Banca Golphe de Siam &a.

Paris, c.1760. 260 x 300mm. Coloured.
Showing the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, Borneo and Celebes.
BELL0129

[Map of Bali]

Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Ile de Baly ou Petite Java.

Paris, c.1760. 210 x 240mm. Coloured.
Map of Bali, orientated with north to the bottom, with a ten-point key and an inset of buildings.
BELL0187

[Early miniature map of Java]

Petrus Bertius.
Java Maior.

Amsterdam, Jodocus Hondius, 1616. 100 x 135mm.
Java, from Bertius' 'Tabularum Geographicarum Contractarum'.
BERT0034

[Early miniature map of Moluccas]

Petrus Bertius.
Moluccæ insulæ.

Amsterdam, Jodocus Hondius, 1616. 100 x 135mm.
The Moluccas, from Bertius' 'Tabularum Geographicarum Contractarum'.
BERT0033

[Map of Ambon in the Moluccas]

Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Carte Particuliere de L'Isle Amboine.

Paris, c.1760. 230 x 310mm. Coloured.
Ambon was the headquarters of the Dutch East Indies Company (VOC) from 1610 to 1619 until the founding of Batavia (now Jakarta) by the Dutch.
BELL0118

[Moluccan natives from Cook's Voyages.]

Alexander Hogg.
Natives of the Molucca Islands playing on Musical Instruments called the Rabana.

London: Hogg, c.1785. 190 x 295mm.
Engraved by Lerpiniere for Hogg's edition of 'Cook's Voyages'.
HOGG0013

[Early miniature map of New Guinea]

Petrus Bertius.
Nova Guinea et Ins. Salomonis.

Amsterdam, Jodocus Hondius, 1616. 100 x 135mm.
New Guinea, with vague coastline which is argued to be part of Australia. From Bertius' 'Tabularum Geographicarum Contractarum'.
BERT0035

[Map of Sulawesi or Celebes]

Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Carte de l'Isle Célèbes ou Macassar.

Paris, c.1760. 220 x 160mm. Coloured.
From 1669 the Dutch East India Company had a presence at Makassar, and in 1905 the entire island became part of the Dutch state colony of the Netherlands East Indies until Japanese occupation in World War II.
BELL0119

[Miniature Map of Sumatra.]

Petrus Bertius.
Sumatra insula.

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'.
BERT0094

[Map of Sumatra, with Singapore]

Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Carte de l'Isle de Sumatra Dréssée sur les Journaux des Navigateurs.

Paris, 1752. 255 x 290mm. Coloured.
Sumatra and the Straits of Malacca and the 'Detroit de Sincapour'.
BELL0101

[Decorative map of Japan]

Henricus Hondius.
Iaponiæ Nova Descriptio.

Amsterdam, Jan Jansson, 1641. French text edition. 345 x 440mm. Original colour.
Japan, with Korea shown as an island. This is the second state of the plate, introduced 1636; the title and cartouche have been altered, and a galleon has replaced the original junk in the sea under the island, although the Latin description underneath still refers to the Japanese craft.
HOND0039

[Miniature Map of Japan]

Alain Manesson Mallet.
Isles du Japon.

Paris, 1683. 155 x 110mm. Coloured.
Japan map, with a decorative title cartouche.
MALL0030

[Map of Japan]

Nicolas Sanson.
Les Isles du Japon.

Paris, c.1692. Sheet 220 x 320mm. Coloured.
Japan, engraved by A. de Winter for the quarto edition of Sanson's atlas. Korea is shown as an island.
SANS0037

[The First Western map of Japan With Sino-Japanese Characters]

Adrien Reland.
Imperium Japonicum per Regiones Digestum Sex et Sexaginta atque ex Ipsorum Japonensium Mappis.

