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Belgium Foederatum auctius et emendatius edit..
Map of the northern part of the Netherlands. With a decorative title cartouche, with an inset map of South East Asia.
- $500 / ≈ €468
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1760
Plan du port et de la ville de Nangasaki.
This plan originates from Charlevoix's work Histoire et description Générele du Japon . His first in 1715 published work was the Histoire de l'etablissement du christia...
- $600 / ≈ €561
Place & Date: Paris, 1760
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...
- $230 / ≈ €215
Place & Date: Paris, 1760
China as surveyed by the Jesuit Misionaries between the years 1708 & 1717 with Korea & the adjoining parts of Tartary.
The map is of interest for the use of Eastern Sea or Sea of China, the sea south of Korea. In the sea along the coast line of Korea : "Kau-Li-Qua or King:m of Korea&...
Place & Date: London, c. 1760
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2014
Vue de la Rue des Marchands Chinoises a Nankin.
So-called optical print illustrating a parade of vessels. Engraved by F.X. Habermann (1721-1796). The Academie Imperiale was a well-known publisher of optical prints, est...
- $450 / ≈ €421
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1760
Regni Sinae vel Sinae propriae. . .
General map of China extending to the Gobi Desert in the North, including the islands of Taiwan and Hainan. The map is based on the work of du Halde. An appealing title c...
- $750 / ≈ €702
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1760
Vue d'une Rue Nanking.
A well-known publisher of optical prints, established in Augsburg. After a design by P.van Blankaert.In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, there were many popular s...
Place & Date: Augsburg 1760
Karte von den Kusten von Arabien . . .
Manuscript map of Arabia. A close copy of Bellin's map of the Arabian Peninsula. In the lower right margin "Tom A, vol V."A title cartouche in the lower left co...
Place & Date: Germany, ca. 1760
Karte von den Bengaslishen Meerbussen . . .
Manuscript map including Ceylon, south of India, Bengal gulf with Burma (Myanmar), Thailand and northern tip of Sumatra. Very decorative and colorful compass rose in cent...
- $1750 / ≈ €1638
Place & Date: Germany, ca. 1760
Vue des Magasins de la Compagnie des Indes à Pondichéry, de l'Amirauté et de la maison du Gouverneur.
Optical print of the French East India Company's warehouses, the Admiralty and the Governor's House at Pondicherry in Tamil Nadu. Pondicherry, on the Coromandel Coast sou...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Paris, ca 1760
Le dedans du Palais de l'Empereur de Chine à Peking.
This so called optical print shows the imperial palace, the Forbidden City in Peking, China. In the foreground a large courtyard is depicted, surrounded by buildings. Thr...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1760
Plan de la ville de Madras et de ses attaques.
Manuscript map, in black, brown and red ink, showing the fortifications of the city of Madras, now Chennai, on the east coast of India, north of Pondicherry.Showing the c...
- $2000 / ≈ €1871
Place & Date: Paris, ca 1760
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Ch'onha chido.[Atlas of all under Heaven]
A late 18th-century Ch'onha chido atlas with 13 woodblock maps showing the World, China, Korea, Japan, Okinawa, and the 8 provinces. The seas are in black.Slight wear, co...
Place & Date: Korea, ca. 1760
Vue perspective de la grande Ceremonie du Couronnement de l'Empereur de la Chine.
So-called optical print illustrating the crowning of the Chinese emperor. It shows the throne at the center.Mondhare was a well-known publisher of optical prints, establi...
Place & Date: Paris, 1761
Vue perspective de la grande Ceremonie du Couronnement de l'Empereur de la Chine.
So-called optical print illustrating the crowning of the Chinese emperor. It shows the throne at the center.Mondhare was a well-known publisher of optical prints, establi...
- $450 / ≈ €421
Place & Date: Paris, 1761
Les Isles de la Sonde, Moluques, Philippines, Carolines, et Marlannes.
Nice detailed map of southeast Asia, showing the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java and the island of Borneo. Engraved by E. Dussy and the title cartouche by Arrivet. From hi...
- $275 / ≈ €257
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1762
Nuova et Accurata Carta dell' Isole Filippine, Ladrones, a Moluccos o Isole della Speziarie come anco Celebes &c.
The map has been prepared by Isaac Tirion for his Nieuwe en beknopte Handatlas (New and concise hand-atlas) of which Albrizzi made an imitation and used in the Italian ed...
- $400 / ≈ €374
Place & Date: Venice, 1740-1762
Carta nuova dell' Arabia fatta in Amsterdam per Isauc Tirion.
