East Indies
Most important chronicle and map of early Singapore.
Notices of the Indian Archipelago, and adjacent countries; being a collection of papers relating to Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Nias, the Philippine Islands, Sulu, Siam, Cochin China, Malayan Peninsula, etc.
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A rare example of John Henry Moor's 1837 Notices of the Indian Archipelago, containing within the most important early map of Singapore, as well as otherwise lost reprints of important articles from the Singapore Chronicle, and additional maps of Penang, Singapore Strait, the East Indian Archipelago, Malacca, and Borneo. Moor's work is considered one of the most significant records of early Singapore and one of the first books published in Singapore. (more details)
The Philippines mapped with unprecedented accuracy - the first large-scale synthesis of Malaspina and Aragón, and one of the rarest landmarks of Philippine cartography.
Reduzierte Karte von den Philippinen und den Sulu Inseln.
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This is a striking 1832 Heinrich Berghaus map of the Philippines. It was issued for Berghaus' loose-leaf Atlas von Asien, the best-informed general cartographic work on Asia to appear in the mid-19th century. It is the first large-scale map to comprehensively incorporate both the Malaspina hydrography and Ildefonso de Aragón's (c. 1826) geographical surveys. It thus offers unprecedented accuracy and the first substantial critical analysis of Philippine hydrography and cartography, making it a seminal chapter in the archipelago's mapping. (more details)
The first English Printed Nautical Chart to the Indies.
Carta prima Generale dell' Asia.
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This is a superb, first-state example of Robert Dudley's 1646 general nautical map of South Asia, from the Arabian Peninsula to the Philippines, including the coastlines of India, the Malay Peninsula, Cochinchina, and southern China. Countless islands of the Indian Ocean are charted, as are the western parts of the East Indies. It is the first printed chart of the route to the Spice Islands produced by an Englishman; it is the first to utilize the Mercator Projection, and the first to show prevailing winds, currents, and magnetic variation. The chart's portolan-like lines suggest its origin in the manuscript charts that informed it. Aesthetically, they distinguish this chart as one of the most elegant works dedicated to the region. It is a rarity on the market and a prize map for collectors. (more details)
The French set their eyes on Singapore.
Carte des Atterrages de Singapore. / Carte Particulière des détroits de Singapore, Durian et Rhio. / Carte des Détroits de Singapore, Durian et Rhio et des Parages Environnants. / Carte du Détroit del Malacca Partie Septentrionale. / Carte du Détroit de Malacca Partie Méridionale.
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An exceptional set of five rare 1840s nautical maps/charts detailing Singapore, Malaya, and the Straits of Malacca and Singapore compiled by Urban Dortet de Tessan for the French Dépôt-Général de la Marine. The charts correspond to the Lagrené Mission, a French attempt to establish a colonial presence in East and Southeast Asia that challenged British regional hegemony. (more details)
First separate map of the Pacific - in an exceptional old color example.
Maris Pacifici (quod vulgo Mar del Zur).
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This is Abraham Ortelius' 1589 map of the Pacific; here is the best example to appear on the market in recent years, with a strong strike and fine original color. Abraham Ortelius' map is as important as it is beautiful - Burden hailed it as 'one of the most important maps that appeared in the Ortelius atlases' and 'one of Ortelius' most desirable maps'. The map is not only the first to focus on the Pacific Ocean, but it is also the first acquirable map to separately identify North and South America. (more details)
Extremely Rare Italian map of Southeast Asia.
Penisola Dell Indie Orientali De La Del Gange Con Tutte l'Isole cosi Filippine della Sondaq, Ceilan, e Moluche Altre, seconde le Relationi piu moderne descritta da Nicolo De Fer.
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This is an exceptionally rare and beautifully engraved 1717 map of Southeast Asia by Neapolitan engraver Paolo Petrini, published in the composite atlas Atlante Partenopeo. Dated 1717, it presents Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and the East Indies after the cartography of the French mapmaker, Nicolas De Fer. (more details)
Gigantic movie poster and map illustrating a Japanese perspecitive on World War II battle for the Pacific.
Battaglia del Pacifico.
