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Asia.
Uncommon map of Asia. Engraved by Marco di Pietro.The map is of interest for the use of G. di Corea, for the sea between Korea and Japan.Published by Carlo Antonio Barbie...
Place & Date: Milan, 1807
Charte von Ostindien disseits des Ganges im gegenwärtigen Zustande.
A uncommon issue of this detailed map of India, including Ceylon.
Place & Date: Weimar, 1807
The narta, or Sledge for burdens in Kamtschatka.
The narta, or Sledge for burdens in Kamtschatka, taken from "Views in the South Seas" being a very important and early views depicting scenes encountered while ...
Place & Date: London, Boydell and Co., 1808
Balagans or summer habitations, with the method of drying fish at St. Peter and Paul, Kamtschatka.
Balagans or summer habitations, with the method of drying fish at St. Peter and Paul, Kamtschatka, taken from "Views in the South Seas" being a very important a...
Place & Date: London, Boydell and Co., 1808
Selling price: $1200
Sold in 2017
View in the island of Cracatoa.
Early view of the volcano Krakatoa (Indonesian name: Krakatau), on the Indonesian island of Rakata in the Sunda Strait, taken from "Views in the South Seas" bei...
Place & Date: London, Boydell and Co., 1808
The Fan palm, in the island of Cracatoa.
The Fan palm, on the island of Krakatoa (Indonesian name: Krakatau), in the Sunda Strait, taken from "Views in the South Seas" being a very important and early ...
Place & Date: London, Boydell and Co., 1808
The Southern provinces of Hindoostan . . .
An attractive map showing Hindoostan and Ceylon. Shows towns, rivers, mountains, lakes, etc. In pretty original wash colors. Robert Wilkinson was active in London as a ca...
- $65 / ≈ €61
Place & Date: London, 1808
Carte d'Asie.
Fine map of Asia, with an interesting representations of Japan, Hokkaido, Sakhalin Island, Kamchatka and Korea. Engraved by Alexandre Blondeau, who also worked for Depot ...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Paris, c. 1810
Carte d'Asie.
Fine map of Asia, with an interesting representations of Japan, Hokkaido, Sakhalin Island, Kamchatka and Korea. Engraved by Alexandre Blondeau, who also worked for Depôt...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Paris, c. 1810
Indoustan ou Inde.
Map of India. The map is based on the Paris Meridian, only in 1884, at the International Meridian Conference in Washington DC, the Greenwich Meridian was accepted.Engrave...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Paris, c. 1810
Carte d'Asie.
Fine map of Asia, with an interesting representations of Japan, Hokkaido, Sakhalin Island, Kamchatka and Korea. Engraved by Alexandre Blondeau, who also worked for Depôt...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Paris, c. 1810
Carte d'Asie.
Fine map of Asia, with an interesting representations of Japan, Hokkaido, Sakhalin Island, Kamchatka and Korea. Engraved by Alexandre Blondeau, who also worked for Depôt...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Paris, c. 1810
L'Asia...
A small, uncomplicated map of Asia with outline coloring. Map extends down from the Arctic Circle to Java and New Guinea. From Arabia in the west to Japan in the east.Sma...
- $175 / ≈ €164
Place & Date: Venezia, 1810
Esquisse de la Baie de Coupang (cote S.O. Ile de Timor) par M. M. Peron et Lesueur, an 1803.
Map of Kupang Bay on the Indonesian Island Timor, prepared by Louis Freycinet during his voyage under Captain Thomas Baudin in 1800-1803. Plate no. 14 from the atlas part...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Paris, Langois, 1811
Esquisse de la Baie de Coupang (cote S.O. Ile de Timor) par M. M. Peron et Lesueur, an 1803.
Map of Kupang Bay on the Indonesian Island Timor, prepared by Louis Freycinet during his voyage under Captain Thomas Baudin in 1800-1803. Plate no. 14 from the atlas part...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Paris, Langois, 1811
Esquisse de la Baie de Coupang (cote S.O. Ile de Timor) par M. M. Peron et Lesueur, an 1803.
Map of Kupang Bay on the Indonesian Island Timor, prepared by Louis Freycinet during his voyage under Captain Thomas Baudin in 1800-1803. Plate no. 14 from the atlas part...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Paris, Langois, 1811
Ostindien.
