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Four text page with large intitials.
Four text leaves from the Strasburg edition of Ptolemy's atlas edited by Laurent Fries. On VERSO and RECTO 6-lines initials.Each page side has in top a large woodcut titl...
Place & Date: Strassburg 1525
Selling price: $35
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India extrema XXIIII Nova Tabula. (Asia)
One of the first European maps of Asia. Although quite crude, Münster's map does significantly improve upon the Ptolemaic model for the area. The coast of China begins t...
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Selling price: $800
Sold in 2014
India extrema XIX Nova Tabula.
One of the first European maps of Asia. Although quite crude, Münster's map does significantly improve upon the Ptolemaic model for the area. The coast of China begins t...
Place & Date: Basle, c.1550
Selling price: $1400
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Tabula orientalis regionis, Asiae sciliset extremas complectens terras et regna.
This is one of the earliest maps of the whole continent of Asia, based on the recent geographical discoveries by Portuguese navigators.The outline of the Asian mainland i...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $1600
Sold in 2013
Die lander Asie nach irer gelegenheit biss in Indiam werden in diser tafel verzeichnet.
One of the first European maps of Asia. Although quite crude, Münster's map does significantly improve upon the Ptolemaic model for the area. The coast of China begins t...
Place & Date: Basle, c.1550
Selling price: $1150
Sold in 2014
Die länder Asie nach irer gelegenheit biss in Indiam werden in diser tafel verzeichnet.
One of the first European maps of Asia. Although quite crude, Münster's map does significantly improve upon the Ptolemaic model for the area. The coast of China begins t...
Place & Date: Basle, c.1550
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2016
Die länder Asie nach irer gelegenheit biss in Indiam werden in disser tafel verzeichnet
This is one of the earliest maps of the whole continent based on the recent geographical discoveries by Portuguese navigators..The outline of the Asian mainland is relati...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2015
Die länder Asie nach irer gelegenheit biss in Indiam werden in diser tafel verzeichnet..
One of the first European maps of Asia. Although quite crude, Münster's map does significantly improve upon the Ptolemaic model for the area. The coast of China begins t...
Place & Date: Basle, c.1550
Selling price: $1700
Sold in 2017
Die länder Asie nach irer gelegenheit biss in Indiam werden in diser tafel verzeichnet.
One of the first European maps of Asia. Although quite crude, Münster's map does significantly improve upon the Ptolemaic model for the area. The coast of China begins t...
Place & Date: Basle, c.1550
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2021
Tabula orientalis regionis, Asiae scilicet extremas complectens terras et regna.
Very early woodcut printed map of the Asia, published in the monumental Cosmographia by Sebastian Münster. The maps shows all of Asia, parts of the Indian Ocean with Mad...
Place & Date: Basel, ca. 1550
Selling price: $650
Sold in 2019
Asiae nova descriptio.
Ortelius' fine map of Asia well represents the continent at a time when Europeans were expanding their power in the far east. The Indian subcontinent and Malaysian penins...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1572
Selling price: $1500
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Tartariae sive Magni Chami Regni typus. . .
An early edition of the famous and important map of Tartary, Japan, and the west coast of North America, from Ortelius'Theatrum Orbis Terarrum, the first modern atlas of ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, ca 1573
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2018
Asiae nova descriptio.
Ortelius' fine map of Asia well represents the continent at a time when Europeans were expanding their power in the Far East. The Indian subcontinent and Malaysian penins...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1574
Selling price: $2100
Sold in 2015
Asiae nova descriptio.
The much rarer first plate of Ortelius' fine map of Asia. The first plate has "La Farfana", in the lower right corner. It is estimated that only 1575 copies are...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1575 - 1575
Selling price: $1750
Sold in 2008
Asie.
Uncommon wood-cut map of Asia. New Guinea has disappeared and Japan is represented as a turtle-shaped island. An important innovation is the appearance of the Straits of ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1575
Selling price: $1550
Sold in 2010
Asie.
Scarce wood-cut map of Asia. New Guinea has disappeared and Japan is represented as a turtle-shaped island. An important innovation is the appearance of the Straits of An...
