JANSSON, Johannes.
Indiĉ Orientalis Nova Descriptio.
Amsterdam, Jan Jansson, c1645, French text edition. 395 x 510.
Original colour, with some recent embellishment. Minor marginal defects
otherwise good.
This is a landmark map, being the first printed record of the discoveries
made by the Dutch ship "Dufken" on route to Cape York in Australia, despite
the 27 years that had passed since the voyage! The Dutch East India Company
suppressed the knowledge of the discoveries until it was learned how profitable
Australia would be, but it is believed it was leaked from the Blaeu firm, the
official cartographers to the Company. Two years later Blaeu issued his
version, but it must have been galling to have known the secrets for nearly
thirty years and be beaten to publication by his fiercest rival. |
£1,350 |
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ORTELIUS, Abraham.
Asia Nova Descriptio.
Antwerp, 1588, Spanish text edition. 370 x 490.
Finely coloured; excellent condition.
A fine early map of asia, the second plate produced for the atlas after
1575. Van den BROECKE: 7. |
£1,150 |
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WALDSEEMÜLLER, Martin.
[No title].
Strassburg, Joannes Grüninger, 1522. 295 x 440.
Uncoloured woodcut; slight brown stain in the centrefold, probably oil, well away from printed area, otherwise fine.
From the third edition of Ptolemy's geography published at Strassburg, edited by Laurentius Fries. A slightly reduced version of Martin Waldseemüller's map of 1513. The 'modern' map of Asia, with no title, shows part of the Arabian Peninsular, India and the Malaysian Peninsular. The Latin text on the verso is accompanied by a superb woodcut - said to be the work of Albrecht Dürer. |
£2,300 |
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LEVASSEUR, Victor.
Asie.
Paris, c.1845. 315 x 450.
Original outline colour; paper lightly age-toned in the margins with minor soiling, otherwise very good.
Steel engraving, with finely engraved vignette borders with ten costume vignettes. |
£90 |
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TALLIS, John.
Asia.
London, 1851. 260 x 330.
Original outline colour; trimmed close to bottom margin with no loss, otherwise a fine unfolded example.
An attractive and well detailed steel plate engraving of Asia with further engraved vignettes including views of Petra, Tartars, Russian Peasants and indigenous fauna. |
£140 |
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ZATTA, Antonio.
L'Asia divisa ne'suoi principali Stati di nouva projezione.
Venice, 1784. 305 x 405.
Original colour; some marginal staining and soiling, slight waterstain to lower centrefold area, short repaired tear to centrefold otherwise good..
A map of the whole of Asia, with decorative figured cartouche. From 'Atlante Novissimo'. |
£210 |
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FER, Nicolas de.
L'Asie.
Paris, 1717. 230 x 320.
Uncoloured; very light age-toning of top edge of the upper margin, cut close bottom left corner due to binding, signs of old folds, one with short repaired tear, otherwise a fine example.
A map of Asia. |
£310 |
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LEVASSEUR, Victor.
Asie.
Paris, c.1845. 315 x 450.
Original outline colour; steel engraving, fine condition.
Steel engraving, with finely engraved vignette borders with ten costume vignettes. |
£90 |
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MAYER, Johann Tobias.
Carte des Indes Orientales.
Nüremburg, Homann Heirs, 1748. 520 x 865.
Original outline colour; marginal staining, just effecting printed area, otherwise very good condition.
A map of the East Indies, from Pakistan across to China and the Maldives down to Australia. Shows Formosa, the Philippines, Java, Borneo and New Guinea. Decorative cartouche and titles in French. |
£680 |
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FER, Nicholas de.
L'Asie.
Paris, 1705. 205 x 275.
Uncoloured; signs of old folds from a much smaller book and very small light brown stain, otherwise fine.
A small map of Asia, probably engraved by Charles Inselin. |
£210 |
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SPEED, John.
A New Map of East India.
London, Bassett & Chiswell, 1627-76. 38- x 500.
Finely coloured; expertly repaired lower centrefold, otherwise a fine example.
Engraved by Francis Lamb for Speed's Prospect of the World. Although the Prospect first appeared in 1627 (two years before Speed's death), this map only appeared in the 1676 edition. Modelled closely on the earlier Dutch map of the area by De Wit, it shows the East Indies from Formosa and the Philippines to the Indus. On the verso is a two-page English text "The Description of India". |
£1,950 |
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ZATTA, Antonio.
L'Asia divisa ne'suoi principali Stati di nouva projezione.
Venice, 1777. 305 x 405.
Original colour; some marginal staining and soiling, slight waterstaining to lower centrefold area, short repaired tear to centrefold otherwise good.
A map of the whole of Asia, with decorative figured cartouche. From 'Atlante Novissimo'. |
£180 |
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MUNSTER, Sebastian.
Die Lander Asie nach...
Basle, Heinrich Petri, 1572, German text edition. 275 x 250.
Uncoloured woodcut; light age-toning and marginal soiling, centrefold in the lower margin slightly darker, possibly wax, otherwise very good.
