Browse Listings in Asia
Portions of the Russian Empire in eastern & western Asia.
Two maps on one sheet. Components: The Aral Sea according to Khanikoff -- Kamchatka according to A. Erman. Relief is shown by hachures and spot heights. No. 8 from Fullar...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: London, 1860
Carte de la Mer Noire. (5e Feuille). Du Cap Zefiros au Cap Kerempeh. . .
Very detailed chart of the Turkish part of the Black Sea including the towns of Sinop, Samsun, etc. Showing soundings in meters, lighthouses are marked with yellow and re...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Paris, 1860
(Untitled view from Scutari with a view of Constantinople)
Panoramic view from Scutari with a view of Constantinople in the distance, after a design by Johann Schranz. Published by J. Missiriè.
Place & Date: Paris, 1860
Asia Centrale, Tibet Thian - Scian - Nan - Lu, Mongolia Grand Deserto &.
From the "Geografia Commerciale". Steel engraving with attractive original outline color, printed on thick paper with wide margins. Engraved by C. Magrini.
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Genova, 1860
Specialkarte der Asiatischen Turkey : 1. Blatt Anadoli (Klein - Asien)
Steel engraved map of western part of Turkey, engraved by Ifslieb and J. Grassl.
- $75 / ≈ €70
Place & Date: Hildburghausen, 1860
A fan combining views of Hong Kong (right), Canton (center), and Macau.
The fan shows nice images of Macau, Hong Kong and Canton on onside and on verso a garden with 45 characters welcoming a rider on his white horse. Their clothes are height...
Place & Date: China, ca. 1850-1860
Plan de la rivierè de Saigon et de ses affluents dressé par ordre de M. le capitaine de vaisseau d'Ariès, gouverneur de Saigon, d'après les documents fournis par MM. Lespès. . .
A huge folded map the Saigon river prepared after Léo de Lespès, Rieunier Narac. Inset map of "Carte de Banc de Corail, levée d' après les ordres de Mr. le Capta...
- $750 / ≈ €702
Place & Date: St Joseph, Saigon, after 1860
Militairy manuscript map of the end of Yangzi River across Shanghai, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang areas, with 3 red seals of the Ever-Victorious Army.
In lower left corner an inset plan of Songjiang District with Shanghai with a grid and the area is divided with red doted border lines.The map has three red seals of the ...
Place & Date: China, ca 1862
Plan de Camp de Tché-Fou et de ses environs.
A rare and detailed plan of Chefoo, which was a treaty port in Shantung province, near today's Yantai. Plate IV from "Atlas de l'expédition de Chine en 1860: rédig...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Paris, 1862
Occupation de Tien-Tsin par la Flottille Anglo-Française le 26 Mai 1859.
Plate III from "Atlas de l'expédition de Chine en 1860: rédigé au dépôt de la guerre d'après les documents officiels, étant directeur le général Blondel, so...
- $250 / ≈ €234
Place & Date: Paris, 1862
Carte de l'Asie orientale comprenant l'empire chinois le Japon les états de l'Indo-Chine et le grand archipel d'Asie ou Malaisie.
Detailed map of Malaysia, Thailand, China, Taiwan, and good detail in Philippines. Lower part of a 2-sheet map.
Place & Date: Paris, 1862
View of Nagasaki, Japan.
A panoramic view of Nagasaki harbour from the Illustrated Times of November 28th., 1863. With accompanying one column descriptive text on verso of Nagasaki.
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: London, 1863
Küstenansichten von Japan bis Capstadt und St. Helena in 5 Blättern.
Prepared by Officer S.M.S. Arcona during the German expedition of 1860-1861 to South East Asia. Lithographed by Lippold and printed by C.Ulrich of Berlin. Sheet 2 from a ...
Place & Date: Berlin, 1863
Plan de la rade de Macao (chine) Levé d'après les ordres mr. Rocquemaurel.
Very detailed chart of Macao and several of the surrounding Islands, and features numerous depth soundings throughout. Prepared by captain, Gaston de Rocquemaurel. Logo o...
Place & Date: Paris, c.1856 / 1863
Az Europai és Asiai Torok Birodalom Kozonséges Foldképe
Hungarian map of Turkey, including Greece, Cyprus, etc.
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Pesten, 1864
En Chine.
From the series "Caricatures du Prussien - Guerre des Duchés". Lithographed by Julés Pelcoq.
Place & Date: Paris, 1864
Attaque & prise des forts du Pei-Ho Le 21 Août 1860, par les troupes Françaises et Anglaises.
