Tabula X. Asiae hae sunt e cognitis totius orbis.
This is the earliest printed representation of India west of the Ganges River in Ptolemy's time. It is an important map of southwestern Asia, including Persia, Afghanista...
- $1100 / ≈ €1029
Place & Date: Lyons, M. Servetus, 1525
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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...
Place & Date: Lyons, M. Servetus, 1535
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[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...
Place & Date: Vienna, Trechsel, G., 1525 -1541
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.[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...
Place & Date: Vienna, Trechsel, G., 1525 -1541
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.[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...
Place & Date: Vienna, Trechsel, G., 1525 -1541
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Tabula XII - Asiae [Taprobana Ins]
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...
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 ...
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Tabula Asiae XII. (Sri Lanka)
Gastaldi's map showing Sri Lanka, based upon Ptolemy's twelfth map of Asia depicting Taprobana. With a decorative scene with elephant and descriptive text next to the map...
Place & Date: Venice, 1548
Tabula Asiae XI.
Attractive early woodblock map of the Indian Ocean, extending from Southeast Asia to the Ganges River and north to the Himalayas.In upper left inset panel of tiger, cocke...
- $600 / ≈ €561
Place & Date: Basle, H. Petri, c. 1552
Calecut Nuova Tavola.
Early map of India, extending from west of the Gujarat peninsula eastward to Bengal and south as far as northern Ceylon (“Ceilam”). Girolamo Ruscelli first published ...
- $350 / ≈ €328
Place & Date: Venice, 1564
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...
- $875 / ≈ €819
Place & Date: Cologne, 1575
Plan, et figure de la riche cité de Calecut en la premiere Inde.
A rare and early woodcut view of Calcutta in India. Decorated with several ships on the sea, shipbuilding, fishermen and elephants.This woodcut was published in La Cosmog...
Place & Date: Paris, 1575
Goa fortissima Indiae urbs in Christianorum potestatem anno Salutis 1509. devenit.
A rare and early woodcut view of Goa in India. Decorated with one ship. This woodcut was published in La Cosmographie Universelle de tout le monde, printed 1575 in two vo...
Place & Date: Paris, 1575
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Calechut Celeberrimum Indiae Emporium [on sheet with] Ormus [and] Canonor [and] S. Georgii Oppidum Mina.
Four desirable and early town plans of Kozhikode, Hormuz, Kannur, and Almina. "KOZHIKODE (CALICUT) : "The city is viewed from the sea, just as it would have ap...
- $800 / ≈ €749
Place & Date: Cologne, (1572) 1577
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 / ≈ €702
Place & Date: Cologne, 1580
Calecuty Regnum
A rare and unusual depiction of the Indian Ocean between Madagascar, Ethiopia, southern Arabia, and south India and Ceylon.The calligraphy is florid and decorative. The e...
- $2000 / ≈ €1871
Place & Date: Cologne, 1596
Pineapple, Bettel, palma dactylifera, Samaca & Mango.
These are all Indian fruits, of which the pineapple has the best flavour and aroma. The Bettel plant is also shown here climbing up long rods and canes, just as the peppe...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1598
The trees that bear Cayus and Jambos and other plants.
Here are shown two trees that produce good fruits but it is the Jambos that is the best and most beautiful according to written accounts. Also shown is how the Perrer pla...
- $80 / ≈ €75
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1598
The bamboo, the tree of roots and the Durian fruit.
In India there is a kind of cane, known as Bambus, which has a stem as thick as a human leg. This is used for many things as it is light and yet strong. There is also a k...
- $80 / ≈ €75
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1598
The extraordinary 'Abore Triste' tree of India.
In India there is an extraordinary tree, known as the 'Abore Triste', which is regarded as one of God's miracles. This tree flowers for a whole year but only at night tim...
- $80 / ≈ €75
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1598
Birds and fish seen during the voyage to India.
During their voyage to India many strange birds were seen, for example, the 'Garayos' that were the size of a chicken, the 'Rabos de Juncos' that are white and about the ...
- $100 / ≈ €94
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 / ≈ €84
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1598
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 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1598
Quomodo Lusitanorum vxores & filiae deserrantur per publicum.
The way how the Portuguese carried a noble lady in India from Linschoten's famous voyages to the East of 1583-92 here published by De Bry the year after they first appear...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1599
Lusitani in India deseruntur in Lecticis.