Amsterdam, Joachim Ottens, 1740. 495 x 605mm. Coloured.
An important map, the first Western map of Japan with Sino-Japanese characters. It is also extremely decorative with the lower third of the sheet taken up with an extensive title cartouche featuring Chinese figures and an inset chart of Nagasaki harbour.
RELA0001

[Japan & Korea]

John Tallis.
Japan & Korea.

London, John Tallis & Co, c.1851. Steel engraving, printed area 270 x 350mm. Original colour.
Map of Japan & Korea with a vignette of Tokyo (Yedo).
TALL0018

[Miniature map of Jesso]

Alain Manesson Mallet.
Terre de Jesso.

Paris, 1683. 150 x 100mm. Coloured.
The semi-mythical island of Jesso (or Eso) to the north of Japan, now mapped properly as Hokkaido. Variants of the myth include one where Jesso filled the North Pacific.
MALL0108

[Map of Meaco, Japan]

Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Plan de la Ville de Meaco.

Paris, 1755. 200 x 290mm. Coloured.
Townplan engraved by Dheulland.
BELL0047

[Plan of Nagasaki]

Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Plan de la Port et de la Ville de Nangasaki. Grond Tékening van de Stad en de Haven van Nangasaki.

Amsterdam, c. 1765. 210 x 340mm. Coloured.
A Dutch edition of Bellin's townplan of Nagasaki, engraved by Schley . Of interest is 'Desima', the Dutch Porcelain factory in the centre of the harbour.
BELL0100

[Pair of detailed maps of northern Honshu]

Philippe Vandermaelen.
Partie du Japon. No 61. [62.]

Brussels, 1827. Two sheets, each c.490 x 570mm. Original colour.
Honshu from just north of Tokyo to the Straits of Tsugaru, with two large texts in French describing the country. Marked on the right sheet is the route of Captain William Robert Broughton (1762-1821), who was sent to the North Pacific to join Vancouver and mapped the coasts of Japan and Korea in 1795. His was the first official encounter between a British ship and the Korean government. Published in the first atlas of the world on the same scale, so some of the more remote areas of the world such as this are shown in unprecedented detail.
VAND0027

[Early map of Tokyo]

Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Plan de Jedo.

Amsterdam, c.1760. 265 x 260mm. Coloured. Trimmed into plate at top.
Early townplan, marking the layout of the streets, but only naming the Emperor's palace, a bridge and a suburb.
BELL0166

[Detailed map of the Environs of Tokyo]

Philippe Vandermaelen.
Partie du Japon. No 76.

Brussels, 1827. 475 x 490mm. Original colour.
The environs of Tokyo, here called Jedo. A large French text describes the country. The map was published in the first atlas of the world on the same scale, so some of the more remote areas of the world such as this are shown in unprecedented detail.
VAND0026

[Map of Java]

Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Idée de L'Isle de Java.

Paris, c.1760. 220 x 450mm. Coloured.
Map of the island of Java, marking the various kingdoms and 'Jacatra aw Batavia' for Jakarta.
BELL0036

[Detailed chart of the Kuriles]

Philippe Vandermaelen.
Partie de la Russie D'Asie; Iles Kuriles [Sheets 36 & 50]

Brussels, 1827. Two sheets, each c.470 x 530mm. Original colour.
The Kuriles, stretching from Kamchatka to Japan. Formerly Japanese islands, they are now held by Russia. 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.
VAND0021

[Early miniature map of Malaysia]

Petrus Bertius.
Malacca.

Amsterdam, 1602. 85 x 125mm. Coloured.
The Malay Peninsula with Indo-China, orientated with north to the right. Singapore is marked as 'Sincapura', an early cartographic reference.
BERT0093

[Miniature map of the Mariana Islands]

Alain Manesson Mallet.
Isles des Larrons.

Paris, c.1683. 145 x 115mm. Coloured.

MALL0067

[Moluccas and the Spice Islands]

Johannes Jansson.
Insularum Moluccarum Nova descriptio.

Amsterdam, 1641. 385 x 505mm. Original colour. Paper lightly toned.
The Moluccas, marking the forts built by the Dutch to protect their traders.
JANS0033

[Detailed chart of the Moluccas]

Willem Blaeu.
Moluccæ Insulæ Celeberrimæ.

Amsterdam, 1644. 380 x 490mm. Coloured. Repair in margin.
The Moluccas, orientated with north to the right, surrounded by vignettes of ships and monsters.
BLAE0056

[Map of Mongolia]

Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Carte de la Tartaries Occidentale...

Amsterdam, c.1749. 230 x 320mm. Coloured.
Mongolia, marking Peking and the southern tip of Lake Baykal.
BELL0093

[New Guinea]

Isaak Tirion.
Kaart van de Papoasche Eilanden.

Amsterdam, c.1753. 330 x 370mm. Original body colour.
The western end of New Guinea map, with the islands of the Ceram Sea, including Misool & Boo.
TIRI0009

[Map of New Guinea, with Cook & Dampier's voyages]

Benard.
Carte des Découvertes du Cap.ne Carteret dans la N.le Bretagne avec une partie du passage du Cap.ne Cook à travers les Dètroits Endeavour et de la Route et des Découvertes du Cap.ne Dampierre dans le N.Le Guinée et la N.le Bretagne en 1699 et 1700..

Paris, c.1775. 240 x 630mm. Binding folds flattened.
The routes of British explorers around New Guinea, 1699-1770, published in a French account of Cook's Voyages.
BENA0006

[Pair of maps of the Philippines.]

Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Carte des Isles Philippines, Dressée sur la Carte Espagnole du R.P. Murillo de Verlardo. I.re Feuille [&] 2.e Fueille.

Paris, 1751 & 1752. Two maps, 220 x 165mm & 220 x 320mm. Coloured.
Pair of maps of the Philippines, after a Spanish map.
BELL0134

[Sumatra & Malay with a mahout]

Sebastian Munster
Sumatra grosse Insel so von den alcen Geographen Taprobana genennet worden.

Basle, c.1628, German text edition. Woodcut, printed area 315 x 365mm.
Map of Sumatra, with the tip of the Malay Peninsula, with 'Cingatola' marked. Here Sumatra is linked with the mythical island of Taprobana, also associated with Sri Lanka. A German text describes the island, with a picture of an elephant with a very European-looking mahout.
MUNS0013

[Dress of the Tartars]

Alain Manesson Mallet.
Tartarres.

Paris, 1683. 145 x 110mm. Coloured.
Behind the couple are the nomads' tents.
MALL0074

[Miniature Map of Siberia and Tartary]

Alain Manesson Mallet.
Grande Tartary.

Frankfurt, c.1686. 170 x 120mm. Coloured.
A German edition of Mallet's map of Siberia, showing Korea and part of Japan.
MALL0104

[Map of Tartary]

Nicolas Sanson.
La Grande Tartarie.

Paris, c.1692. Sheet 220 x 320mm. Coloured.
A map of Siberia and Tartary, engraved by A. de Winter for the quarto edition of Sanson's atlas. Korea is shown as an island.
SANS0036

[Map of Tartary]

Philip Cluver,
Scythia et Tartaria Asiatica.

c.1711. 205 x 250mm. Coloured.
Siberia and Tartary, with a title cartouche featuring a lion.
CLUV0002

[Russia with a separately-printed frame border.]

Pieter van der Aa.
La Grande Tartaries Suivant les Nouvelles Observations...

Leiden, c.1710. 265 x 395mm. Trimmed into border at bottom.
Northern Asia from Moscow to Korea. Novaya Zembla is a peninsula, but attached to the mainland further east than usual. The decorative border has been printed from a separate plate for a special edition of the atlas.
AAAA0013

[Map of Tartary]

Herman Moll.
Great or Asiatick Tartary, Agreable to Modern History.

London, 1727. 205 x 270mm. Original colour.
Map of Tartary to Peking. The eastern coastline of Asia is almost flat, with no attempt to mark Kamchatka.
MOLL0015

[Map of Eastern Tartary]

Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Carte de la Tartaries Orientale...

