Browse Listings in Asia
Persia and Cabool.
Steel engraved map of present day Iran, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. Also extends to include Baghdad, the Persian Gulf, parts of the Caspian Sea, and India. To the bottom l...
Place & Date: Edinburgh, 1846
Selling price: $11
Sold in 2015
Le Patriarche d'Etchméadzine (Arménie).
A very decorative print of the Patriarch of Etchmeadzine in Armenia by Prince Gagarine. Good detail of the costume.Etchmiadzin is the spiritual center of Armenia and the ...
Place & Date: Paris, A.Hauser, ca. 1846
Selling price: $400
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OFFICIER des CASAQUES de la LIGNE et sa FILLE. Régiment Grébenskoï.
A very decorative print of a Casak officer and his daughter after Prince Grigory Grigorievich Gagarin and lithographed by J.Keller. Printed by Lemercier in Paris. The lit...
Place & Date: Paris, A. Hauser, ca. 1846
Selling price: $250
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Tombeau d'Absalom.
Print showing Tomb of Absalom, also called Absalom's Pillar, which is an ancient monumental rock-cut tomb with a conical roof located in the Kidron Valley in Jerusalem. F...
Place & Date: Paris, M. L. Migne, 1844-1846
Selling price: $15
Sold in 2016
Plan nouveau du temple de Salomon, suivant l'auteur.
Print showing the new plan of Solomon's Temple. From "Atlas géographique et iconographique du Cours complet d'Écriture sainte... gravé... sous la direction de Th...
Place & Date: Paris, M. L. Migne, 1844-1846
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2016
China-Propria oder das eigentliche China.
This map of China shows the mainland, and the islands of Formosa and Taiwan. This map is well engraved, with excellent topographical detail, but has minimal decoration.
Place & Date: Hildburghausen, 1846
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2017
Palestine.
A large detailed map of the Holy Land, in fact, one of the largest maps of of this region to appear in a mid-19th century. Shows many towns, roads, rivers, mountains, lak...
Place & Date: Edinburgh, 1846
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2021
Chart to the coast of China from the Canton River to the Yang Tze Keang, prepared by John Walker, geographer to the Honble. East India Company.
Detailed chart to the coast of China, including Taiwan. The map has numerous insets (Hong Kong, River Woo-sung to Shanghai, Killon Harbour and Merope Bay Formosa, River M...
Place & Date: London 1847
Selling price: $1000
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Kaart van de vaarwaters en eilanden tusschen Sumatra en Borneo. . .
Very large and rare centered on the island of Bangka, showing the southeastern coast of Sumatra.With large title surmounted by 4 small inset maps showing details of the ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1847
Selling price: $700
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Carte Topographique de la Palestine dressée d'après la carte topographique levée par le savant Jacotin . . .
Uncommon folding map of the Holy Land published by Philip van der Maelen. Prepared by Jean van de Cotte after Jacotin and includes information gardened during expeditions...
Place & Date: Brussels, 1847
Selling price: $310
Sold in 2013
Impero del Giappone. Questa Carta e stata eseguita su quella pubblicata in Londra nel 1835, dalla Societa per la diffusione delle utili conoscenze, e su quella di Arrowsmith. . .
An interesting and uncommon detailed and large-scale Italian map of Japan published in Naples in Benedetto Marzolla's Atlante Geographico . Inset: Porto di Nangasaki (sca...
Place & Date: Naples, 1847
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2011
(Map of Armenia and Iran)
Detailed map of Armenia, Iran, Iraq and part of Turkey in elaborate floral borders. Joseph Scheda in Vienna 1845 - 1847.
Place & Date: Vienna, 1845-1847
Selling price: $325
Sold in 2015
(Map of Armenia and Iran)
Detailed map of Armenia, Iran, Iraq and part of Turkey in elaborate floral borders. Published by Joseph Scheda in Vienna.
Place & Date: Vienna, 1845-1847
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2021
No title, a folding map of Palistine.
A rare proof state of Jacotin's map Carte Topographique de la Palestine. . All text on this issue is not filled in yet. The map has been updated by Jean van de Cotte and ...
Place & Date: Brussels, 1847
Selling price: $325
Sold in 2018
To Chas. Majoribanks esq.re and the other members of the hon.ble East India Company's factory at Canton, this Chart of Choo Keang or Canton river, is inscribed ... by James Horsburgh.
The chart stretches from north to south from Canton (Guangzhou) to Canzhou Island, and west to east from Dashi Bay to Hong Kong. Includes inset of Pearl River segment fro...