Detailed map of Arabia and environs, prepared by Albrizzi and published in Thomas Salmon in " Lo Stato Presente di Tutti i popoli del mondo naturale, politico e mora...
- $650 / ≈ €608
Place & Date: Napels, Francesco Ricciardo, 1738 -1762
Suite de l'Histoire de Perse. Depuis l'An 3519, jusqu'à l'An 3525.
Showing eastern Europe centered on Greece, Macedonia, Persia and western Turkey. Textural information in French flanking the map. De Mornas was Geographer to Louis XVI, a...
- $60 / ≈ €56
Place & Date: Paris, 1762
L'Isle Formose et parties des Costes de la Chine. . .
This well-known map of Taiwan is prepared by Jacques Nicolas Bellin and was based on Jesuit information. The text along the island's east-coast claims: Of this coast litt...
Place & Date: Paris, 1763
Histoire universelle depuis le commmencement du monde jusqu'a present. Tome Vingt-unieme. Portugais, Espagnols, Hollanois etc
Volume 21 of this informative publication with a description of the discoveries, conquests, and settlements by the Portuguese, Spaniards, English, and Dutch in Southeast ...
- $1500 / ≈ €1404
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Leipzig, 1763
Asia.
Uncommon miniature map of Asia. The map is of interest for the use of Sea of Corea, for the sea between Korea and Japan.Engraved by J.Ellis for "A New General and Un...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: London, 1761-1763
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East Indies. {India]
Uncommon miniature map of India, engraved by Thomas Kitching for "A New General and Universal Atlas Containing Forty five Maps by Andrew Dury".This miniature at...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: London, 1761-1763
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[65] Surie.
Charming chart of the harbour of the town of St Jean d'Acre in Syria. Showing town and harbour plan, with soundings, anchorages, rocks, shoals, fortifications and lightho...
- $120 / ≈ €112
Place & Date: Marseille, 1764
Karte von den neuen philippinen.
Small map of the southern Philippines. In: "Allgemeine Historie der Reisen zur Wasser und zu Lande: oder Sammlung aller Reisebeschreibungen.. in Englischen zusammen ...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Leipzig, Arkstee und Merkus, 1764
Plan de Maye a la Coste de Malabar.
From Bellin's "Le Petit Atlas Maritime", a plan of the bay of Maye, off the Malabar coast of southern India. Map relief shown pictorially. Shows settlements, po...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Paris, 1764
Baye Ville et Forts d'Andarajapour a la Coste de Malabar.
From Bellin's popular "La Petit Atlas Maritime", showing the bay, fort and town of Andarajapour in the Malabar region of India. The map is furnished with a comp...
- $110 / ≈ €103
Place & Date: Paris, 1764
Coste de Coromandel depuis Gondagamas jusqu'a Narzapour.
This map is taken from Bellin'spopular 'Petit atlas maritime'. It shows a portion of the Indian coastline in the region of Coromandel from Montepdly through Mazulipatam o...
- $110 / ≈ €103
Place & Date: Paris, 1764
Plan de Maye a la Coste de Malabar.
From Bellin's 'Le Petit Atlas Maritime', a plan of the bay of Maye, off the Malabar coast of southern India. Relief shown pictorially. It shows settlements, ports, and ma...
- $85 / ≈ €80
Place & Date: Paris, 1764
l'Arabie et l'Egypte pour la Concorde de la Géographie des different Ages.
Uncommon map of Arabian Peninsular with a title inland "Arabie Heureuse. . .".More about Mapping of Arabia [+]
- $125 / ≈ €117
Place & Date: Paris, 1765
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Plan de Gingy, ville et forteresse d'Asie . . . [An Early Manuscript Map of Pondicherry Prior To Its Reconstruction After The Seven Years War.]
An early manuscript map of Gingy shortly after The Seven Years War, when the French took possession of large part of India.With an extensive key to the left.Gingee Fort o...
- $1500 / ≈ €1404
Place & Date: Paris, 1765
Carte de la Babylonie nommée aujourd'hui Hierac-Arab avec les noms, tant anciens que modernes et les routes des expéditions de Cyrus et de Julien l'Apostat, aussi bien que celles de Teixera, Benjamin. . .
A very fine map centered on Arabia and in top Iraq with Baghdad. With a very attractive title cartouche on the lower left-hand corner. Published by Joseph-Nicolas De l' I...
- $550 / ≈ €515
Place & Date: Paris/ Bordeaux, 1766
L'Empire des Turcs.