The way how the Portuguese carried a noble man in India from Linschoten's famous voyages to the East of 1583-92 here published by De Bry the year after they first appeare...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1599
Peregrinationes noctu devotionis ergo à Lusitanis in India susceptae.
Showing Portuguese family in India from Linschoten's famous voyages to the East of 1583-92 here published by De Bry the year after they first appeared as a separate book....
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1599
Quo habitu vulgus Lusitanorum in India per publicum incedat. (Portuguese citizens and soldiers in Goa)
This famous and desirable scene is showing comportment and dress of the Portuguese citizens and soldiers in East India as they appear in the streets from 1599. From Part ...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1599
Descriptio Narsingae / Narsinga et Ceylon.
A rare miniature map of the southern part of India with Sri Lanka. The title cartouche on the upper right corner.First published in 1598 in his Caert-Thresoor, the plates...
- $350 / ≈ €328
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cornelis Claes, 1606
Malabar.
Very fine early miniature map of southern part of India and a part of Ceylon island. Title cartouche on the lower right corner.First published in 1598 in his Caert-Threso...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cornelis Claes, 1606
Bengala.
A lovely miniature map of a section of the Bay of Begal, published by Petrus Bertius, in Amsterdam at the beginning of the seventeenth century. There is a decorative stra...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Descriptio Cambaiae.
A very decorative little map of northern India with Gujarat and the Indus river, bordering Pakistan. Naming major towns represented by symbols, major rivers, mountains, a...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Indiae Orientalis.
This map covers an area including India, part of Malaysia, Borneo and China.From the first French-text edition of Jodocus Hondius' Atlas Minor.Shortly after the publicati...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1608
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 ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam / Frankfurt, 1609
Delineatio Duorum Oppidorum, Ortat.
Early map of the Banda Islands.Theodore de Bry, a German engraver and book dealer, began a compilation of early voyages in 1590 and had published six parts at the time of...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1609
Expressio Germinum Quoque Aliorum, in S. Lavrentii.
Plants found in the island of S. Laurenti [Madagascar]. A’ denotes a tree with only a few twigs on the top. From this tree, canoes and boats are made. ‘B’ is a bush...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1609
VI. Repraesentatio Bellorum, et Quomodo se ad Illa praeparent. (How the natives fight each other)
This shows how the men go to war and which weapons they use. They hold large square shields, about six feet high and four feet wide, made of cane and fortified with ox-hi...
- $90 / ≈ €84
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1609
Delineatio Foederis Hollandorum cum Rege Calecutanorum pacti.
A treaty between the Dutch and the king of Calicut. The Dutch Admiral, Steffan van der Haagen already knew that the people of Calicut, on the Malabar Coast of India, were...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1609
Indianorum, Insulae Pugnatan Incolarum. (The natives of the island of Pugnatan)
There was an island called Pugnatan at the western entrance to the Strait of Sudan, where the natives went about completely naked. Like the natives of Brazil, their hair ...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1609
Pars Undecima Orientalis X. Quomodo in Septentrionalibus insulis prope. (How the inhabitants catch whales off the east coast of Madagascar.)
How the inhabitants catch whales off the east coast of Madagascar. When the natives of Santa Marta, off the east coast of Madagascar see a whale, they row out in their li...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1609
Pars Undecima Orientalis II. Quomodo Robertus, Caverta Capitaneus.
Fine engraving showing the arrest of the English captain Robert Caverta. Below an explanation in Latin that Caverta was arrested and killed by order of the king of the Co...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1609
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Repraesentatio Aedificiorum in Benyn, et Quid Praeterea notatu dignum ibi occurrat. [Execution of criminals in Benin.]
Execution of criminals in Benin. According to the text: The town of Benin is quite large and comprises homes with no windows, only open roofs. The more distinguished hous...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1609
Delineatio Tragoediae Illius, Qua Viceadmiralis Sebaldus de Weert.
Event during Jan Harmensz Bree's account of the voyage to the East Indies in 1602-1604, under the command of Admirals Sebald De Weert and Pietersz to Ceylon, where de Wee...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1609
IX. Repraesentatio Piscationum Diurnarum.
Fishing offshore at the coasts of Guinea. Theodore de Bry, a German engraver and book dealer, began a compilation of early voyages in 1590 and had published six parts at ...
