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Antique Maps of Asia
[Miniature Map of Asia] Petrus Bertius.
Asia.
Amsterdam, c.1600. 90 x 125mm. Coloured.
Engraved by van den Keere for the Bertius atlas 'Tabularum Geographicarum Contractarum'. BERT0095		 £320
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[Map of Asia with strapwork cartouches] Jodocus Hondius.
Asiæ Nova Descriptio...
Amsterdam, 1609. First French Edition. 380 x 505mm. Fine original colour. Small repair in centrefold margin outside image, otherwise very good.
An early example, first published 1606, in particularly fine colour. With three strapwork cartouches . KOEMAN: Me 19. HOND0011		 £1,400
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[Miniature map of Asia] Robert Morden.
Asia a New Description.
London, c.1688. 115 x 130mm.
Map of Asia from Morden's uncommon world atlas 'Geography Rectified...'. MORD0003		 £125
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[Map of Asia] Nicolas De Fer.
L'Asie...
Paris, 1700. 235 x 325mm. Coloured.
Decorative map of Africa by the Geographer to the French Dauphin. With a sheet of engraved text describing Africa. DEFE0026		 £225
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[Asia map] Carol Allard.
Exactissima Asiæ Delineatio...
Amsterdam, c.1705. 510 x 580mm. Strong, dark impression. Narrow margins due to the size of the map.
Decorative map of Asia, with a title cartouche containing an allegorical figure representing the continent. ALLA0003		 £1,400
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[Miniature map of Asia.] Guillaume Sanson.
L'Asie.
Paris, 1738. 150 x 170mm. Coloured.
SANS0020		 £98
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[Map of Asia] Homann Heirs.
Asia...
Nuremberg, c.1744. 460 x 500mm. Original colour with later additions.
Asia by Johann Matthias Haas. HOMA1002		 £495
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[Asia] Gilles Robert de Vaugondy.
Carte de l'Asie...
Paris, c.1750. 500 x 545mm. Original outline colour with later additions.
Map of Asia with a decorative title cartouche. ROBE0002		 £275
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[Map of Asia with Cook's discoveries] Thomas Bowen.
A New and Accurate Map of Asia, Drawn from the most approved Modern Maps & Charts.
London, c.1795. 330 x 420mm. Coloured.
Updated to show Cook's discoveries in Australasia and the northern Pacific. BOWE0014		 £295
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[Asia with ornate vignette borders.] Victor Levasseur.
Asie.
Paris, c.1850. Steel engraving, printed area 320 x 450mm. Original outline colour.
Map of Asia, with ornate vignette borders. LEVA0002		 £85
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Antique Maps of the Far East
[Far East] Girolamo Ruscelli.
India Tercera Nuova Tavola.
Venice, Valgrisi, 1562. 200 x 260mm.
Map of the 'modern' East Indies, with the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra almost unrecognisable. The first state, with the platemark extending off the top of the sheet. RUSC0009		 £525
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[Malaysia, East Indies, Sumatra] Tomaso Porcacchi.
Isole Molucche.
Venice, c.1600. 110 x 150mm, set in a page of text. Small rust spot in sea area.
Map of the 'modern' East Indies, with the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra almost unrecognisable. PORC0005		 £225
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[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		 £2,400
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[Miniature Map of the East Indies] Petrus Bertius.
India Ortientalis.
Amsterdam, Jodocus Hondius, 1616, First edition. 100 x 135mm. Coloured.
Showing from India to the Philippines. 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'. BERT0059		 £225
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[Fine map of the East Indies] Matthaus Merian.
Tabula Indiæ Orientalis.
Frankfurt, c.1640. 310 x 410mm. Coloured.
The East Indies, with a decorative title cartouche. Shown in the bottom right are partial outlines of Australia. MERI0003		 £680
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[Map of the East Indies] Henricus Hondius.
Indiæ quæ Orientalis dicitur, et Insulæ adiacentes.
Amsterdam, Jan Jansson 1647. 395 x 485mm. Original colour. Two very small holes near centrefold.
Decorative map of South East Asia, showing India and Japan in the north, and New Guinea and partial sections of the coast of Australia in the south, with cartouches for the title, dedication and scale. HOND0031		 £1,400
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[Map of the East Indies in fine colour.] Nicholas Visscher.
