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CHINA: copper engraving, undated, with no details of engraver
and publisher, but we would estimate from about 1750. Original approx 8"x6.75"
(205mm x 170mm). A very pretty and decorative map. |
ASIA1 |
£6.00 |
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ASIA: copper engraving, undated, with no details of engraver
and publisher, but, comparing details of the mapping and place-names spellings
with other maps on this page, we estimate it was printed between 1780 and 1790.
Original approx 9"x7.5" (230mm x 190mm). |
ASIA2 |
£6.00 |
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ASIA: copper engraving by Neele, 352 Strand, published November
1st 1792 by Dr. Trusler. Original approx 7"x7" (180mm x 180mm). |
ASIA3 |
£6.00 |
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MODERN ASIA: published August 13th 1798 by J. Wilks, copper
engraving by Neele. Unbeknownst to them, their map was already outdated, for in
the same year Bass and Flinders had circumnavigated Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania)
and thus proven their their theory that it was an island. Original approx 7"x9"
(180mm x 230mm). |
ASIA4 |
£6.00 |
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AN ACCURATE MAP OF ASIA, FROM THE LATEST IMPROVEMENTS AND
REGULATED BY ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATIONS: copper engraving, by R. Reynolds, no date
or publisher. c. 1800. Original approx 11"x7.5" (280mm x 190mm). |
ASIA5 |
£6.00 |
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ASIA: copper engraving from Arrowsmith’s Maps, published
April 1st 1812 by Cadell & Davies, Strand, and Longman & Rees, Paternoster
Row. Includes Australia and New Zealand. Original approx 7.25"x9.5"
(185mm x 240mm). |
ASIA6 |
£6.00 |
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ASIA FROM THE BEST AUTHORITIES: copper engraving, published
April 2nd 1823 by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside. Original approx 9"x7.5" (230mm
x 190mm). |
ASIA7 |
£6.00 |
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ASIA: a very fine steel engraving published January 2nd 1828
by A. Arrowsmith, Hydrographer to His Majesty, 10, Soho Square, London. Very highly
detailed, with scales in Geographical and English miles. Original approx 12"x9"
(300mm x 230mm). |
ASIA8 |
£6.00 |
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ASIA: lithograph by C. Montague, 112 Cheapside, published
c. 1850. Insets showing Overland mail crossing the Isthmus of Suez, slave market
at Constantinople, Bedouins, the Temple of Somnauth (the last figures in Wilkie
Collins’ The Moonstone, published in 1868, and we suspect
there is a connection between the novel’s huge popularity and the inclusion
of a tiny illustration of the temple in this map!. Original approx 10"x8"
(255mm x 200mm). |
ASIA9 |
£6.00 |
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AFGHANISTAN, BELOOCHISTAN, ETC.: the famed North-West Frontier!
A highly detailed map, published c. 1890, but very similar to one published by
the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge some 40 years earlier. Both
share fascinating details such as ‘Laden camels are 36 days travelling from
Yezd to Dooshak’, and some eccentric/archaic spellings—‘Cabool’
for ‘Kabul’, for example. Original approx 9"x11" (230mm x
280mm). |
ASIA10 |
£6.00 |
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BRITISH SETTLEMENTS IN THE MALAY PENINSULA AND COAST OF BORNEO:
Bartholomew, published c. 1890, compiled from Admiralty surveys. The original
is small but very highly-detailed, with six maps showing Malacca and Nanning, Singapore Island, the town and harbour of Singapore, Penang and Province Wellesley, and Labouan, along with a ‘sketch’ showing the peninsula and the location
of the settlements. Our enlarged reproduction shows off the splendid detail. Original
approx 9.25"x5.5" (235mm x 140mm). |
ASIA11 |
£6.00 |
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HONG KONG & OTHER BRITISH SETTLEMENTS IN ASIA: Bartholomew, published c. 1890, compiled from Admiralty surveys. Similar to above, possibly
from a slightly later edition of the same atlas. Again, six small maps, showing
Hong Kong, Aden and Perim (Maiun), and Malacca and Nanning, Penang and Province
Wellesley, and Labouan, as above. Original approx 9.25"x5.5" (235mm
x 140mm).
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ASIA12 |
£6.00 |
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