Asia: General, Western from

Amsterdam, c. 1690. Copper engraving, 19.2 x 24.5 cm, modern hand colour, blank verso. Sanson’s small map of the Mughal Empire was published in his 1652 atlas of Asia, ‘L'Asie en plusieurs cartes nouvelles, et exactes’. The date, privilege and name of the engraver were omitted from later states of the plate, but our example appears to be a… Read more about this item

London, 1843. Engraved folding map, sheet size 100 x 67 cm, original hand colour, dissected into 24 panels, toning to bottom right panel (presumably mis-folded at some point in the past), lacks slip-case. Ownership inscription of Lt. Pattenson, H.M. 25th Regiment, on printed advertisement label to verso. This is a relatively early edition of a map which was first… Read more about this item

London, [1857]. Engraved folding map, sheet size 51 x 70 cm, original hand. colour, dissected into 21 panels and laid on linen, contemporary ink underlining and small annotations, folding into green cloth covers with printed paper label. Contemporary owenrship inscription of J. Boys, Biddenden. Inset location map with British possessions coloured red, next to a distance table showing the… Read more about this item

Edinburgh, 1816. Copper engraving, approx 53 x 65 cm, engraved by Neele, original hand-colour, vertical crease in left hand part of the map, blank verso, published in Thomson’s ