Undecima Asie Tabula.
Incunable wood block printed large-format Ptolemaic map showing Asia east of the Ganges with metal-type lettering within a colored trapezoid border, with a Latin-text on ...
Place & Date: Ulm, 1482-1486
Selling price: $6000
Sold in 2015
Decima Asie Tabvla.
Wood block map of India and part of Sri Lanka from Martin Waldseemüller's 1513 edition of Ptolemy, who was a landmark work that contributed to major advances in both Ren...
Place & Date: Strasbourg, J. Schott, 1513
Selling price: $9100
Sold
Tabula IX Asia (title on verso).
Martin Waldseemüller (1470-1521) drew the maps for the 1513 and 1520 editions of Ptolemy's ' Geographia'. They were revised and reduced by Laurent Fries and used for the...
Place & Date: Lyon, 1535
Selling price: $375
Sold
Tabu. moder. Indiae
Woodcut map of India by L. Fries. From the 1535 Lyon edition of Ptolemy's Geographia edited by M. Servetus and published by M. and G. Trechsel, printed from the 1522 wood...
Place & Date: Lyon, 1535
Selling price: $1400
Sold in 2010
Tabula X. Asiae hae sunt e cognitis totius orbis.
The earliest printed representation of India west of the Ganges River in Ptolemy's time. Considerable detail of river systems and mountain ranges.The first issue of this ...
Place & Date: Vienne 1541
Selling price: $550
Sold
Tabula IX Asia (title on verso).
Martin Waldseemüller (1470-1521) drew the maps for the 1513 and 1520 editions of Ptolemy's ' Geographia'. They were revised and reduced by Laurent Fries and used for the...
Place & Date: c. 1541
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2008
Tabula nova utriusque Indiae
This is the fourth and last edition of this map based on Waldseemüller's first "modern" map of Asia. It follows that cartography without change but adds an int...
Place & Date: Vienne, L.Fries, Servetus, 1541
Selling price: $1550
Sold in 2011
Tabula Asiae VIII (India & Central Asia with Monsters and Anthropomorphs)
The first edition of Munster's map of central Asia, based upon Claudius Ptolemy which appeared in his "Geographia Universalis", first published in 1540. This fa...
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2014
Tabula Asiae IX (Northern India and Pakistan)
The first edition of Munster's map of Northern India, present-day Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan, with the delta of the Indus River graphically depicted. Based upon Claud...
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2016
Tabula Asiae X (India)
The first edition of Münster's map of India and the Indian Ocean with the sources of the Indus and Ganges Rivers, based upon Claudius Ptolemy which appeared in his "...
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2016
Tabula Asiae X (India)
The first edition of Munster's map of India and the Indian Ocean with the sources of the Indus and Ganges Rivers, based upon Claudius Ptolemy which appeared in his "...
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Selling price: $180
Sold in 2017
Tabula Asiae XI.
Attractive early woodblock map of the Indian Ocean.
Place & Date: Basle, c. 1552
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2016
Calecut Nuova Tavola.
Scarce FIRST edition of this early map of Indian peninsular, being one of the earliest modern maps of the region.Girolamo Ruscelli's edition of Ptolemy's Geographia inclu...
Place & Date: Venice, Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1561
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2021
India.
A woodcut from P. Mela's "De Orbis Situ Libri tres". Published by Henric Perti. Almost a decade after the death of Sebastian Münster, his publisher and stepson...
Place & Date: Basle, 1561
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2020
De Terris Asiae Maioris de India Ultra Gangem Fluvium Sita.
One text page with a woodcuts of a fanciful creatures along the River Ganges in India from Münster's Cosmographia Universalis.The Cosmographia by Sebastian Munster from ...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1564
Selling price: $10
Sold in 2018
Calecut Nova Tavola.
A fine early map of Indian peninsula,it being one of the earliest modern maps of the region, extending from west of the Gujarat peninsula eastward to Bengal and south as ...
Place & Date: Venice, 1564
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2020
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 ...
Place & Date: Venice, 1564
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2020
Tabula Asiae XI.
Early map of part of India. Girolamo Ruscelli first published the map in his "La Geographi di Claudio Tolomeo" (Venice, 1561). In 1574 a new plate was used whic...