Indiæ Orientalis, nec non Insularum Adiacentium.
Amsterdam, c.1698. 475 x 570mm. Original colouring.
The Far East with a fine title cartouche, also marking the northern coastline of Australia. VISS0003		 £1,500
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[Map of the East Indian Islands] Heinrich Scherer.
Oblectis Nuperrime Inventis.
Munich, c.1700. 230 x 350mm.
General map of the eastern islands of the Far East, specifically highlighting the Marianes, with an inset of Guam. SCHE3008		 £250
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[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		 £390
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[Map of the East Indies] Rigobert Bonne.
Les Indes Orientales et Leur Archipel.
Paris, c.1770. 340 x 370mm. Coloured.
From India to the Moluccas. BONN0024		 £295
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[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		 £495
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[East Indies] Didier Robert de Vaugondy.
Les Indies Orientales...
Venice, P.Santini, 1779. 495 x 575mm. Coloured. Some faint creasing.
Map of India and Indo-China with a decorative rococo title cartouche. ROBE0009		 £275
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[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		 £240
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[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		 £340
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[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		 £140
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[Malay Peninsula] Antonio Zatta.
Regni d'Aracan del Pegu di Siam di Camboge e di Laos.
Venice, 1795. 415 x 340mm. Original colour.
Map of the Malay Peninsula, with Burma, Thailand and Indo-China. ZATT0033		 £425
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[East Indies] Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.
Eastern Islands or Malay Archipelago.
London: Baldwin & Cradock, 1836. Steel engraving, printed area 325 x 405mm. Original outline colour. Trimmed to printed border on left, as issued.
Map from Burma and Sumatra east to the Philippines and Moluccas. SDUK0015		 £75
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[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		 £85
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[Very early miniature map of Borneo] Petrus Bertius.
Borneo.
Amsterdam, 1600. 90 x 125mm. Coloured.
An early issue of this miniature map of Borneo, orientated with north to the right. BERT0091		 £225
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[Very early miniature map of Borneo] Petrus Bertius.
Borneo Insula.
Amsterdam, c.1618. 100 x 135mm. Coloured.
A miniature map of Borneo, orientated with north to the right. BERT0005		 £225
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[Decorative map of Borneo] Johannes Jansson.
Insula Borneo et occidentalis pars Celebis cum adjentibus Insulis.
Amsterdam, Schenk & Valk, c.1700. 520 x 520mm. Coloured. Top of centrefold margin reinforced, pair of tiny pinholes on centrefold.
Unusual map of Borneo, first published by Jansson in 1657, orientated with north to the right. As it appears only in later editions of his "Atlantis Majoris" (his volume of sea charts), examples of the original state are hard to find. Blaeu did not publish a similar map. JANS0083		 £980
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[An uncommon view of Burma] James Wathen.
D.r Mackinnon's Residence, near the Bermah Village.
London: J.Nichols, 1814. Aquatint with original hand colour. Printed area 125 x 165mm.
From Wathen's "Journal of a voyage in 1811 and 1812, to Madras and China, returning by the Cape of Good Hope and St. Helena". James Wathen paid a visit to Dr and Mrs Mackinon's bungalow in 1811. WATH0001		 £48
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[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		 £400
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[Miniature map of China] Abraham Ortelius.
China Regio Asie.
Antwerp, 1602, Italian text edition. 80 x 110mm.
Map of China, orientated with north to the right, also showing the Philippines and Japan, but no trace of Korea. ORTM0006		 £225
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[Early map of China] Johannes Jansson.
China Veteribus Sinarum Regio nunc Incolis Tame dicitur.
Amsterdam, 1647' 415 x 505mmmm. Coloured.
China, Japan and the northern Philippines, with Korea shown as an island. KOEMAN: Me 58. JANS0012		 £1,500
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[View of the Imperial Observatory at Peking.] Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Observatoire de Peking. tiré du Pere le Comte.
Paris, c.1750. 190 x 265mm.
Showing globes, astrolabes and armillary spheres. The Peking Observatory was equipped by Ferdinand Verbiest, a Flemish Jesuit missionary in Peking in the late 1660s. Rather than building the latest models he worked from Tycho Brahe's 'Mechanica', published eighty years before. BELL0113		 £125
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[China] George Louis Le Rouge.