With decorative title cartouche upper right. Good detail in the Arabian peninsula.More about Mapping of Arabia [+]
- $240 / ≈ €225
Place & Date: Paris, 1767
La Chine.
With decorative title cartouche lower right. Good detail of China's mainland with Taiwan and Hainan Province.
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Paris, 1767
De l'Asie. . .
On the left and on the right two explication cartouche. The text is in French, interesting for its documentation of contemporary European attitudes and preconceptions reg...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1767
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Plans de Quelques Villes de la Province de Hou-Quang. / Grondtekening [floor plan] van eenige Steden van't Landschap Hu-Quang.
Interesting set of three local town plans each with extensive titles :"Yong Chew Fu, ou Yong Tcheou Fou." Centre: "Vu Chang Fu, ou Vou-Tchang-Fou Capitale:...
- $90 / ≈ €84
Place & Date: The Hague, Pieter de Hondt, 1747-1767
Cité de Nang Hyong Fu, tiree the Nieuhof. De Stad van Nan-Hyong-Fu, uit Nieuhof.
Interesting view of Nan-Hyong-Fu with harbour and fort.Prepared by Jacques Nicolas Bellin and included in a Dutch edition of Prévost d' Exile's "Histoire des Voyage...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: The Hague, Pieter de Hondt, 1747-1767
Les Isles de la Sonde.
Small detailed map of southeast Asia, showing the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java and the island of Borneo. Dated 1769.From Atlas Portatif Universel, by Robert de Vaugondy...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Paris, later than 1769
Plan de Thiagar, prise par l'arméé française en 1759.
An early manuscript map of Thiagar. With an extensive unfinished key to the left. The map was drawn shortly after the end of the Seven Years War, when the French took pos...
- $750 / ≈ €702
Place & Date: Paris, 1769
Terra Sancta sive Palaestina. . .
Map of Palestine divided among the Tribes on both sides of Jordan and into Kingdoms of Judah and Israel. Cartouche at bottom right features a small map of the Exodus.T.C....
- $750 / ≈ €702
Place & Date: Augsbourg, 1770
Vue des Promenades et les Fontaines d'Ispahan.
Carmine was a well-known publisher of optical prints, established in Augsburg.In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there were many popular specialty establishments ...
- $250 / ≈ €234
Place & Date: Augsburg 1770
Asia Concinnata Secundum Observationes Academiae Regalis . . .
A version of De L'Isle's map. T.C. Lotter married M. Seutter's daughter in 1740 and succeeded him in 1756. Lotter used the copperplate of Seutter, he only changed the nam...
Place & Date: Augsburg, ca. 1770
Carte des parties Nord et est de l'Asie.. (5 maps on one sheet)
Five maps on one sheet, showing California, Alaska and Syberia, Korea and Japan. South to Korea the island "Quelpaerts".The map is from Diderot's "Encyclop...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Paris, 1772
Carte de L'Indoustan. . .
Uncommon edition of this fine map of the northern part of India.From Atlas Portatif pour servir a l'intelligence de l'Histoire Philosophique et Politique des etablissemen...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1773
Carte Particuliere des Isles Moluques.
A very nice map centered on the island of the Moluccas.From Atlas Portatif pour servir a l'intelligence de l'Histoire Philosophique et Politique des etablissements et du ...
- $75 / ≈ €70
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1773
Carte des Isles du Japon.. Coree, Avec .. De la Chine..
Uncommon map of Japan, with Hokkaido, Ryukhu, Korea, Taiwan and the southeast coast of China from Peking till Macao.A mysterious "Corree" shows only a scant few...
- $250 / ≈ €234
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1773
Nouvelle carte de l'Isle de Java.
A very nice map centered on the island of Java. With French text in title cartouche and an additional title in Dutch underneath the map.Read more Early maps of South East...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1773
Carte de La Tartarie Orientale..
Uncommon edition of this fine map of Tartary with the Island of Sakhalin. In lower right engraved 21b.From Atlas Portatif pour servir a l'intelligence de l'Histoire Philo...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1773
Carte de la Coste d'Arabie.
Uncommon issue of this very nice map of the Arabian peninsula. Depicted is Saudi Arabia, Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.With French text in title cartouche and an additiona...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1773
Carte Particuliere des Isles Moluques. . .
A very nice map centered on the island of the Moluccas.Title in French and in Dutch underneath the map.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1773
Nouvelle carte du Royaume de Bengale.
