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Afbeeldinge vant Maghtich Keyserlyck Casteel Osacca...
Bird's eye view of the castle of Osaka, from the first description of Japan based on information from the Dutch who served in the V.O.C. (united East-India Company) and f...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1669
Selling price: $200
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Afbeeldinge vant Maghtich Keyserlyck Casteel Osacca geleegen int groot Ryck Jappan besuyden de Stadt Osacca inde provinsie Qioo
A fantastic bird's-eye plan of the castle at Osaka. With many details and an extensive 35 number key at the bottom.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1669
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2013
Miako - Kyoto.
A large, rare, copper engraving by Arnoldus Montanus. "Denkwürdige Gesandschaften der Ostindischen Gesellschaft in den vereinigten Niederlanden an unterschiedliche ...
Place & Date: Amsterdm, 1669
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2021
Iedo - Tokyo.
A large, rare, copper engraving by Arnoldus Montanus. "Denkwürdige Gesandschaften der Ostindischen Gesellschaft in den vereinigten Niederlanden an unterschiedliche ...
Place & Date: Amsterdm, 1669
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2021
Daibots Gotzenhaus Tempel Van Dajboth Dayboths Temple.
This fascinating 'busy' engraving is that of the inside of a Buddhist temple in Japan depicts a funeral procession for two ambassadors leading up to a somewhat hermaphrod...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1669
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2021
Iedo.
Fine panoramic view of Jedo ( Tokyo) from Joan Nieuhof's comprehensive work about Japan. The view shows fields and landscapes, with the city in the background. With numbe...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1669
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2023
![[Japan, Imperial Palace Kyoto]](/uploads/cache/86190-250x250.jpg)
[Japan, Imperial Palace Kyoto]
A copper engraved view of a Dutch Embassy at the Japanese Imperial Palace in Kyoto. Rare to be found in fine contempory coloring. From Ogilby's translation of Montanus's ...
Place & Date: London, 1670
Selling price: $135
Sold in 2022
![Le Palais Imperial de Iedo [Imperial Palace Tokio]](/uploads/cache/84795-250x250.jpg)
Le Palais Imperial de Iedo [Imperial Palace Tokio]
Very decorative view of the Imperial Palace at Tokio. From : Montanus A., Ambassades Mémorables De La Compagnie Des Indes Orientales Des Provinces Unies Vers Les Empereu...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1680
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2020
Miaco.
A late 17th century miniature view of the skyline of Miaco (Kyoto), by Allain Manneson Mallet (1630-1706), a well travelled military engineer and geographer who worked in...
Place & Date: Paris 1683
Selling price: $180
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Nangasaki appellé par les Chinois Tchangki.
Attractive bird's-eye view of Nagasaki by Jean de Fontaney from a French collection of Jesuit letters, volume 17. With reference key to principal points of interest. (A-H...
Place & Date: Paris 1708
Selling price: $270
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[Kawachi - Osaka Prefecture ]
Rare Japanese colored woodcut map of Kawachi (Osaka Prefecture). Very large size and scale, with excellent detail. Additional Japanese text to sides. These large maps are...
Place & Date: Osaka, Hoei 6, so 1709
Selling price: $850
Sold in 2008
SUCCESSION DES EMPEREURS DU JAPON AVEC UNE DESCRIPTION du MEURTRE DE L'EMPEREUR CUBO ET LA.
The plate is showing the murder of the Emperor Cubo at Kyoto, and the arrival of one of the early Dutch Ambassadors to Japan. A small map of Honshu in a central panel. Fr...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1715
Selling price: $65
Sold in 2020
Vue et Desription de la Ville de Meaco Captitale du Japon avec d' autre particularitez du Pays. / Ville de Saccai. / Loge des Hollandois a Nanguesague / Grand Temple de Saccay.
Henri Abraham Chatelain was a Amsterdam-based geographer and publisher. His main product is the 'Atlas Historique et Méthodique', in seven volumes, published between 171...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1719
Selling price: $375
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Succession de Empereurs du Japan avec une description du meutre de l' Emperuer Cubo et la Reception des Ambassadeurs Hollandoois en ce pays la. / Carte du Japon.
Henri Abraham Chatelain was a Amsterdam-based geographer and publisher. His main product is the 'Atlas Historique et Méthodique', in seven volumes, published between 171...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1719
Selling price: $250
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Vue et description de la Ville de Meaco Capitale du Japon.