Nice small map of South East Asia published by Johannes Walch in his rare Allgemeiner Atlas Nach den bewährsten Hülfsmitteln und astronomischen Ortsbestimungen…, edit...
- $160 / ≈ €150
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1812
Sibérie avec l'Amérique Russe.
Prepared by Pierre Lapie and published by François Buisson and included in "Atlas Complet Du Precis De La Geographie Universelle De M. Malte-Brun". Engraved by...
- $120 / ≈ €112
Place & Date: Paris, 1812
[assorted Chinese musical instruments].
A delightful copperplate print of 15 assorted Chinese musical instruments including gong, bell, drum, cymbals etc.
- $35 / ≈ €33
Place & Date: Germany, ca. 1812
[assorted Chinese musical instruments].
A delightful copperplate print of 15 assorted Chinese musical instruments including violin, flute, trumpet, guitars, cymbals etc.
- $30 / ≈ €28
Place & Date: Germany, ca. 1812
Verm Gegenstaende. CXIII. 1 Melandes CCXIII.
A Chinese Mandarin house and below a Chinese village scene with farmers.
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: Germany, 1812
Ansicht des Papenbergs. [title also in russian]
View at Takahoko at the mouth of Nagasaki Harbour. In center Papenberg known for Christian martyrs. In foreground Japanese junks and a Russian vessel. German title preced...
- $1500 / ≈ €1404
Place & Date: St.Petersberg, 1810-1814
Ansicht von Megasaky. [Nagasaki - title also in Russian characters]
The print shows Nagasaki harbor with n the foreground the Russian delegation with Krusenstern in a boat with 3 Chinese. Japanese junks and the town of Nagasaki in the ba...
- $1500 / ≈ €1404
Place & Date: St.Petersburg, 1810-1814
Ansicht der stadt Nangasaky. [Nagasaki - title also in Russian characters]
A lively scene in Nagasaki harbor. In the foreground, Japanese junks and the town of Nagasaki in the background, with the warehouses on Deshima, the trading post of the D...
- $3000 / ≈ €2807
Place & Date: St.Petersburg, 1810-1814
China.
Highly detailed map of China including Formosa (Taiwan), Hainan, and part of Luzon in the Philippines. The map show the Tract of the Hindoostan and Lion with the British ...
Place & Date: Edinburgh, 1815
Corea and Japan.
A fine large-scale map of Japan and Korea showing an increasingly refined outline to the Japanese islands but still oversized Korean peninsula. The strait south of Korea,...
Place & Date: Edinburgh, 1816
Timor. Vue de la rade, de la ville et du fort de Coupang, dans l'île de Timor.
Nice double page view of the town Kupang, formerly known as Koepang. In the center is the Dutch V.O.C. fort. From Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes by François...
Place & Date: Paris, 1807-1816
El Indostan por D. Juan Lopez.
Uncommon map of India and Shri Lanka published by Juan Lopez (1765-1830) and included in his "Atlas Universal o collection de mapas nuevos. . ." first published...
- $400 / ≈ €374
Place & Date: Madrid, 1817
China.
From the atlas the 'Universal Geography' by Thos. Kelly, and engraved by Finlay. This copper plate maps shows the mainland of China, together with the islands of Formosa ...
Place & Date: London, ca. 1817
El Indostan por D. Juan Lopez.
Uncommon map of India and Shri Lanka published by Juan Lopez (1765-1830) and included in his "Atlas Universal o collection de mapas nuevos. . ." first published...
- $375 / ≈ €351
Place & Date: Madrid, 1817
East India Isles.
Somewhat later but very finely engraved and detailed map of the Indonesian archipelago, including Thailand, Philippines and southern part of Taiwan.
Place & Date: Edinburgh, 1817
Account of a voyage of discovery to the west coast of Corea.
BRITAIN'S FIRST ACCURATE ACCOUNT OF KOREA & OKINAWANS. With an appendix containing charts and various hydrographical and scientific notices by captain Basil Hall and ...
Place & Date: London, 1818
Voyage of his majesty’s ship Alceste, along the Coast of Corea, to the island of Lewchew, with an account of her subsequent shipwreck, by John M’LEOD. Surgeon of the Alceste.
