JANSSON, Johannes.

Indiæ 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

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

[LAPORTE, Joseph de.].

Carte D'Asia, divisée en ses principaux etats.

Paris, 1786. 180 x 220.
Original outline colour; slight soiling otherwise good.
The whole of Asia. Published in Laporte's 'Atlas Moderne Portatif'.

£58

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

£680

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'.

£78

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.

£190

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.

£56

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.

£3,550

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.

£320

SPEED, John.

Asia with the Islands adjoyning described, the atire of the people, & Townes of importancs...

London, Bassett & Chiswell, 1627-76. 400 x 525.
Uncoloured; 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".

£3,200

DE WIT, Frederick.

Asiæ 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.

£2,450

BELLIN, N.

Karte von dem Morgenlændischen 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.

£180

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

HONTER, Johann.

No Title.

Zurich, 1546. 125 x 160.
Woodblock with original colour with some recent added; two sheets expertly joined, with half the maps of North Africa and Turkey on the verso, some soiling and marginal staining, otherwise a good example.
A charming woodblock map of Asia probably by Heinrich Vogtherr the Elder who was specially commissioned by the printer Froschauer. Shows the Arabian Peninsular across to India and the Ganges. Also shows the Caspian Sea and further north.

£180

MUNSTER, Sebastian - PETRI, Sebastian.

Asia wie es jetziger zeit nach den furnemeesten herzschaffcen...…

Basle, Sebastian Petri, 1588 -. 315 x 365.
Uncoloured woodcut; some waterstaining and minor soiling to margins, other light soiling in places on the map, otherwise good.
A redrawn woodcut map of Asia, based on the Mercator - Ortelius outline. Probably done my Sebastian Petri who took over the printing of the 'Cosmography' when his father, Heinrich died in 1579.

£230

HONDIUS, Jodocus.

Asiæ 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.

£1,250.

[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.

£520

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.

£2,300