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IAPONIAE INSULAE DESCRIPTIO.Ludoico Teisera auctore.
The map was based upon the manuscript draft supplied to Ortelius in about 1592 by the famous official Portuguese chart maker, Luis Teixeira , who was the cartographer t...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Asia carta di ciasete piu moderna. (Japan)
Rare FIRST STATE of this important map for Korea and Japan map of the Blancus/Moreira type, but adds a huge 'Jesso' filling the top of this old map. The map is of interes...
Place & Date: Florence, 1646-1647
Japoniae Nova Descriptio.
The map is identical in cartographic detail to the Hondius map of 1606 but newly designed ornate cartouches have been added. The three main islands of Japan are shown wit...
- $1800 / ≈ €1684
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1650
Isola del Giapone e penisola di Corea.
A most attractive and decorative map by Vincenzo Coronelli. An elaborate central title cartouche garlanded with intertwined flowers and dedicated to the Rev.de Fontaine o...
Place & Date: Venice, 1692
Paldobundo Province.
Woodblock printed map of Jeolla Province which was one of the historical Eight Provinces of Korea during the Kingdom of The map is drawn in "Paldo Bundo," styl...
Place & Date: 1710-1718
Japonia Regnum.
It is the first map to correctly show Korea as a peninsula. The rare Covens and Mortier issue of this important map of Japan and Korea, originally published by Blaeu. Thi...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1655 - 1720
Description geographique, historique, chronologique, politique, et physique de l'empire de la Chine et de la Tartarie chinoise . . . du Thibet, & de la Coree. . .
Without the separately published atlas. Lacking 2 plates in vol.2 (Obseques at p.149 and Gin seng at p.180), one plate torn without a loss (vol.1, p.230), d4 vol.1 with a...
Place & Date: The Hague, H. Scheurleer, 1736
Royaume de Corée.
With a quite elaborately pictorial cartouche, engraved by G.Kondet. One of the earliest separate maps of Korea. Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d' Anville (1697-1782), French c...
Place & Date: The Hague, 1737
Nouvel atlas de la Chine, de la Tartarie chinoise, et du Thibet.
First edition of "the principal cartographic authority on China during the 18th century". It was the second major atlas of China produced in Europe following th...
Place & Date: The Hague, H. Scheurleer, 1737
A map of Quan-Tong or Lyau-Tong province, and the kingdom of Kau-Li or Korea . . .
Detailed map of Korea, Liaodong, and the tip of Shandong Province prepared by Thomas Kitchin for Thomas Salmon's Universal Traveller, based on D'Anville's landmark map of...
- $600 / ≈ €561
Place & Date: London, 1747
Tartariae Sinensis mappa geographica ex Tabulis specialibus RRPP Iesuitarun nec non Relationibus R.P. Gerbillon / per Dom d'Anville, . . . primum A° 1732 nunc se Nunc secundum LL. projectionis . . . descripta per Tobiam Mayer
A very attractive map of Korea and Manchuria on the mainland and two islands of 'Ezo' and Sakhalin, prepared by Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville (1697-1782) and Johann...
- $750 / ≈ €702
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1749
Le Japon.
The map is of interest for the use of Mer de Corée, for the sea between Korea and Japan. Small detailed map of Japan and Korea. Dated 1749. A note next to island &quo...
Place & Date: Paris, 1749
Le Japon Par le Sr. Robert de Vaugondy fils de Mr. Robert Geog. Ord du Roi avec Privilege 1749.
Small detailed map of Japan and Korea. From Atlas Portatif Universel, by Robert de Vaugondy.Page 168 outside border top right. First state. The map is of interest for the...
- $220 / ≈ €206
Place & Date: Paris, 1749
Carte du Katay ou Empire de Kin. . .
The map is of interest for the use of Mer de Corée, for the sea between Korea and Japan .Fine map of Korea and China's Yellow Sea. Complete title in top: Carte du Katay ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1750
Carte du Katay ou Empire de Kin. . .
The map is of interest for the use of Mer de Corée for the sea between Korea and Japan .Fine map of Korea and China's Yellow Sea. Complete title in top: Carte du Katay o...
Place & Date: Paris, 1750
Karte von Katay od. dem Reiche Kin, zur Geschichte von Jenghiz Khan. Aus dem Englischen.
The map is of interest for the use of East Sea, the sea between Korea and Japan, here called "Meer von Corea".Copper engraving, hand colored in outline and wash...
Place & Date: Leipzig, Schwabe, ca. 1750
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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
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Ch'onha chido. [Atlas of all under Heaven]
A late 18th-century Ch'onha chido atlas with 10 woodblock maps showing the World, China, and the 8 province maps of Korea (Hamgyeong, Gangwon, Jeolla, Gyeongsang, Pyeonga...
Place & Date: Korea, ca. 1780
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CH'ONHA CHIDO [Atlas of all under Heaven]
The Ch’onha chido [Atlas of all under Heaven] is a late 18th century copy of the traditional Korean atlas produced in the early Choson dynasty (1392-1910). One of the m...
Place & Date: Korea, ca. 1790
Plan de la partie des Isles ou Archipel de Corée.