Place & Date: Paris, 1575
Selling price: $2000
Sold in 2017
Asiae novissima tabula.
Map of Asia, including the most western part of America from the extremely rare first edition. De Jode describes this map as new, as he extended the map westward from Ort...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1578
Selling price: $6000
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Asia, die Länder Asie nach ihrer gelegenheit biss in Indiam werden in dieser Tafeln verzeichnet.
This is one of the earliest maps of the whole continent of Asia, based on the recent geographical discoveries by Portuguese navigators. The outline of the Asian mainland ...
Place & Date: Basel, 1578
Selling price: $1400
Sold in 2018
Asiae Nova Descriptio.
Beautifully colored map of Asia from the 1579 edition of Ortelius’Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern atlas of the world. The map is based upon Ortelius's wall ma...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1579
Selling price: $900
Sold in 2015
Asiae Nova Descriptio.
Second state. Ortelius' fine map of Asia well represents the continent at a time when Europeans were expanding their power in the far east. The Indian subcontinent and Ma...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1579
Selling price: $1300
Sold in 2016
Asiae Nova Descriptio.
Second state. Ortelius' fine map of Asia well represents the continent at a time when Europeans were expanding their power in the far east. The Indian subcontinent and Ma...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1579
Selling price: $1400
Sold in 2018
Asia wie es jetziger zeit nach den fuernemesten Herzschaften
Map of the continent of Asia, copied after the copper engraved map by Ortelius. It was added to Münster's Cosmographia from 1588 onwards, probably in order to make it mo...
Place & Date: Basle 1580
Selling price: $550
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Asiae nova descriptio.
Beautiful colored map of Asia. From the 1580 German edition of Theatrum Orbis Terrarum by Abraham Ortelius. The cartographical source of this map comes from Ortelius own ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1580
Selling price: $1600
Sold in 2009
Tabula orientalis regionis Asiae. . .
Central and East Asia. Woodcut map from a Latin edition of Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia, Basel c. 1580. Verso typogr. text: "Nova Tabula Indiae orientalis..&quo...
Place & Date: Basel, c. 1580
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2013
Asia secunda pars terrae in forma Pegasi.
An exceptionally decorative woodcut of Asia in the form of a 'Pegasus'. In the oceans there are several sea monsters. Many major cities are indicated and named. Professio...
Place & Date: Magdeburg, ca. 1580
Selling price: $1100
Sold in 2018
Asiae Nova Descriptio.
Second plate. Ortelius' fine map of Asia well represents the continent at a time when Europeans were expanding their power in the far east. Nova Guinea, with part of the...
Place & Date: Antwerp, after 1581
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2016
![Asia secunda pars terrae in forma Pegasi. [Asia is presented as the mythical winged horse Pegasus.]](/uploads/cache/97237-250x250.jpg)
Asia secunda pars terrae in forma Pegasi. [Asia is presented as the mythical winged horse Pegasus.]
An exceptional, most sought after symbolic map of Asia in the form of a Pegasus. In the seas, several sea monsters; many major cities are indicated and named.Bünting's f...
Place & Date: Magdeburg, ca. 1581
Selling price: $1600
Sold in 2016
Deze tweede Caerte van Asia
Very rare early woodcut map of Asia; on of the earliest maps of the continent.Covers the area from Scandinavia/Egypt to Borneo/Japan. No separate title, only an indicatio...
Place & Date: Magdenburg, after 1581
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2023
Asia wie es Jetziger Zeit nach den Furnemesten Herrschafften Abgetheilet und Beschriben ist .
Nice full color example Sebastian Munster's second map of Asia, first published in 1588.It is filled with numerous small woodcut vignettes of towns and a lone sea monster...
Place & Date: Basle, S. H. Petrie, 1588
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2013
Asia wie es Jetziger Zeit nach den Furnemesten Herrschafften Abgetheilet und Beschriben ist.
Münster’s decorative final map of Asia, from a German edition of Münster’s "Cosmographia", one of the most influential geographical works of the 16th Cent...
Place & Date: Basle, 1588
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2018
Asia wie es Jetziger Zeit nach den Furnemesten. . .
