Newly Added Antique Map Inventory

Selection of Rare and Antique Maps recently added to the Asian Continent category of Geographicus Antique Map Gallery.

1776 De L'Isle / Santini Speculative Map of North America, the Arctic, and Siberia (Sea of the West

2000.00 USD — Sat, 13 Jun 2015 09:46:00 +0000

The 1776 Francois Santini Venice edition of Joseph Nicolas De l'Isle's extraordinary 1752 map of North America, Siberia, the Arctic, and the North Pacific. J. N. De L'Isle and Buache drew this map to illustrate their speculations on the feasibly of a Northwest Passage. Cartographically this map is a combination of data absconded from the Russian 'Academy of Sciences' and Buache’s speculations on the Northwest Passage. An absolutely stunning and monumental 1794 wall map of Asia by Laurie and Whittle. The map covers the entire continent of Asia, including Arabia, the Indian subcontinent, and the East Indies. Laurie and Whittle derived their basic cartography from the work of French mapmaker Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville. Throughout, countless cities, caravan routes, and geographical features such as islands, undersea shoals, oases, lakes, rivers, and mountains are identified. This is a beautiful example of Thomas Ewing's 1845 map of Asia. The map covers the entire Asian continent from the Arctic Ocean to the Indian Ocean and from the Mediterranean Sea to the North Pacific Ocean. It shows Turkey, Arabia, Persia, the Indian subcontinent, Russia, Independent Tartary, Chinese Tartary, Japan and parts of Southeast Asia. The Great Wall of China and the Grand Canal are identified. An object of extreme historical importance and rarity, this map was the center of one of the most heated cartographic debates in history. This is an unrecorded state of Joseph-Nicolas de L'Isle's (Delisle) map of the Northern Pacific Ocean and Arctic. De L'Isle's map covers from the California coast northward to the Arctic Circle and from Hokkaido (Yeco) to Labrador. This is an extremely attractive 1747 decorative map of Asia by the English cartographer Emmanuel Bowen. This map covers the entire continent from Africa and the Mediterranean east to the Bering Sea and south as far as Java and New Guinea. The map renders the entire region in extraordinary detail offering both topographical and political information with forests and mountains beautifully rendered in profile. This is a scarce 1701 map of the world in hemispheres by Herman Moll. It depicts the world on a hemispheric projection and the map of the northern hemisphere with polar projection centered on the North Pole. The map features much of note including a presentation of California as an Island and early speculative mappings of Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand. Moll boldly presents California in insular form on the Luke Foxe model popularized by Nicholas Sanson in 1657. An attractive and large map of Asia issued by the Dutch firm of Covens and Mortier c. 1730. Covens and Mortier based this map upon an earlier map by Guillaume Delisle, which was intern based upon the Sanson-Jaillot model of 1692. Presented on Sanson's Sinusoidal (a pseudocylindrical equal-area) projection, this map covers from the Aegean to Japan and from Nova Zembla to northern Australia. Oceanic depths are rendered with shading and topography is presented in profile. A very attractive 1729 map of Asia and Tartary by the Dutch cartographer Pieter van der Aa. Pieter's (or Pierre) map covers from the Black Sea to Korea and from Nova Zembla south as far as Lhasa and Lahor. Although Van der Aa's maps are not known for their originality, they are highly admired for their fine engraving and overall presentation. Here Vander all embraces many of the apocryphal conventions associated with the mapping of Asia in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. This is a beautiful 1874 map of Asia by Ambroise Tardieu. It covers from the Arabian Peninsula and Turkey eastward as far as Kamchatka and Japan and includes the Empires of Hindoostan (India), China (includes Tibet), Persia (Iran), Afghanistan, Beloochistan, Birmah (Burma), Japan, Russia, etc. Also included are portions of Europe and the East Indies. An attractive and scarce 1600 map of the East Indies by Johann Bussemacher and Matthias Quad. Cartographically derived from Ortelius' slightly earlier map of the same region, this map covers from Arabia east to the Americas and New Guinea and from northern China