Second and best edition, with frontispiece portrait of Captain Maxwell and five fine hand-colored aquatint plates, including a plate not present in the first edition of t...
Place & Date: London, John Murray, 1818
Chungguk-do
Chungguk-do [Map of China] taken from a Korean printed Ch’onha chido [Atlas of all under Heaven] which is a 19th century version of the traditional Korean atlas produce...
Place & Date: Korea, ca. 1820
La factorerie chinoise a nagasaki, dans la rue Teng-chan (fondée en 1688).
The Chinese traders at Nagasaki were confined to a walled compound which was located in the same vicinity as Dejima island; and the activities of the Chinese, though less...
- $500 / ≈ €468
Place & Date: Paris, A. Nepveu, 1820
Carte de l'Arabie d'après les différents morceaux qu'a donnés M. Niebuh...
Detailed map of the Arabian peninsular, after Niebuhr, with scales in lower left corner. Engraved by Pierre-Paul Dubuisson.More about Mapping of Arabia [+]
- $1000 / ≈ €936
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1820
Carte de l'Arabie d'après les différents morceaux qu'a donnés M. Niebuh...
Detailed map of the Arabian peninsular, after Niebuhr, with scales in lower left corner. Engraved by Pierre-Paul Dubuisson.More about Mapping of Arabia [+]
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1820
Carte générale de L'asie . . .
Uncommon map of Asia prepared by Felix Delamarche, after R.de Vaugondy. In the right hand a lengthy description of geographical details of the different European countrie...
Place & Date: Paris, 1820
Charte von China nach Murdochischer Projection entworfen. ... Berichtiget, und gezeichnet von H.F.A. Stieler. . .
Uncommon map of China prepared by H.F.A.Stieler, with parts of Taiwan, Tibet, Mongolia and the Korean peninsula, with a great many place names, a key to (and brief explan...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1820
Karte der Hauptstraßen von der niederen Donau bis Constantinopel … / Spezialkarte des Meerbusens von Burgas . ..
Uncommon map of the routes of the eastern part of the Balkan Peninsula. prepared by C. Zirbeck The map has two insets "Meerbusen von Burgas oder Mesambri" (Bay ...
- $550 / ≈ €515
Place & Date: 1820
Carte de la Chine et du Japon. Dressée pour l'intelligence de l'histoire général des voyages de Laharpe. . .
Engraved by Tardieu for L'Intelligence de l'histoire generale des Voyages de Laharpe .Rare and detailed map of China, Korea, Japan and Taiwan (I.Formose ou Pekan).
- $275 / ≈ €257
Place & Date: Paris, 1821
Carte de la Chine et du Japon..
Engraved by Tardieu for L'Intelligence de l'histoire generale des Voyages de Laharpe .Rare and detailed map of China, Korea, Japan and Taiwan (I.Formose ou Pekan).
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Paris, 1821
Charte von Ostindien Diesseits Und Jenseits Des Ganges / nach den neuesten astronomischen Beobachtungen auch andern sichern Hülfsmitteln neu entworfen. . .
Prepared by I.C.M.Reinecke giving good detail in India, Indonesia and the Philippines.
- $800 / ≈ €749
Place & Date: Weimar, 1822
Indostan gia impero del mogol. . .
Charming map of India with Ceylon from the rare atlas Atlante Tascabile o sia Serie di Num. XXI Cartine Geografiche nelle quali si rappresenta in ristretto lo Stato Attua...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Rome, 1823
Eastern passage to China. sheet 1.
James Horsburgh early chart of the coasts of Java, Bali, Lombok, with part of Sulawesi, and Borneo. Insets of "Sketch of Bally Strait", Sketch of Lombock Strait...
- $2500 / ≈ €2339
Place & Date: London, 1824
Das Fahrzeug auf welchem der Russische Gesandte zuert in Nangasaky ans Land fuhr. [Nagasaki]
View of Nagasaki Harbour, with on foreground Japanese junks bringing the members of the first Russian expedition a shore. In the back ground the artificial island of Deji...
- $1750 / ≈ €1638
Place & Date: St.Petersburg, 1824
Timor - Malais libre.
