Final State of the Gastaldi's Wall Map of East Asia -- The First Great Wall Map of East Asia Fine example of Giacomo Gastaldi's rare 4-sheet wall map of Southeast Asia, China and India, perhaps the single most influential map of the region published...
The Earliest Obtainable Map To Show Houtman's Crossing of the Indian Ocean to the Java, Opening The Spice Trade to The Dutch in 1597. Finely engraved map, showing the route of first Dutch fleet from Zuider Zee to Java in 1596-97, under the command of...
Rare map showing the Catholic Missions on New Zealand, the Hawaiian Islands, Tahiti, Samoa, Tonga, New Caledonia, New Hebrides, Fijian Islands, the Marquesas, and a number of other islands, with a general map in the center, published as a Supplement to...
Liliput and Sunda -- From Gulliver's Travels Lilliput is an island nation to the southwest of Sumatra and the Sunda Straits, discovered in 1699 by Lemuel Gulliver, a surgeon on a merchant ship that was shipwrecked on the island. The inhabitants are...
The Earliest Printed Map of Le Maire's Voyage Around Cape Horn and Across The Pacific Nice example of Joris van Spilbergen's rendering of Willem Schouten and Jacob Le Maire's map / sea chart of a portion of his circumnavigation of the world, showing...
First Two-Color Printed Map of Southeast Asia and Surrounding Areas From a Groundbreaking Edition of Ptolemy's Geographia Fine example of Bernardus Sylvanus’ map of Southeast Asia, China, India, and adjoining regions, from his Geographia published...
Scarce map of East Asia and the Indian Ocean, extending from Japan and Korea to the Caspian Sea and the Persian Gulf. The map is centered on the Indian Ocean.
Old color example of this important chart of the Indian Ocean, illustrating the route of the Jesuit priest Guy Tachcard in 1697. The present example bears the bookplate (bottom right) of the Prussian Royal Academy of Sciences ( Königlich-Preußische...
Highly detailed map of the region between India and the Philippines, centered on the Malaysian Peninsula. Extends north to China. Includes rhumblines and a highly ornate cartouche.
Fine sea chart from Mannevillette's Le Neptune Oriental, first published in 1775. Important early sea chart showing the coastlines of India, Ceylan, Thailand, Malaysia, Sumatra, Cambodia and Vietnam. Jean Baptiste Nicolas Denis D'Apres de...
Striking map of the Eastern Mediterranean, from Italy and Sicily to Cyprus and the Holy Land, centered on Greece and the Aegean Sea. Includes English text on both sides. From the 1625-26 edition of Purchas His Pilgrims, one of the seminal early 17th...
Decorative miniature map of the Turkish Empire. The map appeared in an early edition of Ortelius' Epitome, first published in 1579.
Fine old color example of Gerard De Jode's map of Eastern Asia, published in 1593, Engraved by Joannes and Lucas van Deutecum, who's signature is in the lower left part. De Jode's map is drawn directly from the first (northern) two sheets of Giacomo...
Decorative map of Southeast Asia, China, Philippines and India, which was included in Cluverius' Introductionis in Universam Geographiam, tam Veterem quam Novam. Shows an oddly positioned New Guinea ("Pars Nova Guinea") and also China, India, Malacca,...
Detailed large format map of Tartary, extending from China, Japan and the Northeastern Russian Regions of Asia to Hindoostan and Beloochistan. One of the most detailed and interesting large format maps of the early 19th Century. A fine example with...
First edition of one of the earliest obtainable maps of Sri Lanka, which appeared in the first edition of Tomaso Porcacchi's L'Isole piu Famose del Mondo.