Uncommon issue of this detailed map of Bangladesh with the Ganges delta, including Calcutta. Giving great detail with trade routes, European trade settlements, etc. Prepa...
- $380 / ≈ €356
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1773
Nouvelle carte de l'Isle de Java.
A very nice map centred on the island of Java.With French text in title cartouche and an additional title in Dutch underneath the map.Read more Early maps of South East A...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1773
The Russian Empire, from the Best Authorities, by Thos. Kitchin, Geographer.
Showing the Asian part of Russia, with interesting note to a coast line north of Siberia "Land seen in 1723", likely referring to Vitus Bering (1681–1741), wh...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: London, c. 1773
L'Empire de La Chine../ 't Keizerryk van China..
An attractive map of China with Korea and Taiwan (I.Tay-wan, ou Formosa) and "Mer de Coree'. There are decorative title cartouches in three corners of the map. The u...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: The Hague, 1773
Terrae Yemen Maxima Pars, seu Imperii Imami, Principatus Kaukeban nec non ditionum Haschid u Bekil, Nehhm, Chaulan, Abu Arisch et Aden Tabula ...
South-west Arabia, with the Saudi Arabian city of Jizan south to Aden. With a fine title, cartouche. Based on a map by Carsten Niebuhr. With the name Sinus Arabicus Mare ...
Place & Date: Augsbourg, 1774
Carte Plate de la partie Septentrionale du Detroit de Malac, depuis de la rade d'Achem jusqu'a Malac.
French chart of the Island of Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula separated by the strait of Malacca in Indonesia.Latitude and longitude scales, compass rose and system of rh...
- $500 / ≈ €468
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1775
Carte réduite de l'Océan Oriental, depuis Le Cap de Bonne Espérance jusqu'à l'Isle Formose.
French chart covering the seas between the Cape of Good Hope until Taiwan and the West Coast of Australia. Prepared by Jacques-François L'Abbé Dicquemare (1733-1789). L...
- $1000 / ≈ €936
Place & Date: Paris, Brest, chez Demonville, 1775
Carte de l'Entrée du Golf de la Mer Rouge. / Plan de La Rade de Moka.
French sea chart of the entry of the Red Sea showing both the African and Arabian coasts. With two inset charts: Plan de La Rade de Moka. and one with the coasts south of...
- $450 / ≈ €421
Place & Date: Paris, ca 1775
Carte de la Côte de Guzerat, Du Golf de Cambaye et des Côtes de Concan et De Canara.
French sea chart of West India from Gujarat to Mangalore. With inset chart Plan de la Rivière de Surate.Prepared by Jacques-François L'Abbé Dicquemare (1733-1789). La...
Place & Date: Paris, ca 1775
Carte de la Côte Orientale du Golfe du Bengale.
French sea chart of coast northeast of India. Latitude and longitude scales, compass rose and system of rhumb lines, soundings near coast and in bay areas.D' Après de Ma...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Paris, ca 1775
A chart of the China Sea inscribed to Monsr. D'APRES de MANNEVILLETTE .. To A.Dalrymple.
Most important milestone chart is based upon the surveys made from navigational surveys by Alexander Dalrymple (1737-1808]. He was the first hydrographer of the British A...
Place & Date: Paris, ca 1775
Vues des Cap d'Aden, de St. Antoine, et de Bab-El-Mandeb, sur la Côte Méridionale de l'Arabie Heureuse. Vues de l'Isle de Socotra
Coast profiles near Cape Aden in Yemen and in the lower part coastal profiles near Socotra, an island east of the Horn of Africa and 380 kilometers (240 mi) south of the ...
- $250 / ≈ €234
Place & Date: Paris, Brest, chez Demonville, 1775
Carte Plate qui comprend La partie septentrionale de LA Cöte de Coromandel et les Côtes de Golconde , D' Orcha et de Bengale.
French chart of Coromandel in India. West to the top.Latitude and longitude scales, compass rose and system of rhumb lines, soundings near coast and in bay areas.D' Aprè...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Paris, Brest, chez Demonville, 1775
Carte de la Baye et du Port de Trinquemalay dans L'Isle de Ceylan.
Chart showing the bay of Trincomalee, Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Trincomalee is natural deep water port on the east coast of Sri Lanka, about 110 miles northeast of Kandy. It is...
- $250 / ≈ €234
Place & Date: Paris, 1775
Carte de la Mer Rouge, depuis Moka jusqu'a Gedda.