and Japan to Java, including all of modern day India, China, Japan, Thailand, Burma, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Nepal, Tibet, Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, as well as parts of New Guiana, America, Arabia, and (possibly?!) Australia. This is a beautiful large format 1860 elephant folio map of Asia by A. H. Dufour. It covers the entire continent from the Mediterranean to Siberia and from the Arctic to Singapore including parts of Europe and Africa. Both the Great Wall of China and the Grand Canal are noted. As this map was drawn, Imperial China wilted under the weak Qing Dynasty while the Russian Empire attained the height of its pan-continental expansion. This is an uncommon and attractive large 1859 elephant folio map of the Ancient World, including Asia, Europe and Africa by A. H. Dufour. The map shows the World during the time of the Ancient Roman Empire from the Atlantic Ocean to Burma in Asia and from the Indian Ocean to the North Sea. Includes all of Europe, Arabia, part of Asia including the Indian Subcontinent and the northern part of Africa. An inset in the lower left quadrant depicts the World according to Herodotus. This is a beautiful example of the legendary American map publisher Samuel Augustus Mitchell Jr.'s 1866 map of Asia. This map covers from the Arabian Peninsula and Turkey eastward as far as Kamchatka, Japan, the Philippines and New Guinea. It includes the Empires of Hindoostan (India), China (includes Tibet), Toorkistan, Persia (Iran), Cabool, Beloochistan (Afghanistan), Birma (Burma), Siam (Thailand), Anam (Vietnam), Malaysia, Japan, etc. This is a finely detailed first edition 1794 map of Asia and Australia by Robert Wilkinson. Wilkinson's map covers from the Russian Arctic to the Indian Ocean and from Madagascar to New South Wales and New Guinea. Here Asia is divided into various geographical and political zones, including Arabia, Hindoostan (India), Southeast Asia, China, Persia, and Tibet, and the Tartaries. A scarce 1742 miniature map of Asia by German historian Benjamin Hederichs. This map covers the entirety of Asia from Europe to Japan and from the Arctic to New Holland or Australia. The mythic lake of Chiamay, speculated to be the source of the five great rivers of Southeast Asia, appears north of Siam or Thailand. Adjacent parts of Europe and Africa are also noted. Decorative allegorical title cartouche in the lower left quadrant features a golden idol and penitents. This is a beautiful example of Adam and Charles Black's 1844 map of Asia. The map covers the entire Asian continent from the Arctic Ocean to the Indian Ocean and from the Mediterranean Sea to the North Pacific Ocean. It shows Turkey, Arabia, Persia, the Indian subcontinent, Russia, the Chinese Empire, Japan and parts of Southeast Asia. the Great Wall of China is identified. This is a fine example of Adam and Charles Black's 1844 map of the world of the Roman Empire. The map covers the span of world as known to the ancient Romans, from the Scandinavia south, as far as Sumatra. Includes all of Europe, Arabia, part of Asia including the Indian subcontinent and part of Africa. Throughout, the map identifies various cities, towns, rivers and an assortment of additional topographical details. This is a fine example of Joseph Meyer's 1852 map of Asia. It covers the entire continent from the Mediterranean Sea to the North Pacific Ocean, including the Aleutian Islands. The map covers Turkey, Arabia, Persia, the Indian subcontinent, Siberia, the Chinese Empire, Japan and Southeast Asia. It further includes Mongolia, Tibet and Korea within the borders of the Chinese Empire. This is a scarce 1835 map of southern Asia by the important American mapmaker T. G. Bradford. The map covers the continent from Chinese Tartary south as far as the Indian Ocean and Sumatra and from the Red Sea eastward to Japan and the Sakhalin Island. Towns, rivers, mountains, deserts, islands and various other important topographical details are noted. A seminal map of extreme significance. This is the first Japanese printed map to depict the world, including Europe and America, from a Buddhist cosmographical perspective. Printed by woodblock in 1710 (Hoei 7), this map was composed by the Buddhist monk Rokashi Hotan.

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Newly Added Antique Map Inventory

1776 De L'Isle / Santini Speculative Map of North America, the Arctic, and Siberia (Sea of the West