Antique maps of Asia
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Amboina ad viumu descripta – Johannes Isacus Pontanus
€175.00Miniature maps of Ambon and part of the Banda islands, Indonesia. The maps were published in the Dutch edition of “Rerum et urbis Amstelodamensium Historia” by Johannes Isacus Pontanus. The map of Ambon is set on the front of the page (p. 243) and the map of the Banda islands on the verso (p. 244.). Engraved by Benjamin Wright.
Title: Amboina ad viumu descripta quo tempore Admiarallus Wibrandus Warwicensis cum
€175.00
qua tuor nauibus ante eam in achoris staret a 1599 mese martio / Untitled
Date: 1620
Size: 8.5 x 12.0 cm
Condition: Good (G)
Condition notes: Some staining. -
Diu In Arabia – Daniel Meisner
€100.00Striking view of Diu, India, published in Daniel Meisner’s “Sciographia Cosmica”, a work first printed in Nuremberg, 1638, by Fürst.
Title: Diu In Arabia
€100.00
Date: 1638
Size: 10.0 x 15.0 cm
Verso: Blank
Condition: Good (G)
Condition notes: Stains and minor foxing. Small tear in upper margin, far from the printed image. -
Calechut – Daniel Meisner
€115.00Striking view of Kozhikode, also known as Calicut, in Kerala, India. Decorated with verses below the view, and with ships and a sea monster in the front. In the background a highly detailed view is depicted, including palm trees, people and an elephant. The view was published in Daniel Meisner’s “Sciographia Cosmica”, a work first printed in Nuremberg, 1638, by Fürst.
Title: Calechut
€115.00
Date: 1638
Size: 10.0 x 15.0 cm
Verso: Blank
Condition: Good (G)
Condition notes: Minor foxing. Creases. Small repaired tear in upper margin, not entering the printed image. -
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China – Johann Ulrich Müller
€325.00Rare miniature map of China, set in a page of text, from Johann Ulrich Müller’s Neu-außgefertigter Kleiner Atlas, a work published by George Kuhnen in Ulm, 1702. The maps published in J. U. Müller’s world geography were probably engraved by Gabriel Bodenehr after Sigismund Hipscman.
Title: China
Date: 1702
Size: 6.4 x 7.7 cm
Sheet size: 17.3 x 9.6 cm
Verso: Blank
Condition: Good (G)Ref: Miniature Antique Maps, Geoffrey King
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