In 1860, an Anglo-French force gathered at Hong Kong and then carried out a landing at Pei Tang on August 1, and a successful assault on the Taku Forts on August 21.This ...
- $500 / ≈ €468
Place & Date: Paris, ca.1865
(2 charts of Shri Lanka) Mer des Indes - Ile de Ceylan - Partie Nord. Détroit de Palk et Golfe de Manaar.. [with] Partrie Sud...
Two very large charts representing the northern and southern part of Sri Lanka and giving details about the Indian seacoast around the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait....
- $750 / ≈ €702
Place & Date: Paris, 1866
Johnson's Japan Nippon, Kiusiu, Sikok, Yesso. . .
A detailed steel engraved map of Japan with inset maps of Yes and the Japanese Kuriles and Bay of Nagasaki. The map shows the island Argonaut labeled as Takashima (Ulleun...
- $175 / ≈ €164
Place & Date: New York, 1867
NEWTON'S New and Improved TERRESTRIAL GLOBE Accurately delineated from the observations of the most esteemed NAVIGATORS AND TRAVELLERS to the Present Time. . .
A very impressive Victorian 20-inch Library globe is showing the "Gulf of Corea."On an exceptionally carved mahogany tripod stand with scrolling acanthus legs t...
Place & Date: London, January 1, 1867
Carte générale de L'Empire Ottoman en Europe et en Asie dressée par Henri Kiepert . . .
Large School wall map of Turkish Empire printed in chromo-lithography. Published by Dieter Reimer and printed by Ferdind Barth in Berlin. This rare map has two insets in ...
Place & Date: Berlin, Verlag von Dietrich Reimer, 1867
Carte général de L'Empire Ottoman en Europe et en Asie. . . dressée par Henri Kiepert.
Large School wall map of Turkish Empire printed in chromo-lithography. Published by Dieter Reimer and printed by Ferdind Barth in Berlin.This rare map has two insets in l...
- $700 / ≈ €655
Place & Date: Berlin, Dieter Reimer, 1867
Arabia. Gulf of Aden - North Coast. Aden and Adjacent Bays..
Large chart focused east of Aden, in Yemen. With inset plan of Aden Anchorage in the upper right corner and a set of coastal profiles in the upper left corner.With latitu...
- $900 / ≈ €842
Place & Date: London (1836) corrected to 1868
CARTE de la Côte Occidentale de COREE, Plan Croquis de la Rivière HAN-KANG ou de SEOUL, depuis son Embouchure jusqu'à Séoul, dressée en 1866 ...
Uncommon chart of the Han-Kang River from its mouth to Seoul, prepared in 1866 by order of C.A. ROZE, Commander-in-Chief of the French " la Station des Mers de Chine...
Place & Date: Paris, 1868
Carte générale de la mer des Indes dressée par P. Daussy et P.E. Wissocq, grave par Chassant, ecrit par J.M. Hacq.
Magnificent and detailed large-scale chartdepicting the Indian ocean, with east coast of Africa, Madagascar, Arabian Peninsula, India, China, etc .Including the West coa...
- $1000 / ≈ €936
Place & Date: Paris, 1837-1869
Carte de la Mer Noire. (1e Feuille). Du Bosphore à Mangalia et du Bosphore au Cap Kerempeh.
Very detailed chart of the Turkish part of the Black Sea including the towns of Constantinople (Istanbul) , Bourgas. Showing soundings in meters, lighthouses are marked w...
Place & Date: Paris, 1860, updated for 1870
Veduta di Istambul. [Gouache]
Very decorative view depicting Istanbul, in the style of Neapolitan gouaches. Features different Mosques and the shores of the Bosporus. Many ships, small and large, are ...
Place & Date: Italy ?, ca. 1870
Carte Des Detroits De Singapour Durian, Jombol et Rhio Dressee d'apres les travaux Anglais et Hollandais les plus recents . . . 1866
Rare separately issued chart of Singapore, extending to Johore, Battam, Bintang, Rempang, Galang, Jombol, Suji, Sanbon and neighboring islands, depicting coastal features...
Place & Date: Paris, 1870
Bay of Bengal, compiled chiefly from government survey.. [2 sheets]
Large scale chart in 2 sheets focused on the Bay of Bengal.It covers Sri Lanka, the whole Indian eastern coast, the seacoast of Bangladesh, Myanmar and Thailand as far as...
- $1200 / ≈ €1123
Place & Date: London (1863), corrections to 1871
Mer de Chine - Detroit De Singapour Partie Comprise Entre Singaour et Le Dett. De Malacca d'apres les travaux du Commr. J.W. Reed de la Marine Royale d'Angleterr...
