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225 [Issued in the Rare Willdey Atlas] BOWEN, Emanuel.
Asia Corrected. According to the latest Discoveryes & Observations Communicated to ye Royal Society at London & Ye Royal Academy at Paris. London, T. Jeffreys, c.1749, original outline colour, 615 x 960mm Original folds flattened and some minor restorations.
A large and detailed map of Asia, delineated in original colour. the Mythical island of "Yedso" is shown to the north of Japan, and the North Coast of Australia is shown. With three vignettes, two of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem and one of a Japanese lady in a rickshaw. With a decoartive title cartouche surrounded by oriental figures and buildings.		 £1,200

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[Rare Map of Asia with Fine Original Colouring] DE JODE, Cornelis.
Asia, Partium Orbis Maxima. Antwerp, 1593, Latin text edition. Original Colour. 365 x 455mm. Centerfold repaired. Two marginal tears repaired.
A new map of ASIA engraved for the 1593 edition of Gerard de Jode's 'Speculum Orbis Terrae', published two years after his death by his widow and son.

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227 [The Scarce First State Issue] ORTELIUS, Abraham
Asiae Nova Descriptio. Antwerp, c.1570, Latin text edition. Original Colour. 375 x 485mm.
The first of two versions of this map, used between 1570 and 1575, when a new plate  appeared. A faint "Cum Privilegio" imprint is visisble  in thelower left corner.In this map  Japan is completely unrecognisable, filling the North Pacific; New Guinea is also exaggerated; and 'Terrae Incognitae Australis Pars' can be seen in the bottom right corner. VAN DEN BROECKE: 6, illus. 		£1,500

228 [Two-sheet Map] CORONELLI, Vincenzo Maria.
Asia... Venice, c.1697. Two sheets conjoined, total 605 x 880mm.
Coronelli's two-sheet map of Asia, dedicated to the Jesuits, who played such a large part in mapping the Far East. On the east sheet Australia figures prominently, with dates of the discoveries of different parts. Further north is a large 'Terra di Jesso'. 		£3,750

229 [Indian Ocean] JANSSON, Jan.
Erythraei sive Rubri Maris Periplus, olim ab Arriano Descriptus, nunc verso ab Abrah. Ortelio ex eodem Delineatus. Amsterdam, c.1700. Coloured. 395 x 470mm.
Classical map of the Indian Ocean from Arabia to Indo-China. Arian, the Roman governor of Cappadocia AD 134, wrote an description of Asia, taking the accounts of Alexander's conquests as sources. 		£350

230 [A Scarce Carte-á-Figures map of Asia] VISSCHER, Nicholaes Jansz.
Asiæ Nova Descriptio. Amsterdam, c.1653, coloured, 440 x 560mm. Centerfold reinforced on verso. Wide margin,  example in fine condition.
A carte-á-figures map of Asia with city views, including Jerusalem, Goa and Macao and oriental kings along the bottom and top margins and regional types down either side. Showing Korea as an island and New Guinea as a huge landmass with an explanatory text stating that it is believed to be connected to the continent known as "Terra Australis".This map was originally prepared by Pieter van den Keere and was reissued by Visscher. 		£4,000

231 HOMANN, Johann Baptist.
Asia secindum legitimas Projectionis Stereographicae regulas et juxta...Published in Nuremberg by Homann Heirs c.1744. Original body colour. 500 x 560mm. A very fine example with wide margins..
Asia, with decorative cartouches for the title and scale. Map by Johann Haas.. 		SOLD

232 [Rare English Map of Asia] OVERTON, John.
A New Plaine and most Exact map of Asia described by NI Vischer and rendered into English with the habits of the countries and manner of the cheife citties. London, 1671. 425 x 540mm. Old folds as issued.
A separate-issue map of Asia, with borders decorated with costumes, town views and portraits of kings. Little of Overton's output was original: he bought the stock of Peter Stent after his death from the plague in 1665, and c.1700 he bought Speed's county map plates. Apparently he was planning a world atlas and lacked maps of the continents, so had them engraved. As the matching map of Africa is signed by Philip Holmes the stylistic similarity makes it likely that Holmes also engraved the Asia. Originally issued in 1668 this is an example of the second state, with Overton's new address.		 £6,500

233 MALLET, Alain Manesson.
Asie Ancienne. Paris, 1683. Coloured. 150 x 110mm.
Published in a the 'Description de l'Univers'.		 £115

234 ORTELIUS, Abraham.
Asiae Nove Desc... Brescia, 1598. Coloured. 80 x 105mm. Tiny worm hole in map surface.
Asia, from an Italian pirate of Ortelius's Epitome. KOEMAN: Ort 69.		 £200

235 LOTTER, Tobias Conrad.
Asia. Augsburg, c.1770. Original body colour with additions. 460 x 580mm. Some restoration.
A version of De L'Isle's map, with a pictorial title cartouche. 		£300

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HOMANN, Johann Baptist.
Asiae Recentissima Delineatio, Qua Status Et Imperia Totius Orientis...Nuremberg, c.1712. Original wash colour. 480 x 585mm. A fine example.
Decorative map of Asia with a large illustrated cartouche depicting courtiers kneeling before an eastern potentate. Above Japan is the semi-mythical island of 'Compagnie Land', the other mythical island associated with this area, "Yedso", has now become the Kamchatka Peninsula. Australia appears as the northern coastlines of 'Nova Hollandia' and 'Carpentaria.

