Nice example of Matthaus Seutter's edition of Adrien Reland's seminal map of Japan. Adrien Reland's map of Japan is the first map to use Sino-Japanese characters on a European printed map and represents a radical departure from prior European maps of...
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,...
Highly detailed map of India, extending to Tibet, published by Isaak Tirion in Amsterdam. The map extends from the Candahar region and Lake Zara to Tibet, and south to Ceylon.
Scarce plan city of Tranquebar, primary factory for the Danish East India Company in the Madras Province. The Danish East India Company established a trading fort at Tranquebar around 1620. After years of sporadic and poor trading, Tranquebar became...
Scare map of Southeast Asia, from the Second Italian edition of Thomas Salmon's, Modern History: or, the present state of all Nations. . . entitled Lo Stato Presente... published in Venice from 1740-1762. The maps are attributed to Tirion in...
A scarce map of Persia, published by Tobias Conrad Lotter. The map extends from the Black Sea to Kashmir, and the area is divided into kingdoms and other entities. The map is highly detailed, with major roads, rivers, and many other features all shown...
Beautiful 18th-century British map of Persia, published by Herman Moll in London, circa 1740. The Persian Gulf is referred to as the "Gulf of Bassora" and much of the Emirati, Qatari, and Saudi Gulf Coast described as "Part of Persia". Persian...
Detailed map of the Holy Land, showing the travels of Christ and the Apostles, including Paul's travel's at sea and numerous sailing vessels. An excellent example of a Duch Bible map of the Holy Land.
Nice old color example of the Ottens sea chart of West Africa. The map extends from Senegal in the north to Angola in the south, centered on the Bay of Guinea. There is a wealth of navigational information including sandbanks and shoals. The chart is...
Nice example of Mount & Page's sea chart of the Cape Verde Islands, which appeared in the English Pilot, Book I. Located in the South Atlantic some 300 miles west of Africa, the Cape Verde archipelago was discovered by the Portuguese in 1460. The...
A Rare Ottens map of the Southern Hemisphere, with an additional text panels Southern Hemisphere This fascinating map captures the entire Southern Hemisphere from a polar projection. This rare variant example includes an additional text panel...
A Rare Pair of Ottens Maps of the Northern and Southern Hemisphere, made especially to commemorate Lozier Bouvet's 1738-9 voyage. Fine pair of maps of the northern and southern hemispheres, originally by Guillaume Delisle and here re-issued by...
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Decorative title page, with an elaborate scene showing a queen atop the globe and allegorical figures below.
An interesting set of diagrams describing the basic ways in which the globe and the solar system are described. The image illustrates the basic methods of modeling the equator, the two Tropics, the Poles, the horizon and other features of a sphere....