Mer de Chine - Detroit De Singapour Partie Comprise Entre Singaour et Le Dett. De Malacca d'apres les travaux du Commr. J.W. Reed de la Marine Royale d'Angleterr, execute...
- $2500 / ≈ €2339
Place & Date: London, 1871
Mer de Chine - Carte des Iles et Détroits entre Singapoure et le Détroit de Banca. Dréssée d'après le stravaux Anglais et Hollandais plus récents, par Mr. L. Manen . . . 1866
A nautical chart of Singapore and neighboring islands. The first edition of the chart was published in 1866 from French and English sources, this is the corrected version...
- $2000 / ≈ €1871
Place & Date: London, 1866-1871
Kiepert's Physikalische Wandkarten IV. ASIEN. . .
Wall map of Asia printed in chromo lithography. Published by "Stich und Druck der lith. Anst. Von Leopold Kraatz in Berlin". Physical map showing the Asian cont...
Place & Date: Berlin, D. Reimer, 1873
Mer de Chine - Detroit De Singapour Partie Comprise Entre Singaour et Le Dett. De Malacca d'apres les travaux du Commr. J.W. Reed de la Marine Royale d'Angleterr, ...
A detailed chart of Singapore Strait, drawn from an English Chart by J.W. Reed, who surveyed Singapore and environs between 1865 and 1869, aboard the H.M.S. Rifleman.The ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1873
Sibérie ou Russie d'Asie.
A decorative map of Siberia from Géographie Universelle, Atlas Migeon. published by J. Migeon.From one of the last decorative atlases published in the 19th century.
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: Paris, 1874
Inde, Chine, Indo-Chine et Japon.
A decorative map of India, China, Japan and East Asia from Géographie Universelle, Atlas Migeon, published by J. Migeon. In lower right corner a view of Calcutta and to ...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Paris, 1874
Carte du Kouy-Tchéou.
Detailed map of Guizhou Province prepared by Mgr. Faurie and other sources supplied by missionaries. Published in "Les Missions Catholique". Engraved by P. Méa...
Place & Date: Lyon, c.1874
Carte du Tche-Kiang. [ Zhejiang province ]
Map of Tche Kiang, prepared by Bishop Edmond-François Guierry, C.M. (Vicar Apostolic of Zhejiang, China) after sources supplied by missionaries. Published in "Les M...
Place & Date: Paris, 1874
Kaisei dosen Dai Nihon yochi zenzu.
Title in top : "Dai Nihon yochi zenzu.". Showing Japan, Korea and in an inset Hokkaido. Folding copperplate print in Japanese. Relief shown by hachures. Include...
- $350 / ≈ €328
Place & Date: Tokyo, Meiji 10 or 1877
Karte des Türkischen Reiches in Europa und Asien . . .
Map of Turkish Empire.
- $35 / ≈ €33
Place & Date: Breslau, 1878
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-...
Place & Date: Bologne, 1878
Asie.
Manuscript map made by miss Marie Demeule, dated Elbeuf 1879. Elbeuf is a town within the Upper Normandy region in France.In the 19th century many students, and quite oft...
Place & Date: France, Elbeuf, 1879
Nagasaki. - Vue générale. Dessin de Taylor, après une photographie.
A bird's-eye view showing Nagasaki Bay. After a photograph by Taylor. Engraved in wood by A.Kohl.Showing the town and natural harbour of Nagasaki.In the harbour the islan...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Paris, 1880
Carte de la Corée d'après la Carte du Dictionnaire coréen-français par les Missionnaires de Corée. . .
Map of Korea called "Corée", which was produced by the French organization Mission Etrangères de Paris (MEP) in 1880. Supposedly, the map was based on Father ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1880
A folding fan with a map of Japan, double hemisphere world map and views of Yokohama and Edo.
The folding fan showing a map of Japan on one side, and on the other side a double hemisphere world map, two city views, and a train. Read more about folding fans andcar...
- $750 / ≈ €702
Place & Date: Japan, ca. 1880
Borneo, shewing the lands ceded by the sultans of Brunei & Sulu to the British North Borneo Company.
Chromo lithographed folded map showing Borneo with Brunei, Sarawak, British North Borneo Company or Sabah. One of the first maps showing the British North Borneo Company ...
- $1750 / ≈ €1638
Place & Date: London, Stanford, 1881
Hong Kong. [Queen's Road]
Finely executed watercolor made by Henri Dieth of a charming atmospheric street scene at Queen's Road in Hong Kong. The watercolor is made after Eduard Hildebrandt (1818-...
