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Empire de la Chine, Rme. de Coree et Isles du Japon.
Rare Italian issue of Rigobert Bonne's map of China, Korea, and Japan, by Pere Francesco Santini.
Place & Date: Venice, 1792
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2017
Carte de la Baye d'Hocsieu et des Entres de la Riviere de Chang Situees dans la Province de Fokyen.
Detailed regional map of China. A detailed little chart of the estuary of the Chiang River at present-day Fu-chou in the province of Fukien, adjacent to the island of Ta...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1795
Selling price: $41
Sold in 2016
Carte de la Route que l'ambassade Anglais a Suive en Allant de Hang-Tchou-fou a Qhang-Tchou-Fou ou canton en Chine
A copper engraved map of a journey from Hang-Tchoo-Foo to Quang-Tchoo-Foo. Published in Stauton's "AN AUTHENTIC ACCOUNT OF AN EMBASSY FROM THE KING OF GREAT BRITAIN ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1796
Selling price: $51
Sold in 2018
Impero delle China colle isole del Giappone. . .
A very striking map of China, Korea, Taiwan and Japan embellished with an colored pictorial title cartouche flanked by flowers and a bird. This is the uncommon edition wi...
Place & Date: Venice, 1795-1796
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2016
Plan of the Hall of Audience and the Adjacent Courts in the Emperor's Gardens at Yuen-min-Yuen.
A striking copper engraving from an important eighteenth century series on China by William Alexander. From Sir George Leonard Staunton's An Authentic Account of an Emba...
Place & Date: London, 1796
Selling price: $21
Sold in 2019
A Chart, on Mercator's Projection, Containing the Track and Soundings of the Lion, the Hindostan and Tenders, from Turon-Bay in Cochin-China. . .
A chart engraved by Baker and published by Nichol, this large chart traces the routes of the Lion, Hindostan, and Tenders with considerable detail. The chart was part of...
Place & Date: London, 1796
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2020
Carte des découvertes Faites en 1787 dans les Mers de Chine et de Tartarie, 1e Feuille/ 2e Feuille.
Two charts together depicting the waters of East Asia. By Jean François Galoup, Comte de la Pérouse (1741-88), outstanding French explorer and hydrographer, who publish...
Place & Date: Paris, 1797
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2016
A Chart of the Islands to the Southward of Tschu-San on the Eastern Coaft of China....
Map of the First Official Account of the First English embassy to China- the Macartney mission of 1793-1794.
Place & Date: London, c. 1797
Selling price: $95
Sold in 2010
La Cina delineata sulle ultime osservazioni. Roma presso la Calcografia Cam.le, 1798.
Uncommon map of China, Taiwan and Korea, from Giovanni Maria Cassini's "Nuovo Atlante Geografico Universale delineato sulle ultime osservazioni". The Yellow Sea...
Place & Date: Venice, 1798
Selling price: $1100
Sold in 2009
CHART OF DISCOVERIES made in 1787 in the Seas of China & Tartary between Manilla and Avatcha...
Attractive chart showing the area from Kamchatka to the Philippines, including Japan and Korea. With early geography of the islands and coasts, lined with numerous place-...
Place & Date: London, 1798
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2010
Carte la plus generale et qui comprend la Chine, la Tartarie chinoise et le Tibet. . .
With a quite elaborately pictorial cartouche, engraved by Guelard, the map was engraved by the master engraver Guillaume-Nicolas de la Haye (1727 -1802). Very detailed ma...
Place & Date: Paris, Dezauche, 1789–1799
Selling price: $3100
Sold in 2018
Reis-kaart van het Britsche gezantschap van Hang-choe-foe naar Quang-choe-foe of Kanton in China.
Uncommon map of eastern part of China, showing a journey of the English Embassy from Hangzhou (south of Shanghai) to Guangzhou (Canton). The maps is giving a wealth of in...
Place & Date: Netherlands c.1800
Selling price: $80
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La China e Giapone.
Uncommon map of China, Korea, Japan and Taiwan (I.Formosa), only one town labelled, Tayoan. Very strange shape for Japan.
Place & Date: Italy c. 1800
Selling price: $150
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Charte von den christlichen Missionen in China, Cochinchina, Tunkin, Siam, etc.