- $75 / ≈ €70
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1609
Pars Undecima Orientalis III. Quomodo Pembae incolae Anglos aliquot. . .
Finely engraved view of the arrival of Europeans at Pemba iIsland in Zanziba.Theodore de Bry, a German engraver and book dealer, began a compilation of early voyages in 1...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1609
India Orientalis.
FIRST IMPRINT FROM THE NEWLY ENGRAVED PLATES IN 1616. - A rare miniature map of the East Indies.First published in 1598 in his Caert-Thresoor, the plates were executed by...
- $400 / ≈ €374
Place & Date: Amsterdam, J. Hondius, 1616
Casablanca (Anfa) - Azemmour (Azamor) - Diu - Old Goa (Velha Goa)
Four fine coastal views of these harbors cities which were important to Portuguese trade. Goa and Diu on the western coast of India, together with Anfa (Casablanc) and Az...
- $450 / ≈ €421
Place & Date: Cologne, 1618
Malabar.
Small map illustrating the southwestern sea coast of India. Oriented with East on top, surrounded by text in Dutch.Included in the rare book : Wereld Spiegel, waer in ver...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cloppenburch, 1621
Malabar.
Small map illustrating the south western seacoast of India. Oriented with East on top, surrounded by text in Dutch.Nicolaes de Clerck (de Klerc) was active as engraver an...
- $175 / ≈ €164
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cloppenburch, 1621
Bengala.
Small map centered on the Bay of Bengal, surrounded by text in Dutch. Nicolaes de Clerck (de Klerc) was active as engraver and publisher in Delft from 1599-1621.Included ...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cloppenburch, 1621
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Narsinga. [India]
Small map illustrating the Indian peninsular. Oriented with East on top, surrounded by text in Dutch.Nicolaes de Clerck (de Klerc) was active as engraver and publisher in...
- $225 / ≈ €211
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cloppenburch, 1621
Magni Mogolis Imperium.
An attractive map of northern part of India, Tibet, Iran to Burma. The travel route from Kabul to Surat is the most prominent feature of the map. Richly decorated with st...
- $500 / ≈ €468
Place & Date: Amsterdam, after 1638
Magni Mogolis Imperium.
An attractive map of the region from Iran through Afghanistan, Tibet, and northern India across to Burma. The travel route from Kabul to Surat is the most prominent featu...
- $350 / ≈ €328
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1644
Partie Meridionale De L'Inde En deux Presqu'Isles l'une deca et l'autre Gange . . . 1654
Sanson's important mid-seventeenth-century map of India and Southeast Asia. At a scale of about 1:9,000,000, it covers most of modern India, Bangladesh and Burma, the who...
- $600 / ≈ €561
Place & Date: Paris, 1654
L'Inde deca et dela le Gange, ou est L'Empire du Grand Mogol. . .
An excellent mid 17th century map showing the area from Afghanistan and Pakistan in the west, and western China on the east, with most of India and extending north to the...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Paris, 1654
Magni Mogolis Imperium.
An attractive map of the northern part of India, Tibet, Iran to Burma. The travel route from Kabul to Surat is the most prominent feature of the map. Richly decorated wit...
- $650 / ≈ €608
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1658
Negapatam.
Bird's-eye view of Nagapattinam or Negapatam, India, printed for the first Dutch edition of Baldaeus' work "A true and exact description of the most celebrated East-...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1672
Empire du Mogol.
Uncommon miniature map of the Mongol empire from Pierre Duval's La Geographie Universeille dated 1676. Following his Cartes de geographie in 1657, Pierre Duval published ...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Paris, 1676
Presqu''isle de L'Inde de ça le Gange.
Uncommon miniature map of India from Pierre Duval's La Geographie Universeille dated 1676. Following his Cartes de geographie in 1657, Pierre Duval published this smaller...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Paris, 1676
Presqu''isle de L'Inde de ça le Gange.
Uncommon miniature map of India from Pierre Duval's La Geographie Universeille dated 1676. Following his Cartes de geographie in 1657, Pierre Duval published this smaller...
- $120 / ≈ €112
Place & Date: Paris, 1676
Goa.