Munster's modern map of Asia, showing from Moscovy and Arabia east to "Archipelagus 7448 insularú" off the coast of China. To the south Munster now associates Taprobana with Sumatra rather than Ceylon, and Zanzibar is an island south-east of Madagascar. Much of the information on the map is derived from the reports of Marco Polo, including Cathay, Quinzay and the reference above to 7448 islands meant to represent the islands of the Philippines
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£680 |
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TARDIEU, Ambroise.
Carte de L'Asie.
Paris, Chez Étienne Ledoux, 1821. 410 x 545.
Original outline colour; minor waterstain to two corners, age-toning to the edges of the margins, otherwise a good example.
A map of Asia, published in 'Atlas pour servir a l'intelligence de L'Histoire Générale des Voyages, De Laharpe'.
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£78 |
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TIRION, Isaac.
Nouva Carta Dell Asia.
Venice, Girolamo Albrizzi, 1740. 280 x 345.
Uncoloured; light centrefold toning due to guard paste, very light print offset and minor marginal staining, otherwise a fine example.
A map of the whole of Asia from 'Atlante Novissimo che Contiene Tutte le Parti del Mondo'. Shows a very distorted Kamchatka Peninsular.
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£190 |
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LAPIE, Pierre & Alexandre Émile.
Carte de L'Asie.
Paris, 1838. 400 x 555.
Original outline colour; light overall age toning, very light spotting, mainly to the margins, otherwise a very good example.
A detailed lithographic map of Asia, prepared by Pierre Tardieu.
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£56 |
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BLAEU, Johannes.
Asia noviter delineata.
Amsterdam, 1649, Dutch text edition. 410 x 555.
Fine original colour, very light age-toning, minor signs of text show through from verso, otherwise a fine example.
One of the most decorative maps of the whole continent available. The top set of vignettes include Goa, Damascus, Jerusalem, Aden and Macao.
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£3,550 |
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L'ISLE, Guillaume de.
L'Asie dressée sur les observations de l'Acadamie Royale des Sciences et quelques autres, et sur les memoires les plus recens.
Paris, 1700. 450 x 590.
Original outline colour; light age-toning and soiling to the margins, otherwise a good example.
A map of the whole of Asia, with decorative title cartouche of a camel train.
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£320 |
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DE WIT, Frederick.
Asiĉ Nova Descriptio.
Amsterdam, c.1670. 440 x 560.
Original colour; light soiling mainly to the margins, otherwise a fine example.
A highly decorative carte-a-figures map of the Asian Continent. Cartographic detail includes the Dutch discoveries made by Abel Tasman in Australasia & Maarten Vries to the north of Japan. Native figures form the side borders and six town plans form the upper border, they include; Ormus, Aden, Jerusalem and Damascus.
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£2,450 |
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BELLIN, N.
Karte von dem Morgenlĉndischen Ocean oder dem Indischen Meere.
Leipzig, 1756. 335 x 470.
Uncoloured; fine dark impression, signs of old fold but otherwise good.
A map of the Indian Ocean showing Cape Town across to the west coast of Australia, the Arabian peninsular, India and the Malay peninsular and down to Borneo. From a German edition of the 'Histoire Generale des Voyages' by Prevost.
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£180 |
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HONDIUS, Jodocus.
Asiĉ Nova Descriptio Auctore Jodoco Hondio.
Amsterdam, 1606-. 375 x 505.
Finely coloured; very minor marginal spotting and soiling, otherwise a fine example.
In 1604, Jodocus Hondius (Sr) acquired the plates of Mercator's Atlas, in order to complete with Ortelius's 'Theatrum' he added a further 37 new maps, these maps first appeared in the 1606 edition. This map of Asia is one of the new maps with improvements, Korea is now shown, but as an island, the shape of Sri Lanka (Ceylon) is more accurate and the mythical Lake Chyamai, unnamed here, is located to the north-east of India, as opposed to northern Thailand in Mercator's original.
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£1,250. |
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[GEDRON, Pedro.].
El Asia Con toda le Extension de sus Reinos y Provincias segun las ultimas y nuevas observationes de las Accadomias de Paris y de Londres.
[Madrid, 1756-58. 460 x 530.
Uncoloured; signs of old paste on verso, possibly laid on canvas or a board at some stage, small holes and paper defects (visible when held up to the light), light marginal staining and soiling, some worming at centre (reinstated paper repair), otherwise a good example.
A rare map of Asia, there is no attribution or engravers name, but Tooley notes the map maker Pedro Gendron and the geography and paper is of the period indicated 1756-8.
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£520 |
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BLAEU, Johannes.
Asia noviter delineata.
Amsterdam, 1635-, French text edition. 410 x 560.
Fine original colour, light overall age-toning, both side margins replaced in places just within the printed line border, with some minor manuscript replacement of print loss (expertly done and hardly visible), otherwise a very good example.
One of the most decorative maps of the whole continent available. The top set of vignettes include Goa, Damascus, Jerusalem, Aden and Macao.
KOEMAN: Atlantes Neerlandici, Bl 11.
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£2,300 |
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ENOUY, Joseph.