Showing the track of La Perouse along the southern most tip of Korea, with Quelpaerts Islands (now-a-days called Jeju, with the volcano Halla-san (Halla Mountain) clearly...
- $250 / ≈ €234
Place & Date: Paris, 1797
Plan de la partie des iles, ou archipel de Coree, vue au mois de Mai 1787 par les Fregates Francaises la Boussole et l'Astrolabe. . . .
Showing the track of La Perouse along the southernmost tip of Korea, with Quelpaerts Islands (nowadays called Jeju, with the volcano Halla-san (Halla Mountain) clearly no...
- $450 / ≈ €421
Place & Date: L'Imprimerie de la Republique, An V, 1797
Plan de la partie des Isles ou Archipel de Coree.
Showing the track of La Perouse along the southernmost tip of Korea, with Quelpaerts Islands (nowadays called Jeju, with the vulcano Halla-san (Halla Mountain) is clearly...
- $350 / ≈ €328
Place & Date: Paris, 1797
Plan de la partie des iles, ou archipel de Coree, vue au mois de Mai 1787 par les Fregates Francaises la Boussole et l'Astrolabe. . . .
Showing the track of La Pérouse along the southern most tip of Korea, with Quelpaerts Islands (now-a-days called Jeju, with the vulcano Halla-san (Halla Mountain) clearl...
- $400 / ≈ €374
Place & Date: L'Imprimerie de la Republique, An V, 1797
Plan de la partie de l'ile de quelpaert. . . / Plan de l'ile Hoapinsu. . . / Plan de l'ile Dagelet. . . / Plan de la partie de l'ile de Botol. . . / Plan de l'ile de Kumi. . .
Five plans on a folio sheet. These charts include Cheju Do, Korea (Quelpaert Is.), Kume-Shiwa, Okinawa (Kumi), and Ullung Do (Dagelet).Including one of the earliest maps ...
- $750 / ≈ €702
Place & Date: Paris, 1797
Le Isole del Giappone e la Corea delineate sulle ultima osservazioni.
First edition on laid paper. Cassini’s splendid early map of Japan and Korea, with large decorative title cartouche. The map has a very unusual, almost triangular, repr...
Place & Date: Rome, 1797
Carte des découvertes fautes en 1787 dans les Mers de Chine et de Tartarie par les Frégates Françaises la Boussole et l'Astrolabe. . . ée. Feille.
La Pérouse's important large-scale of Northern Japan, Hokkaido, the Kuriles, the tip of Kamschatka, and the northern part of Korea.Showing the track of Perouse from 27 ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1797
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Part of the island of Quelpart seen 21 may 1787. . . [5 maps on one sheet]
Detailed maps of islands south of Korea. Of interest is the inset map of L'ile Dagelet (The Isle of Dagelet), the note in French says "Discovered by the French friga...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: London, G. G. & J. Robinson, Paternoster Row, London, 1798
Plan of part of the islands or archipellago of Corea seen in May 1787 by the Boufsole and Astrolabe.
This is a representing the visit of the French Admiral and explorer, le Comte de La Pérouse to Korea in 1786. The tracks of La Perouse are shown.From 'Atlas du Voyage d...
Place & Date: London, 1798
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
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
Partie de la Chine. N°.74 (Including South Korea)
Covering the Mouth of the Yangtze area in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and southwestern Korea with the island of Quelpart (Jeju-do). Shows explorers' routes, including La Perou...
Place & Date: Brussels, 1825-1827
Koreische Fischerfamilie. Famille de pecheurs de Corea.
A Korean family of fishermen playing a board game. No.9' above image. From "Schinz Naturgeschichte und Abbildungen des Menschen der verschiedenen Rassen und Stämme&...
Place & Date: Zürich, 1845
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 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 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
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
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[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 (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
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 - 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
Korea. Das Land des Morgenrots. Nach seinen Reisen geschildert von Angus Hamilton. Autorisierte Übersetzung aus dem Englischen.
With 114 illustrations after photographes and one map.
Place & Date: Leipzig: Spamer, 1904
Parliamentary Papers - Foreign Office - Annual Series - Diplomatic and Consular Reports on Trade and Finance.
Very scarce - Only for the British Parliament and the British Crown printed - and not for the trade! Accounts about the Korean country during the time span of the last th...
Place & Date: London, Harrison and Sons, 1882-1906
Meine Hochzeitsreise durch Korea während des Russisch-japanischen Krieges.
Illustrated with ca. 200 illustrations. All photographs are taken by the author.
Place & Date: Altenburg, S.-A., Stephan Geibel Verlag, 1906
Official War map of Korea.
A large folding map of Korea published in the year of the outbreak of the Korean War, published by the Rand McNally Company. The map is extremely detailed and features a ...
Place & Date: America, ca 1950
Pacific Stars and Strips Map of the War.
A detailed map of the Korean War. Several silhouetted flying military aircraft are shown in formation. The map shows the Korean Peninsula from its northern border with Ru...
Place & Date: America, 1953
The Road Map of Southern Korea.
Offset printing. A large scale, comprehensive road map of South Korea, with a symbol legend and an inset map of 'The Republic of Korea', and inset of the island of Jeju D...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Seoul, ca 1960