A finely engraved, detailed plan of Goa. It also appeared in Gottfried’s Archontologia (1649). There is a cartouche identifying 43 buildings and the plan includes the h...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1680
Mongols (De L'Asie / figure LIII).
A fine and uncommon early 17th century print of a Mogol couple.From the French text edition of "Description d'Univers", 1683. by Allain Manneson Mallet (1630-17...
- $80 / ≈ €75
Place & Date: Paris, 1683
India extra Gangem . . .
Map covering the subcontinent from the Bay of Bengal and the Gulf of Cambay to Ceylon (Sri Lanka) and offers impressive detail given that the interior of India was largel...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Utrecht / Amsterdam, J.Halma, 1683
Der Grosse Mogol Fig LII.
A fine and uncommon early 17th century print of a Mogol.By Allain Manneson Mallet (1630-1706), a well traveled military engineer and geographer who worked in 17th century...
- $45 / ≈ €42
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1684
Die Mogoler (Fig LIII).
A fine and uncommon early 17th century print of a couple at time of the Mughal Empire. Engraved by Joh. Jak. Vogel.By Allain Manneson Mallet (1630-1706), a well traveled ...
- $40 / ≈ €37
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1684
Grant Mogol - Der Graf Mogol (Fig LI).
A fine and uncommon early 17th century print of a Mughal emperor. Engraved by Joh. Jak. Vogel.By Allain Manneson Mallet (1630-1706), a well traveled military engineer and...
- $45 / ≈ €42
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1684
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...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1686
Penisola dell'Indo di qua del Gange, e l isola di Ceilan..
India below the Tropic of Cancer, with an inset of Ceylon and Trincomalee.The remarkable Vincenzo Coronelli (1650-1718), encyclopaedist, geographer, inventor and Doctor o...
- $800 / ≈ €749
Place & Date: Venice, 1698
Carte d'une Partie des Indes Orientales, Etats du Mogol les Cotes de Malabar et de Coromandel.
A fine and highly detailed depiction of India and the surrounding region, this map extends from the Straits of Hormuz to the Gulf of Bengal. The Amsterdam publishing firm...
- $550 / ≈ €515
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1700
Presqu Isle de L'Inde. deca la Gange.. .
Two maps together on one sheet. General map showing the southern part of India, including the northern part of Shri Lanka. In an inset a detailed map of the most southern...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1700
Les Vrays Indes dits Grands Indes ou Indes Orientales Par N. de Fer. Geographe de Sa Majeste Catoliques et de Monseigneur le Dauphin.
Detailed map on India, Thailand, the Malay Peninsular and the south coast of China up to Macao. The map was engraved by C. Inselin.
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Paris, 1703
Les Vrays Indes dits Grands Indes ou Indes Orientales Par N. de Fer. Geographe de Sa Majeste Catoliques et de Monseigneur le Dauphin.
Detailed map on India, Thailand, the Malay Peninsular and the south coast of China up to Macao. The map was engraved by C. Inselin.
- $500 / ≈ €468
Place & Date: Paris, 1703
Les Vrays Indes dits Grands Indes ou Indes Orientales Par N. de Fer. Geographe de Sa Majeste Catoliques et de Monseigneur le Dauphin.
Detailed map on India, Thailand, the Malay Peninsular and the south coast of China up to Macao. The map was engraved by C. Inselin.
- $600 / ≈ €561
Place & Date: Paris, 1705
De Land-Reyse, door Benedictus Goes, van Lahor gedaan, door Tartaryen na China.
Interesting map showing the region of northeastern India, Nepal, Bhutan, Assam and Bangladesh. Canton in lower right corner.The map illustrates the narrative of the trave...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Leiden, 1707
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...
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, ...
Place & Date: Leiden, 1719
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, ...
- $375 / ≈ €351
Place & Date: Leiden, 1719
Goa Indiae orientalis metropolis.
A fine example of a rare plan of this important Indian city and port, the focal point for Portuguese trading activity in southern Asia. Pictorial map by Pieter Boudewyn v...
- $450 / ≈ €421
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...
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...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1726
Nieuwe Kaart van Choromandel ende Malabar. . .
Fine map depicting the southern part of India and the northern tip of Ceylon. Much detail is given along the coastlines, settlements and principal coastal features are id...
- $650 / ≈ €608
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1726