Place & Date: July 1831 corrections to 1847
Selling price: $6900
Sold in 2018
Oceanie, Description Historique Sur L'Ocean
A fine map of the southern Pacific Ocean, with decorative borders and views. Margin illustrations of excellent quality showing local peoples, explorers, products, landsca...
Place & Date: Paris, 1847
Selling price: $37
Sold in 2020
Impero del Giappone. . .
An interesting and uncommon detailed and large-scale Italian map of Japan published in Naples in Benedetto Marzolla's Atlante Geographico . Inset: Porto di Nangasaki (sca...
Place & Date: Naples, 1847
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2020
Asie.
Surround of vignettes, portraits, animals, vegetation, etc. One of the last decorative maps of the area. In original out-line color. The outer cartouches with later color...
Place & Date: Paris 1848
Selling price: $210
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Quelpartians.
Attractive scene depicting natives of Jeju (Quelpart) Island from Marryat’s “Borneo and the Indian Archipelago”. Marryat was a mid-shipman on the H.M.S. Samaran, wh...
Place & Date: London, 1848
Selling price: $205
Sold in 2010
Carte de l'ile de Sumatra par le baron P.Melvill de Carnbee 1848. . .
Detailed map of Sumatra and the southern tip of Malacca with Singapore. Prepared in 1848 by baron P.Melvill de Carnbee and engraved by D.Heyse. From the rare work "L...
Place & Date: The Hague, Belifante freres, 1848
Selling price: $425
Sold in 2013
Kaart der vaarwaters van Soerabaya naar de trigonometrische opname van den Luit. ter Zee M.H. Jansen. . .
Chart of Surabaya the capital of the province of East Java. Prepared by Lieutenant M.H. Jansen (1817-1893) and improved in 1848 by baron P.Melvill de Carnbee. Engraved in...
Place & Date: The Hague, 1848
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2014
Karta öfver Asien.
An very rare map of Asia with Swedish text. This is an heavenly updated version of his map of 1817 and is now dated 1827, 1833.In lower part a color key to English, Frenc...
Place & Date: A. Wiborgs förlag, Stockholm, ca. 1848
Selling price: $170
Sold in 2016
Karta öfver europeiska Turkiet och Mindre Asien.
An very rare map of Turkey with Greece and the Balkans still under Turkish occupation with Swedish text. This is an updated version of his map of 1821 and is now dated 18...
Place & Date: A. Wiborgs förlag, Stockholm, ca. 1848
Selling price: $195
Sold in 2015
JUIVE DE CONSTANTINOPLE. Costumes de l'Empire Ottoman 3.
A beautiful hand colored lithograph of an elegant Jewish woman from Constantinople published in the French work "Galerie Royale de Costumes peints d´après nature p...
Place & Date: Paris, Chez Aubert & Cie., 1842-1848
Selling price: $260
Sold in 2015
MARCHAND JUIF. A Constantinople. Costumes de l'Empire Ottoman 8.
A beautiful hand colored lithograph of a prominent Jewish merchant in Constantinople published in the French work "Galerie Royale de Costumes peints d´après nature...
Place & Date: Paris, Chez Aubert & Cie., 1842-1848
Selling price: $325
Sold in 2015
FEMME TURQUE. Costumes de l'Empire Ottoman 10.
A beautiful hand colored lithograph of Turkish woman published in the French work "Galerie Royale de Costumes peints d´après nature par divers artistes et lithogra...
Place & Date: Paris, Chez Aubert & Cie., 1842-1848
Selling price: $260
Sold in 2015
FEMME TURQUE VOILEE. Costumes de l'Empire Ottoman 6.
A beautiful hand colored lithograph of a Turkish veiled woman published in the French work "Galerie Royale de Costumes peints d´après nature par divers artistes et...
Place & Date: Paris, Chez Aubert & Cie., 1842-1848
Selling price: $205
Sold in 2015
FEMME de DAMAR. Costumes Syriens 5.
A beautiful hand colored lithograph of an elegant Syrian woman from Damar published in the French work "Galerie Royale de Costumes peints d´après nature par divers...
Place & Date: Paris, Chez Aubert & Cie., 1842-1848
Selling price: $350
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CHALDEENE d'OURMYAHL. Costumes Persans 3.
A beautiful hand colored lithograph of a Chaldean woman from Ourmyahl published in the French work "Galerie Royale de Costumes peints d´après nature par divers art...
Place & Date: Paris, Chez Aubert & Cie., 1842-1848
Selling price: $300
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GRECQUE de SMYRNE. Costumes de l'Empire Ottoman 2.
