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- Asia, Maps and Prints, South-East Asia
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€
- 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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- Asia, Maps and Prints, South-East Asia
JAKARTA (BATAVIA), INDONESIA: [A Pair of Original Watercolour Views of Important Colonial Buildings in Batavia (Jakarta), Dutch East Indies (Indonesia)].
- 950.00€
- 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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- Asia, Japan, Maps and Prints
JAPAN – SENDAI: [仙台市と城の地図 / Map of Sendai City and Castle].
- 2,500.00€
- A unique and historically important artefact, being a highly detailed and beautifully coloured original manuscript map of Sendai, then the largest city in Japan north of Edo (Tokyo), and a major commercial centre of around 50,000 residents, built just across the river form the famous Aoba Castle, labelling all streeta, outlining all major cadastral lots and noting all key…
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- Asia, Japan, Maps and Prints
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€
- [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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- Asia, Korea, Maps and Prints
Korea – Japanese Occupation / Japanese ‘Headquarters Map’ / Mineralogical Map: 朝鮮總圖 / General Map of Chosen (Korea).
- 1,800.00€
- 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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- Asia, Korea, Maps and Prints
Korea / Japanese Takeover Of Korea / First Sino-Japanese War: 朝鮮地圖 [Chosen chizu / Map of Korea].
- 2,200.00€
- Extremely rare and historically important – one of the earliest large format broadly accurate Japanese maps of Korea, made by the Jcartographer Yoshiamatsu Nakamura and published in Osaka in August 1894, the month after Japanese forces took Seoul as a precursor to the First Sino-Japanese War (1894-5), the first major step towards the eventual fall of the Joseon Dynasty…
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- Asia, Maps and Prints, South-East Asia
MALAYSIA – TIOMAN ISLAND: A Draught of the Bay on the S W. side of Island Timoan… The Whole Surveyed & Drawn with Accuracy by Wm. Nichelson, Master of His Majesty’s Ship Elizabeth, in January 1763.
- 850.00€
- Very Rare – the first printing of Captain William Nichelson’s fine chart and profile view of Tioman Island (Malaysia), then a important waypoint for navigation between the Straits of Malacca and the Far East, issued within William Herbert’s ‘A New Directory for the East Indies’ – a stellar example with the often-lacking original extension fly-leaf of remarks.
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- Asia, Maps and Prints, South-East Asia
Malaysia Wall Map / Chinese Malaysians / Hong Kong Imprint: Newest Wall Map of Federation of Malaya. / 馬來亞聯合邦掛圖
- 1,500.00€
- A very rare wall map of the Federation of Malaya (today’s peninsular Malaysia) made only the year after its independence from Britain, an entirely bilingual work (Chinese-English) executed by a Chinese draftsman, Li Menphy, and published in Hong Kong for the benefit of Malaya’s large Chinese population and the many Hong Kongers who had strong connections to that country…
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- Asia, Japan, Maps and Prints
MOUNT FUJI / GEOLOGICAL CHART: 富士山地質圖 [Fujisan chishitsuzu / Mount Fuji Geological map]
- 1,500.00€
- First modern, separately printed geological map of Mount Fuji Colour print on thin paper 95 x 75 cm (38.2 x 29.5inches) (slightly age-toned, soft folds, small holes on the crossings of the folds).
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- Asia, Australia, Maps and Prints, South-East Asia
OCEANIA, SOUTH EAST ASIA, SOUTH POLE
- 280.00€
- Lithograph with original colour: 18 x 23 cm (7 x 9 inches) (soft fold, slightly age-toned and stained, small tears in margins).
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- Asia, Central Asia, China, India, Korea, Maps and Prints, Middle East, South-East Asia, Sri Lanka
Ottoman Cartography / Asia: يكى اسيا [Yeni Asya / New Asia]
- 1,400.00€
- A very rare, large format, separately issued map of Asia, that is perhaps the last great map of the continent to be printed in Ottoman Turkish script, with attractive colours and adorned with the flags of major Asia and Middle Eastern states. Colour lithograph, 61 x 92 cm (soft folds with tiny tears and holes, small tears…
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- Africa, Asia, Australia, Maps and Prints, World Maps
OTTOMAN CARTOGRAPHY / EASTERN HEMISPHERE
- 1,500.00€
- Colour lithography, 96 x 63 cm (37.9 x 24.8 inches), (minor staining, tears repaired with modern tape and partly age-toned).