La Chine.
Paris, c.1756. 290 x 220mm. Coloured.
Map of China LERO0002		 £125
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[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		 £75
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[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		 £350
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[Miniature Map of the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java and Borneo] Alain Manesson Mallet.
Isles de la Sonde vers L'Occident.
Paris, 1683. 155 x 110mm. Coloured.
The Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java and Borneo map with a decorative title cartouche. MALL0027		 £140
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[Miniature map of Indonesia.] Nicolas Sanson.
Les Isles de la Sonde, entre lesquelles sont Sumatra, Iava, Borneo, &c.
Paris, c.1683. 195 x 225mm. Coloured.
Engraved by de Winter. SANS0021		 £250
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[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		 £360
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[Map of Indonesia] George Louis Le Rouge.
Isles Moluques.
Paris, c.1748. 215 x 280mm. Coloured.
Map of the Spice Islands, with eastern Borneo, Celebes, the Moluccas and the partial outline of New Guinea. At the bottom of the map are the northern reaches of Australia. LERO0005		 £75
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[Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java & Borneo] Didier Robert de Vaugondy.
Les Isles de la Sonde.
Paris, 1749. 175 x 210mm. Original outline colour.
Map of part of Indonesia, with the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java & Borneo. ROBE0017		 £125
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[Indonesia Malay Peninsula and the Philippines] Didier Robert de Vaugondy.
Archipel des Indes Orientales, qui comprend Les Isles de la Sonde, Moluques et Philippines.
Paris, 1750. 500 x 630mm. Coloured.
Map of Indonesia, with the Malay Peninsula and the Philippines. ROBE0016		 £375
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[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		 £160
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[Chart of Indonesia and Malaysia] Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Karte von den Eylanden von Iava, Sumatra, Borneo u.a. Von den Strassen von Sunda Malakka und Banca, Von dem Golfo von Siam, u. s.w.
German, c.1760. 250 x 295mm. Coloured.
Showing the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, Borneo and Celebes. BELL0130		 £225
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[Indonesia & Philippines] Isaak Tirion.
Nieuwe Kaart van de Filippynsche, Landrones, Moluccos of Specery Eilanden als mede Celebes etc.
Amsterdam, 1764. 300 x 345mm. Original colour. Very faint grease stain near centrefold.
Map of the Philippines and Indonesia in fine original colour. TIRI0006		 £225
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[Trogon bird of Indonesia] Audebert.
Calao de L'Ile de Waigou.
Paris, c.1791. 440 x 300mm.
A trogon, published in the account of Bruny D'Entrecasteaux's search for La Pèrouse. AUDE0002		 £150
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[Decorative Map of Borneo and Java.] Archibald Fullarton.
Principal Dutch Colonies in the Indian Seas.
London, 1863. Tinted lithograph, printed area 470 x 320mm. Original colour. Publication line slightly trimmed at bottom, some spotting.
Two maps on one sheet: Java & Borneo, surrounded by decorative vignettes including a view of Sarawak. FULL0002		 £195
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[Early miniature map of Java] Petrus Bertius.
Java Maior.
Amsterdam, Jodocus Hondius, 1616. 100 x 135mm.
Java, from Bertius' 'Tabularum Geographicarum Contractarum'. BERT0034		 £225
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[Early miniature map of Moluccas] Petrus Bertius.
Moluccæ insulæ.
Amsterdam, Jodocus Hondius, 1616. 100 x 135mm.
The Moluccas, from Bertius' 'Tabularum Geographicarum Contractarum'. BERT0033		 £175
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[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		 £125
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[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		 £350
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[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		 £68
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[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		 £320
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[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		 £225
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[Early miniature map of Japan] Petrus Bertius.
Japan.
Amsterdam, Jodocus Hondius, 1616. 100 x 135mm.
From Bertius' 'Tabularum Geographicarum Contractarum'. BERT0031		 £350
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[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		 £1,500
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[Miniature Map of Miniature map of Japan] Alain Manesson Mallet.
Isles du Japon.
Paris, 1683. 155 x 110mm. Coloured.
Japan map, with a decorative title cartouche. MALL0030		 £175
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[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		 £1,800
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[Japan] John Pinkerton.