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237 HONDIUS, Jodocus.
Asia. London: Henry Featherstone, 1625, English text edition. Coloured. 150 x 195mm, set in text. False margin added on left.
Asia, first published in the reduced version of the Mercator/ Hondius 'Atlas Minor' of 1607. In 1621 the printing plates were sold to a London publisher and appeared  in 'Purchas His Pilgrimies', as this example, with the letterpress sur-title 'Hondius his Map of Asia'. Later Dutch editions used new plates by Jansson.		 £230

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238 [Two-sheet map of Asia] HOMANN HEIRS.
Carte des Indes Orientales... Nuremberg, 1748. coloured, two sheets conjoined , total 520 x 890mm.
Larger than the standard Homann format, this map shows the Far East from India and the Maldives to the Philippines and the uncertain coastlines of New Guinea. The title is within a fine martial cartouche.		 £1,100

239 DE L'ISLE, Guillaume.
Carte des Indes et de la Chine... Paris, 1705. Original outline colour. Printed on two sheets and conjoined, total printed surface 630 x 660mm. Slightlly cropped at the top of side margins.
India, China, Japan and New Guinea. Second state, with "Quai de l'Horloge" address.		 £650

240 [The First Printed Map of South East Asia] WÄLDSEEMÜLLER, Martin.
[Tabula Moder. Indiae Orientalis.] Strassburg, Johannes Grüninger & J.Kolberger, 1525, Second edition. Woodcut, printed area 280 x 425mm.
Unlike most of the maps printed in this edition of Ptolemy's 'Geographia' this map of South East Asia was not a reduction of a map from the Wäldseemüller editions of 1513-1520. However as the reduced maps were originally intended not for a Ptolemy edition but for a new "Chronica mundi" being written by Wäldseemüller, it is likely that Fries prepared the map under his guidance. Certainly the geography follows his 1507 cordiform world. It shows the Malay Peninsula with islands including Java and Sumatra, with notes taken from Marco Polo. A vignette of a cannibal butcher is placed over Angama, a single island representing the Andaman group, whose inhabitants are described as having heads like dogs, a slander from Marco Polo. Fries has also confused the Malay Peninsula with India, adding Indian names and Ceylon! This edition is the only one not to have the title above the map. It appears on verso, with decorative woodcuts from Grüninger's collection. See SUAREZ: Early Mapping of Southeast Asia, pp.114-118 for detailed analysis.		 £1,800

241 HONTER, Johannes.
[India extra Gangem.] Basle: Henri Petri, c.1561. Woodcut, printed area 120 x 155, set in text.
The Malay Peninsula and Indochina, published in Honter's 'Cosmographiæ rudimentis', surrounded by a Latin text description. 		£250

242 [A Scarce map of South-East Asia] DENIS, Louis.
Carte Du Theatre De La  Guerre Dans L'Inde ...FSeparate publication, Paris, 1781,  Paul-André Bassett,  original colour, 520 x 775 mm. Centerfold restored, few marginal tears restored.
A very fine and rare map of Asia engraved by Bellanger, centered on the Malay Peninsula, encompassing India and South East Asia up to Timor. With a very decorative chinoserie title cartouche depicting orientals grouped around a coat of arms and various products of the region such as porcelain and lacquered umbrellas and fans		 £1,750

243 DE JODE, Gerard.
Tertiae partis Asiae quæ modernis Indi orientalis dicitur acurata delineatio. Autore Iacobo Castaldo Pedmontano. Gerardus de Iode excudebat. Antwerp, 1593, Latin text edition. 325 x 495mm.
The Far East, with India, the Malay Peninsula (with 'Cingatola'), the Philippines & Moluccas, engraved c.1566, this example from the 1593 edition of De Jode's 'Speculum Orbis Terrae', published two years after his death by his widow and son. This was to be the last edition: after the death of Cornelis De Jode in 1600 the plates were bought by Vrients, then the owner of the Ortelius plates, merely to stop their re-issue. Some of the most famous names in cartography of this period appear on this map: De Jode was the great rival of Ortelius, with whom he had a long-running feud; Gastaldi, De Jode's source, is best known for the appearance of his maps in the 'Lafreri-type' atlases; and Lucas & Jan van Doeticum, the engravers, are renowned for the flair of their work for Waghenaer, Linschoten and Ortelius. KOEMAN: Jod 2.		 £6,500

244 [The 'Upside-Down' Map of the East Indies] GASTALDI, Giacomo.
Terza Tavola. Venice, Giunti, 1606. Trapizoid, 290 x (at greatest) 385mm. Original stitch marks at centrefold.
Engraved with north to the bottom of the map, it shows the Ganges on the right, Sumatra (also titled Taprobana), Java Major and Minor, the Philippines and Japan, here called Cympagu. Published in Ramusio's 'Delle navigationi et viaggi', This is the engraved version, cut in 1563 after the original woodcut was destroyed in a fire at the printing house in 1557. SUAREZ: p131, 'landmark in Southeast Asian cartography', fig.74; see WALTER 10 for an illustration of the woodcut.		 £3,200

245 JANSSON, Jan.
Indiæ Orientalis Nova Descriptio. Amsterdam, Jan Jansson, 1645, Dutch text edition. Original colour. 395 x 505mm.
The East Indies, engraved by Jansson, first published 1630. An important map as one of the first to show evidence of the route taken by the Duyfken, the ship that discovered Australia, beating the secrecy order that the Dutch East India company had placed over Blaeu (their official cartographer). Beneath New Guinea 'Duyfkens Eyland' is marked. Schilder writes 'Janssonius' source must have been either the original map of the Duyfken or the map of the Pacific by Hessel Gerritz. These three items are the only Dutch cartographical sources of the Dufken's Voyage'. KOEMAN: Me 78; SCHILDER: Map 24; CLANCY: 73, Map 6.6.		 £1,500

246 [East Indies] BOWEN, Emanuel.
A New & Accurate Map of the East India Islands... London, 1752. Coloured. 350 x 430mm.
From Sumatra to the Philippines. Published in the 'Complete Atlas', with an illustrated title cartouche depicting natives under umbrellas and an incense burner amongst heaps of spices.		 SOLD