Place & Date: Germany, 1882
Hongkong Piratenstrasse. [Pirate Street]
Finely executed watercolor made by Henri Dieth of a charming street scene at "Pirate Street" in Hong Kong. The watercolor is made after Eduard Hildebrandt (1818...
Place & Date: Germany, 1882
Runde Strasse in Peking.
Finely executed water color made by Henri Dieth of a charming street scene in Peking. The water color is made after Eduard Hildebrandt (1818-1869). Hildebrandt, was born ...
Place & Date: Germany, 1882
Papers relating to the affairs of Sulu and Borneo, and to the grant of a charter of incorporation of the British North Borneo Company. . . (with two folding maps of Indonesia)
58 pages Government recordings relating to the affairs of Sulu and Borneo, and to the grant of a charter of incorporation of the British North Borneo Company. . . (includ...
- $500 / ≈ €468
Place & Date: London, Harrison and son, 1882
Oro-Hydrographische Kaart van Azië.
One of the earliest thematic maps of Asia published in the Netherlands from "Atlas der natuurkundige aardrijkskunde. . .". prepared by Nicolaas Wilhelmus Posthu...
- $35 / ≈ €33
Place & Date: Amsterdam, C.L. Brinkman, 1883
Japan.
A detailed lithographed map of Japan including Hokkaido and including a small inset of the environs of Tokyo & Yokohama. Lower part map a numbered key to divisions an...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Edinburg, 1884
Overzichtskaart van den Nederlandsch oost Indischen Archipel.
Very detailed map of Indonesia, taken from "Atlas van Nederlandsch Oost- en West-Indie," prepared by a doctor I. Dornseiffen, and published by Seyffardt's Boekh...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Seyffardt, 1884
De kleine Soenda-Eilanden. Schaal van 1:800000.
Very detailed two sheet map of Soenda Islands, taken from "Atlas van Nederlandsch Oost- en West-Indie", prepared by doctor I. Dornseiffen, and published by publ...
- $30 / ≈ €28
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Seyffardt, 1884
Kaart van Celebes / Kaart van Zuid-West-Celebes : bevattende de Gouvernem.ts, de leenroerige en een gedeelte der bondgenootschappelijke landen behoorende tot het Gouvernement van Celebes en onderh.
Very detailed map taken from "Atlas der Nederlandsche bezittingen in Oost-Indië", who was published by Departement van Koloniën".First edition of one of ...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: The Hague, 1883-1885
Kaart van't noordwestelijke gedeelte der Residentie Amboina . . . / Kaart der Molukken.
Two very detailed maps on one sheet, taken from "Atlas der Nederlandsche bezittingen in Oost-Indië", who was published by Departement van Koloniën".The m...
- $75 / ≈ €70
Place & Date: The Hague, 1883-1885
[Title page] Der Nederlandsche Bezittingen in Oost-Indië . . .
Decorative title page with in lower part a schematic map of Indonesia, and two hemispheres. Taken from "Atlas der Nederlandsche bezittingen in Oost-Indië", who...
- $75 / ≈ €70
Place & Date: The Hague, 1883-1885
Kaart van Het Noordelijk Gedeelte Van Het Eiland Borneo.
A very detailed map of Northern Borneo including Brunei, taken from the "Atlas der Nederlandsche bezittingen in Oost-Indië", which was published by Departement...
- $750 / ≈ €702
Place & Date: The Hague, 1883-1885
Mer de Chine. Golfe du Tonkin. Entrées de Kuaï-Chin-Mun et Tsieng-Mun. . .
Large chart centred on the Gulf of Tonkin in the South China Sea. Showing banks, isles and soundings made in metres. Relief is shown by hachures.Engraved by A. Gérin aft...
Place & Date: Paris, 1887
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2008
Tjilatjap (1888)
Detailed plan of the port and city of Tjilatjap on Java. Taken from "Atlas des Ports Etrangers". Lithographed by A. Simon.
- $25 / ≈ €23
Place & Date: Paris, 1888
(Complete map of ancient and modern geography of China)
The second earliest edition of China’s first commercial map, Gujin di yu quan tu 《古今地輿全圖》(Complete map of ancient and modern geography of China) made du...
Place & Date: Jingdu dashuntang, 1888
Parthie aus dem Binnensee [Japan]
Anonymous drawing made by a German during his visit to Japan. The drawing shows a lake with two Japanese vessels and a building with a Japanese flag in an mountainous lan...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Japan, c. 1890
Mission de Mandchourie.
Important missionary map showing Manchuria in Russia and China, prepared by Adrien Launay, who was a French Missionary and later chronicler of the history of the French M...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Lille, 1890
Hayter Basilisk, and Moresby Islands. (manuscript map)
An unusual small, and basic manuscript map of the Hayter Basilisk and Moresby Islands near Papua New Guinea, off the northern coast of Australia.