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This monumental and rare movie poster and map of East Asia and the Pacific was issued by Vecchioni and Guadango to promote the 1959 Italian release of the post World War II (WW2) 1958 Japanese film Battaglia del Pacifico . The poster takes the form of an enormous ... (more details)
First European Atlas map specifically of China.
Chinae, olim Sinarum regionis, nova descriptio. auctore Ludovico Georgio.
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This is Abraham Ortelius' 1584 map of China, the first specific map of China, Southeast Asia, and the Philippines to appear in an atlas, here in an original-color example of a 1608 Vrients edition. This is the first printed European map of China and first atlas map to name the Philippines as an archipelago. This map remained definative regional map until superceded in 1655 maps of Martino Martini (卫匡国; 1614 - 1661). (more details)
Suppressed and groundbreaking first edition!
Carte Plate Qui comprend les Coste de Tsiompa, de la Cochinchine, le Golfe de Tunquin, une partie des Costes de la Chine aves une partie de l'Archipel des Isles Philippines.
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This is the exceedingly rare 1745 nautical map of the South China Sea and the Philippines, which appeared in Mannevillette's banned first edition of his groundbreaking nautical atlas, the Neptune Oriental. When published, this chart represented the finest available cartography of the South China Sea, Southeast China Coast, and the Philippines - thus defining the Canton-Macao-Manila triangle. It was so accurate that French authorities, fearing for the security of their colonial empire, ordered all examples banned and destroyed. The map is additionally notable for its early and idiosyncratic inclusion of various islands, banks, and atolls in the area, many of which have become hotly disputed in recent decades. (more details)
Center of the Dutch East Indies.
Reduzirte Karte vom Sunda-/oder Borneo-Meere und den Strassen zur Verbindung dessselben mit dem Indischen und dem Chinesischen Meere, der Macasser-Strasse etce, zugleich als Karte von Djava, den kleinen Sunda-Inseln, Celebes, etc.,etc.
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This is a striking 1835 Heinrich Berghaus map of Java, the Sunda Strait, Bali, Lombok, South Borneo, and Celebes. The map illustrates the heart of the Dutch East Indies at the height of its colonial significance. It was issued for Berghaus' looseleaf Atlas von Asien, the best-informed general cartographic work on Asia to appear in the mid-19th century. (more details)
French colonial interest in the Philippines. Also, rectification of charts.
Carte des Iles Philippines, Célèbes et Moluques.
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A spectacular 1840 / 1852 map of the Philippines by Pierre Daussy and the French Dépot-général de la Marine. This map is significant as it reflects growing French interest in the Far East and coincides with the first French attempt to seize the Philippine island of Basilan as a base to counterbalance British power in Hong Kong. It is also part of the French Bureau des Longitudes' ongoing effort to revise its Table des Positions Géographiques des Principaux Lieux du Globe to conform to the most up-to-date measurements made possible by advances in hydrography, including widespread early 19th century adoption in the marine chronometer. Daussy published dozens of new charts, including this one, to reflect the significant corrections. (more details)
First authenticated European Contact with Australia; best Philippine Mapping to date.
Indiae Orientalis Nova Descriptio.
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This is a gorgeous, original color example of Jan Jansson's 1630 map of the East Indies - the first printed map to present Willem Janszoon's 1606 contact with Australia. It also represents a milestone in the mapping of the Philippines, containing a markedly more precise depiction of the archipelago than any prior printed map. (more details)
Important early map detailing Manila Bay.
Plan de Manila, su Bahia, y Puerto de Cavite; Segun su Estade en el Ańo de 1787.
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This is an extremely scarce 1790 map of the vicinity around Manila, Philippines, prepared for Pedro Jiménez de Góngora y Luján, Duque Almodóvar del Río. Oriented roughly to the east, the map is centered on Manila, embracing Manila Bay and stretching eastward as far inland along the Pasig River to Laguna de Bay. The map reaches north to include the Pampanga Delta to Guagua. (more details)
Definitive Chart of the vicinity of Jakarta.
A Chart of the Coast of Java from Bantam to Batavia.
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This is William Herbert's rare 1777 nautical map of northern Java in the vicinity of Jakarta (Batavia and Bantam). The chart was issued for the 1777 fourth edition of Herbert's New Directory for the East Indies, published by his protégé Henry Gregory as an English response to Jean-Baptiste de Mannevillette's 1775 reissue of the Neptune Oriental. (more details)
Japan: A Grasping Octopus.