A beautiful hand colored lithograph of a Greek woman from Smyrn published in the French work "Galerie Royale de Costumes peints d´après nature par divers artistes ...
Place & Date: Paris, Chez Aubert & Cie., 1842-1848
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2015
KURDE de SOAUK-BOULAK. Costumes Persans 7.
A beautiful hand colored lithograph of a Kurd from Sauk Bolek published in the French work "Galerie Royale de Costumes peints d´après nature par divers artistes et...
Place & Date: Paris, Chez Aubert & Cie., 1842-1848
Selling price: $300
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AFGAHN d'HERAT. Costumes Persans 8.
A beautiful hand colored lithograph of an Afghan from Herat published in the French work "Galerie Royale de Costumes peints d´après nature par divers artistes et l...
Place & Date: Paris, Chez Aubert & Cie., 1842-1848
Selling price: $250
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MOLLAH ou PRETRE. Costumes Persans 4.
A beautiful hand colored lithograph of a Mollah published in the French work "Galerie Royale de Costumes peints d´après nature par divers artistes et lithographié...
Place & Date: Paris, Chez Aubert & Cie., 1842-1848
Selling price: $250
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China, Pescadores Islands..
Very detailed chart of the Pescadores Islands, who are located west of Taiwan. Chart published by the Hydrographic Office of the Admiralty in London. Sold by J. Potter, L...
Place & Date: London 1849
Selling price: $200
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Mapa general de las islas Philipinas Ano de 1849.
Provenance : Ex libris del Marqués de Pidal. Mapa Filipinas. 1847. N° 20. In lower left bottom a label : Junta delegada de incautacion proteccion y Salvamento del tesor...
Place & Date: Spain, c. 1849
Selling price: $13100
Sold in 2011
Verkenningen Genomen in de Wijnkoops-Baai.
A large so-called Blue-back chart of a part of Java, dated 1849, shows the results of local surveys in 1835-1849. No publisher mentioned (probably the Dutch Geographical ...
Place & Date: Jakarta, 1849
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2008
Map to Illustrate the Route of David Roberts, Esq: R.A. in The Holy Land, Petrea, & Syria
A fine large format map from Roberts' The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia.A map of Egypt, the Sinai, and the Holy Land, detailing the journey undertak...
Place & Date: London, 1849
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2016
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[Bird's-Eye View of Petra] and [Ground Plan of Petra]
Pair of steel engravings from "Forty days in the desert on the track of the Israelites, or, A journey from Cairo by Wady Feiran to Mount Sinai and Petra", in th...
Place & Date: London, 1849
Selling price: $15
Sold in 2014
Map of the Districts and Countries of Great Japan
This is a spectacular, large format folding map of Japan by Takashiba Ei'San'Yu, dated 1849. The map presents the primary Japanese islands of Kyushu, Honshu, Shikoku and ...
Place & Date: Japan, 1849
Selling price: $800
Sold in 2023
Asia.
A very decorative 19th century map of Asia. The map is surrounded by vignettes, portraits, animals, vegetation, etc.
Place & Date: Paris 1850
Selling price: $200
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Asie
A decorative 19th century map of the continent. The map is surrounded by steel engraved vignettes depicting costumes of the various peoples of Asia, Adam and Eve, and sev...
Place & Date: Paris 1850
Selling price: $100
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Asie.
A decorative 19th century map of the continent. The map is surrounded by steel engraved vignettes depicting costumes of the various peoples of Asia, Adam and Eve, and sev...
Place & Date: Paris 1850
Selling price: $90
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ARABIA.
Detailed map of the Arabian Peninsula, Persian Gulf, and the Red Sea. With numerous place names, and several routes through the desert shown. Highly decorative map with ...
Place & Date: London, c1850
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2013
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[Edo period woodcut plan of Edo or Tokyo]
Nice plan of Edo (present-day Tokyo) oriented with north to the right. Shows main temples and shrines pictorially. Includes distance chart and legend. In color, folded, l...
Place & Date: Japan c. 1850
Selling price: $550
Sold in 2009
Independent Tartary.
A charming map of Tartary published in London, 1851. The last of the decorative maps.
Place & Date: London, 1850
Selling price: $90
Sold in 2010
ARABIA.
Detailed map of the Arabian Peninsula. With numerous place names, and several routes through the desert. Highly decorative map with an inset view of Mount Sinai, scenes...
Place & Date: London, c1850
Selling price: $95
Sold in 2013
Carte de la côte nord de Java (de la pointe d'Intramayoe au détroit de Sourabaya). . .