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: London, ca. 1890
Manuscript map of the Philippine Archipelago.
An unusual small, and basic manuscript map of the Philippine Archipelago. Many small islands named.
Place & Date: London, ca. 1890
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2016
The Bahrein Islands. Reduced from the admiraly Charts, illustrating the journey of Theodore Brent, Esq.
Early map of Bahrein Island, with in top a map of the Persian Gulf. Fine colored lithograph map by F.S. Weller. Published for the proceedings of the Royal Geographical So...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: London, Edward Stanford, 1890
The Karun River and branches.
Karun River and branches map compiled from the charts of Colonel Chesney, Lieut. Selby and Captain Clements.The Karun continues toward the Persian Gulf, forking into two ...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: London, 1890
Across Luristan to Ispahan.
Map showing the route from Shushter to Ispahan by Henry Blosse Lynch. When Lynch was based in Baghdad he was in charge of the postal service across Syria between Baghdad ...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: London, 1890
Atlas des Missions de la Société des Missions-Étrangères. . .
This scarce atlas contains maps showing the locations of the Catholic missions belonging to the Société des Missions Étrangères in Asia. It covers India, Burma, Siam,...
Place & Date: Lille, 1890
[Views of Korea, Thailand, Cambodia and its inhabitants and princes. Including one or more phographes by Hippolyte Frandin.]
A collection of 95 photographs, of which about 60 photos feature Korea or its people, printed on albumen paper. Captions in French. The others from Thailand, China, India...
- $25000 / ≈ €23393
Place & Date: C. 1892
Chosen Danpan - Korean negotiation.
A scene of a Japanese legation under the command of Hanabusa Yoshitada who is forcing the Korean King Kojong (1852-1919) to agree to Japanese demands during the Chemulpo ...
Place & Date: August 8, MEIJI 27th year or 1894
KOUSHI NYUJO no Zu - HANABUSA Legation enters in Palace, Seoul.
A scene of Japanese legation HANABUSA who are entering the Royal Palace, Seoul.
Place & Date: August 8, MEIJI 27th year or 1894
Chosen Danpan (Discussing the clauses of the ultimatum between the Japanese, Chinese and Korean forces).
Japanese woodcut showing the Japanese, Chinese and Koreans discussing the clauses of the ultimatum between Japan, China and Korea, . Yôsai Nobukazu (1872-1944).A scene...
- $1200 / ≈ €1123
Place & Date: August 8, MEIJI 27th year or 1894
Colombo Harbour From Surveys supplied by Sir. John Coode. . .
Sir John Coode's highly detailed map of the Harbour at Colombo (Sri Lanka), with manuscript notations and corrections in pencil. With red pencil "INCORRECT".The...
- $500 / ≈ €468
Place & Date: London, 1885 -1896
China Sea Nothern Porton compiled from the latest survey to 1884
A fine Survey chart no. 2680 showing Tong King Gulf, Hanan Island up to Hong Kong, Macao and Canto River up to Canton (Being)
- $800 / ≈ €749
Place & Date: London, 1887, updated to 1897
Stanford's Map of Eastern China, Japan and Korea. 1898.
Charming, folding map of the east coast of China, Korea and Japan. In the lower right corner inset map of Korea (265x512mm.). In the lower left, a key to Treaty Ports, Su...
- $750 / ≈ €702
Place & Date: London, ca. 1898
[South and middle Asia and the lands of the Nile.].
Alexey Afinogenovich Ilyin was a lieutenant general and cartographer (1832-1889). In 1856, after graduating from the Academy of the General Staff, he was at the military ...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: St. Petersburg, 1899
[Asia].
Alexey Afinogenovich Ilyin was a lieutenant general and cartographer (1832-1889). In 1856, after graduating from the Academy of the General Staff, he was at the military ...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: St. Petersburg, 1899
[Europe].
Alexey Afinogenovich Ilyin was a lieutenant general and cartographer (1832-1889). In 1856, after graduating from the Academy of the General Staff, he was at the military ...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: St. Petersburg, 1899
[Map of Palestine].
Alexey Afinogenovich Ilyin was a lieutenant general and cartographer (1832-1889). In 1856, after graduating from the Academy of the General Staff, he was at the military ...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: St. Petersburg, 1899
Nankin [Nanjing, Jiangsu]
Very detailed (1:1.000.000) map showing the area north of Nanjing, Jiangsu. The French Service géographique des armées was founded in 1887 and provided the French milit...
Place & Date: Paris, 1900