Place & Date: Venice, 1564
Selling price: $70
Sold in 2020
Tabula Indiae X. (part of India and the Indian Ocean)
Double-page woodcut Ptolemaic-style map by Sebastian Münster figuring part of India and the Indian Ocean, published in the edition of Strabo by Henri Petri in 1571."...
Place & Date: Basle, Henri Petri, 1571
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2022
Calechut Celeberrimum Indiae Emporium
Birdeye view of Kozhikode (Calicut) with ships and elefants.
Place & Date: Cologne, 1575
Selling price: $210
Sold in 2009
![Calechut Celeberrimum Indiae Emporium [on sheet with] Ormus [and] Canonor [and] S. Georgii Oppidum Mina.](/uploads/cache/33683-250x250.jpg)
Calechut Celeberrimum Indiae Emporium [on sheet with] Ormus [and] Canonor [and] S. Georgii Oppidum Mina.
Four very desirable and early town-plans of Kozhikode, Hormuz, Kannur and Almina. "KOZHIKODE (CALICUT) : "The city is viewed from the sea, just as it would hav...
Place & Date: Cologne, (1572) 1577
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2017
![Anfa, quibusdam Anaffa [on sheet with] Azaamurum [and] Diu [and] Goa.](/uploads/cache/33685-250x250.jpg)
Anfa, quibusdam Anaffa [on sheet with] Azaamurum [and] Diu [and] Goa.
Four very desirable and early town-plans of Casablanca (Anfa) - Azemmour (Azamor) - Diu - Old Goa (Velha Goa) "CASABLANCA (ANFA) : "The engraving shows the rav...
Place & Date: Cologne, (1572) 1577
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2020
![Calechut Celeberrimum Indiae Emporium [on sheet with] Ormus [and] Canonor [and] S. Georgii Oppidum Mina.](/uploads/cache/36842-250x250.jpg)
Calechut Celeberrimum Indiae Emporium [on sheet with] Ormus [and] Canonor [and] S. Georgii Oppidum Mina.
Four very desirable and early town-plan of Kozhikode, Hormuz, Kannur and Almina. "KOZHIKODE (CALICUT) : "The city is viewed from the sea, just as it would have ...
Place & Date: Cologne, (1572) 1577
Selling price: $900
Sold
![Calechut Celeberrimum Indiae Emporium [on sheet with] Ormus [and] Canonor [and] S. Georgii Oppidum Mina.](/uploads/cache/41270-250x250.jpg)
Calechut Celeberrimum Indiae Emporium [on sheet with] Ormus [and] Canonor [and] S. Georgii Oppidum Mina.
Four very desirable and early town-plans of Kozhikode, Hormuz, Kannur and Almina. "KOZHIKODE (CALICUT) : "The city is viewed from the sea, just as it would hav...
Place & Date: Cologne, (1572) 1577
Selling price: $325
Sold in 2018
![Calechut Celeberrimum Indiae Emporium [on sheet with] Ormus [and] Canonor [and] S. Georgii Oppidum Mina.](/uploads/cache/46221-250x250.jpg)
Calechut Celeberrimum Indiae Emporium [on sheet with] Ormus [and] Canonor [and] S. Georgii Oppidum Mina.
Four very desirable and early town-plan of Kozhikode, Hormuz, Kannur and Almina. "KOZHIKODE (CALICUT) : "The city is viewed from the sea, just as it would have...
Place & Date: Cologne, (1572) 1577
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2022
Calechut Celeberri mum Indiae Emporium/ Ormus/ ..
Four panoramic 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 of In...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1580
Selling price: $610
Sold in 2018
Calechut Celeberri mum Indiae Emporium/ Ormus/ ..
Four panoramic 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 of In...
Place & Date: Cologne 1580
Selling price: $350
Sold
ANFA. / AZAAMURUM. / DIU. / GOA.
Four fine coastal views of these fortified cities, which were important to European trade with Asia. Goa (130x465mm.) and Diu on the western coast of India, together with...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1580
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2011
ANFA. / AZAAMURUM. / DIU. / GOA.
Text on the back in Latin.Four fine coastal views of these fortified cities, which were important to European trade with Asia. Goa (130x465mm.) and Diu on the western coa...