Unusual German map of South-East Asia showing Korea, Japan, China, Taiwan, the Philippines, Borneo, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and Myanmar. Most of them...
Place & Date: probably Germany around 1800
Selling price: $140
Sold in 2009
A new and Accurate map of China. . .
Map of China, including Taiwan and Korea. Engraved and published by Thomas Brown, who was active as map seller in Edinburg. Engraved by Gavin and son.From Brown's seldom ...
Place & Date: Edinburgh, 1801
Selling price: $1035
Sold in 2010
A New Map of China, From the Latest by John Cary
A beautiful example of John Cary's important 1801 map of China and Korea. Offers extraordinary detail including the great Wall of China. Also identifies the Island of Tai...
Place & Date: London, 1801
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2015
China, Contains 15 Subject Provinces Including the 2 Islands of Hainan, Formosa and the Tributary Kingdoms of Corea, Tonkin
An antique hand colored map from Wilkinson's "A General Atlas, being a Collection of Maps of the World and Quarters the Principal Empires, Kingdoms &c. with thei...
Place & Date: London, 1803
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2016
Charte von China..
Uncommon map of China prepared by H.F.A.Stieler, giving good detail of the region and extending as far as Taiwan and the Korean peninsula.With inset map of the Ryukyu Isl...
Place & Date: Weimar 1804
Selling price: $450
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Map of China.
Showing China, Taiwan and Korea, divided into provinces with the main cities marked. The map is of interest for the use of East Sea, the sea between Korea and Japan, here...
Place & Date: London, 1804
Selling price: $300
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Map of China.
Showing China, Taiwan and Korea, divided into provinces with the main cities marked. The map is of interest for the use of Sea of Corea, the sea between Korea and Japan, ...
Place & Date: London, 1804
Map of China.
Showing China, Taiwan and Korea, divided into provinces with the main cities marked. The map is of interest for the naming of the sea between Korea and Japan, here called...
Place & Date: London, 1804
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2014
L'Empire de la Chine avec les Isles du Japon et la Corée . . .
Map of the Chinese Empire with Japan, Taiwan (Formose I.) and Korea, from Atlas moderne portatif composé de vingt-huit cartes sur toutes les parties du globe terrestre ....
Place & Date: Paris, Prudhomme, Levrault, Debray, 1806
Selling price: $500
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![Morokoshi Meisho Zue [Illustrated Description of Famous Sites of China].](/uploads/cache/00003-250x250.jpg)
Morokoshi Meisho Zue [Illustrated Description of Famous Sites of China].
Very rare first edition, of the famous places of Qing dynasty in China, edited and illustrated by the Japanese artists Okada Gyokuzan (1737–1812), Oka Yugaku (1762–18...
Place & Date: Osaka, Kawachiya Kichibei, Bunka, year of the tiger, 1806
Selling price: $13000
Sold in 2011
![Morokoshi Meisho Zue [Illustrated Description of Famous Sites of China].](/uploads/cache/93014-250x250.jpg)
Morokoshi Meisho Zue [Illustrated Description of Famous Sites of China].
Published : Osaka, Kawachiya Genhichiro, et al.[8 book sellers], slightly later issue but apparently in Edo period, using all the same woodblocks of original first editi...
Place & Date: Osaka, Bunka 3 or1806
Selling price: $3600
Sold in 2013
A New Map of Chinese Independent Tartary, from the Latest Authorities.
Map that displays Independent and Chinese Tartary, with present-day China, Tibet, Mongolia, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Iran,... Hig...
Place & Date: London, 1806
Selling price: $71
Sold in 2015
China.
Map of China with Formosa and Strait of Corea. Topographical detail is limited to rivers, lakes, mountains and place names. Sea area shaded. Aaron Arrowsmith, (born July ...
Place & Date: London, 1807
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2017
The Empire of China Divided into Separate Provinces from the Latest and Best Authorities.
Uncommon map of China and Korea.
Place & Date: Edinburgh, 1811
Selling price: $82
Sold in 2012
Charte von China...
Unusual map of east Asia, from India to Japan, including parts of Russia, and Indonesia. With several notes in German. A very interesting and rare map!