247 KIRCHER, Athanasius.
Tabula Geographica Hydrophylacium Asiæ Majoris exhibens, quo Omnia Flumina sive proximè sive remotè per occultos mæandros Originem suam sortiuntur. Amsterdam, c.1665. 345 x 410mm.
Published in the 'Mundi Subterranei', this is an unusual hydrographic map of South East Asia from Arabia to the Philippines. With a vignette scene showing a mythical subterranean river source in the Himalayas and a decorative title cartouche. 		£580

248 [Cantelli Da Vignola's Map of the East Indies] DE ROSSI, Giovanni Giacomo.
Isole dell'India cioè le Molucche le Filippine e della Sonda Parte de Paesi di nuova scoperta e l'Isole de Ladri nel Mare del Zud descritte da Giacomo Cantelli da Vignola. Rome, c.1683. 540 x 410mm. Laid on hessian, edged with green linen, very likely as issued. Little surface wear.
The Malay Peninsula and Sumatra, east to the Marianas and south to Australia, after Vignola. The gap between New Guinea and Carpentaria is still blank. SUAREZ: Fig.134.		 £1,250

249 [The Indian Ocean, with Tasman's Australia] DU VAL, Pierre.
Carte des Indes Orientales. Paris, 1677. Coloured. 405 x 550mm.
The Indian Ocean from the Cape of Good Hope to Japan, with Australia as mapped by Tasman, the standard view of Australia until Cook nearly a century later. Engraved by F.D. Lapointe. CLANCY: Mapping of Terra Australis, map 6.19.		 £2,200

250 [Ptolemaic Description of SE Asia] WÄLDSEEMÜLLER, Martin.
Tabula XI Asiae. Lorenz Fries, Strasbourg,1525,  woodcut,coloured,  printed area 285x 400mm.
The Fries reduction of Wäldseemüller's map of the 'Golden Chersonese'. Although it is apparently an attempt to show the Malay Peninsula, it shows another landmass to the east, probably caused by trying to compile the accounts of different travellers.Originally intended not for a Ptolemy edition but for a new "Chronica mundi" being written by Wäldseemüller, his death c.1520 caused the project to be shelved, so the reduced woodcuts were used to publish a smaller sized and so cheaper edition of the 'Geography'. On verso is a text surrounded by woodcut  decorations. SUAREZ: 117.       		 £700

251 ALLARD, Hugo.
Nova Tabula India Orientalis. Amsterdam, c.1697. Original colour. 450 x 570mm. Wide margins, some toning of paper in sea area.
Large map of southern Asia, from the Cape of Good Hope and Red Sea east to Japan and the partial outline of Australia. It shows the discoveries of Abel Tasman's two voyages 1642-44; Tasmania is shown too large and too far away from mainland Australia. The decorative cartouche features natives hunting ostriches with bows, an Indian elephant and a camel with trade goods. Originally published c.1665 by Hugo, the founder of the Allard family firm, this version was by his son Carel, with his own imprint. 		SOLD

252 CHÂTELAIN, Henri Abraham.
Carte des Indes, de la Chine & des Iles de Sumatra, Java &c. Amsterdam, 1718. Coloured. 515 x 495mm.
The Far East, from India to Japan, with 'Ezo' part of the mainland. 		SOLD

253 [Decorative Map Of The East Indies] HONDIUS, Jodocus.
Insulæ Indiae Orientalis Præcipuæ, In Quibus Mouccæ celeberrime sunt. Amsterdam: 1619, French text edition. Fine Original colour. 345 x 475mm.
A beautiful map of the East Indian Islands, decorated with strapwork cartouches, compass roses and a vignette sea battle representing the struggle between the Dutch and the Portuguese for control of the area. In his book 'Early Mapping of Southeast Asia' tells how this is 'one of the few maps to show any trace of Francis Drake's presence': the eastern coastline of  Sulawasi, where Drake ran aground, is indented for the first time to reflect the problems Drake had there; and on the south of Java the otherwise dotted line representing the uknown coastline contains a bay where Drake landed, marked 'Huc Franciscus Dra. appulit'. Hondius was a religious refugee in London from 1583, so it is likely that he became familiar with Drake's accounts during this time. KOEMAN: Me 26a; SUAREZ: p.193-4, illus. 		£2,400

254 [East Indies] MARZOLLA, Benedetto.
Malesia ossia Arcipelago Indiano ed India-Transgangetica cioè: Imperi Birmano .... Naples, 1848. Original colour. Lithograph, image size 470 x 610mm.
Published in the Atlante Geographico. The East Indies, from Burma to New Guinea, with an Italian text description to the left and under the map. 		£350

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256 [Large Sea-Chart featuring Singapore] BELLIN, Jacques-Nicolas.
Carte Réduite des Détroits de Malaca, Sincapour, et du Gouverneur... Paris, Dépôt de la Marine, c.1755. Coloured. 550 x 885mm. Good impression, printed on heavy paper.
Large and detailed chart of the tip of the Malay Peninsula, with a rococo title cartouche and several coastal profiles.Bellin was the first Chief Hydrographer of the Dépôt, the French equivalent of the British Admiralty.		 £1,500

257

[Four sheet map of the East Indies] BONNE, Rigobert
Carte Hydro-Geo-Graphique des Indes Orientales en deça et au dela du Gange avec leur Archipel. Paris, Lattré, 1771. Original colour. 4 sheets conjoined, total 595 x 830mm.
From India east to the Philippines, Borneo, Java, the Celebes & Timor and Formosa. Marked across areas are the directions of the prevailing winds at different times of the year.