Top part of the print shows a panoramic view of Meaco (Kyoto) at that time the capital of Japan, with a coach and horses in the foreground. Other parts show among other t...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2014
Vue et description de la Ville de Meaco Capitale du Japon. . .
Top part of the print shows the town of Meaco (Kyoto) at that time the capital of Japan, with a coach and horses in the foreground. Other parts show among other things th...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2016
Vue et description de la Ville de Meaco Capitale du Japon. . .
Top part of the print shows the town of Meaco (Kyoto) at that time the capital of Japan, with a coach and horses in the foreground. Other parts show among other things th...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Selling price: $140
Sold in 2020
Vue et description de la Ville de Meaco Capitale du Japon..
"Top part of the print shows the town of Meaco (Kyoto) at that time the capital of Japan, with a coach and horses in the foreground. Other parts show among other thi...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2010
Vue et description de la Ville de Meaco Capitale du Japon..
Top part of the print shows the town of Meaco (Kyoto) at that time the capital of Japan, with a coach and horses in the foreground. Other parts show among other things th...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Selling price: $680
Sold in 2009
Urbs Nangasaki Cum Portu & Agro circumjacenti..
Showing Nagasaki harbour. From The History of Japan, Scheuchzer's translation of Kaempfer's Imperium Japonicum.
Place & Date: London 1727
Selling price: $165
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Ceremonie Nuptiale du Japon / Ceremonie Funebre du Japon.
Two fine copper engravings, on a large folio sheet. The highly detailed views show wedding and funeral ceremonies of Japan.Published in "Cérémonies et Coutumes rel...
Place & Date: Paris, 1727
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2018
Plan de Jedo.. / Beschrijving van de stad JEDO..
The old Imperial capital, centered on the palace compound is shown in this detailed plan, based on Japanese printed plans of the late seventeenth century. From Kaempfer's...
Place & Date: The Hague, 1732
Selling price: $170
Sold in 2008
Isoletta Desima abittata Dagli Olandesi nel Giappone..
Bird's-eye view of Deshima copied from a manuscript by Voogt, who was second-in-command on Deshima in 1713. The island is viewed from the landside, depicting the developm...
Place & Date: Venice, 1740
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2020
Idole Xekia. / Autre représentation de Xekia.
Two scenes on one page showing religious scenes in Japan. Fine copper engraving by Bernard Picart and taken from Bernard Picart's famous Céréonies et costumes religieus...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1743
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2021
Toranga divinité du Japon/ La Pagode de Toranga/ Prédicateur Japonais.
Three scenes on one page showing scenes on the square of a Pagoda, in Japan. Fine copper engraving by Bernard Picart and taken from Bernard Picart's famous Céréonies et...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1743
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2021
Pagode de Canon/ Canon divinité du Japon/ Autre représentation de Canon/ Xantai divinité du Japon.
Four scenes on one page showing religious scenes, in Japan. Fine copper engraving by Bernard Picart and taken from Bernard Picart's famous Céréonies et costumes religie...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1743
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2021
Tiedebaik divinité du Japon. / Amida divinité du Japon. / Autre représentation d'Amida, et diverses manieres de noyer dans son honneur.
Three scenes on one page showing religious scenes, in Japan. Fine copper engraving by Bernard Picart and taken from Bernard Picart's famous Céréonies et costumes religi...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1743
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2021
Plan du Port et de la Ville de Nangasaki.
This plan originates from Charlevoix's work Histoire et description Générele du Japon . His first in 1715 published work was the Histoire de l'etablissement du christia...
Place & Date: Paris 1750
Selling price: $250
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Monnoyes d'Or et d'Argent du Japon. Pl. VII.
Decorative print illustrating Golden and silver coins from Japan. From Histoire générale des voyages..> by Antoine François Prévost.Title in French and Dutch.
Place & Date: Paris, 1752
Selling price: $20
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Grundriss von Jedo. . . N°24
City plan of the Emperor\'s Palace and the town of Jedo, Tokyo, Japan with a key to important buildings and bridges. In: Allgemeine Historie der Reisen zur Wasser und zu ...
Place & Date: Leipzig, 1753
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2008
Plan de la Ville et du Port de Nangasaki.
A fine copper engraved map featuring a 'birds-eye' view of Nagasaki, Japan. The map is oriented to the southwest with a bold compass rose. The map locates the principal p...