Indie Moet Vrij! Werkt en Vecht Ervoor! [The Indies Must Be Free! Work and Fight For It!]
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This powerful 1944 Patrick Cokayne Keely World War II propaganda image presents Japan as a menacing octopus with grasping tentacles extending throughout Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and the East Indies. (more details)
Exceptional large-format wartime Japanese map of the Philippines.
フィリピン詳密地圖 / Detailed Map of the Philippines. / Firipin shomitsu chizu.
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This is Kawamata Tetsuya's rare 1944 (Showa 19) Japanese large-format map of the Philippines, issued just 5 days after the WWII Philippines Campaign (1944 - 1945) began. The map is an expansion on a similar map issued for the 1942-43 'Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere' map series, which it stylistically resembles despite being four times the size. (See our listing coprosperityset-showa18-1943 for more detail on this series.) This map was issued to satisfy an increased Japanese need for information and reconnaissance following General Douglas MacArthur's landing at Leyte. (more details)
First published view of Singapore.
View of the Town and Roads of Singapore from the Government Hill.
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The first printed view of Singapore, issued less than ten years after it was founded by Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles (1781 - 1826). This aquatint view was published in 1828 after a painting by Royal Navy Captain Robert James Elliot. It looks on Singapore from Government Hill, covering the Plain, Singapore River, and Chinatown. Even at this early stage, the view presents a bustling city with numerous buildings and a lively port. We have not been able to trace Elliot's original painting. (more details)
Most influential map of the Philippines of the 19th century.
Islas Filipinas Primera Hoja Central. Islas Filipinas Segunda Hoja Central. Posesiones de Oceania. Islas Filipinas. Atlas de España y sus Posesiones de Ultramar.
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This is Francisco Coello's 1852 map of the Philippine Islands, published on 3 sheets. It is considered the first scientific map of the Philippines. It is the most influential general map of the Philippines to appear in the mid-19th century, used in treaty negotiations for both the Spanish-American War (1898) and the Philippine-American War (1899 - 1902). (more details)
Richly-Decorative, Separately-Issued Map of Asia.
L'Asie Dressée sur de Nouveaux Mémoires Assujettis aux Observations Astronomique.
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This is a separately-issued 1732 Guillaume Danet map of Asia. It is a synthesis of the most advanced cartographic ideas of the age, including from piracies of Strahlenberg's stolen cartography. (more details)
First map to show modern polities in Malaya.
Nieuwe Kaart van het Eyland Sumatra verbeterd door Francois Valentyn.
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This is a superb example of Francois Valentijn's 1726 map of Malaya (Malaysia and Singapore) and Sumatra. This is the earliest published map to present a sophisticated treatment of Malaya and Sumatra, and the model upon which most subsequent maps through the late 18th century were based. It is, moreover, one of the earliest maps to expound upon the indigenous polities of Malaya. (more details)
Steamship travel amidst impending war.
Java-China Japan Lyn. / Map Showing Routes Ports of Call and services of the java-China Japan Line.
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A dramatic large-scale c. 1939 Edward Stanford map promoting the Java-China Japan (JCJL) steamship line (渣華中國日本輪船公司). It serves as a reminder of the interconnections throughout East Asia that persisted despite the geopolitical tensions in the 1930s. (more details)
World's most disputed waters.
China Sea Northern Portion.
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This exceptional 1867 / 1873 British Admiralty map of the South China Sea includes Hong Kong and the Philippines, depicting some of the world's most disputed waters. (more details)
Strikingly decorative map of the East Indies, Philippines, and Australia.
Isole dell'India cio è le Molucche, le Filippine e della Sonda, parte de paesi di nuova scoperta e l'isole de Ladri nel mare del zud / descritte da Giacomo Cantelli de Vignola ; Fran. Donia Messis sculp.
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A rare, highly decorative 1683 map of Southeast Asia and the East Indies by Giacomo Cantelli da Vignola and Giacomo de Rossi. (more details)
Fastest route to Asia.
White Empresses of the Pacific. Largest and Fastest Steamships to and from the Orient Canadian Pacific.