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258 HILDEBRANDT, Ed.
Sonnenuntergang In Siam. Berlin, Raimund Mitscher, c. 1865, chromolithograph colour, 235 x 325mm .
Edward Hildebrandt was born in Danzig in 1818, the artist was the brother of Trite Hildebrandt (1819 - 1855), the marine painter. From 1860 - 1862 Hildebrandt went on a world tour, which included stops in the Middle East, India, Singapore, Siam (Thailand), Macao, Hong Kong, China, The Philippines, Japan and the United States. He worked mainly in watercolors. A folio of his works from his round-the-world voyage were published as chromolithographs in 1864 in Berlin under the title of "Reise Um Die Erde" (Journey around the Earth). The original watercolors from the voyage were exhibited in London in 1866 and at an exhibition at Crystal Palace in 1868, just a year before his death in Berlin. 		£600

259 [A Classic Map of China] ORTELIUS, Abraham.
Chinae, olim Sinarum regionis, nova descriptio. auctore Ludovicio Georgio. Antwerp, 1584, Latin text edition. Original colour. 370 x 470mm. Restored tear and short centrefolds splits reinforced with archivist's tissue.
Drawn by Luis Jorge de Barbauda, this is the most decorative map of China, oriented with north to the right, there are cartouches for the title, scale and privilege, elephants, Tartar tents and land-yachts. Japan has an extra landmass to the east, which the original colouring suggests is connected to Tartary to the north. The Philippines appear, but with little accuracy or detail. KOEMAN: Ort 21; WALTER: 11f, illus; VAN DEN BROECKE: 164.		 £3,200

260 [China] CARY, John.
A New Map of China from the Latest Authorities. London, 1801. Original outline colour. 510 x 560mm.
Detailed map of China, with original strong colour. 		SOLD

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262 [China] LOON, Jan van.
Imperii Sinarum Nova Descriptio. Amsterdam: Jan Jansson, c.1660, blank verso. Original colour. 465 X 520mm. Small repair to edge of wide margins.
Decorative map of China, with ornate cartouches for the title and scale. Van Loon's map first appeared in Jansson's 'Atlas Novus' in 1658, and late as a late addition to the atlas is relatively uncommon. The plate was also issued by Schenk & Valk from the 1690s, with their names added under the vignette sea battle.. 		£980

263 [China] BLAEU, Willem Janszoon.
China Veteribus Sinarum Regio nunc Incolis Tame dicta. Amsterdam, 1642, Dutch text edition. Original colour. 415 x 500mm. A very good example.
The map shows not only China but also the whole of Japan and the 'island' of Korea. A large title cartouche with exotic Chinese figures in full colour fills the gap top right, where the enigma of 'Ezo' was to confuse Europeans until the late 18th century. 		£1,200

264 [A Striking Two-sheet map of China] CORONELLI, Vincenzo Maria.
Parte Occidentale della China... / Parte Ortientale della China. Venice, 1691. Two sheets conjoined, total 605 x 880mm. Good impression, good margins.
A large and highly decorative two-sheet map of China, with two large cartouches for the titles, and two cartouches around the scale bars incorporating mathematical and surveying instruments. 		£4,500

265 [Extremely Rare Miniature Map] FRESCHOT, Casimir Don.
China In (33) in Asia ha il suo Imperatore I popoli sono Gentili. Longh 700 Leghe Franc.. Published by Giovanni Pare' in Venice, c. 1680 . 52 x 52 mm. Trimmed from a large broadsheet.
Don Casimir Freschot was a Benedict Priest . He was an author of about 50 books mainly on history subjects and a few dedicated to Venice and its nobility. While in Venice  he also composed a goos game to facilitate "the teaching of geography to the young venetian nobility". This game is probably the earliest geographical game ever published. The copper plate was engraved by Lucini and comprised 4 larger maps of the continents and 153 smaller maps of other areas and with a prospect of Venice at the center of it. There is only one known example in existance of the full broadsheet at the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana in Venice. Hence the rarity of this map.  "Charta Geographica" vol.1,  page 76; plus insert with facsimile broadsheet. 		£800

266 [China] WYLD, James.
Map of China compiled from original surveys and sketches. London, c. 1844, original colour, 610  x 790mm
A large and detailed map of China showing its regional division highlighted with strong original colour. On the right hand side there is a table charting population and area of the provinces, the title embellished with calligraphical flourishes. 		£600

267 [China] ROBERT DE VAUGONDY, Gilles.
L'Empire de la Chine dressé d'après les Cartes de L'Atlas Chinois. Paris, Delamarche, c.1780. Original colour. 495 x 550mm. A good example in attractive original colouring.
A detailed map of China divided into its provinces, derived from D'Anville's Chinese Atlas, with an attractive chinoiserie title cartouche. 		SOLD

268 [China] BELLIN, Jacques-Nicolas.
L'Empire de La Chine. Paris, 1748. Coloured. 300 x 415mm.
A very attractive map of China and Korea with elaborate Rococo cartouches, from Prevost's 'Histoire Générale des Voyages'. 		£360

269 [China] ANDRIVEAU-GOUJON, J..
Carte de L'Empire Chinois et Du Japon.. Paris, 1851. Coloured. 390 x 520mm..
China, with Hong Kong marked, and Japan. 		£140

270 [China] SEUTTER, George Matthäus.
Opulentissimum Sinarum Imperium juxta Recentissimam Delineationem in suas Provincias Distermunatum. Augsburg, T.C.Lotter, c.1760. Original colour. 500 x 590mm.
With an allegorical title cartouche representing European trade with China. Published by Seutter's son-in-law & successor. 		£780

271 [China & Japan] BONNE, Rigobert.
L'Empire de La Chine d'après L'Atlas Chinois, avec les Isles du Japon. Paris, Lattré, c.1760. Original outline colour. 320 x 460mm.
China, Japan & Korea. 		£220