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- Asia, Books, Geography, Maps and Prints
OTTOMAN CARTOGRAPHY: Atlas & Asia
- 5,500.00€
- A unique pair of an Ottoman manuscript atlas and a map, made by a student of the Military Highschool in Bitola, in 1891, as a project for his final exams.
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- Asia, Maps and Prints
PAKISTAN – SOVIET CARTOGRAPHY: Пакистан [Pakistan]
- 120.00€
- Colour print, 79 x 66 cm (31.1 x 26 inches), with an original brochure with an index: 8°, 17 pp., [2 pp.], wrappers with title, stapled. . Housed in an original illustrated wrappers with a flap (a small hand-written monogram of the previous owner, otherwise in a near-mint unused condition with a minimal stains on the spine of the wrappers).…
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- Asia, Japan, Maps and Prints
Pictorial Map of Hyogo / American Occupation of Japan: 兵庫県観光と産業地図- Map of Sightseeing and Products in Hyogo Prefecture [Hyogo Prefecture Tourism and Industry Map]
- 420.00€
- A pictorial map of Hyogo in Japanese and English, made during the American occupation of Japan Colour lithograph, 76 x 54 cm (30 x 21.3 inches), verso text in blue (soft folds slightly worn, with tiny tears and holes on crossings, minor staining).
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- Asia, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: December 2020, South-East Asia
SINGAPORE & BORNEO
- 320.00€
- A map from Umûm Vilayât-ı Şâhâneyi Hâvi Küçük Atlas - Umûmî Küçük Atlas (General Small Atlas) Chromolithograph. 9 x 13,5 cm (3.5 x 5.3 inches).
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- Asia, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: September 2020, South-East Asia
SINGAPORE & SUMATRA: صوماطرا اطيه سى [Island Sumatra]
- 230.00€
- Chromolithograph. 10 x 13,5 cm (4 x 5.3 inches). Slightly stained, overall in a good condition.
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- Asia, China, Maps and Prints, South-East Asia
SOUTH CHINA SEA / KARIMATA ISLANDS, INDONESIA: A Chart of some Islands between Borneo and Banca, seen by the Osterly in her Passage Outward and Homeward, 1758 & 1759. Taken on the Spot by Mr. John Powell, Chief Mate of the Osterly.
- 650.00€
- A very rare sea chart of the South China Sea around the Karimata Islands, just the west of Borneo, based on an original manuscript made by the master of the ‘HMS Osterly’ during the Seven Years’ War, published by William Herbert.
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- Asia, Maps and Prints, Sri Lanka
SRI LANKA – GALLE and SOUTHWEST COAST: Trigonometrical Survey of the West Coast of Ceylon, Executed by order of the Madras Government, By Lieuts. F.T. Powell & R. Ethersey, I.N. Sheet IV. From Point De Galle to Dondra Head by T.H. Twynam, Master Assistant
- 750.00€
- Exceedingly rare – one of only 2 known examples - the first publication of the earliest systematic trigonometrical survey of the south-western coast of Sri Lanka, a self-contained section of a four-part series of charts resulting from Lieutenants Frederick Thomas Powell and Richard Ethersey’s masterly survey of the ‘West Coast of Ceylon’, undertaken upon the orders of the East…
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- Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: September 2020, Sri Lanka
SRI LANKA: سيلان آطه سى [Seylan Atası]
- 180.00€
- Chromolithograph. 9 x 13,5 cm (3.5 x 5.3 inches). Minor staining, overall in a good condition.
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- Asia, Books, Geography, Maps and Prints
TAIWAN / BUENOS AIRES IMPRINT: Eine Reise in das Innere der insel Formosa und die erste Besteigung des Niitakayama (Mount Morrison), Weihnachten 1898.
- 1,200.00€
- A fascinating account of the German economist and ethnographer Karl Theodor Stöpel’s tour of Taiwan which occurred just after the island was taken over by Japan, during which he witnessed the island rapid’s economic-political transition and the local Chinese’s rebellion against the new regime, as well as being one of the earliest scientific missions deep into the island’s interior,…
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- Archives and Documents, Asia, Maps and Prints, Turkica
TURKISH BRIGADE ARCHIVE – KOREAN WAR
- 4,500.00€
- A stellar archive of apparently unrecorded ephemeral publications and original photographs contemporarily made by members of the Turkish Brigade, the special force that bravely fought alongside the U.S. Army during the Korean War.
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