Sebastian Münster (1489-1552) is one of the most renowned cartographers of the sixteenth century, Mercator and Ortelius are considered at the same level. Munster's two m...
Place & Date: Basle, 1588
Selling price: $490
Sold in 2020
Asiae Nova Descriptio.
Second state. Ortelius' fine map of Asia well represents the continent at a time when Europeans were expanding their power in the far east. The Indian subcontinent and Ma...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1580/1589
Selling price: $1400
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Asiae Nova Descriptio.
Second state. Ortelius' fine map of Asia well represents the continent at a time when Europeans were expanding their power in the far east. The Indian subcontinent and Ma...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1580/1589
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2018
Asia.
An attractive map of the Asian continent by Rosaccio who was an Italian cartographer and the author of several atlases which were re-issued in various Italian cities from...
Place & Date: ca. 1590
Selling price: $110
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Asia is presented as the mythical winged horse Pegasus.
Copper engraved map of Asia in the form of a Pegasus. This is a very rare issue of the map from a Czech edition. The original woodcut map was re-engraved on copper with a...
Place & Date: Magdeburg, 1592
Selling price: $2500
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Asia partium Orbis Maxima.
A superb decorative map of Asia which is exceptionally rare since it only appeared in the second edition of de Jode's Speculum. The Asian coast is straight south-west to ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1593
Selling price: $6000
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Erythraei Sive Rubri Maris Periplus.
Decorative map covering the north-west coast of Africa, Arabian peninsular, India, Malaysia. In lower part inset map of Mediterranean.Upper right hand corner inset map Hy...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1597
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2008
Asiae Nova Descriptio.
Ortelius' fine map of Asia well represents the continent at a time when Europeans were expanding their power in the far east.Showing all of Asia, India, Indonesia, the Fi...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Selling price: $900
Sold in 2020
Asia..
Very rare map of Asia executed by the Flemish artist and cartographer Fiamengo Arnoldo di Arnoldi, who was working in Bologna and Siena, at the end of the 16th century.Be...
Place & Date: Siena, 1600
Selling price: $5500
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Asia.
A lovely miniature version of the Ortelius map of Asia, complete with a strap-work title and a stippled sea. Map extent is from East Africa to Japan (no Korea), and down ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, ca 1600
Selling price: $100
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Asia.
Beautiful colored copper engraved map of Asia. With an unusual shape of Japan and a small part of the American continent east of Japan. From the 1604 Cologne edition of &...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1604
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2009
Asiae Nova Descriptio.
Ortelius' important map of Asia based on his wall map of 1567, which was based on the work of Gastaldi.The cordiform projection shows Asia extended too far to the east, a...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1609
Selling price: $1600
Sold in 2011
Asiae Nova Descriptio Auctore Jodoco Hondio.
Hondius Asia map in full colors.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1611
Selling price: $1110
Sold in 2009
Asiae Nova Descriptio.
Several sources appear to have been used in the compilation of this map, including the Portuguese Jesuits Luis Teixeira (1595) for Japan, and Luis Jorgede Barbuda (1584) ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1611-1612
Selling price: $1800
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Asiae Nova Descriptio..
Several sources appear to have been used in the compilation of this map, including the Portuguese Jesuits Luis Teixeira (1595) for Japan, and Luis Jorgede Barbuda (1584) ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1613
Selling price: $1900
Sold in 2016
Asiae Nova Descriptio Auctore Jodoco Hondio.
It is a very fine and decorative example of early seventeenth century map engraving as practised in The Netherlands.Several sources appear to have been used in the compil...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1613
Selling price: $800
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Asiae Nova Descriptio Auctore Jodoco Hondio.
It is a very fine and decorative example of early seventeenth century map engraving as practiced in The Netherlands.Several sources appear to have been used in the compil...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1613
Selling price: $900
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Asia ex Magna Orbis Terre Descriptione Gerardi Mercatoris Desumpta, Studio et Industria G.M. Iunioris
Beautiful original old colored Mercator map of Asia. This map first appeared in the famous Mercator "Atlas Sive Cosmographicae" of 1595, later published until 1...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1613
Selling price: $900
Sold in 2009
Asiae Nova Descriptio Auctore Jodoco Hondio.