A fine color plate from the rare travel book: Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes . The Baudin voyage from 1800-1804 was the most successful French scientific exp...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Paris, Langlois, 1824
Ansicht der Küste von Kamtschatka vom Cap Poworotnoy Nordlich hinauf - Ansicht der Einfahrt in die Awatscha Bay, in einer entfernung von 4 meilen.
An original view in imperial folio size, originating from the original first edition (Russian & German) of Krusenstern's atlas to his voyage around the world: Atlas k...
- $1000 / ≈ €936
Place & Date: St.Petersburg, 1824
China and Japan drawn and engraved for Dr. Playfairs Atlas.
Detailed map of China, Korea, Japan and Taiwan engraved by H. Cooper and published by Alexander Macredie. Originally engraved for James Playfair's " A New General At...
- $900 / ≈ €842
Place & Date: Edinburgh, 1824
Modern Asia Minor. Drawn & Engraved for Dr. Playfair's Geography.
Detailed map of Black Sea, Cyprus and Turkey engraved by Samuel John Neele (1758-1824) and published by Alexander Macredie. Originally engraved for James Playfair's "...
- $175 / ≈ €164
Place & Date: London / Edinburgh, 1824
Timor. Naba-Leba, Roi de L'Ile Solor. [plate XXV]
Nicely colored portrait of the King of Solor, or Timor in South East Asia.After the original sketches by Lesueur, from Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes by Fran...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Paris, 1824
Timor. Naba-Leba Roi de L'Ile Solor. [plate XXV]
A portrait of a male Naba-Leba by Lesueur, from Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes by François Péron, 1824.The French expedition under Nicolas Baudin, was comm...
Place & Date: Paris, 1824
Timor. Canda Jeune fille Malaise. [plate XXVI]
A portrait of a female Canda by Lesueur, from Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes by François Péron, 1824.The French expedition under Nicolas Baudin, was commis...
Place & Date: Paris, 1824
Timor. Rhinolophe Cruménifére. [plate XXXV]
Plate illustrating Horseshoe bats from Timor Island, by Lesueur, from Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes by François Péron, 1824.The French expedition under Ni...
Place & Date: Paris, 1824
Plattegrond der Nederlandse Faktory op het Eiland Desima..
An uncommon Dutch bird's eye plan of Deshima, the Dutch trading post of the V.O.C., published in Isaac Titsingh's important Book on Japan "Bijzonderheden over Japan&...
Place & Date: 's-Gravenhage, widow of J. Allart, 1824-1825
Carte Generale de la Russie d'Asie ou Siberie. Par L. Vivien, Geographe . . .
First edition, with a second edition in 1834 listed by Phillips. The map is well done, slightly smaller than the contemporary Brue and Lapie maps. Showing Asian part of R...
- $230 / ≈ €215
Place & Date: Paris, Ménard et Desenne, 1825
Garde Imperiale. Cavalier et Fantassin.
A decorative, colored lithograph of a Guard in the Chinese Imperial Army, and that of a Cavalier. From the work by Malpiere titled: " La Chine, Moeurs, Usages, Arts ...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1825
Missions en Asie Contenant les Provinces Françaises de la Chine et des Indes avec le Malabar Province des Portuguais. 7 Jésuits a la Chine et 57 au Japon.
Rare map of Far East from India until Japan from "Atlas Universel indiquant les établissemens des Jésuites: avec la manière dont ils divisent la terre, suivi desÃ...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Paris, Ambroise Dupont , 1826
Carte De L'Indostan Servant à Indiquer Les Possessions Françaises En Asie.
Map of a part of Asia, with Sri Lanka, From " Nouvel Atlas du royaume de France, ou cartes détaillées des Gaules, de la France à l'époque de 1789, des 86 départ...
- $75 / ≈ €70
Place & Date: Paris, 1826
Asiae Minoris Stappa generalis ad Caesarum tempus.
A lovely steel engraved map of Turkey, Cyprus and Minor Asia. From Louis de Saint-Martin Vivien's Atlas Universel. Engraved by Giraldon-Bovinet.
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: Paris, 1826
[Family from Kyrgyz Republic - Costumes des Kirguises]
Aquatint engraved by D.K. Bonatti, after drawings by C. Bottigella. Showing a family in typical dress from the Kyrgyz Republic. Man is holding a bird.In the late nineteen...
- $70 / ≈ €66
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
[Taoism religion of the Callmoucks].
