Detailed regional map, extending from European Russia and the Caspian Sea to Chinese Tartary. Nice detail in Tibet, Bukaria, and the Mountainous regions of western China. From Dunn's New Atlas or Mundane System of Geography.
Rare late edition of this detailed map of the whole of Russia and parts of China and Central Asia. Interesting and highly detailed. This is the first time we have seen this state of the map.
The Russian Empire Eyes Western China. Important manuscript map of northern and western China and Mongolia prepared by K. Weber, Beijing, 1871, and copied by L. Brosse in St Petersburg. The map was the product of a major Russian expedition in China...
Detailed Russian-language map of the Sea of Japan, Korea, Japan, and Vladivostok, issued during the Russo-Japanese War. The map was compiled and published by the Russian Corps of Topographers, with clearance through the censors in Kiev. The map shows...
Nice example of this detailed map of Tartary, consisting of the Eastern part of Russia, Central Asia, China and Korea, first published by Nicholas De L'Isle in 1706. The map extends from the Peninsula of Korea in the east to the Caspian and Black...
First State of the Most Influential Map of Eastern Asia Published in the Sixteenth Century Rare and highly influential map of India, China, and Southeast Asia by Giacomo Gastaldi, one of the most celebrated Italian cartographers of the sixteenth...
Fine, Distinctive Map of Asia by Polymath Athanasius Kircher Fascinating map of Asia, illustrating the theories of the Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher, from his Mundus Subterraneus. It was one of the earliest thematic maps. This very unusual map...
Antique engraved map of Asia, from Persia to China, illustrating various routes of travel across the continent. The map was published in Kircher's China Illustrata in 1667. The sea route from Goa to Macao is depicted. Many overland routes are also...
Detailed map of Asia and Australia, which appeared in Middleton's Geography. Shows a still largely speculative Southern Australian coastline. Among the most notable features is the reference of the Sea of Korea.
Nice example of this early state of Barent Langenes's map of Tartaria, which first appeared in the 1598 edition of Langenes's Caert-Thresoor, published in Middelburg. Langenes's map was first issued in his Caert-Thresoor and later re-published by...
An attractive antique map of China, Tartary, and Central Asia. This map covers a vast area in intriguing detail which reflects European knowledge about the world at the time during which it was made. The detail shown includes many rivers, mountain...
An attractive antique map of China, Tartary, and Central Asia. This map covers a vast area in intriguing detail which reflects European knowledge about the world at the time during which it was made. The detail shown includes many rivers, mountain...
Nice example of Blaeu's map of China, Tartary and Central Asia, extending from Mongolia and Xanadu to the Caspian and the Volga River, and to Tibet and the Upper Ganges River. The Great Wall of China appears prominently.
Early French map of Tartary, extending from the Caspian to Korey Isle (the Island of Korea). One of the earliest detailed maps of the region published in France. The map was prepared by Pierre Marriete for Sanson's Cartes Generales de Toutes les...
Nice old color example of De Wit's map of Northeastern Asia, extending from the Island of Formosa, the Ganges, and the eastern part of the Caspian to Yedso, Tartaria, Siberia and Molgomzaia in Russian Asia in North. The Great Wall of China is shown,...
Attractive example of De Wit's map of the northeastern part of Asia. The map extends from the Island of Formosa, the Ganges and the eastern part of the Caspian in the south to Yesso, Tartaria, Siberia and Molgomzaia in Russian Asia in the north. The...