A very fine and decorative example, in original old colors, of early seventeenth century engraved map as practiced in The Netherlands. Several sources have been used in t...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1613
Selling price: $390
Sold in 2020
![[Untitled Map of Asia]](/uploads/cache/94542-250x250.jpg)
[Untitled Map of Asia]
Early and very interesting map of a large part of Asia, extending from Egypt and Turkey to Sumatra, including Arabia, India, parts of Russia, etc. With ancient places an...
Place & Date: London, c. 1614
Selling price: $325
Sold in 2015
Asia ex magna orbis terre descriptione Gerardi Mercatoris desumpta studio et industria G. M. Iunoris
An important map of Asia, that includes an ornate cartouche and sailing ship. The map was updated and the cartouche etc. changed in 1606, making these early examples scar...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1623
Selling price: $650
Sold in 2017
Asia.
A scarce map, newly re-issued from the important Hondius map, issued in Mercators "Atlas minor". Probably by J. Janssonius. Engraved by van der Keere or A. Goos...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca.1625
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2010
Asia with the Islands adioyning described, the atire of the people, & Townes of importance, all of them newly augmented
John Speed's map of Asia, with 10 costumed figures and 8 town plans of Asian cities (Candy, Goa, Damascus, Jerusalem, Orumus, Bantam, Aden and Macao).A piece of North Ame...
Place & Date: London, ca.1626
Selling price: $1080
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Asia with the Islands Adjoining Described. . .
John Speed's map of Asia dated 1626, decorated with 10 costumed figures and 8 town plans of important early Asian cities (Candy, Goa, Damascus, Jerusalem, Orumus, Bantam,...
Place & Date: London, 1626
Selling price: $625
Sold in 2019
Carte De L'Asie Corrigée, et augmentée, dessus toutes les autres cy devant faictes par P. Bertius.
This rare map is according to Burden one of a set of the four known continents that Melchior Tavernier published in Paris, with Petrus Bertius' named on the map. It is ve...
Place & Date: Paris, 1627
Selling price: $900
Sold in 2020
Asia ex magna Orbis terre descriptione Gerardi Mercatoris. . .
The cartography derives directly from the 1569 Mercator world map and includes the southern landmasses of New Guinea and Terra Australis, the East Indian Islands, the Phi...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1628
Selling price: $1800
Sold in 2016
Asia ex magna Orbis terre descriptione Gerardi Mercatoris..
The cartography derives directly from the 1569 Mercator world map and includes the southern landmasses of New Guinea and Terra Australis, the East Indian Islands, the Phi...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Selling price: $1800
Sold in 2011
Asiae Nova Descriptio..
Several sources appear to have been used in the compilation of this map, including the Portuguese Jesuits Luis Teixeira (1595) for Japan, and Luis Jorgede Barbuda (1584) ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Selling price: $2500
Sold in 2015
Asiae Nova Descriptio..
Several sources appear to have been used in the compilation of this map, including the Portuguese Jesuits Luis Teixeira (1595) for Japan, and Luis Jorgede Barbuda (1584) ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Selling price: $1060
Sold in 2009
Asia recens summa cura delineata. Auct. Henr. Hondio.
Henricus Hondius\' fine and decorative map of the Continent of Asia depicting a refined Japan & Korea, issued in editions of the Hondius & Janssonius Atlases.Fren...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Selling price: $870
Sold in 2009
ASIA recens summa cura delineata. Auct. Henr. Hondio.
From H. Hondius' Appendix, 1633. Edition without the decorative borders from 1631. Latin text on verso.
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1631
Selling price: $1000
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ASIA recens summa cura delineata. Auct. Henr. Hondio.
Henricus Hondius' fine and decorative map of the Continent of Asia depicting a refined Japan & Korea, issued in editions of the Hondius & Janssonius Atlases.
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1631
Selling price: $1150
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Asia recens summa cura delineata. Auct. Henr. Hondio.
