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- China / Far East – Telegraph & Transportation Map / Chengdu Imprint: 天下銕路電線洋關租界礮臺漆道簡明圖表. [Concise Diagram… of Roads, Telegraphs and Concessions…].
- 6,000.00€
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- An exceedingly rare and fascinating grand wall map that perfectly captures the prevailing political-economic environment of Late Qing Dynasty China, a vast land that was being radically transformed by socio-economic modernization, opened to Western cultural and technological influences, while suffering military and political defeats at the hands of European and Japanese imperialism; the map was created by Fu Chongju…
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- CHINA: Map of China prepared for the China Inland Mission 1898.
- 1,400.00€
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- One of the finest general maps of China produced during the fin de siècle period, a large format, highly detailed work produced as part of map sequence for the China Inland Mission (CIM) by the world leading firm of Edward Stanford, and the first issue to be predicated upon the revolutionary cartography of the Russian sinologist Emil Bretschneider, providing…
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- Asia, India, Maps and Prints
- Goa, India: Carta do Territorio Portuguez de Goa correcta por J.F. d’Assa Castel Branco, Tenente d’Engenheiros em 1890.
- 2,800.00€
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- A very rare, large-format separately issued map of the Portuguese Territory of Goa, India; being the finest general map of the colony issued during the second half of the 19th Century, with the present edition being the first major map to depict the entire completed line of the Mormugao Railway, Goa’s first railroad; predicated upon the stellar surveys of…
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- HANOI, VIETNAM / VIETNAMESE WAR: Nội thành Hà Nội: bản đò̂ chỉ đà̂n phó̂. [Inner City of Hanoi…].
- 550.00€
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- A very rare, attractive and highly detailed map of Hanoi, issued by Prime Minister’s Office of North Vietnam not long after the city had defiantly withstood heavy U.S. aerial bombardment to find itself on the brink of becoming the capital of a united socialist state upon North Vietnam’s imminent victory in the Vietnam War; the map being a subtle…
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- INDIA (NORTHERN) / PAKISTAN / BANGLADESH: Vicariati e prefetture Apostoliche nell’ Indostan.
- 1,500.00€
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- Extremely Rare – a pair of large-format maps respectively depicting Northern and Southern India, featuring the ecclesiastical divisions of the Roman Catholic on the subcontinent, prepared for the Vatican’s State Secretariat by Girolamo Petri, issued within his monumental atlas, ‘L’Orbe Cattolico ossia Atlante Geografico Storico Ecclesiastico’.
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- INDIA / BURMA: 國帝度印 [The British Raj].
- 650.00€
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- A rare large format Japanese map of India and Burma, ‘pirated’ from a British map by the venerable bookseller Maruzen, issued during the height of World War II, as Japan conquered Burma and before its (ultimately ill-fated) invasion of India during ‘Operation U-Go’ (1944). Colour print, folding into original printed paper sleeve (Very Good, some toning along old…
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- Asia, Maps and Prints, South-East Asia
- INDONESIA – SUMATRA ECONOMIC MAP / DATA VISUALIZATION: Economische overzichtskaart van het eiland Sumatra. Schaal 1:1.650.000. Samengesteld bij den Topografischen Dienst.
- 850.00€
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- Very rare - a highly sophisticated, separately issued economic map of Sumatra and a stellar work of data visualization, with colour coded and strategically sized pie and block charts placed though the map identifying the mineral and agrarian production of the massive and bountiful island’s various regions, oil fields and mines, while other features showcase the transportation system and…
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- INDONESIA – SOUTHWESTERN SUMATRA (BENGKULU): [Untitled Chart of the West Coast of Sumatra, including Bengkulu (Bencoolen), extending to the Straits of Sunda].
- 750.00€
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- Very Rare – the first broadly accurate British sea chart of the southwestern coast of Sumatra, a critical region home to the important British base of Benccoolon-Fort Marlborough (modern Bengkulu), published by William Herbert in 1758.
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- INDONESIA – WEST JAVA (JAKARTA) / SUNDA STRAITS / SOUTHEASTERN SUMATRA: [Untitled Sea Chart of the Straits of Sunda, West Java, Southeastern Sumatra, Banka and Belitung].
- 850.00€
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- Very Rare - the first broadly accurate British sea chart of the Straits of Sunda, but also extending to include West Java (including Jakarta) and southeastern Sumatra, published by William Herbert in 1758.
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- JAKARTA (BATAVIA), INDONESIA: [A Pair of Original Watercolour Views of Important Colonial Buildings in Batavia (Jakarta), Dutch East Indies (Indonesia)].
- 950.00€
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- A pair of attractive and richly composed original 19th century watercolour views of two of Batavia’s (Jakarta, Indonesia) most important colonial buildings, being the ‘Willemskerk’ and the Residence of the Commander-in-Chief of the Dutch Army in the East Indies; executed by “D. Colleart” – a rare find, as very few original manuscript views of Batavia from the era survive.#…
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- Japan – Tokyo – Great Kantō Earthquake & Fire: 大正十二年九月帝都大震火災系統地図
- 1,400.00€
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- [Map of the Fire of Tokyo. Edited by the Relief Information Bureau of the Tokyo Imperial University] A very large and impressive map chronicling how the Great Kanto Earthquake (1923) and the resulting inferno, that was the greatest urban fire to date, destroyed much of Tokyo, based upon analysis conducted by academics at the Tokyo Imperial University, it…
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- Korea – Japanese Occupation / Japanese ‘Headquarters Map’ / Mineralogical Map: 朝鮮總圖 / General Map of Chosen (Korea).
- 1,800.00€
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- Extremely rare – a great monument in the modern cartography of Korea, being both a ‘Headquarters Map’ made expressly for the administrative use of senior Japanese officials and military officers in charge of their empire’s occupation of the country, as well as the first advanced mineralogical map of Korea and by far and away the most accurate and detailed…
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