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.Taprobana Ins. Tabula XII Asiae. [Sri Lanka.]

Ptolemy's mythical island of Taprobana originally became associated with Sri Lanka although it was sometimes confused with Sumatra. Taprobana, as it was called on most ea...

$2200 / ≈ €2018
Maker / Publisher: PTOLEMY, C.
Place & Date: Lyons, M. Servetus, 1535

 


[Taprobana - Sri Lanka]

Wood block printed map and one of earliest printed representation of Ceylon prepared Martin Waldseemüller.Based on the slightly larger map from 1513 published in "P...

$2200 / ≈ €2018
Maker / Publisher: PTOLEMY, C . / WALDSEEMÜLLER, M. / FRIES, L.
Place & Date: Vienna, Trechsel, G., 1525 -1541

 


.[India]

Wood block printed map and one of earliest printed representation of India prepared by Martin Waldseemüller. Based on the slightly larger map from 1513 published in &quo...

$2000 / ≈ €1834
Maker / Publisher: PTOLEMY, C . / WALDSEEMÜLLER, M. / FRIES, L.
Place & Date: Vienna, Trechsel, G., 1525 -1541

 


.[Bangladesh, Burma, India, Thailand]

Wood block printed map and one of earliest printed representation of Bangladesh, Burma, India, Thailand prepared Martin Waldseemüller. Based on the slightly larger map f...

$2000 / ≈ €1834
Maker / Publisher: PTOLEMY, C . / WALDSEEMÜLLER, M. / FRIES, L.
Place & Date: Vienna, Trechsel, G., 1525 -1541

 


Tabula XII - Asiae [Taprobana Ins - Ceylon/Sri Lanka]

Map of Taprobana (Sri Lanka) which depicts the typical misconceptions of Ptolemy showing the island greatly enlarged, surrounded by imaginary islands, and with a small pa...

$1000 / ≈ €917
Maker / Publisher: PTOLEMY,C. / FRIES, L.
Place & Date: Vienne, 1541

 


Tabula Asiae XII (Sri Lanka, with Elephant)

The FIRST edition of Munster's first modern map of Sri Lanka, which appeared in his "Geographia Universalis", first published in 1540. The Geographia was a new ...

$300 / ≈ €275
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545

 


Calechut / Ormus / Canonor.

Four panoramic town-view 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 o...

$750 / ≈ €688
Maker / Publisher: BRAUN, G. / HOGENBERG, F.
Place & Date: Cologne, 1575

 


Calechut Celeberri mum Indiae Emporium/ Ormus/ Canonor, St.Georgii.

Four panoramic town-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 ...

$750 / ≈ €688
Maker / Publisher: BRAUN, G. / HOGENBERG, F.
Place & Date: Cologne, 1580

 


Some of the animals that are found in India.

Although most elephants are found in Ethiopia, there are also many in India too. They are called 'Caffres' by the inhabitants and are slaughtered for their tusks, which t...

$100 / ≈ €92
Maker / Publisher: DE BRY, Th.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1598

 


The bird called 'Eeme' and other creatures of India.

Especially on the island of Java and in India, is found a strange bird, called an 'Eeme'. It is almost as large as an ostrich with strong and sturdy legs but it has no to...

$90 / ≈ €83
Maker / Publisher: DE BRY, Th.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1598

 


Maldivae Insulae.

Very fine early miniature map of Maldives Islands. East is at the top. Title cartouche on the lower right corner. A dolphin and two ships are depicted.First published in ...

$150 / ≈ €138
Maker / Publisher: LANGENES, B.
Place & Date: Amsterdam / Frankfurt, 1609

 


India Orientalis.

Published in Hondius' editions of the Mercator Atlas from 1606 onwards, showing the Indian subcontinent, the Malay Peninsula, Siam and Cambodia, China and the Philippines...

$2200 / ≈ €2018
Maker / Publisher: MERCATOR, G. / HONDIUS, J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630

 


Le Grand Mongol. . .

Rare full portrait of the Mongol emperor of Indostan, published by map seller, François Jollain, the Elder (1641-1704), active in Paris, rue St. Jacques à la ville de C...

$300 / ≈ €275
Maker / Publisher: JOLLAIN, F.
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1686

 


De golf van Bengalen.

Rare chart of the Indian Ocean, with nice detail on Ceylon (Sri Lanka) with compass roses and a system of rhumb lines, soundings and anchorage's. Many place names. The pl...

$2300 / ≈ €2110
Maker / Publisher: DONCKER, H.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, after 1669-1712

 


Carte du Golfe de Bengale, Mer de Indes, et Riviere du Gange, Avec les Pais et Iles d'alentour, Savoir les Cotes de Malabar, Cormandel, Ile de Ceylon, Les Maldives . . .