Aquatint depicting six Taoist deities engraved by D.K. Bonatti, after drawings by C. Bottigella. Plate N° 43. The Tatars people which live almost all in the north of Asi...
- $45 / ≈ €42
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
[ Tartars ].
Aquatint depicts a group of Tartars in traditional attire, engraved by D.K. Bonatti, after drawings by G.Gattina. Plate N° 45 From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Anci...
- $45 / ≈ €42
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
[Sumatra plants ].
Aquatint depicting coffee, pepper et other plants in Sumatra. Plate N° 46.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du gouvernement, de la mil...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
[No title]. [Two locals of the island of Ubi ].
Aquatint depicting two locals, one rowing to shore, the other searching for sea shells on the Island of Ubi in the Moluccas. Engraved by Carlo Bottigella. From Giulio Fer...
- $40 / ≈ €37
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
[ Island of Bouro with a view of Cayeli ].
Aquatint depicts a view of Cayeli on the island of Bouro. Engraved by G.Castellini. Plate N° 55.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du g...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
[ A man and woman from Timor ].
Aquatint depicting a man and woman from Timor, engraved by A.Biasioli. Plate N° 56. The weaving of traditional scarves or tais is widespread in East Timor. From Giulio...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
[Mongolian pipe smoking ].
Aquatint depicting a group of Mongolians in traditional attire during a pipe smoking ceremony. Chinese and Mongolian tradition had tobacco smoking from pipes with small m...
- $80 / ≈ €75
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
[Fauna and flora - Siberia].
Aquatint depicting a donkey, a weasel and a squirrel, and three botanical plants in Siberia engraved by C.A.Raineri, after drawings by C. Bottigella. Plate N° 22.From Gi...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
[Tartares Katschins ].
Aquatint depicting people from Tartary engraved by Cantelli, after drawings by C. Bottigella. Plate N° 26.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou His...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
[Ostiaks ].
Aquatint depicting a Ostiaks people engraved by D.K. Bonatti, after drawings by C. Bottigella.The Ostiak people are a tribe who inhabit the basin of the Ob in western Sib...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
[Samoyedes ].
Aquatint depicting Samoyedes warming up around a camp fire engraved by D.K. Bonatti, after drawings by C. Bottigella. The Samoyedes is a tribe of the Ural-Altaic group, s...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
[Yakuts ].
Aquatint depicting Yakuts in traditional dress engraved by D.K. Bonatti, after drawings by C. Bottigella.The Yakuts live in the Republic of Sakha (YakutiaYakutia), Khabar...
- $75 / ≈ €70
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
[Tibetan Gilong monk].
Aquatint depicting a Tibetan Gilong monk with persons from the City of Karakoran engraved by D.K. Bonatti, after drawings by C. Bottigella of a family of Turkestan. Plate...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
[Costume plate of locals of Dourans tribe in Afganistan]
Aquatint showing locals of Dourans tribe in Afghanistan in their typical dress. Plate N° 1. Engraved by C. Bottigella.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume ancien et mo...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
[Costume plate of locals of Afganistan]
Aquatint showing locals of Afghanistan in their typical dress. Plate N° 2. Engraved by D.K.Bonatti.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume ancien et moderne ou histoire d...
- $60 / ≈ €56
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
[Afganistans in their typical dress]
Aquatint showing local of Afghanistan in their typical dress. Plate N° 3.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume ancien et moderne ou histoire du gouvernement, de la mili...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
[Tassisoudon Palace - Palace Lama Chassatou]
Two aquatint prints on one sheet showing the Tassisoudon Palace and the Palace of Lama Chassatou in Tibet. Plate N° 6. From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume ancien et m...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
[View of Castle and Bridge Vandipore - Bhutan - Tibet ]
Aquatint print with view of Castle and Bridge Vandipore - Bhutan - Tibet. Plate N° 7. From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume ancien et moderne ou histoire du gouvernemen...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
[Gyap, father of the young Teschou Lama
Aquatint print with Gyap, father of the young Teschou Lama "and his wife and the" portrait of the Grand Lama. - Tibet. Plate N° 8. From Giulio Ferrario's work ...
- $80 / ≈ €75
Place & Date: Milan, 1827