Place & Date: Cologne 1580
Selling price: $230
Sold in 2009
![[Dragons and Gryfons].](/uploads/cache/14197-250x250.jpg)
[Dragons and Gryfons].
On recto an early representation of a dragon from India and Ethiopia. VERSO : Snakes and scorpions (65x135 mm) and a griffon.From a French text edition of his Cosmographi...
Place & Date: Basle 1575 - 1580
Selling price: $5
Sold in 2016
Calechut Celeberri mum India Emporium.
A finely rendered presentation of three Indian Ocean port cities and one African, that formed part of the Portuguese maritime empire. The larger upper half plate (Calicut...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca. 1581
Selling price: $525
Sold in 2008
![Nova India, ut nostro tempore est explorata & cognita. [India]](/uploads/cache/32576-250x250.jpg)
Nova India, ut nostro tempore est explorata & cognita. [India]
On recto a wood block engraved map of India.From a Latin text edition of his Geographia , that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge.
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2013
Indo di Conditione.
Full portrait of a woman and two children from India, by Cesare Vecellio (1521–1601). From "De gli habiti antichi, e moderni di diverse parti del mondo libri du du...
Place & Date: Venice, Damian Zenaro, 1590
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2017
Indiana Di Conditione.
Full portrait of a woman and two children from India, by Cesare Vecellio (1521–1601). From "De gli habiti antichi, e moderni di diverse parti del mondo libri du du...
Place & Date: Venice, Damian Zenaro, 1590
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2017
Indiana Mediocre.
Full portrait of a woman and two children from India, by Cesare Vecellio (1521–1601). From "De gli habiti antichi, e moderni di diverse parti del mondo libri du du...
Place & Date: Venice, Damian Zenaro, 1590
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2017
Cochini Rex elephante vectus, cum procerum comitatu, quos Nairos...
In this elegant copperplate engraving you see the King of Cochin, astride an Elephant leading his army, gathered below him. Linschoten was a Dutch Merchant, Trader and Hi...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, after 1596
Selling price: $63
Sold in 2016
Inquilini e Cananor Mahometani infectiss Lusitanorum hostes...
In this attractive copperplate engraving you see a Moslem from Cananor in Kerala, India, and the inhabitants of the Malabar coast between Goa and Cochin, with a rural sce...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, after 1596
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2016
Virginis Lusitane in India gestus et amictus...Der Portugeesen gehoude Vrouwen habyt en cyraet...
In this detailed copperplate engraving you seethe various costume and dress of Portuguese ladies and rank. Linschoten was a Dutch Merchant, Trader and Historian, who trav...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, after 1596
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2016
Gestus et habitus tam civium que militum Lusitanorum in oriente agentium...
In this charming copperplate engraving you see wealthy Portuguese citizens and soldiers of the East Indies, in all their finery, walking under umbrellas. Linschoten was a...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, after 1596
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2016
Mercador / Baniane / Bramene.
In this attractive copperplate engraving you see various peoples of the Indies, including a merchant and a Brahmin priest. In the background people pray before an idol se...
Place & Date: Amsterdam , after 1596
Selling price: $41
Sold in 2016
Nuptiarum ritus, et epule in Provincia Ballagate supra Goam.
In this charming copperplate engraving you see a Wedding ceremony in Goa, bride and groom, family and friends and musicians.Linschoten was a Dutch Merchant, Trader and Hi...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, after 1596
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2016
Calecut Nova Tavola.
Fine early map of Indian peninsula, being one of the earliest modern maps of the region.Girolamo Ruscelli first published the map in his "La Geographi di Claudio Tol...
Place & Date: Venice, 1598
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2016
A ilhae cidade de Goa metropolitanada Indiae. . .
One of the earliest printed detailed plans of a European trading post in the Indies, this finely engraved and designed bird's-eye plan was made by Baptista a Doetecum and...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1598
Selling price: $2500
Sold in 2019
Calecut Nuova Tavola.
Fine 1598 edition of this early map of India. Girolamo Ruscelli first published the map in his "La Geographi di Claudio Tolomeo" (Venice, 1561), with the presen...
Place & Date: Venice, 1598
Selling price: $175
Sold in 2018
A picture of the Aloë, Maguey mexicanum & Sycomorg.
