Cartography
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# 49977
AWOKI, T. and SUSUKA, J.
Illustrated guide book for travellers round the world
Osaka : Awoki Szandow, circa 1885. Three volumes, small octavo, gilt-decorated impressed cloth over boards, titled in Japanese and English on the spine, the name AWOKI impressed into each over, edges worn, a few stains, hinges cracked and broken, title leaf (short tear at gutter), each volume approximately 200 pages, folded in the Japanese manner, …
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# 50125
Anon.
Sekai shinchizu
Tokyo : circa 1890. Map, printed in colour, on two sheets, joined to form total sheet size 76 x 107 cms, old folds as issued, a couple of paper tape repairs to corners verso, housed in paper wrappers. A late nineteenth century map of the world showing trade routes.
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# 48351
KAEMPFER, Engelbert (1651-1716)
The History of Japan : giving an Account of the Antient and Present State of Government of that Empire; … together with a Description of the Kingdom of Siam.
London : for the Publisher, and sold by T. Woodward and C. Davis, 1728. First edition in English, second issue (with the ‘Second Appendix’). Two volumes, folio, contemporary full speckled calf with double gilt rule (boards a little scuffed), expertly rebacked with new spines in period style, spines in compartments with raised bands, contrasting leather …
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# 13310
GOBIEN, Charles le (1653-1708) (compiler); QUERBEUF, Y.M.M.T. de (editor)
Lettres édifiantes et curieuses, écrites des missions étrangères par quelques missionnaires de la Compagnie de Jésus.
Paris, Chez J.G. Merigot, 1780-1783. Twenty-six volumes, small octavo; contemporary uniform speckled calf, spines in compartments with gilt tooling and contrasting morocco labels; edges stained red; marbled endpapers; pastedowns with armorial bookplate of Rev. G.C. Fenwicke (Franks 10381); with a total of 55 maps, plans, plates and tables hors texte, including 28 folding maps and plans, 24 plates …
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# 49506
TAVERNIER, Jean-Baptiste
Recüeil de plusieurs relations et traitez singuliers & curieux
de J.B. Tavernier, escuyer, Baron d’Aubonne, qui n’ont point esté mis dans ses six premiers voyages : divisé en cinq parties. I. Une relation du Japon, & de la cause de la persecution des chrestiens dans ses isles … II. Relation de ce qui s’est passe dans la negociation des deputez qui ont este en Perse …
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# 49935
吉田晋 / YOSHIDA, Susumu
北海道沿海圖 / Japan Yezo Islands Coast of Hokkaido. The 16th year of Meiji 1883
[Tokyo], Matsui Chūbē, Meiji 16 [1883] / [東京], 松井忠兵衛, 明治 16 [1883]. Lithographed map, outline hand colour, 77 x 75 cm, folded into cover 23 x 16 cm, mounted in cover boards with title label, a few small worm holes and tears, a very good copy. Scarce separately issued map in English and Japanese of …
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# 50004
Imperial Japanese Government Railways
An official guide to Eastern Asia. Trans-continental connections between Europe and Asia. Vol. IV CHINA
Tokyo : Department of Railways, 1915. Duodecimo, gilt-lettered cloth (label removed from spine), top edges gilt, maps to endpapers (lacking the folding map in rear endpocket), pp. cxxiv; 414; extensively illustrated with numerous maps (many folding and in colour, including Tientsin, Peking, Hong Kong, Foochow, Nanking, Soochow, Canton, Shanghai, Amoy, etc.).. The China volume from …
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# 50219
INGLETON, Geoffrey C.
Matthew Flinders : navigator and chartmaker
Foreword by HRH The Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh. Guildford, Surrey [U.K.] : Genesis Publications in association with Hedley Australia, 1986. Large quarto, publisher’s green cloth boards with gilt lettering to upper board and spine, upper board with pictorial onlay of Flinders’ Investigator and Baudin’s Le Géographe, front endpapers with map, rear endpapers illustrated with …
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# 50164
Anon.
Plan of the city of Mantua, Italy, published in Tbilisi, Georgia
Lithographed map, 195 x 260 mm (image), folds as issued, dates circa 1900. Text in Georgian. A cartographic curiosity.
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# 50155
Hawaii. The big island of the Hawaiian group
Honolulu : Hawaii Tourist Bureau, circa 1950. Single sheet, folded to make a tourist brochure on the Big Island, map.
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# 39617
de WIT, Frederick (1630-1706)
Accuratissima totius Asiae tabula : in omnes partes divisa, de nova correcta, ac in lucem edita
per Fredericum de Witt Amstelodami cum privilegio D.D. ordinum Hollandiae Westristacqs ; F. de Wit excudit. [Amsterdam : Frederik de Wit, circa 1688]. Copperplate engraving on paper, 58.0 cm in diameter, on sheet 51.0 x 61.0 cm, original hand colouring, a couple of paper reinforcements verso, a very good copy. A fine large format seventeenth century …
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![[MAP] Karte von Australien oder Polynesien : nach den Zeichnungen, Reisebeschreibungen](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2016/11/16170000/2015_DSFB_0724-300x219.jpg)
# 10394
WEIGEL & SCHNEIDERSCHEN
[MAP] Karte von Australien oder Polynesien : nach den Zeichnungen, Reisebeschreibungen
und Tagebücher der vorzüglichsten Seefahrer bis 1789 entworffen im Jahr 1792, vermehrt 1796. Nürnberg : in der Weigel und Schneiderschen Handlung mit Kayserl. allergnl. Privil., 1796 [but probably 1804-1808]. Copperplate engraved map with hand colouring, 460 x 650 mm, verso with contemporary title in large, bold manuscript AUSTRALIEN; central vertical fold, as issued; a fine copy. A …
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![[COOK] Newton’s new & improved terrestrial pocket globe 1817](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2023/06/2023_DSFB_3248-300x300.jpg)
# 40260
NEWTON FAMILY
[COOK] Newton’s new & improved terrestrial pocket globe 1817
London : John Newton, 1st January 1817. Terrestrial pocket globe, 3 inches in diameter, engraved gores with original hand colour over papier-mâché and plaster sphere, the surface in fine order with a recent wax applied for protection, two metal pins resting the globe in the original publisher’s shagreen case, titled Newton’s improved pocket celestial globe, …
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# 48531
MOOR, J[ohn] H[enry] (1802 - 1843)
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, &c.
Accompanied by an index and six maps. Part first [all published]. Singapore : the author, 1837. Quarto (266 x 220 mm), finely bound in period style quarter straight-grained morocco over marbled papered boards, spine lettered in gilt; large hand-coloured folding map of ‘The Town and environs of Singapore, drawn by J.B. Tassin, from an actual …
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# 20851
THOMPSON, Henry Augustus
The world
[England] : Henry Augustus Thompson, 1853. Manuscript and watercolour map on card with the blindstamp of de la Rue Co, London, 450 x 570 mm (sheet), light surface soiling, old pin holes to corners, fine. A charming and unique manuscript map of the world in two hemispheres, with detailed decorative border vignettes and original hand colour. …
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# 20853
THOMPSON, Henry Augustus
The world
[England] : Henry A[ugustus] Thompson, December 7th 1855. Manuscript and watercolour map on card with the blindstamp of de la Rue Co, London, 450 x 570 mm (sheet), light surface soiling, old pin holes to corners, fine. A charming and unique manuscript map of the world on Mercator’s projection, with detailed decorative border and original hand …