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A striking 1930 chromolithograph travel poster map illustrating the routes of the Canadian Pacific White Empress line. The map illustrates the route between Vancouver, Honolulu, Tokyo, Kobe, Nagasaki, Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Manila. A massive three-stack steamship dominates the image - this is likely the Empress of Japan, which was inaugurated in the year this poster was published. (more details)
Planning the WWII Japanese invasion of British Malaya.
マレー半岛及スマトラシンガポール要圖 / [Malay Peninsula and Sumatra Singapore]
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This is a rare 1941 map of the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and Singapore, including portions of Thailand, British Burma, and French Indochina, printed in Taiwan for the Information (Intelligence) Department of the colonial Taiwan Governor's Office in Taipei. It was produced on November 30, 1941, less than two weeks before the Japanese invasion of British Malaya that coincided with the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7 (December 8 local time). Along with British Malaya and Singapore, the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia), the Philippines, and several other Western colonial possessions were invaded on or shortly after December 8. In the years and decades before this invasion, Taiwan had become an important node of information on 'South Seas' (Nanyō) Affairs, and served as a staging area for the invasion, including an intelligence gathering. The map includes two insets, one at top-right of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere (大東亜共栄圏) with Taiwan at the center and the area represented here shaded in red, and one at bottom-left of Singapore (シンガバール港). (more details)
Trading centers on Borneo.
Insula BORNEO et occidentalis pars CELEBIS cum adjacentibus Infulis.
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A stunning full-color c. 1710 map of Borneo by Gerard Valk and Petrus Schenk under the imprint of Valk and Schenk. The map reflects tenuous knowledge of the island in the early days of VOC activity in the region. (more details)
Dutch interest in Sumatra and Malaya.
Sumatrae et Insularum Locorum que Nonnull Orum Circumiacentium Tabula Noua.
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A stunning full-color c. 1710 map of Sumatra, Malay, the straits of Malacca, and Singapore by Gerard Valk and Petrus Schenk under the imprint of Valk and Schenk. (more details)
Early nautical chart identifying the British spice trading colony of Bencoolen and Fort Marlborough, Sumatra.
A Chart fo the West Coast of Sumatra from Old Bencoolen to Buffaloe Point containing the Road of Bencoolen and Poolo Bay. Plan of Rat Island. Plan of Poolo Bay.
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This is a fine example of Laurie and Whittle's 1794 nautical chart or maritime map of the west coast of Sumatra in the vicinity of Bencoolen or Fort Marlborough. The map is divided into three sections, the left hand side being a general nautical chart of the ... (more details)
First Edition of Long-Standard British Map of the East Indies.
Asiatic Archipelago.
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This is the 1832 first edition of John Arrowsmith's map of Southeast Asia and the East Indies, which would become the standard British map of the region for decades afterward. It is notable for its early inclusion and focus on the 'commercial emporium' of Singapore as the emerging crux of Britain's lucrative China Trade. (more details)
Colonial Competition in the East Indies.
Carte Hydro-Geo-Graphique des Indes Orientales en deca et au dela du Gange avec leur Archipel Dressee et assujettie aux Observations Astronomiques.
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This is Rigobert Bonne's 1771 map of South and Southeast Asia (the East Indies) that appeared in Jean Lattre's 1778 edition of the Atlas Moderne - here in a full color joined example. It depicts the region during a period of competition between colonial empires in the aftermath of the Seven Years' War (1756 - 1763). (more details)
Slice-of-life image of early colonial railroad image.
Railway between Brindjey + Stabat - Sumatra -. / Railway Station in Medan. - Sumatra -.
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A remarkable c. 1890 photographic image of the Brindjey Tobacco Estate narrow-gauge railroad, at a stop between Medan and Banda, Sumatra. The images provide unique slice-of-life insights into plantation life in the Dutch East Indies. (more details)
China Trade.
East India Archipelago [Western Route to China. Chart No. 4].
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This is James Imray's impressive 1869 nautical map covering parts of the South China Sea, including northwestern Borneo (Brunei, Sarawak, Sabah), Palawan (Philippines), and southeastern Vietnam. This chart, and the others in the 'Western Route to China' series, supplemented the Horsburgh cartography of the prior generation. They represent the definitive hydrographic mapping of the Far East at the height of the China Trade. (more details)