Here is the aloë, or semper vivum, which is as tall as a man and found in great numbers in Agua de Sanbras. Also the maguey, often called metl, grows here, but originate...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1598
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2021
The Indian coconut, fig-tree and others.
The Indians have many uses for the palm or coconut tree. Not only do they obtain food and drink from its fruit, they can also make clothing, ships’ sails, rope and othe...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1598
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2018
Tabula Asiae IX.
The third state of Ruscelli's map of part of Northern India, based upon Claudius Ptolemy. Showing India, Pakistan and the Indian Ocean. Girolamo Ruscelli first published ...
Place & Date: Venice, 1598
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2018
Tabula Asiae X.
The third state of Ruscelli's map of part of India and the Indian Ocean, based upon Claudius Ptolemy. Showing part of India and the Indian Ocean, extending north to the s...
Place & Date: Venice, 1598
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2018
Status Officiatorum Lusitanorum in India.
A scene of Portuguese officials in India from Linschoten's famous voyages to the East of 1583-1592 here published by De Bry the year after they first appeared as a separa...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1599
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2013
A Ilha e Cidade de Goa Metropolitana da India e Partes Orientais que esta em 15 Graos da Banda do Norte.
A bird's-eye town-plan of Goa, the capital of the Portuguese trading empire in Asia. This is a reduced version of Doetechum's view that illustrated editions of Jan Huygen...
Place & Date: Frankfurth, 1599
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2013
De foro Goae frequentao, Leylon. . . (The daily market at Goa).
This famous and desirable scene of the daily market of Goa, drawn after Jan Huijgen van Linschoten during his visit to the East of 1583-1592 here published by De Bry the ...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1599
Selling price: $220
Sold in 2020
Seconda Tavola.
Splendid map with south to the top.From Arabia over India towards Golf of Bengala, shows the way to the Spice islands. (Vado alla Moluche). And Mount Adam (paradise lost ...
Place & Date: Venice, Giunti, 1606
Selling price: $3100
Sold in 2016
Malabar.
Attractive little map of the southern part of the Indian subcontinent, focusing on the Malabar coast from Goa to Cape Comorin and its important trading posts. Also depict...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2023
Descriptio Narsingae.
A rare miniature map of the southern part of India with Sri Lanka (Ceylon). Strap-work title cartouche in the upper right corner. Expertly engraved by Petrus Kaerius, the...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2020
De foro Goae frequentato..
An attractive panorama view of the market square at Goa, with Indians and Portuguese traders, buying and selling various merchandise, with a row of colonial buildings in ...
Place & Date: Frankfurt 1607
Selling price: $150
Sold
De foro Goae frequentato..
An attractive panorama view of the market square at Goa, with Indians and Portuguese traders, buying and selling various merchandise, with a row of colonial buildings in ...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1607
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2016
Bengala.
Very fine early miniature map of Bangladesh, River Ganges and Calcutta named Calecota . Title cartouche centered on the lower part.First published in 1598 in his Caert-Th...
Place & Date: Amsterdam/Frankfurt 1609
Selling price: $160
Sold
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...
Place & Date: Amsterdam/Frankfurt 1609
Selling price: $100
Sold
Narsinga and Ceylon.
Very fine early miniature map of Ceylon and the southern tip of India. Title cartouche on the upper right corner.First published in 1598 in his Caert-Thresoor, the plates...
Place & Date: Amsterdam/Frankfurt 1609
Selling price: $100
Sold
Cambaia.
Very fine early miniature map of North India. Title cartouche on the lower left corner. First published in 1598 in his Caert-Thresoor, the plates were executed by the mos...
Place & Date: Amsterdam/Frankfurt 1609
Selling price: $100
Sold
Hollandi a Caesare Calecutense.
Dutch mission arriving in Calicut, India.Theodore de Bry, a German engraver and book dealer, began a compilation of early voyages in 1590 and had published six parts at t...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1609
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2016
Navis Quaed am Praetoria. (A Portuguese ship is wrecked on its way to Goa in India)
In 1595 a Portuguese ship called St. Iago, with the admiral and about five hundred people aboard, set sail for the East Indies. Having carefully negotiated the Cape of Go...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1609
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2016
XVIII. Repraesentatio Mulierum varie exornatarum, et Quomodo matrimonium contrahant. (The natives' clothing and how they adorn themselves: 1603-1604)
A: This shows a chief’s wife (called ‘aeneodifie’) wearing feast-day attire as she walks out. She has beads or corral around her neck, her hair being decoratively b...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1609
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2016
Vicerex Classem Ex Goa. ( An encounter with pirates on the Malabar coast.)