272 [The Macartney Embassy - Zhousan] BARROW, John..
A Chart of the Islands to the Southward of Tchu-San on the Eastern Coast of China generally laid down from one published by Alexander Dalrymple Esq.re with additions and alterations. London, George Nicol, 1796. 560 x 380mm. Binding marks on left edge.
A chart published in George Staunton’s 'An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China'. Lord Macartney was the first British ambassador to China, arriving in 1793 and ordered to leave the same year. During their stay they made this river trip from Hangzhou south to Canton, via the Yangtze River. This chart marks the route of the 'Clarence' up the coast to Zhoushan Dao, taking particular care through the islands to the south of that island. Under the main map is a chart of Zhoushan harbour and a circular panorama showing the view from their anchorage. 		£150

273 [China] KITCHIN, Thomas.
A New Map of China Drawn from Surveys made by order of the Emperor. London, 1782. Coloured. 345 x 390mm.
Detailed map, engraved by Kitchin for Millar's Complete and Universal System of Geography. 		£340

274 [Miniature Map of China] Anonymous.
China. London? c.1800. Original colour. 60 x 110mm.
Miniature map of China, with Korea, with a plate number '35' to the right of the map. 		£175

275 DU HALDE, Johann Baptiste.
Hu Kew Hyen or Kyew on the River Kyang.. London, N. Parr, c.1750, 210 x 335mm.
A view of the temple complex of Hu Kew Hyen on the Yangtse River in China, from an English Edition of Du Halde's "'Description Géographique, Historique, Chronologique, Politique, et Physique de l'Empire de la Chine' . 		£100

276 [Peking] ANVILLE, Jean Baptiste B. D'.
Province de Pe - tche - li. Paris, c.1735. 395 x 320mm.
The province of Peking showing the Great Wall, with a very decorative chinoiserie title cartouche depicting dragons.		 SOLD

277 DU HALDE, Johann Baptiste.
Chinese Temples; Sin-Ko-Tsyen; Canton; Sancian Isle; Ma-Kao. London, J. Wood, c.1750, 210 x 325mm .
An attractive print divided into four areas, two depicting Chinese temples and the other two with maps of the city of Canton, the island of Sancian and the island of Ma-Kao (Macao). From an English Edition of Du Halde's "'Description Géographique, Historique, Chronologique, Politique, et Physique de l'Empire de la Chine' . 		£130

278 [Canton] ANVILLE, Jean Baptiste B. D'.
Province de Quang - Tong. Paris, 1735. Coloured. 425 x 530mm. Top margin restored, printed on very good quality paper.
Canton province with Hainan, with a very decorative chinoiserie title cartouche featuring a Chinaman using an abacus and a European buying art. 		SOLD

279 [Canton] VANDERMAELEN, Philippe.
Parte de la Chine. No.98. Brussels, 1827. Original colour. 460 x 525mm.
The Canton Region and Hainan, published in the 'Atlas Universel de Geographie', the first atlas to have every map on the same scale, 1:1,641,836. An extensive French text describes the islands. Canton and Macao are marked; although Hong Kong was not founded for another 15 years the islands of Lantau, Lemma and Lamira are named.An uncommon map. 		£480

280 [A view of the Chinese theatre in Macao] HILDEBRANDT, Ed.
Macao, Theater Sing Song. Berlin, Raimund Mitscher, c.1865, chromolithograph colour, 245 x 380mm.
Edward Hildebrandt was born in Danzig in 1818, the artist was the brother of Trite Hildebrandt (1819 - 1855), the marine painter. From 1860 - 1862 Hildebrandt went on a world tour, which included stops in the Middle East, India, Singapore, Siam (Thailand), Macao, Hong Kong, China, The Philippines, Japan and the United States. He worked mainly in watercolors. A folio of his works from his round-the-world voyage were published as chromolithographs in 1864 in Berlin under the title of "Reise Um Die Erde" (Journey around the Earth). The original watercolors from the voyage were exhibited in London in 1866 and at an exhibition at Crystal Palace in 1868, just a year before his death in Berlin. 		£950

281 [Hong Kong] STANFORD, Edward.
Hong-Kong & other British Settlements in Asia. Edinburgh, Stanford, c1890. Original colour. Lithograph, total printed area  207 x 143 mm.
Froma a small edition of the Stanford Atlas, drawn by J. Bartholomew . 		£220

282 HILDEBRANDT, Ed.
Hong Kong, Queen's Road. Berlin, R. Wagner, 1865, chromolithograph colour, 275 x 380mm.
A very charming early view of Queen's Road, Hong Kong.
Edward Hildebrandt was born in Danzig in 1818, the artist was the brother of Trite Hildebrandt (1819 - 1855), the marine painter. From 1860 - 1862 Hildebrandt went on a world tour, which included stops in the Middle East, India, Singapore, Siam (Thailand), Macao, Hong Kong, China, The Philippines, Japan and the United States. He worked mainly in watercolors. A folio of his works from his round-the-world voyage were published as chromolithographs in 1864 in Berlin. The original watercolors from the voyage were exhibited in London in 1866 and at an exhibition at Crystal Palace in 1868, just a year before his death in Berlin. 		£1,200

283 [Scarce Map of Southern China] JANSSON, Jan.
Iunnan, Queicheu, Quangsi, et Quantung, Provinciæ Regni Sinensis, Præfecturæ dictæ. Amsterdam, 1658, Latin edition. Original colour. 465 x 520mm.
Southern China, with Yunnan, Hainan and Canton. Because the map first appeared in 1658 it is uncommon. 		£1,100