Great large-scale sea-chart of a part of northern Java and the Java Sea. Shows the area from Indramayu to Surabaya, including Karimunjawa and Bawean. With numerous depth ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1850
Selling price: $62
Sold in 2014
Overland Route to India.
Steel engraved map of the Overland Route to India. The illustrations are by H Warren and engraved by J H Kernot, the map engraved by J Rapkin. Published by John Tallis. T...
Place & Date: London, 1850
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2014
Constantinople and the Bosphorus.
A detailed map of Istanbul and the Bosphorus. With many place names, and two insets: One of the Mosque of St. Sophia; and one of the Princess islands.
Place & Date: London, c1850
Selling price: $36
Sold in 2014
Northern India
A very decorative steel-engraved map of a portion of India including Nepal, Bhutan, and modern day Bangladesh. Very detailed with place names, rivers, hills, bays, lakes,...
Place & Date: London, ca.1850
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2017
Asie.
Charming map of the continent, surrounded by animals and people dressed in their traditional clothing. Columns on the sides contain text and numbers of population of the ...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1850
Selling price: $70
Sold in 2020
Asie.
A fine detailed map of Asia by Louis Antoine, published in Paris in about 1850.
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1850
Selling price: $61
Sold in 2017
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Ansei kaisei fugo on Edo ezu. [Tokyo]
An extraordinary color-printed town-plan now-a-day Tokyo, and a fine example of Edo cartography. The present map is exceptionally detailed with accurate delineations of d...
Place & Date: Edo, ca. 1850
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2017
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[Plan of Edo / Tokyo.]
A fascinating and impressive town plan of Edo/Yedo in Japan, during the Tokugawa Shogunate of the 1850s. After 1868, Yedo was renamed Tokyo.The publisher Owariya produced...
Place & Date: Tokyo, ca. 1850
Selling price: $125
Sold in 2020
Constantinople and the Bosphorus.
A detailed map of Istanbul and the Bosphorus. With many place names, and two insets: One of the Mosque of St. Sophia; and one of the Princess islands. By Findlay in Londo...
Place & Date: London, 1850
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2018
Sizhou city, Jiangsu Province.
An original Qing Dynasty era Chinese manuscript map of Sizhou city in Jiangsu province, China.Sizhou was destroyed by floods during emperor Kangxi reign about 300 years a...
Place & Date: China, ca. 1850
Selling price: $950
Sold in 2019
Asiatisches Russland 1850.
A highly detailed map of Russia with parts of China and Japan. Filled with topographical information. From Meyers Grosser Zeitungs-Atlas, the most important German Atlas ...
Place & Date: Hildburghausen, 1850
Selling price: $10
Sold in 2019
View of Singapore
Very rare view of Singapore from the Singapore River Basin. With a numbered key (1-19) underneath the illustration. In the center Government Hill with Governer's House (1...
Place & Date: ca. 1850
Selling price: $1600
Sold in 2020
Das Chinesische Reich und die Japanischen Jnseln.
A fine steel-engraved map from a scarce German Atlas: 'Schuberth's Hand-Atlas'. It shows China, Korea and Japan, as well as surrounding areas including Mongolia, Siberia,...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, ca 1850
Selling price: $17
Sold in 2021
China and Birmah.
A highly decorative and detailed map of China and Burma which was drawn and engraved by J. Rapkin (vignettes by A. H. Wray & J. B. Allen).Showing British Factories in...
Place & Date: London & New York: John Tallis & co, c.1851
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2017
China and Birmah.
A highly decorative and detailed map of China and Burma drawn and engraved by J. Rapkin.Drawn by A.H. Wray and J.B. Allen, the map's vignettes include British factories i...
Place & Date: London & New York, c. 1851
Selling price: $130
Sold in 2018
Northern India.
Decorative steel engraved map of Northern India, surrounded 6 decorative vignettes.Taken from "The illustrated atlas and modern history of the world by John Tallis&q...
Place & Date: London, 1851
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2018
Cabool, the Punjab and Beloochistan.
Decorative steel engraved map of Cabool, the Punjab and Beloochistan, surrounded 3 large, decorative vignettes.Taken from "The illustrated atlas and modern history o...
Place & Date: London, 1851
Selling price: $85
Sold in 2017
Asia.
The lovely map of Asia by John Tallis, characterised by its decorative border, and numerous delicate vignettes surrounding the map itself. West from Turkey in Asia across...
Place & Date: London, 1851
Selling price: $158
Sold in 2017
Overland Route to India.