Place & Date: Prague, 1812
Selling price: $70
Sold in 2014
Charte von China und den angränzenden Ländern und Völkerschaften so wie den letzten Kaiser Tschien-Long. . .
Uncommon map of China on a scale of ca. 1:6,000,000. The map's complete title is “Charte von China und den angränzenden Ländern, und Völkerschaften so wie sie dem le...
Place & Date: Prague, 1812
Selling price: $225
Sold in 2015
Charte von China und den angränzenden Ländern und Völkerschaften so wie den letzten Kaiser Tschien-Long. . .
Uncommon map of China on a scale of ca. 1:6,000,000. The map's complete title is “Charte von China und den angränzenden Ländern, und Völkerschaften so wie sie dem le...
Place & Date: Parague, 1812
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2023
Kaiserthum China.
A fascinating and unusual copper-engraved map of the Aral lake to Hainan Island shows parts of today's China, Russia, Mongolia, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, and Myan...
Place & Date: Vienna, 1813
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2010
China.
Highly detailed map of China including Formosa (Taiwan), Hainan, and part of Luzon in the Philippines. The map show the Tract of the Hindoostan and Lion with the British ...
Place & Date: Edinburgh, 1815
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2016
China / Asia.
A pair of maps from the atlas the 'Universal Geography' by Thos. Kelly, and engraved by Finlay. These copper plate maps shows the mainland of China, together with the isl...
Place & Date: London, ca. 1817
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2017
L\'Impero della China e l\'impero del Giappone.
Scarce regional map of China, Korea and Japan.Map from the most important Florentine atlas. Bartolomeo Borghi (1750-1821) as “one of the greatest geographers of Europe....
Place & Date: Florence, 1818
Selling price: $81
Sold in 2013
China from the best Authorities.
China from Guthrie's Geography. Engraved by John Russell.
Place & Date: London, 1818
Selling price: $90
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China, Divided into Its Great Provinces According to the Best Authorities.
The third and final edition of Carey's map of China. One of the most striking differences between maps in this edition vs previous ones is the addition of hatching along ...
Place & Date: Philadelphia, 1818
Selling price: $185
Sold in 2020
Chungguk-do
Chungguk-do [Map of China] prominently depicting the Great Wall and the Yellow and Yangtze rivers.
Place & Date: Korea, ca. 1820
Selling price: $1400
Sold in 2015
Carte réduite de la partie méridionale de l'Île d'Hainan parcourue en 1817...
A scarce sea-chart of a portion of southern Hainan, locating Sanya, Yalong Bay, Lingshui Bay, and a few more places, in the South China Sea. With the tracks of the ships,...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1825
Selling price: $62
Sold in 2016
Reise nach China durch die Mongoley in den Jahren 1820 und 1821.
Rare account with the important large map "Charte der Reise von Kiachta nach Peking durch die Mongoley" (55 x 43,5 cm) and a plan of Peking (31x28cm). Extra shi...
Place & Date: Vienna, 1826
Selling price: $230
Sold in 2016
Jeune Fille roulant des feuilles de thé.
Nice hand colored engraving depicting Chinese life.From La Chine, mœurs, usages, costumes, arts et métiers, peines civiles et militaires, cérémonies religieuses, monu...
Place & Date: Paris, 1825-1827
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2011
Femme de Mandarin.
Nice hand colored engraving depicting Chinese life.From La Chine, mœurs, usages, costumes, arts et métiers, peines civiles et militaires, cérémonies religieuses, monu...
Place & Date: Paris, 1825-1827
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2011
Porteur de Palanquin.
Nice hand colored engraving depicting Chinese life.From La Chine, mœurs, usages, costumes, arts et métiers, peines civiles et militaires, cérémonies religieuses, monu...
Place & Date: Paris, 1825-1827
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2012
Jardinier fleuriste.
Nice hand colored engraving depicting Chinese life.From La Chine, mœurs, usages, costumes, arts et métiers, peines civiles et militaires, cérémonies religieuses, monu...
Place & Date: Paris, 1825-1827
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2012
Jeunes Paysans ramassant du fumier.
Nice hand colored engraving depicting Chinese life.From La Chine, mœurs, usages, costumes, arts et métiers, peines civiles et militaires, cérémonies religieuses, monu...
Place & Date: Paris, 1825-1827
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2011
Marchand de Flûtes.