284 [Sumatra] RAMUSIO, Giovanni Battista.
Sumatra. Venice, 1606. Woodcut, printed area 280 x 375mm. Repairs to stitchmarks in centrefold, as usual.
Sumatra, here still associated with 'Taprobana', published in Ramusio's 'Raccolta di Navigationi et Viaggi'. In the book was an account of the voyage of the Parmentier Brothers, Frenchmen who ran the Portuguese blockade of the East Indies and landed on the Sumatran port of Ticon. Both brothers died of fever and the trade was not too successful, dissuading the French from sending further expeditions. However their observations are included here, making this the first map of any island in South East Asia to be based on actual observation. It is strange, therefore, that there is no attempt to show any part of the Malay Peninsula or Java.This example was printed from the second block, cut in 1565 after the first was destroyed by a fire in the printing house of Thomaso Guinti after only a year's use.  The 1606 edition is recognisable by evidence of woodworm damage to the printing block and the pagination numbers '371.2º' and '371.3º'. SUAREZ: p.157, & fig.77 (second block illustrated). 		£750

285 MORTIER, Pieter.
Le Royaume de Siam avec les Royaumes qui luy sont Tributaires et les Isles de Sumatra, Andemaon, etc. et les Isles Voisine. Amsterdam, c.1705. Original colour. Two sheets conjoined, total 785 x 565mm.
A large and decorative chart showing from the Irawaddy Delta and Vietnam south to Sumatra, Borneo and Java, marking 'Cingapura'. Published in Mortier's issue of Jaillot's 'Atlas Nouveau', it also appeared in Mortier's 'Neptune Francois' sea-atlas. KOEMAN: Mor 1.		 £1,800

286 [Burma] VANDERMAELEN, Philippe.
Partie de l'Empire Birman. Brussels, 1827. Original colour. 470 x 565mm.
Southern Burma, showing from Bassein, Rangoon and the Gulf of Martaban to Mergui, as well as the northern tip of the Andaman islands. Published in the 'Atlas Universel de Geographie', the first atlas to have every map on the same scale, 1:1,641,836, it has a French text description of the country. An uncommon map. 		£150

287 [Chart of Banda Aceh, Sumatra] APRÈS DE MANNEVILLETTE, Jean Baptiste d'.
Plan de la Rade d'Achem et des Isles Circonvoisines Situées a la partie du Nord-ouest de Sumatra. Paris, c.1780.  500 x 350mm.
Banda Aceh, on the north west tip of Sumatra, with a coastal profile. Engraved by de la Haye.		 £200

288 [Indonesia] CORONELLI, Vincenzo Maria.
Isole dell'Indie divise in Filippine, Molucche, e della Sonda. Venice, c.1696. 460 x 620mm. Narrow margin top right, small area thin paper in unprinted sea area.
The East Indies, centred on Borneo, but showing Formosa south to northern Australia and the Andeman Islands east to New Guinea. The title cartouche is a banner held up by putti with wings and fish-tails swimming bottom left. In the text on verso is another map,the gore sheet of the Malay Peninsula and Indochina. 		£1,550

289 [Indonesia] SANTINI, P.
Archipel des Indes Orientales, qui comprend les Isles du Sonde, Moluques et Philippines. Venice, 1778. Original colour. 490 x 605mm. Small rust spot in sea area.
Santini's version of Robert de Vaugondy's map of the East Indies, from the Philippines south to the northern coast of Australia. 		£400

290 [The Nutmeg Warehouse] Anonymous.
Carte Particuliere de l'Isle d'Amboine Paris, c.1748. Coloured. 215 x 310mm. Small abrasion on border.
The island of Amboine in Indonesia was described by the historian Vaxelaire as 'the bank vault of the East Indian ocean'; it was there that the nutmeg harvest of Indonesia was stored before being loaded onto ships headed for Europe via Batavia. 		£65

291 [Borneo] THORNTON, John.
A Large Draught of the South Part of Borneo. London, Samuel Thornton, c. 1711. 435 x 525mm. Narrow margins at top and bottom.
Uncommon sea chart, published in Thornton's 'English Pilot The Third Book', concentrating on oriental navigation. Marked are Banjarmasin and Pulau Laut. 		£650

292 [Keelung Harbour, Formosa] U.S. Navy.
Keelung Harbor, Formosa Island surveyed by order of Commodore M.C. Perry U.S.N. by Lieut G.H. Preble & Pd.Md. Walter F. Jones in the U.S. Ship Macedonia. Selmar Siebert, 1854,  595 x 860mm..
A large and detailed navy chart showing the harbour of Keelung with all navigational features marked and numerous soundings. There are also sailing directions and explanatory texts as well as a number of coastal profiles. 		£320

293 [Sumatra as Taprobana] HONTER, Johannes.
Taprobana. Basle: Henri Petri, c.1561. Woodcut, printed area 120 x 75, set in text.
Ptolemy's mythical island of Taprobana originally became associated with Sri Lanka. Later, as this theory was discredited, Sumatra became the next candidate. Published in Honter's 'Cosmographiæ rudimentis', the map is surrounded by a Latin text description of the island. On verso are two woodcut illustrations, including one showing cannibals butchering a corpse..		 £300

294 [The first printed map of Japan] BORDONE, Benedetto.
Ciampagu; Iava Maggiore. Venice, 1528, woodcut, original wash colour, 85 x 145mm set in text.
From Bordone's "Isolario" first printed in Venice in 1528.
This is the earliest known printed map of Japan and was in fact produced twenty years before the first Europeans set foot there. The island was first described by Marco Polo in his book "Il Milione" after having heard accounts of it at the court of the Chinese emperor. Polo was also the first to name the island Zipangu after having heard the Chinese name for it "Jihpenkuo". On the verso is depicted Java and two of its surrounding islands which was well known as a result of the Portuguese spice trade. It was in fact a ship blown off course whilst engaged in this trade that led to the first European visitors to Japan.The Italian text gives particulars about the supposed locations of both islands and the habits of their inhabitants. Walter "Japan, a cartographic vision", fig 5 and Pg. 185.		 £3,500

