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Moluccan natives from Cook's Voyages.
Alexander Hogg.

London: Hogg, c.1785. Engraved by Lerpiniere for Hogg's edition of 'Cook's Voyages'.
HOGG0013
£36.00

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Map of Sulawesi or Celebes
Jacques Nicolas Bellin.

Paris, c.1760. From 1669 the Dutch East India Company had a presence at Makassar, and in 1905 the entire island became part of the Dutch state colony of the Netherlands East Indies until Japanese occupation in World War II.
BELL0119
£68.00

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Map of Sumatra, with Singapore
Jacques Nicolas Bellin.

Paris, 1752. Sumatra and the Straits of Malacca and the 'Detroit de Sincapour'.
BELL0101
£195.00

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Decorative map of Japan
Henricus Hondius.

Amsterdam, Jan Jansson, 1641. French text edition. Japan, with Korea shown as an island. This is the second state of the plate, introduced 1636; the title and cartouche have been altered, and a galleon has replaced the original junk in the sea under the island, although the Latin description underneath still refers to the Japanese craft.
HOND0039
£1500.00

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Map of Japan
Nicolas Sanson.

Paris, c.1692. Japan, engraved by A. de Winter for the quarto edition of Sanson's atlas. Korea is shown as an island.
SANS0037
£325.00

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The First Western map of Japan With Sino-Japanese Characters
Adrien Reland.

Amsterdam, Joachim Ottens, 1740. An important map, the first Western map of Japan with Sino-Japanese characters. It is also extremely decorative with the lower third of the sheet taken up with an extensive title cartouche featuring Chinese figures and an inset chart of Nagasaki harbour.
RELA0001
£1800.00

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Japan & Korea
John Tallis.

London, John Tallis & Co, c.1851. Map of Japan & Korea with a vignette of Tokyo (Yedo).
TALL0018
£200.00

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Miniature map of Jesso
Alain Manesson Mallet.

Paris, 1683. The semi-mythical island of Jesso (or Eso) to the north of Japan, now mapped properly as Hokkaido. Variants of the myth include one where Jesso filled the North Pacific.
MALL0108
£140.00

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Map of Meaco, Japan
Jacques Nicolas Bellin.

Paris, 1755. Townplan engraved by Dheulland.
BELL0047
£150.00

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Plan of Nagasaki
Jacques Nicolas Bellin.

Amsterdam, c. 1765. A Dutch edition of Bellin's townplan of Nagasaki, engraved by Schley . Of interest is 'Desima', the Dutch Porcelain factory in the centre of the harbour.
BELL0100
£195.00

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Early map of Tokyo
Jacques Nicolas Bellin.

Amsterdam, c.1760. Early townplan, marking the layout of the streets, but only naming the Emperor's palace, a bridge and a suburb.
BELL0166
£195.00

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Moluccas and the Spice Islands
Johannes Jansson.

Amsterdam, 1641. The Moluccas, marking the forts built by the Dutch to protect their traders.
JANS0033
£275.00

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Map of Mongolia
Jacques Nicolas Bellin.

Amsterdam, c.1749. Mongolia, marking Peking and the southern tip of Lake Baykal.
BELL0093
£125.00

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New Guinea
Isaak Tirion.

Amsterdam, c.1753. The western end of New Guinea map, with the islands of the Ceram Sea, including Misool & Boo.
TIRI0009
£225.00

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Map of New Guinea, with Cook & Dampier's voyages
Benard.

Paris, c.1775. The routes of British explorers around New Guinea, 1699-1770, published in a French account of Cook's Voyages.
BENA0006
£160.00

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Map of Tartary
Philip Cluver,

c.1711. Siberia and Tartary, with a title cartouche featuring a lion.
CLUV0002
£125.00

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Russia with a separately-printed frame border.
Pieter van der Aa.

Leiden, c.1710. Northern Asia from Moscow to Korea. Novaya Zembla is a peninsula, but attached to the mainland further east than usual. The decorative border has been printed from a separate plate for a special edition of the atlas.
AAAA0013
£150.00

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Map of Tartary
Herman Moll.

London, 1727. Map of Tartary to Peking. The eastern coastline of Asia is almost flat, with no attempt to mark Kamchatka.
MOLL0015
£140.00

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Map of Eastern Tartary
Jacques Nicolas Bellin.

Amsterdam, c.1749. Eastern Tartary, showing the course of the River Amur and Sakhalin Island.
BELL0149
£125.00

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Comparisons of the cartography of Kamchatka
Diderot.

Paris, 1772. An illustration from Diderot's Encyclopedia, showing various cartographers' depictions of the Kamchatka Peninsula and the North Pacific.
DIDE0004
£150.00

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