Decorative steel engraved map of the Overland Route to India, surrounded 8 decorative vignettes.Taken from "The illustrated atlas and modern history of the world by ...
Place & Date: London, 1851
Selling price: $90
Sold in 2020
China and Birmah.
A highly decorative and detailed map of China and Burma which was drawn and engraved by J. Rapkin (vignettes by A. H. Wray & J. B. Allen).Showing British Factories in...
Place & Date: London, Edinburgh & Dublin 1851
Selling price: $195
Sold in 2019
Cabool, the Punjab and Beloochistan.
A decorative steel engraved map of Cabool, the Punjab and Beloochistan, surrounded 3 large, colored, decorative vignettes.Taken from "The illustrated atlas and moder...
Place & Date: London, 1851
Selling price: $78
Sold in 2020
Northern India.
Decorative steel engraved map of Northern India, surrounded 6 decorative vignettes.Taken from "The illustrated atlas and modern history of the world by John Tallis&q...
Place & Date: London, 1851
Selling price: $45
Sold in 2020
Turkey in Europe.
A striking map of European Turkey by John Tallis. It features decorative vignettes of Ali Pasha, The Bosphorus and Constantinople and a Greek Caloyer figure. There is als...
Place & Date: London, 1851
Selling price: $65
Sold in 2019
Southern India.
Original steel engraved map of Southern India. Several vignette scenes, including Shuhur, Jeypoor, Calcutta and Bejapoor. Decorative scrolling and title cartouche around ...
Place & Date: London, Edinburgh & Dublin: J & F Tallis, 1851
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2020
Portrait of Otaksa.
Fine portrait of Otaksa, published in Nippon . Von Siebold was born in Wurtzburg, in Germany, and worked for the Dutch government as a doctor in Java. In Japan, where Von...
Place & Date: Leiden, 1832-1852
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2009
Gezigt op de haven en de baai van Nagasaki.
A birds-eye view showing Deshima, the trading post of the V.O.C., and Nagasaki bay. Von Siebold was born in Würtzburg, in Germany, and worked for the Dutch government as...
Place & Date: Leiden, 1832-1852
Selling price: $3600
Sold in 2010
Acer micranthum.
From his famous work 'Flora Japonica'. Von Siebold was born in Würtzburg, in Germany, and worked for the Dutch government as a doctor in Java. In Japan, where Von Siebol...
Place & Date: Leiden, 1852
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2009
Cephalotaxus drupacea.
From his famous work 'Flora Japonica'. Von Siebold was born in Würtzburg, in Germany, and worked for the Dutch government as a doctor in Java. In Japan, where Von Siebol...
Place & Date: Leiden, 1852
Selling price: $90
Sold in 2009
Asie.
Map of Asia framed by vignettes depicting costumes of the various peoples of Asia, Adam and Eve, and several exotic animals. Interesting population chart at right totalin...
Place & Date: Paris, A. Combette, 1852
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2009
Het Japansche Ryk. De Voornaamste Eilanden van Hetzelve Zijn. Das Japanische Reich. Die vorzügliehsten Inseln desselben . . . Neben und Schutzländer.
A table prepared by Von Siebold showing the names of the different Japanese islands in Japanese and Latin.Von Siebold was born in Wurzburg, in Germany, and worked for the...
Place & Date: Leiden, 1832-1852
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2010
Japan ten tyde van Zin-mu-ten-woo 660 v.c.
Historical map of Japan for the year 660 B.C., during the regime of Zin-mu-ten-woo. According to the map Japan was known as "Jama-to v. Aki-Tsu-Sima.The tip of Korea...
Place & Date: Leiden 1832-1852
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2014
Muzijkinstrumenten - Samisen / Kokiu.
A japanese woman playing the samisen and a men playing kokiu.Von Siebold was born in Würtzburg, in Germany, and worked for the Dutch government as a doctor in Java. In J...
Place & Date: Leiden, 1832-1852
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2012
KOORAI. Kumtsjun. Nippon VII. TAB. VIII.
Kumtsjun from Korea, lithography from his very rare book "Nippon".Philipp Franz von Siebold (1796-1866) was a physician, researcher and teacher who joined the D...
Place & Date: Leiden, 1852
Selling price: $600
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KOORAI. Hosatsem. Nippon VII. TAB. IX.
Hosatsem from Korea, lithography from his very rare book "Nippon".Philipp Franz von Siebold (1796-1866) was a physician, researcher and teacher who joined the D...
Place & Date: Leiden, 1852
Selling price: $600
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