Nice hand colored engraving depicting Chinese life.From La Chine, mœurs, usages, costumes, arts et métiers, peines civiles et militaires, cérémonies religieuses, monu...
Place & Date: Paris, 1825-1827
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2012
Marchand de Bétel.
Nice hand colored engraving depicting Chinese life.From La Chine, mœurs, usages, costumes, arts et métiers, peines civiles et militaires, cérémonies religieuses, monu...
Place & Date: Paris, 1825-1827
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2012
Chaise à porteurs.
Nice hand colored engraving depicting Chinese life.From La Chine, mœurs, usages, costumes, arts et métiers, peines civiles et militaires, cérémonies religieuses, monu...
Place & Date: Paris, 1825-1827
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2011
Colporteur.
Nice hand colored engraving depicting Chinese life.From La Chine, mœurs, usages, costumes, arts et métiers, peines civiles et militaires, cérémonies religieuses, monu...
Place & Date: Paris, 1825-1827
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2012
Château-fort près Tien-Sing.
Nice hand colored engraving depicting Chinese life.From La Chine, mœurs, usages, costumes, arts et métiers, peines civiles et militaires, cérémonies religieuses, monu...
Place & Date: Paris, 1825-1827
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2011
Taa, près de la ville de Sou-tcheou.
Nice hand colored engraving depicting Chinese life.From La Chine, mœurs, usages, costumes, arts et métiers, peines civiles et militaires, cérémonies religieuses, monu...
Place & Date: Paris, 1825-1827
Selling price: $70
Sold in 2012
Intérieur d'une Maison chinoise.
Nice hand colored engraving depicting Chinese life.From La Chine, mœurs, usages, costumes, arts et métiers, peines civiles et militaires, cérémonies religieuses, monu...
Place & Date: Paris, 1825-1827
Selling price: $65
Sold in 2011
Prévenu devant un Magistrat.
Nice hand colored engraving depicting Chinese life.From La Chine, mœurs, usages, costumes, arts et métiers, peines civiles et militaires, cérémonies religieuses, monu...
Place & Date: Paris, 1825-1827
Selling price: $70
Sold in 2011
Empire Chinois . . .
Detailed map of Chinese Empire, including Japan, Taiwan, prepared by A. H. Basset, rue Saint-Jacques, no. 64, Paris and published in Atlas classique et Universel de Géog...
Place & Date: Paris, A.H. Basset, 1828
Selling price: $300
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![[Lot with two maps] Map of the Three Kingdoms / Map of the Great Ming Dynasty.](/uploads/cache/92041-250x250.jpg)
[Lot with two maps] Map of the Three Kingdoms / Map of the Great Ming Dynasty.
Two beautifully colored Japanese woodblock maps of China, one of China during the Three Kingdoms period and a second of Ming China, 1368-1644.
Place & Date: Japan, ca.1835
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2012
China.
A very detailed map of China and Korea, filled with place names. Includes Hainan and Taiwan, and a small inset map of Macao.
Place & Date: London, ca. 1835
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2018
Empire Chinois et Japon.
Detailed map of China, Korea, Taiwan and Japan.From Malte-Brun's Atlas Géographie Universelle.., revised by Jean Jacques Nicolas Huot.This very fine executed map has bee...
Place & Date: Paris 1837
Selling price: $30
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![Carte de la Mer de Chine.. [Together with] Carte des Cotes orientales de Chine.. [Together with] Carte générale de la Mer des Indes..](/uploads/cache/24291-250x250.jpg)
Carte de la Mer de Chine.. [Together with] Carte des Cotes orientales de Chine.. [Together with] Carte générale de la Mer des Indes..
A set of 3 printed charts of the China Sea added in manuscripts the tracks of the French frigate "Cleopatre" under command of Adm. Cecille in the years 1846 - 1...
Place & Date: Paris, 1838, 1842, 1837
Selling price: $3500
Sold in 2009
Chine et Japon.
Finely engraved map of China, Korea, Formosa and Tibet, prepared by A.H.Dufour and engraved by Giraldon-Bovinet. Published by Jules Renouard in his uncommon atlas "L...
Place & Date: Paris, Jules Renouard, ca.1840
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2015
Carte de la Chine.
