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All of Asia is shown in this fine map by Hondius, including Southeast Asia and New Guinea. Hondius updated Mercator's map of 1595 and introduced it to England, along with some of his own work. Although it corrected many of Mercator's errors, the map includes many interesting depictions and is richly decorated with strapwork, cartouches, ships, and sea monsters in marvelous color.
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| Size: 14¾” x 19½” - Color, Text Weight Paper: $10.00 |
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Samuel Thornton, Hydrographer to the East India Company, provided a clear idea of the islands in the harbor nearly three centuries ago, just after they had been transferred from Portuguese to British rule. This French version of his map contains references to the major English fort, the smaller military outposts and the neighboring settlements.
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| Size: 16” x 21” - Colored, Text Weight Paper: $10.00 |
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Date: 1778 |
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Drawn by shipmaster William Nichelson, this sea chart accurately details the location of sand bars, shoals and rocks, and notes tide marks, high and low water, and anchoring grounds. Printed by London mapsellers Sayer & Bennett as a navigational aid of this Indian port, the delicate coloring and wealth of information makes it both fascinating and decorative.
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| Size: 19" x 32" - Color, Cover-stock Paper: $30.00 |
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Fabled Canton, one of the first Chinese cities to be visited by European travellers, appears in this decorative view from Nieuhoff's L'Ambassade de la Comp-agnie Orientale des Provinces Unies vers l'Empereur de la Chine.
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| Size: 11" x 14¼" - Black & White, Cover-stock Paper: $25.00 |
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This is the first European printed map of China and, as such, a fascinating view of the East from the perspective of one of the world's finest map-makers, Abraham Ortelius. Published in his 1584 atlas, Theatrum Orbis Terraum, Ortelius based his map on the work of Jesuit Jorge de Barbuda. The vibrant colors highlight a tremendous level of detail for the period, including cities and settlements, lakes, mountain and the Great Wall.
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| Size: 14 ¼" x 18½" - Color, Text-weight Paper: $10.00 |
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The capital of Indonesia had its origins in 1619 as Batavia, founded by Jan Pieterzoon Coen on the island of Java for the Dutch East India Company. Clemendt de Jonghe's striking engraving shows the alternating system of rectangular streets canals of this early center for Colonial trade.
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| Size: 16" x 19¾" - Black & White, Cover-stock Paper: $27.50 |
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The first Asian settlement of Portugal, Goa served from 1510 as the capital of an expanding colonial empire. From van der Aa's La Galerie Agreable du Monde of 1729, this is an almost exact duplicate of the 1595 plan in Linschoten's Itinerario.
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| Size: 12¾" x 17¾" - Black & White, Cover-stock Paper: $25.00 |
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Major James Rennell, Surveyor General to the East India Company in Bengal, provided this map to describe the countryside, villages and cities from Delhi to the mouth of the Ganges. Published in his memoir, the map shows the area south of the Himalaya Mountains as explored by the British.
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| Size: 14” x 18” Black & White, Text Weight Paper: $10.00 |
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This ancient port at the southern tip of Kyushu Island that Saint Francis Xavier landed in 1549 to begin his missionary efforts in Japan. The engraving is reproduced from Gedenkwaerdige . . . aen de Kaisaren van Japan by Montanus depicting the busy harbor with the town and hills beyond.
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| Size: 10¾" x 22¼" - Black & White, Cover-stock Paper: $27.50 |
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Once a small fishing village and suburb of ancient Hyogo, after the opening of Japan to western trade Kobe quickly developed as a major port. Ships flying flags from many countries fill the harbor, attesting to the importance of the expanding town.
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| Size: 18¼" x 25¾" - Black & White, Cover-stock Paper: $27.50 |
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