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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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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
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
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
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 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
Nieuwe kaart van het Eyland Ceylon. . .
Fine map depicting the Island of Ceylon/Sri Lanka, oriented with north to the left.. Good interior detail is given with settlements, roads, etc. An attractive early map, ...
- $850 / ≈ €795
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1726
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...
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.
Place & Date: Italy, ca. 1750
De Zuydwest-Kust van Het Eyland Ceylon.
A finely engraved and detailed chart of Punta Gala harbour.Very rare: only included in 6th volume (so-called secret atlas) of Van Keulen's. A lettered key in upper left c...
- $1000 / ≈ €936
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1753
Insula Ceilon et Madura / Exactissime delineata et nuperrime edita per R. & J. Ottens.
Map of Ceylon shown in remarkable detail, along with the contiguous coast of India. Two large allegorical cartouches. The map was originally issued by Johannes De Ram.Joa...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1756
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 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
Indes. IIe. Feuille.
Attractive map of the southmost tip of India and Sri Lanka, including the Maldives and part of Sumatra. Boundaries are outlined in hand color.From the "Atlas moderne...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Paris ca 1783
Ceylon.
Decorative steel engraved map of the Ceylon. The Illustrations and engraving by J Rapkin and H.Winckles. The Map was drawn and engraved by John Rapkin.John Tallis a Londo...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: London, 1858
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(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
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
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...
Place & Date: London, ca 1937