Chart of the Red Sea. With 3 inset maps of Shake Omare, Goofs and Gedan.D'Après De Mannevillette (1707-1780) was one of France's first hydrographers. When the first edit...
- $450 / ≈ €421
Place & Date: Paris, 1775
Vues diverses du fort de l'Agouade pres de l'isle de Goa . . . Sumatra . . .
French sea sea chart with 9 coastal views near Goa in India and Sumatra. The titles above the main profiles reading as following : Vues diverses du fort de l'Agouade pre...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Paris, Brest, Demonville, 1775
A chart of the China Sea inscribed to Monsr. D'APRES de MANNEVILLETTE .. To A.Dalrymple.
Most important milestone sea chart is based upon the surveys made from navigational surveys by Alexander Dalrymple (1737-1808]. He was the first Hydrographer of the Briti...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1775
Carte de la sibérie et des Pays voisins.
An interesting detailed map of Siberia, extending from the White Sea and the Caspian Sea in the west to Irkuckoi Province .Prepared by Jacques Nicolas Bellin after Dutch ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1738-1775
Carte des Isles Kouriles, d'après la carte Russe dréssée et gravée par Laurent.
An interesting map of the Kuril Islands, northeast from Hokkaido, Japan, to Kamchatka, Russia, separating the Sea of Okhotsk from the North Pacific Ocean.Prepared by Jacq...
Place & Date: Paris, 1738-1775
Suite de la carte de La Sibérie et le pays de Kamtschatka...
An interesting map of Siberia, with a view on Ochozk Sea. Prepared by Jacques Nicolas Bellin after Dutch sources and included in Prévost d' Exile's "Histoire des Vo...
- $75 / ≈ €70
Place & Date: Paris, 1738-1775
Carte de la sibérie et des Pays voisins.
An interesting detailed map of Siberia, extending from the White Sea and the Caspian Sea in the west to Irkuckoi Province .Prepared by Jacques Nicolas Bellin after Dutch ...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: Paris, 1738-1775
Carte de la Baye et du Port de Trinquemalay Dans L'Isle de Ceylan.
French chart of the harbor of Trinquemalay on the island of Ceylon. Prepared after Samuel Cornish who was a vice admiral for the English East India company.Latitude and l...
- $350 / ≈ €328
Place & Date: Paris, Brest, chez Demonville, 1775
Carte de la Tartarie Occidentale.
An interesting map of Tartary and northeast Asia, from Lake Baykal, Partie du Siberia in the north, Pays des Kalkas at the center, as well as Desert de Sable, and down to...
- $95 / ≈ €89
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1775
Neue Carte des Baikal Sees welche bey Umschiffung desselben in den Iahren 1773 und 1773 aufgenommen worden.
Rare engraved map by Johanna Dorothea Sysang, showing Lake Baikal. Johanna Dorothea Sysang (1729 - 1791) was a copper engraver from and was a daughter of Johann Christoph...
- $500 / ≈ €468
Place & Date: 1777
Une Kabardinienne.
Uncommon copper engraved costume plate from the French translation of Johann Gottlieb Georgi "Beschreibung aller Nationen des Russischen Reichs" (1776), the wor...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: St. Petersbourg, C.G. Müller, 1776-1777
Femme de Tatares Nogais.
Uncommon copper engraved costume plate from the French translation of Johann Gottlieb Georgi "Beschreibung aller Nationen des Russischen Reichs" (1776), the wor...
Place & Date: St. Petersbourg, C.G. Müller, 1776-1777
Femme tatares de Tchatsk.
Uncommon copper engraved costume plate from the French translation of Johann Gottlieb Georgi "Beschreibung aller Nationen des Russischen Reichs" (1776), the wor...
Place & Date: St. Petersbourg, C.G. Müller, 1776-1777
Femme Barabinzoise.
Uncommon copper engraved costume plate from the French translation of Johann Gottlieb Georgi "Beschreibung aller Nationen des Russischen Reichs" (1776), the wor...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: St. Petersbourg, C.G. Müller, 1776-1777
Fille Barabinzoise.
Uncommon copper engraved costume plate from the French translation of Johann Gottlieb Georgi "Beschreibung aller Nationen des Russischen Reichs" (1776), the wor...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: St. Petersbourg, C.G. Müller, 1776-1777
Une Baskirienne.
Uncommon copper engraved costume plate from the French translation of Johann Gottlieb Georgi "Beschreibung aller Nationen des Russischen Reichs" (1776), the wor...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: St. Petersbourg, C.G. Müller, 1776-1777