Henricus Hondius' fine and decorative map of the Continent of Asia depicting a refined Japan & Korea, issued in editions of the Hondius & Janssonius Atlases.Germa...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1631
Selling price: $700
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Asia recens summa cura delineata.
The standard Asia map in all subsequent Mercator-Hondius maps was published by Hendrick Hondius (1597-1651). In association with Johannes Janssonius, Hendrick continued t...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1631
Selling price: $1200
Sold in 2018
Asia recens summa cura delineata.
This is the rare early issue with decorative paneled borders. Originally engraved with plans of 6 towns at the top and bottom, c1630, this edition was printed after the l...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1632
Selling price: $2400
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Asia recens summa cura delineata.
This is the scarce early issue of this "carte à figures"- map with three sided decorative paneled borders. Originally engraved with plans of 6 towns at the top...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1632
Selling price: $1850
Sold in 2014
India Orientalis.
The map covers the region from India through southern China and the Philippines including all of the Malay peninsula with parts of northern Sumatra and Borneo. The Gulf o...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1632
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2016
Asia ex magna Orbis terre descriptione Gerardi Mercatoris..
The cartography derives directly from the 1569 Mercator world map and includes the southern landmasses of New Guinea and Terra Australis, the East Indian Islands, the Phi...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1633
Selling price: $760
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Asia noviter delineata.
Very detailed map of Asia showing animals and natives on the continent, sea monsters, sailing ships and a decorative title cartouche with two natives.During the printing ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1633
Selling price: $900
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Asia noviter delineata.
During the printing process the figured borders have been covered. No text on verso. There exists a continent map of the Americas which has been printed in the same way. ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1633
Selling price: $2600
Sold in 2016
Asia ex magna Orbis terre descriptione Gerardi Mercatoris..
The cartography derives directly from the 1569 Mercator world map and includes the southern landmasses of New Guinea and Terra Australis, the East Indian Islands, the Phi...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1595-1633
Selling price: $1900
Sold in 2008
Asia ex magna Orbis terre descriptione Gerardi Mercatoris..
The cartography derives directly from the 1569 Mercator world map and includes the southern landmasses of New Guinea and Terra Australis, the East Indian Islands, the Phi...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1633
Selling price: $1100
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Asia noviter delineata.
With columns of figures on either side depicting the native manners of dress, and nine city plans and views at the top.Japan is shown accurately unusually with Korea as a...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1635
Selling price: $2800
Sold in 2010
ASIA noviter delineata Autore Guiljelmo Blaeuw.
A fine example of Willem Blaeu's famous map of Asia. Like the Blaeu Africa map, this is a map that appeals both to a sense of cartographic history and to an aesthetic se...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, (1617) 1634 or 1635
Selling price: $4850
Sold in 2011
ASIA noviter delineata.
The Blaeu Asia map, heightened in gold. With columns of figures on either side depicting the native manners of dress, and nine city plans and views at the top. Japan is s...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1635
Selling price: $1950
Sold in 2014
Carte de l' Asie. . . Didiée a Maitre Pierre Petit. . .
Rare map of Asia, with the address of Michel van Lochom, dated 1640.The map is of interest for the dual-naming of the sea between Korea and Japan, here called "MER D...
Place & Date: Paris, c. 1640
Selling price: $4500
Sold in 2015
Asia Nova Descriptio.
A very fine and decorative example of early seventeenth century map engraving as practiced in The Netherlands. Several sources appear to have been used in the compilation...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606 -1640
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2012
Asia noviter delineata.
Superb engraved map of Asia with Latin text on verso. This magnificent “cornerstone” map is a fine example of the famous “carte-a-figures” maps created by the Bla...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1640
Selling price: $3400
Sold in 2012
Asia recens Summa cura delineata.
Very rare map of Asia separately published. Derivative map by Picart of Hondius' rare separately issued map of 1618, with the lower panels removed. Surrounded with three ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1644
Selling price: $3000
Sold in 2023
Asia Noviter Delineata.
A superb Carte-à-figures of Asia, adorned with five vignettes on either side which depict natives in mufti, and 9 small views of cities at the top, incl. Calcutta, Goa, ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1645
Selling price: $1340
Sold in 2020