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- Asia, Central Asia, China, India, Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: October 2020, South-East Asia
- ASIA – OTTOMAN SCHOOL ATLAS: آسيا [Asya]
- 320.00€
- 8°. 15-21 pp., facing pages marked with the same number, with colour lithographed plates, printed covers, stapled (light staining and foxing, otherwise in a good used condition).
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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€
- 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€
- 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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- 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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- MALAYSIA / SINGAPORE: A Map of the Malay Peninsula compiled by and published for the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Singapore 1898.
- 7,500.00€
- A colossal, very rare map of the Malay Peninsula and Singapore, created at a critical juncture just as Britain was consolidating its suzerainty over the region; specially commissioned by the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Southeast Asia’s premier intellectual institute, it was drafted in Singapore by the government cartographer John van Cuylenburg; predicated upon dozens of recent surveys,…
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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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- 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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