Japan.
London, Cadell & Davies, 1809. 520 x 680mm. Original colour.
Large and detailed map of Japan & Korea.. PINK0007		 £350
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Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.
Empire of Japan.
London, Baldwin & Cradock, 1835. 400 x 330mm. Original colour.
Japan, with two inset maps. Hokkaido is still named 'Yeso'. SDUK0020		 £95
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[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		 £200
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[Map of Meaco, Japan] Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Plan de la Ville de Meaco.
Paris, 1755. 200 x 290mm. Coloured.
Townplan engraved by Dheulland. BELL0047		 £150
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[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		 £195
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[Map of Jedo & Caspian] Johann Baptist Homann.
Geographica Nova... Mare Caspium, altera Kamtzadaliam seu Terram Jedso.
Nuremberg, c.1720. 490 x 580. Original colour.
Two maps on one sheet both reproduced from Russian intelligence: one the left is a version of the first accurate map of the Caspian Sea; on the right a map depicting the semi-mythical island of 'Jedso' as part of the Kamchatka peninsula, with a huge unnamed island to the east. The two maps are divided by a decorative strip with allegorical figures. HOMA0019		 £250
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[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		 £300
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[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		 £195
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[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		 £140
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[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		 £325
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[An uncommon view of Palau Penang] James Wathen.
M.r Amee's House and Mill, at Pulo Penang.
London: J.Nichols, 1814. Aquatint with original hand colour. Printed area 125 x 165mm.
From Wathen's "Journal of a voyage in 1811 and 1812, to Madras and China, returning by the Cape of Good Hope and St. Helena". WATH0002		 £48
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[Early view of Malaysia] James Wathen.
George Town, near Pulo Penang.
London: Black, Parry & Co., 1814. Aquatint in original colour. 170 x 240mm. Some faint toning.
James Wathen, 1751-1828, visited Penang, Canton, Macao, Madras and the Cape of Good Hope with Captain James Pendergrass. WATH0003		 £150
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[Map of Melaca] Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Plan de la Ville de Malaca.
Paris, 1764. 235 x 185mm. Original colour.
Plan of Melaka, just north of Singapore. BELL0089		 £160
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[Miniature map of the Mariana Islands] Alain Manesson Mallet.
Isles des Larrons.
Paris, c.1683. 145 x 115mm. Coloured.
MALL0067		 £98
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[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		 £275
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[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		 £125
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[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		 £225
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[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		 £160
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[Anson Philippines map] Admiral George Anson.
Carte du Canal des Iles Philippines Par lequel passe le Galion de Manille, et les Isles voisins de ce canal.
Amsterdam, c.1750. 540 x 430mm. Coloured. Narrow margin at foot, extra margin added, otherwise good.
A large map of the Philippines from a Dutch edition of Anson's account of his circumnavigation, one of the last great buccaneering voyages. He captured a Spanish galleon laden with so much silver that they needed thirty-two wagons to transfer it to the Tower of London. ANSO0001		 £560
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[Fishing in Manilla] Jean François Galoup de La Pérouse.
Vue de Cavite dans la Baie de Manille.
Paris, 1797. 280 x 410mm. Some toning in the margins, fine dark example
Fishermen in the Bay of Manilla, from the account of a French circumnavigator. LAPE0002		 £375
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[Costumes of Manilla] Jean François Galoup de La Pérouse.
Costumes des Habitans de Manille.
Paris, 1797. 280 x 410mm. Some toning in the margins fine dark example.
Manillan costume, from the account of a French circumnavigator. LAPE0003		 £375
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[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		 £495
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[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		 £150
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[Map of Tartary with 'Ezo'] Homann Heirs.
Tartariæ Sinensis Mappa Geographica...
Nuremberg, 1749. Two sheets joined, total 510 x 800mm. Original colour with later additions.
Eastern Asia, with Mongolia, Korea, Chinese and Russian Tartary, and Japan with the mythical island of 'Ezo'. HOMA1022		 £375
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[Townplan of Ayutthaya.] Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Plan de la Ville de Louvo Demeure ordinaire des Rois de Siam.
Paris, c.1755. 205 x 280mm. Coloured.
Townplan of Ayutthaya. BELL0040		 £125
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[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		 £125
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