295 [Japan] HONDIUS, Jodocus.
Japan I. London: Henry Featherstone, 1625, English text edition. Coloured. 130 x 170mm, set in text.
First published in the reduced version of the Mercator/ Hondius 'Atlas Minor' of 1607, the printing plates were sold to a London publisher in 1621 and appeared in 'Purchas His Pilgrimies', as this example. Later Dutch editions used new plates by Jansson. Of interest is the letter press sur-title ' I have heere added for the Readers profit and delight this Map'. 		£350

296 [Japan] HONDIUS, Jodocus.
Japonia. Amsterdam, Henricus Hondius, 1630, Latin edition. Original colour. 350 x 450mm.
Originally published 1609, following Ortelius's map. Korea is shown as an island, but with a note explaining that there was doubt about whether it was a peninsula. First state of the map, before the title was changed and the junk replaced with a galleon. KOEMAN: Me 29a; WALTER: 22, illus.		 £2,200

297
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298 [A Handsome Woodblock Map of Japan] Anonymous.
[Dai Nihon Shinsen Dochu Zenzu]. Published by Mohei Inoue in 1884. Woodblock in 3 colours.350 x 970 mm Originally folding. Has been flattened with minor tissue  reinforcing on verso.
Folding map of Japan in the distinctive woodblock style.		 £1,200

299 [Uncommon Miniature Map of Japan] MULLER, Johann Ulrich.
Japonia. Ulm: Georg W. Kühnen, 1702. 70 x 80mm, set in text.
Charming miniature map, with a letterpress text in German. Underneath the text is a woodcut ivignette of a putti blowing bubbles. WALTER: OAG 55, second state, with the title added to the plate.		 £400

300 [Japan] VALENTYN, François.
Nieuwe Kaart van het Eyland Japan verbeterd door François Valentyn. Dortrecht, Jan van Braam & G. onder de Linden, 1724. Coloured. 445 x 560mm. Two small splits in binding folds repaired.
Large map of Japan from Valentyn's ' Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indien', an account of the Dutch in the East Indies. On the map an unusual feature is the route the Dutch used to travel from Nagasaki to Jedo. WALTER: 46.		 £1,600

301 [Japan] SEUTTER, George Matthäus.
Regni Japoniæ Nova Mappa Geographica, ex indigenarum observationibus delineata ab Engleberto Kæmphero... Augsburg, c.1740. Original body colour with additions. 500 x 580mm. Centrefold reinforced.
A large and decorative map of Japan after Kaempfer, engraved by Tobias Conrad Lotter, Seutter's son-in-law. The map follows Kaempfer closely, and the rococo cartouche is a tribute to him: he is pictured drawing his map, while an allegorical empress holds up a copy of the map. WALTER: Japan 80, illustrated in the front of the dustwrapper.		 £2,400

302 [A Superb Map of Japan] RELAND, Adrien.
Imperium Japonicum per Regiones Digestum sex et Sexaginta atque ex Ipsorum Japonensium Mappis... Amsterdam, c.1740. Original outline colour. 310 x 455mm. Excellent Condition
Reland's influential map of Japan, based on a Japanese model and ignoring existing western maps with the result that many of the fictitious places disappear. All sixty-six provinces are named in Roman and Sino-Japanese characters (the first Western map to do so).With an inset map of Nagasaki, and armorials of the Emperor and his shoguns. This version, engraved by Baltasar Ruyter, was first published in Utrecht by Broedelet in 1715. WALTER: 69.		 £2,400

303 [Japan] TIRION, Isaak.
Imperio del Giappone. Venice, Albrizzi, 1740. Coloured. 250mm x 335mm
The third state, with an abbreviated title. Albrizzi was the first publisher to issue Tirion's maps: Tirion's own atlas was issued in Amsterdam in 1744. WALTER: OAG 86.		 £600

304 [Japan] SANTINI, P.
L'Empire du Japon, divisé en sept principales parties, savoiu, Ochio, Quanto, Jetsegen, Jetsen, Jamaisoit, Xicoco et Ximo, et subdivisé en soixante et six Royaumes. Venice, 1778. Original colour. 480 x 555mm.
Santini's version of Robert de Vaugondy's map of Japan, with Yedso just to the north. 		£750

305 [Japan] ORTELIUS, Abraham.
Japoniae Insulae Descriptio. Ludoico Teisera auctore. Antwerp, Plantin, 1603, Latin text edition.  355 x 485mm. Mint condition.
Luis Teixeira, a Portuguese Jesuit, sent maps of China and Japan to Ortelius in 1592: his source is unknown, but the map contains information that must have come from Japanese knowledge. However Korea is shown as an island. VAN DEN BROECKE: 165.		 £2,400

306 [Japan & Corea] TALLIS, John.
Japan & Corea. London, c.1851. Original outline colour. Steel engraving, 260 x 340mm. Narrow margin at bottom, as usual. Ink pagination in margins.
Drawn and engraved by John Rapkin, With a view of Jedo and vignettes of Korean costume and the Japanese State Barge. 		SOLD

307 [Malaysia] DE ROSSI, Giovanni Giacomo.
Penisola dell'India di la dal Gange. Rome, 1683. original colour. 540 x 410mm.
From the "Mercurio Geografico" showing Burma, the Malay Peninsula, Thailand and Indo-China, after Vignola. The large and decorative title cartouche is flanked by two richly dressed oriental gentlemen and surmounted by a growling leopard. 		£2,800

308 [Nagasaki] FONTANEY, Jean de.
Nangasacki appellé par les Chinois Tchangki. Paris, Sens & Gaude, 1810. 140 x 225mm. Minor creasing, small rust spot in margin.
A later varient of de Fontaney's map of Nagasaki, engraved by Canu. The Jesuit missionary never visited Japan and based the map on information he received from Chinese Merchants. This accounts for two major errors: he placed the Bay of Nagasaki at the mouth of a river; and he placed the Dutch trading post in the city when it was on an artificial island. See WALTER: Japan 94 for the original.		 £120