Amsterdam, c.1749. 230 x 320mm. Coloured.
Eastern Tartary, showing the course of the River Amur and Sakhalin Island.
BELL0149

[Map of the Kurile Islands]

Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Carte des Isles Kouriles d'après la Carte Russe. Dresée et Gravée par Laurent.

Amsterdam, c.1749. 265 x 285mm. Coloured.
The Kuriles, to the north of Japan, an archipelago once owned by Japan but since WWII controlled by Russia.
BELL0150

[Map of Siberia and Tartary]

Isaak Tirion.
Nieuwe Kaart van Tartarie...

Amsterdam, c.1750. 290 x 355mm. Binding folds flattened, bottom right margin rebuilt because of binding trim.
Northern Asia from the Caspian Sea to Kamchatka, which reaches down to almost touch Japan. To the east is the partial outline of 'Compagnie Land', the mythical island in the North Pacific.
TIRI0019

[Map of Kamchatka]

Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Carte du Kamtchatka.

Paris, c.1764. 525 x 310mm. Coloured. Binding folds flattened.
An early detailed map of the Kamchatka peninsula, based on the work of Stepan Petrovich Krasheninnikov, who travelled in the area 1737-41.
BELL0140

[Comparisons of the cartography of Kamchatka]

Diderot.
Nouvelle Represéntation des Côtes Nord et Est de L'Asie...

Paris, 1772. 315 x 380mm. Coloured.
An illustration from Diderot's Encyclopedia, showing various cartographers' depictions of the Kamchatka Peninsula and the North Pacific.
DIDE0004

[Unusual map of Tartary]

Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Continuazione della Carta della Siberia e Kamtschatka.

Venice, Formaleoni, 1784. 250 x 270mm.
Published in a scarce Italian version of Bellin's edition of Du Halde's 'Description of the Empire of China and Chinese-Tartary'.
BELL0143

[La Perouse's crew exploring the Pacific]

Jean François Galoup La Pérouse.
Costumes des habitans de la Baie de Langle.

Paris, 1797. 390 x 560mm
In 1785 Jean-Francois de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse (1741-88) was sent by the French to continue Cook's exploration work in the Pacific, in the ships 'Astrolabe' & 'Boussole'. This view shows his officers among the inhabitants of 'Langle Bay', which was named after La Perouse's second-in-command, Paul Antoine Fleuriot de Langle, who was killed on Samoa, December 1787. The site is probably Tomari Bay, Sakhalin.
LAPE0008

[Tartary]

George Philip
Independent and Chinese Tartary, Hindostan, China &c.

Liverpool, 1856. Steel engraving, 520 x 615mm. Original colour.
Large and detailed map in fine colour, showing from the Caspian Sea and Afghanistan to Japan, marking Hong Kong. This was published at a time of western expansion: the 'Great Game' was being played in central Asia; Hong Kong island is marked; and the India Mutiny against British Rule erupted the next year.
PHIL0009

[Thai costume]

Anonymous.
Habits of the Siamese.

London, c.1760. 185 x 200mm. Coloured.

ANON0020

[Townplan of Lopburi.]

Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Plan de la Ville de Louvo Demeure ordinaire des Rois de Siam.

Paris, c.1755. 205 x 280mm. Coloured.
Townplan of Lopburi in Thailand.
BELL0040

[Townplan of Lopburi.]

Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Plan de la Ville de Louvo Demeure ordinaire des Rois de Siam.

Paris, c.1764. 205 x 280mm. Coloured.
The rare 1764 edition townplan of Lopburi in Thailand.
BELL0111

[Map of the environs of Hanoi, Vietnam]

Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Carte du Cours de la Riviere de Tunquin Depuis Cache juqu'à la Mer.

Amsterdam, Schley, c.1760. 215 x 160mm. Coloured.
With Hanoi marked.
BELL0027