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Northern India
Carte de L'Indoustan...
Jacques Nicolas Bellin.

Paris, 1752. Northern India & Pakistan with parts of Afghanistan & Bangladesh.
BELL0167
£125.00

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The Punjab during the First Anglo-Afghan War
The Panjab with part of Afghanistan, Kashmeer, Sinde &c.
Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.

London, SDUK, 1839. Detailed map, of the borders between modern Afghanistan, India and Pakistan. On importance is the Khyber Pass, the main link between British India and Afghanistan , at a time when the 'Great Game' had evolved into the disasterous First Anglo-Afghan War, 1838-1842.
SDUK0073
£125.00

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Fine map of the East Indies
Insulæ Indiæ Orientalis Præcipuæ, In quibus Moluccæ celeberrime sunt.
Jodocus Hondius.

Amsterdam, 1613, French text edition. An early example of this map of the East Indian islands, first issued 1606. It is highly decorative, with strapwork cartouches for the title, scale and description of the Moluccas, and a vignette sea-battle.
HOND0029
£2000.00

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Map of Eastern Indonesia
Les Isles Molucques; Celebes, Gilolo, &c.
Nicolas Sanson.

Paris, c.1692. Eastern Indonesia, with the Moluccas and Timor, and Papua shown separate from New Guinea. Engraved by A. de Winter for the quarto edition of Sanson's atlas.
SANS0038
£240.00

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Map of Bali
Ile de Baly ou Petite Java.
Jacques Nicolas Bellin.

Paris, c.1760. Map of Bali, orientated with north to the bottom, with a ten-point key and an inset of buildings.
BELL0187
£150.00

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Map of Ambon in the Moluccas
Carte Particuliere de L'Isle Amboine.
Jacques Nicolas Bellin.

Paris, c.1760. Ambon was the headquarters of the Dutch East Indies Company (VOC) from 1610 to 1619 until the founding of Batavia (now Jakarta) by the Dutch.
BELL0118
£125.00

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Moluccan natives from Cook's Voyages.
Natives of the Molucca Islands playing on Musical Instruments called the Rabana.
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
Carte de l'Isle Célèbes ou Macassar.
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
Carte de l'Isle de Sumatra Dréssée sur les Journaux des Navigateurs.
Jacques Nicolas Bellin.

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

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Unusual map of the Environs of Basra, Iraq.
Delineatio regionis Bassora cum pagis, Flumeinibus et Insulis, quæ Christiani Sancti Ioannis incolunt.
Olfert Dapper.

Amsterdam, J. van Meurs, 1680. From Dapper's 'Naukeurige beschryving van Asie', shortly after the area was captured by the Ottoman Empire in 1668.
DAPP0004
£175.00

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Satire on Ireland
Posting in Ireland.
James Gillray.

London, H.G.Bohn, 1851. First published 1805, this is a dim view of Ireland, with run-down taverns and coaches, and starving pigs and horses, only a few years after Ireland was incorporated into the United Kingdom in 1801. The signature bottom left, 'C.Loraine Smith', is meant satirically, with Gillray using the name of a well-known landscape painter.
GILL0038
£95.00

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Miniature Map of the Isle of Man and Anglesey.
I.s de Man et d'Anglesey.
Alain Manesson Mallet.

Paris, 1683. The Isle of Man and Anglesey.
MALL0029
£125.00

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Miniature map of the Isle of Man
Isle of Man.
John Seller

London: Grose, 1787. Map of the Isle of Wight, with text underneath and on verso.
SELL0008
£75.00

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Decorative map of Japan
Iaponiæ Nova Descriptio.
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
Les Isles du Japon.
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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Japan & Korea
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
Terre de 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
Plan de la Ville de Meaco.
Jacques Nicolas Bellin.

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

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Plan of Nagasaki
Plan de la Port et de la Ville de Nangasaki. Grond Tékening van de Stad en de Haven van Nangasaki.
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
Plan de Jedo.
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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