The East Indies, and part of China from the River Indus to Canton: including Hindoostan and India beyoind the Ganges.
London, Bowles & Carver, 1800. 515 x 695.
Original body colour; blue colour in sea area has oxidised and is now light brown, light spotting in upper margin and some marginal soiling, otherwise a very good example.
A detailed map of the East Indies with inset maps of The Philippine Islands and Indonesia, named "the Isles of Sunda with the Moluccas". Published in 'Bowles's Universal Atlas, Being a Complete Collection of New and Accurate Maps'. Engraved by Benjamin Baker.
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£440 |
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SPEED, John.
Asia with the Islands adjoyning described, the atire of the people, & Townes of importancs...
London, Bassett & Chiswell, 1627-76. 400 x 525.
Coloured; trimmed close at right hand edge, but with enough blank paper to facilitate framing, light age-toning to the edges of the paper, otherwise a superb example of the 1676 edition on thicker paper; a dark impression.
Engraved by Abraham Goos for Speed's Prospect of the World, this map has eight bird's-eye views of cities (including Goa, Jerusalem and Macao) and ten costume vignettes. Korea is shown as a peninsula, although on the map of China from the same atlas it is an island. On the verso is a two-page English text "The Description of Asia".
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£3,200. |
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[PTOLEMY, Claudius.].
[TAB. X. Asiae. Hae sunt E Cognitis Totius Orbis Prouincijs seu Prĉfecturis quas decima Asiĉ tabula complectitur. India intra Gangem.]
Lyon, Melchior & Gaspar Treschel, 1535. Printed area 300 x 480.
Uncoloured woodcut; very light age-toning to the edges of the paper, minor waterstain to lower margin, otherwise a fine example.
One of the earliest maps to show northern India & Pakistan, using the projection developed by Claudius of Alexandria, c.100 AD. India itself is little more than a small peninsula, and most of the names are unrecognisable. However the courses of the Indus and Ganges are shown to the mountains in the north, albeit rather hypothetically. The title (as above) is on the verso, with Latin text and four finely-engraved decorative pillars as decoration that have in the past been attributed to Albrecht Dürer.
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£580 |
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LEVASSEUR, Victor.
Asie.
Paris, 1856. 315 x 450.
Original outline colour; paper lightly age-toned in the margins with minor soiling, otherwise very good.
A steel engraving, with finely engraved vignette borders with ten costume vignettes.
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£90 |
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BLAEU, Johannes.
Asia noviter delineata.
Amsterdam, 1663, French text edition. 410 x 560.
Original colour, light overall age-toning, short repaired tear to upper margin, otherwise a very good example.
One of the most decorative maps of the whole continent available. The top set of vignettes include Goa, Damascus, Jerusalem, Aden and Macao.
KOEMAN: BL 58.
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£2,600 |
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JANSSON, Johannes.
Indiĉ Orientalis Nova Descriptio.
Amsterdam, Henricus Hondius, 1633, French text edition. 385 x 505.
Full original colour; some minor toning and light staining to the margins, trimmed at bottom edge, but well away from printed surface, otherwise a fine example.
This is a landmark map, being the first printed record of the discoveries made by the Dutch ship "Dufken" on route to Cape York in Australia, despite the 27 years that had passed since the voyage! The Dutch East India Company suppressed the knowledge of the discoveries until it was learned how profitable Australia would be, but it is believed it was leaked from the Blaeu firm, the official cartographers to the Company. Two years later Blaeu issued his version, but it must have been galling to have known the secrets for nearly thirty years and be beaten to publication by his fiercest rival.
KOEMAN: Me 35.
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£1,450 |
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LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huygen van.
Deliniantur in hac tabula, Orea maritimĉ Abexiĉ, freti Mecani: al Maris Rubri: Arabiĉ,......
Amsterdam, 1596-. 390 x 520.
Coloured; trimmed to platemark and remargined, other expert repairs to old folds (archivist tissue), visible on verso, strengthened at margins, sign of an old cut and re-join to the right hand side, again expertly done, otherwise a fair example and priced accordingly.
Linschoten was born in Haarlem 1563, during the years 1583 to 1588 he was in the service of the Portuguese Archbishop of Goa. Upon his return to Holland he produced a History of his Travels (Itinerio), in which he included maps from Portuguese sources, including portolan charts. This fine map of the countries around the Indian Ocean was engraved by Henricus Floris van Langren. It shows East Africa and the Nile, the Red Sea, the Arabian Peninsular, the Persian Gulf, Persia, India and across to the Bay of Bengal. Also shows Ceylon, the Maldives and the northern tip of Sumatra. One of the finest maps of the area available.
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£2,100 |
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MERCATOR, Gerard.
Asia ex magna orbis terrae descriptione Gerardi Mercatoris desumpta studio et industria G.M. junioris.
Amsterdam, Henricus Hondius, 1628, French text edition. 375 x 470.
Coloured; very light marginal soiling, otherwise a fine example.
A fine map of the whole of Asia originally published 1595, and showing part of Alaska, top right and part of Australia in the bottom right corner.
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£1,100 |
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