Detailed map of the Southern part of India with Ceylon. Good detail along the coasts of Malabar, Coromandel, the Maldives islands and the Kingdoms of Visipour, Golconda, ...

$275 / ≈ €252
Maker / Publisher: VANDER AA, P.
Place & Date: Leiden, 1719

 


Carte du Golfe de Bengale, mer des Indes et rivieres du Gange . . .

Detailed scare map of the Southern part of India with Ceylon. Good detail along the coasts of Malabar, Coromandel, the Maldives islands and the Kingdoms of Visipour, Golc...

$500 / ≈ €459
Maker / Publisher: Van der AA, P.
Place & Date: Leide, 1719

 


Nieuwe kaart van 't Koninckryk Bengale. . .

Rare map Bangladesh with the Ganges delta, including Calcutta. Giving great detail with trade routes, European trade settlements, etc. Prepared by Joh. Van Leenen who was...

$900 / ≈ €826
Maker / Publisher: VALENTIJN, F.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1726

 


Carte nouvelle des Terres de Cucan..

Prepared by H.Reland (1676-1718) a professor active in Utrecht and specialized in Asian languages, geography and religions. His first map was a map of Japan copied after ...

$600 / ≈ €550
Maker / Publisher: CHATELAIN, H.
Place & Date: The Hague, 1728

 


Vorstellung der Evangelisch-Ostindischen Kirche Augsburger Protestanten.

It is a very decorative and rare print to commemorate the 200-year Confession of the Augsburg Protestant Confession. Engraved by J. Kleinschmidt after a design of E. Ridi...

$2000 / ≈ €1834
Maker / Publisher: RIDINGER, J.
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1732

 


Isola Ceilon.

Attractive copper engraved map of Sri Lanka showing mountains, Towns and the Rama's Bridge (Ponte di Adamo). Included in "Atlante Novissimo che Contiene Tutte le Par...

$600 / ≈ €550
Maker / Publisher: ALBRIZZI, G.B.
Place & Date: Venice, 1740

 


Impero del Gran Mogol.

Attractive copper engraved map of India with Sri Lanka. Showing mountains, towns and the Rama's Bridge (Ponte di Adamo). Included in "Atlante Novissimo che Contiene ...

$450 / ≈ €413
Maker / Publisher: ALBRIZZI, G.B.
Place & Date: Venice, 1740

 


Isola Di Ceylan. (Manuscript map of Sri Lanka)

Manuscript map of Sri Lanka (Ceylon). Inland filled with a good number of place names, mountains.

$500 / ≈ €459
Maker / Publisher: ANONYMOUS
Place & Date: Italy, ca. 1750

 


Cochin (today: Ernakulam)

Small but charming 18th water color on paper depicting Cochin (today : Ernakulam) was from 1500, when the first Portuguese fleet called on its port, a firm ally of the Po...

$900 / ≈ €826
Maker / Publisher: ANONYMOUS
Place & Date: India? c.1750

 


La Feste du Poids au Mogol qui se célebre chez ses Peuples avec grande vénération.

So-called optical print illustrating a perspective view of a square in Mongolia.Mondhare, active at rue St.Jacques a l'Hotel Saumur, was a well-known publisher of optical...

$175 / ≈ €161
Maker / Publisher: MONDHARE
Place & Date: Paris, 1760

 


Recueil de cartes géographiques pour la description de l'Indostan . . .

First French edition, the maps revised by Jean Nicholas Buache.  The English original edition was published in London in 1783 by Brown under the title "Memoir of a ...

$1000 / ≈ €917
Maker / Publisher: RENNELL, J.
Place & Date: Paris, Poignée, an VIII = 1800

 


Un Reclutatore in India. Papagallo No. 42. Anno VI.

British in India. Design by Augusto Grossi. Taken from the Italian satirical newspaper Il Papagallo, a satirical magazine founded in January 1873 by Augusto Grossi (1835-...

$400 / ≈ €367
Maker / Publisher: GROSSI, A.
Place & Date: Bologne, 1878

 


Outposts of Empire. Ceylon.

A large colored lithograph by John Vickery (1906-1983), he was an Australian artist. He worked in the fields of painting, illustration and advertising. He is the only Aus...

$250 / ≈ €229
Maker / Publisher: VICKERY, John.
Place & Date: London, ca 1937

 


Inde.

Decorative poster advertising flights to India made by Georges Mathieu. The poster is one of a series of 15 composed of posters of Greece, Israel, Germany, Great Britain,...

$200 / ≈ €183
Maker / Publisher: MATHIEU, G. / AIR France
Place & Date: Paris, 1967