309 [The Moluccas] BLAEU, Willem Janszoon.
Moluccæ Insulæ Celeberimæ. Amsterdam, c.1650, Latin text edition. Original colour. 375 x 480mm.
Chart of the islands Ternate, Tidore and Makian, off the coast of Halmahera, orientated with north to the right. This chain was a focal point of the Dutch East India Company's spice trade. We have been unable to trace the pagination in Koeman.		 £450

310 [The Moluccas] CORONELLI, Vincenzo Maria.
Le Molucche... Venice, c.1690. 225 x 310mm, set in a page of text.
With an ornate title cartouche. 		£220

311 [China] MORDEN, Robert.
The Philipine Isles... London: 1688. Coloured. 150 x 130mm, set in a page of text.
An uncommon miniature map. 		£600

312 [Philippines] ZATTA, Antonio.
Isole Filippine. Venice, 1785. Original outline colour. 410 x 320mm. Small wormhole in sea area.
Decorative map of the Philippines with a title cartouche in full colour. 		£1,000

313 [Philippines] BRION DE LA TOUR, Louis..
Carte des Isles Philippines.. Paris, c.1780. Coloured. 250 x 355mm..
From the 'Histoire Universel'. 		£300

314 [The First Map of Singapore] DE BRY, Theodore.
Contrafactur des Scharmutz els der Holander (Singapore) . Frankfurt, 1603. Copper engraving.   330 x 255mmCenterfold restored , with minor loss. A a few brown spots, otherwise a fine example.
An especially rare and beautiful map of Strait Singapore, with exquisite calligraphy and superb detail of Dutch and Portuguese ships in Strait Singapore. It shows only the southern coast of the island (curiously with north-south running in the usual east-west position) and marks Singapore's west coast ,Cust unbekent,, unknown coast. It seems Europeans had not circumnavigated the island at this time. The map records a naval battle between the Dutch and Portuguese, with alphabet letters to code the various ships involved. The battle probably took place in 1603.A Portuguese galleon, the Santa Catherine (possibly ship D and L on the map) was captured by the Dutch and its cargo sold in Amsterdam for a pricely 3.5 million guilders. Depicted are the Dutch ships, Zierickzee, Enkhuysen, Amsterdam and Hollandse Zaan. Singapore named ,Suica Pora,. The map appeared in the Grand Voyages, which is the last part actually issued by de Bry (Parts VII to XII appeared only after his death). Suarez, Early Mapping of Southeast Asia, Fig.100. 		£2,750

315 HILDEBRANDT, Ed.
Singapore. Der Hafen ..Berlin, Raimund Mitscher, c. 1865, chromolithograph colour, 235 x 335mm.
A very attractive and early view of Singapore, showing a view across its harbour.
Edward Hildebrandt was born in Danzig in 1818, the artist was the brother of Trite Hildebrandt (1819 - 1855), the marine painter. From 1860 - 1862 Hildebrandt went on a world tour, which included stops in the Middle East, India, Singapore, Siam (Thailand), Macao, Hong Kong, China, The Philippines, Japan and the United States. He worked mainly in watercolors. A folio of his works from his round-the-world voyage were published as chromolithographs in 1864 in Berlin under the title of "Reise Um Die Erde" (Journey around the Earth). The original watercolors from the voyage were exhibited in London in 1866 and at an exhibition at Crystal Palace in 1868, just a year before his death in Berlin.		 £1,100

316 [Tartary] DE ROSSI, Giovanni Giacomo.
La Gran Tartaria divis nell sue parti principale... Rome, 1683. 440 x 550mm.
A map of Tartary after Vignola, published in the Mercurio Geografico. Japan appears on the right, with only a narrow strait separating it from a mainland peninsula to the north; however this is not 'Ezo', as this is a separate entity to the north-east. The large title cartouche shows a Tartar family 		£690

317 [Witsen's map of Tartary] MORTIER, Pieter.
Carte Nouvelle de la Grande Tartarie, par Monsieur N.Witsen Bourgemaister &c &c a Amsterdam. Amsterdam, c.1705. Original colour. Two sheets conjoined, total 575 x 980mm. Title pasted above the map, as issued.
A large and decorative map of Tartary from Mortier's issue of Jaillot's 'Atlas Nouveau'. It is based on the account of Nicolaas Witsen, a "lord mayor" of Amsterdam who travelled to Russia and beyond in the 1670s. Of particular interest is the updating of the Arctic coastline around Novaya Zemlya, although further east his cartography becomes less sure: "Jedso" is shown as a large peninsula reaching down to Japan, and "Terre de la Compagne" fills the north Pacific. Two insets top right show variant mapping, around Peking, and showing Novaya Zemlya as a peninsula. KOEMAN: Mor 1.		 £1,000

318 [Tartary] CLUVER, Philip.
Scythia et Tartarica Asiatica Amsterdam, c.1730. Coloured. 215 x 265mm.
Tartary, with a decorative title cartouche. 		£110

319 [Chinese Tartary] CASSINI, Giovanni Maria.
La Tartaria Cinese Delineata sulle ultime Osservazioni. Rome, 1798. Coloured. 365 x 495mm.
Chinese Tartary, from the 'Nuovo Atlante Geografico Universale', with a decorative title cartouche. A rare map. 		£400

320 [Russia in Asia] TALLIS, John.
Russia in Asia.. London, John Tallis & Co., c.1851. Original outline colour. Steel engraving, printed area 260 x 330mm. Ink pagination in margins.
From one of the last decorative atlases, with decorative vignettes showing bear hunting and local scenes. 		£60
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