Place & Date: Paris, 1757
Selling price: $45
Sold in 2019
Plan du port et de la ville de Nangasaki.
Attractive and well detailed plan of Nagasaki, large title cartouche with reference key to principal points of interest. Deshima is central to the map.Jacques Nicolaas Be...
Place & Date: Paris, 1760
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2020
Plan du port et de la ville de Nangasaki.
An attractive and detailed plan of Nagasaki, with a large title cartouche with a reference key to principal points of interest. Deshima is central to the map.Jacques Nico...
Place & Date: Paris, 1760
Selling price: $85
Sold in 2023
Plan du port et de la ville de Nangasaki.
Attractive and well detailed plan of Nagasaki, large title cartouche with reference key to principal points of interest. Deshima is central to the map.Jacques Nicolaas Be...
Place & Date: Paris, 1760
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2018
Plan du port et de la ville de Nangasaki.
This plan originates from Charlevoix's work Histoire et description Générele du Japon . His first in 1715 published work was the Histoire de l'etablissement du christia...
Place & Date: Paris, 1760
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2023
Plan de la Ville de Meaco.
Jaques Nicolas Bellin (1702-720) was the most important French hydrographer of the 18th century. Sea-atlas 'Hydrographique Français' , 1756-65, atlas to accompany Prévo...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c. 1760
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2016
Plan de Jedo.
An antique city plan of the city and port of Tokyo, Japan built for the Dutch (VOC - Dutch East India Company) concession, on the Japanese island of Kyushu. Published by ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1764
Selling price: $165
Sold in 2020
Bateau Japonais. Two prints on one sheet.
Engraving of 18th century Japanese boat drawn by Lt. Blondela. Done during the expedition of comte de Jean-Francois de Galaup La Perouse in the Pacific Ocean in 1785-1788...
Place & Date: Paris, 1812
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2023
![[LXXXII. Predicatore Giaponese].](/uploads/cache/35018-250x250.jpg)
[LXXXII. Predicatore Giaponese].
Aquatint depicting a Japanese preacher and his audience, engraved by A. Rancoti, Plate N°82.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du gouve...
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2020
![[untitled plan of Osaka]](/uploads/cache/99163-250x250.jpg)
[untitled plan of Osaka]
Rare Japanese colored woodcut printed map of Osaka. Very large size and scale, with excellent detail. Dated from the Tenpo era which was from 1830-44!It indicates the Osa...
Place & Date: Japan, c. 1837
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2009
Vue Interieure d'un Theatre a Jedo.
A typical theatre scene in Tokyo, as seen during the first half of the nineteenth century. It shows a packed theatre, looking at events being reenacted on stage, and else...
Place & Date: Paris, ca 1837
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2018
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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
![Ansei kaisei fugo on Edo ezu. [Tokyo]](/uploads/cache/40776-250x250.jpg)
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
![[Edo period woodcut plan of Edo or Tokyo]](/uploads/cache/27903-250x250.jpg)
[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
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
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
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
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
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
Nangasaki.
A fine bird's-eye view showing Deshima (the head quarter of the V.O.C.) and Nagasaki bay. From Die Preussische Expedition nach Ost Asien . With many European ships in the...
Place & Date: Berlin, 1864
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2015
(Plan of Hiogo Treaty Limits)
Map of the new prefecture with Japanese and English descriptions. In lower right an key to "Position of Government Office, boundaries, road and railways. On January ...
Place & Date: Meiji 10 = 1877
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2019
Unusual Chart Of the Tokyo Yokohama Bay.
"Golfe de Yedo" le sud du Japon" d'aprés l'amirauté Britannique. 1872 corrections in 1876-78-79. Dépôt général de la marine. 1 x tearing paper off ma...
Place & Date: Paris, 1879
Selling price: $380
Sold in 2021
Western Okinawa Beaches Sheet 4 of 6. Top Secret reduced to restricted upon departure for the operation. (Lot contains 2 copies of the map.)
Top secret intelligy map of Western Okinawa Beaches prepared by Comphisgroup twelve and Phisspac Intelligence. With several inset maps and keys. On verso the Hourly heigh...
Place & Date: Washington, 1945
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2012
Kyoto and Vicinity with Shopping District.
An attractive colored plan of the Japanese city of Kyoto, with smaller insets of a plan of Maruyama Park, a map of Kyoto and Vicinity, and a plan of Momoyama. Complete wi...
Place & Date: Kyoto, ca. 1950
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2018