Japan
Rare, large-format first edition of Tavernier's map of Japan
Paris: TAVERNIER, Jean-Baptiste, 1679
77.2 x 51.9 cm / 30.4 x 20.4 in
Description
This early landmark map of Japan appeared in the present large format only in the 1679 first edition of Jean-Baptiste Tavernier’s Recueil de plusieurs relations et traitez singuliers et curieux. The publication was an addition to.....
China • Korea • Japan
Curious bilingual map of East Asia by Tirion
Amsterdam: TIRION, Isaak, c. 1740
32.7 x 25.1 cm / 12.9 x 9.9 in
Description
This map of China, Korea, and Japan is from a French edition of Isaak Tirion’s Nieuwe Hand-Atlas (New hand atlas), published in Amsterdam c. 1740.
The map covers a broad region extending from Tibet and.....
China • Korea • Japan
Curious trilingual map of East Asia by Tirion
Amsterdam: TIRION, Isaak, c. 1744
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Description
This map of China, Korea, and Japan is from an Italian edition of Isaak Tirion’s Nieuwe Hand-Atlas (New hand atlas), published in Amsterdam c. 1744.
The map covers a broad region extending from Tibet and India in the west to Japan in.....
China • Korea • Japan
Decorative Bonne map of East Asia
Paris: LATTRÉ, Jean, c. 1783
44.9 x 31.5 cm / 17.7 x 12.4 in
Description
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Condition
Fine.
Printed on watermarked paper, folding. Early colouring in outline. A few faint spots, contained to margins.
Northern, Central, Eastern Asia • Russia
Highly detailed Güssefeld map of the Russian Empire and Tartary
Nuremberg: Homann Heirs, 1786 (dated)
60.5 x 46.6 cm / 23.8 x 18.3 in
Description
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Condition
Very good.
Issued folding. Beautiful early colouring. Crease along centrefold. Light shade along top centrefold, from adhesive used to attach backstrap. A small spot in left blank margin.