An encounter with pirates on the Malabar coast. The pirates along the west coast of India were notorious for bad deeds, both on land and sea. The Portuguese viceroy at Go...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1609
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2019
IV. Delineatio Processionis Reginae Pataniensis. (Procession of the Queen of Patani.)
Copper engraving on a text sheet showing a procession of the Queen of Patani. More than a century of female rule in Patani (1584-1688) involved four successive queens Pro...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1609
Selling price: $70
Sold
Nefaria Obtruncatio Quorundam in Navi Hollandia.
A finely engraved scene of a Javanese murderous attack on a Dutch ship. The text underneath explains : "after trading with the people of Bantam, we sailed on to anot...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1609
Selling price: $150
Sold
XXIV. Delineatio Castelli et Propugnaculi Lusitanorum, La Mina, &c. (Elmina Castle)
View of Elmina Castle, which was erected by the Portuguese in 1482 as São Jorge da Mina (St. George of the Mine) Castle, also known simply as Mina or Feitoria da Mina) i...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1609
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2019
Delineatio Adventus Hollandorum in terram Patane.
Scene during the second voyage of Jacob van Neck to the East Indies, from 1600-1604, during which he visited the islands of Ternate and Macao, and the city of Patane, in ...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1609
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2019
Goa
Very early view of Goa, India. An entire leaf from the book by Pontanus ‘Rerum et urbis Amstelodamensium Historia’ (1611). On verso a naval engagement.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1611
Selling price: $124
Sold in 2023
A Ilha e Cidade de Goa Metropolitana da India E Partes Orientais que esta en 15 Graos da Banda da Norte. . .
One of the earliest printed detailed plans of a European trading post in the Indies, this finely engraved and designed bird's-eye plan was published in Jan Huijgen van Li...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1613
Selling price: $4200
Sold in 2016
Cambaia
Attractive map of northern India with Gujarat and the Indus river, bordering Pakistan. Indicates major towns represented by symbols, major rivers and mountains. Decorativ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1616
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2008
Tabula Asiae VIII.
Fine Ptolemaic map most probably from the Jansson/Magini atlas of 1617. Shows the ancient areas of Scythia Intra Imaum, Serica, Scythia Extra Imaum, India Intra Gangem, I...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1617
Selling price: $17
Sold in 2018
CAMBAIA
Very decorative little map of northern India with Gujarat and the Indus river, bordering Pakistan. Naming major towns represented by symbols, major rivers, mountains, and...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1618
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2008
BENGALA
Very decorative little map of the Bay of Bengal, showing parts of India, Bangladesh, and Myanmar (Burma). Presenting major towns with small symbols, also showing major ri...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1618
Selling price: $90
Sold in 2008
![Narsinga. [India]](/uploads/cache/24458-250x250.jpg)
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...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cloppenburch, 1621
Selling price: $180
Sold
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 ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cloppenburch, 1621
Selling price: $150
Sold
![[ Lot of 12 maps / views off India / Sri Lanka] Malabar.](/uploads/cache/20949-250x250.jpg)
[ Lot of 12 maps / views off India / Sri Lanka] Malabar.
Attractive little map of the southern part of the Indian subcontinent, focusing on the Malabar coast from Goa to Cape Comorin and its important trading posts. Also depict...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c. 1630
Selling price: $180
Sold in 2023
Goa
Beautiful birdeye view of Goa in India from Matthaus Merian. Showing the city at the beginning of the 17th century with many ships in the harbour and a cartouche describi...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1646
Selling price: $140
Sold in 2009
GOA.
This southern oriented map depicts the Portuguese colony of Goa, which is situated on the west coast of India and was a key port of trade for merchants. The map is very d...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, ca. 1646
Selling price: $285
Sold in 2020
Magni Mogolis Imperium.
A most attractive map of northern India and Central Asia.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Selling price: $150
Sold