Nice old color example of Braun & Hogenberg's set of Casablanca (Anfa) - Azemmour (Azamor) - Diu - Old Goa (Velha Goa).
Finely colored example of Ceylon (Sri Lanka), from an early edition of the Mercator Hondius Atlas. The map is oriented with east at the top and includes elephants, gazelles and other animals, sailing ships, compass roses and 3 cartouches. The map...
Striking early map of Ceylan with decorative cartouche. From the 1625-26 edition of Purchas His Pilgrims, one of the seminal early 17th Century English Language travel works. On a 13 x 9 inch sheet with English text, front and back.
Nice example of Hondius's double-page engraved map of Ceylon (Sri Lanka), from the Mercator Hondius Atlas. The map is oriented with east at the top and includes elephants, gazelles and other animals, sailing ships, compass roses and 3 cartouches. A...
Charting the Western Indian Ocean Decorative sea chart of the Indian Ocean, orientated with the north to the left. The highly decorative chart shows the East African coast, Arabia, Madagascar and the islands of the Indian Ocean with the Seychelles...
Interesting early map of the Maldives, Ceylon and parts of Malaysia and Sumatra, illustrating the travels of Diego Lopez de Sequeira. In the early 18th Century, Vander Aa reproduced a number of rare manuscript and printed accounts of 16th Century...
One of the earliest printed maps of Trincomalee Bay, from Valentyn's Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indien. Finely detailed map of the Trincomalee Bay in Sri Lanka. Valentijn was born in 1666 in Dordrecht, Holland, but spent significant time in the tropics,...
Fine early view of Colombo, Sri Lanka, including a number of buildings along the coast and the Indian Ocean teeming with vessels. Francois Valentijn Francois Valentijn was born in 1666 in Dordrecht, Holland, but spent significant time in the tropics,...
Fine early view of Trincomallee Bay, Sri Lanka, with soundings, compass rose and other details. The map is oriented with Southwest at the top. Francois Valentijn Francois Valentijn was born in 1666 in Dordrecht, Holland, but spent significant time in...
Scarce map of Southeast Asia and India, extending from the Gulf of Bengal to Canton province, from the Italian edition of Thomas Salmon's , Modern History: or, the present state of all Nations. . . entitled Lo Stato Presente... published in Venice,...
Birdseye view of the Dutch Fort at Jaffnapatnam, from Johann Wolfgang Heydt's Allerneuster Geographisch- und topographischer Schau-Platz von Africa und Ost-Indien. The view depicts Jaffnapatnam the fort on the coast of Sri Lanka. This Portuguese built...
Striking example of Issak Tirion's map of Sri Lanka. Excellent and highly detailed map for the period.
Nice example of this fine plan of the Sri Lankan Coastline, from the Dutch East India Company's Secret Atlas. The chart is oriented with east at the top and shows the areas around the Dutch trading houses, etc. The map includes a latitude scale,...
Detailed map of the Maldives, with rhumblines and a large compass rose. Includes a decorative title cartouche. One of the maps produced by Nichlas Bellin for Prevost d'Exiles influential travel book, L'Histoire Generale des Voyages.
Manuscript Sea Chart By Daniel Ross, Locating Numerous Shipwrecks in the Gaspar Strait Extremely rare chart of the strait on the east side of Banka (between Banka and Gaspar Island), site of a number of British, Chinese, Portuguese and American...
One of the Earliest Maps Lithographed in India -- From the "Father of the Indian Surveys" Extremely rare chart of the area between Sumatra and Lucepara Island, as surveyed by Captain Daniel Ross, one of the most prolific chart makers of his time....