Rare, incredibly detailed map of China prepared by the renowned German historian, linguist, orientalist, and explorer Julius Klaproth. Originally intended to accompany Kl...
Place & Date: Paris, 1842
Selling price: $420
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A map to illustrate the war in China...
Scarce map of China during the Opium Wars, extending from Peking to Kanton (Guangzhou), Macau, and Hong Kong . North oriented to the right. Very detailed map including s...
Place & Date: London, 1842
Selling price: $325
Sold in 2013
Carte de la Chine.
Rare, incredibly detailed map of China prepared by the renowned German historian, linguist, orientalist, and explorer Julius Klaproth. Originally intended to accompany Kl...
Place & Date: Paris, 1842
Selling price: $420
Sold in 2017
China.
A highly detailed map of China, extending from Tibet until South Korea. Names many towns, areas, rivers, islands,... Includes a tip of Japan and the Philippines.
Place & Date: London, ca. 1843
Selling price: $11
Sold in 2017
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
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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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
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
China
A highly detailed and attractive map of China drawn and engraved by William Hughes – Sidney Hall, steel engraved.Published by Adam & Charles Black in the ‘General...
Place & Date: Edinburgh, 1854
Selling price: $85
Sold in 2016
China.
A lovely, large map of China, with insets the Island of Chusan, and the Estuary of the Canto River from Hong Kong to Canton. Korean peninsula shown. Good detail and excel...
Place & Date: Edinburgh, 1854
Selling price: $95
Sold in 2018
CHINA and BIRMAH
This is the uncommon and slightly later edition by Rapkin based on Tallis' maps. The vignettes have been removed and the map is issued in black and white.A rare and desir...
Place & Date: London, 1855
Selling price: $60
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China and Birmah.
Very detailed and up-to-date map, from the Bay of Bengal to Formosa (Taiwan). Includes also a part of Luzon. Filled with place names! This is the uncommon and slightly l...
Place & Date: London, ca. 1855
Selling price: $26
Sold in 2013
Chart of the Coast of China and of the Japan Islands including the Marianes and a Part of the Philippines.
Commodore Perry’s Sailing Directions for China and Japan with large map of Asian waters including the Mariana Islands and a part of the Philippines. Compiled by order o...
Place & Date: Washington, 1855
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2015
Colton's China
A map of China, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao. Surrounded by Colton's typical spiral motif border. From Colton's "ALAS OF THE WORLD".Joseph Hutchins Colton...
Place & Date: New York, 1855
Selling price: $42
Sold in 2016
Das Chinesische Reich mit seinen Schutz Staaten...Japanischen Insel Reiche.
A map of the Chinese and Japanese Empires published during the middle of the nineteenth century by Grassl, a German cartographer and engraver, who part worked in collabor...
Place & Date: Hildburghausen, 1856
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2017
Panoramic map of China. Published with No.16, new series of Cassell's illustrated family paper.
Uncommon map of China and Taiwan with relief shown pictorially. Published with No. 16, new series, of Cassell's illustrated family paper. In an inset lower left "Use...
Place & Date: London, John Cassel, March 20,1857
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2009
Carte de la Chine dressée d'après les matériaux Chinois les plus authentiques par J. Klaproth avec l'indication des cinq ports ouverts aux Européens. . .
Detailed map of China east of Tibet and including the islands of Tonkin and Taiwan. According to the title the map indicated the five ports open to the European traders a...
Place & Date: Paris, Benjamin Dupart, 1857
Selling price: $1200
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Historical atlas of China throughout the successive dynasties Or Sina rekidai enkaku zu.
A beautiful woodblock atlas of China. Maps were originally made by the great Japanese cartographer, Nagakubo Sekisui, with this edition published by Ninomiya. There are...
Place & Date: Osaka,1857
Selling price: $2900
Sold in 2017
Coast of China (4 maps on 2 sheets)
Attractive set of four maps on two sheets depicting the entire Chinese coast.
Place & Date: London, c. 1860
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2013
China.
A map of China and Taiwan, highly detailed, filled with place names.The Weekly Dispatch newspaper was published in London between the years 1856 and 1862, and included in...
Place & Date: London, ca. 1860
Selling price: $53
Sold in 2018