Newly Added Antique Map Inventory

Selection of Rare and Antique Maps recently added to the Central Asia and Tibet category of Geographicus Antique Map Gallery.

1835 Bradford Map of Siberia and Central Asia

This is a fine example of the 1835 T. G. Bradford map of Siberia and Central Asia. Centered on the supposed site of the ancient Mongolian capital at Karakorum, this map extends from the Ural Mountains and the Caspian Sea eastward as far as Siberia, Kamchatka and Japan. It includes Korea, Mongolia, Tibet and the Chinese Empire. The Great Wall of China is identified. A monumental and highly detailed 1786 map of India, Persia, and Arabia by the Austrian cartographer F. A. Scharembl. Centered on Persia, this map covers from Istanbul to eastern India and Tibet, and from the Black Sea to the Maldives. Schraembl derived this map from the influential French cartographer J. B. B. d'Anville's similar map of 1751, which here has been re-engraved, updated, and translated into German. An uncommon and unusual map of Tartary issued for Martineau du Plessis in 1700. Covering from the Caspian Sea and Moscow (Moskua) eastward to Alaska, Korea, and the Pacific and from the Arctic Sea and Nova Zembla south to Tibet. Cartographically this map is most notable it�s primitive treatment of the extreme northeast, with the semi-mythical Strait of Anian separating Asia from America. The Great Wall of China is stylistically rendered. A beautifully engraved uncolored c. 1720 map of Russian in Asia, Siberia, Tartary and parts of China by Henri Abraham Chatelain. Chatelain�s map of imperial Russia covers from the Black Sea (Pont Euxin) to Korea (Corea) and the Pacific (Mer de Tartarie). The map exhibits the extraordinary lack of information in Europe regarding this region at the beginning of the 18th century. A fine first edition example of M. Lapie�s 1832 map of Asia. In the early 19th century Asia was coming under increasingly imperial European sway. In India full British rule allowed England to attain naval and trade supremacy throughout the eastern hemisphere. Using India as a springboard, the English the traded wool and Indian cotton for Chinese tea and textile. By the 1830s oversaturation of the Chinese market slackened Chinese demand for most British products. One of Homann's most interesting and influential maps, this 1725 map depicts the Caspian Sea and the Peninsula of Kamchatka. Essentially two maps in one, Homann here juxtaposes two opposite parts of Asia: the Capsian Sea, which forms part the western border of Asia and Europe, and the Peninsula of Kamchatka, the easternmost known point in continental Asia. A fine example of Rigobert Bonne and Guilleme Raynal�s 1780 map of Central Asia. Focuses on the region once known as Tartarie Ind�pendante or Independent Tartary. This name was given to the great tract of land by Europeans in the middle ages, and included the land from the Caspian Sea and the Ural Mountains to China and India. This area was originally inhabited by Turkic and Mongol peoples of the Mongol Empire who were generically referred to as Tartars. A fascinating 1747 European mapping of the Gobi Desert and the eastern portion of the Silk Route region by Thomas Kitchin. Covers from Lake Baikal in the north as far south as Beijing, east to the Gulf of Lyau-tong (Yellow Sea), and west as far as Chan-tong. When this map was drawn the geography of this region was very poorly understood by Europeans. This map is generally derived from Jesuit missionary reports and the large map of the Russian Empire prepared by Kyrillow. A beautiful example of Finley's important 1827 map of Russia in Asia. Depicts from the Black Sea and Arabia eastward to the Behring Strait, northwards to the Arctic, and southwards to Chinese Tartary. Show rives, forests, major cities, and mountain ranges. The Land of Liakhov, more widely known as the Legendary Ivory Islands, appears in the Russian Arctic. A beautiful example of Rigobert Bonne's 1770 decorative map of Chinese Tartary. Covers from the Lop Nor region eastward to Korea, Manchuria, Sakalin and Jeso-Gasima (Hokkaido). Includes both Inner Mongolia and Outer Mongolia. Extends north to include Lake Baikal. Names numerous towns, cities and river systems. Shows the Great Wall of China. At the far eastern extreme of this map Jeso-Gasimia, or Hokkaido, is mapped speculatively along its northern shore. This unusual 1836 map by V. A. Malte-brun depicts Russia in Asia or Siberia. Depicts from the Ural mountains east as far as the Bering Strait and Alaska and as far south as the Chinese Empire. All text in French.

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Newly Added Antique Map Inventory

1835 Bradford Map of Siberia and Central Asia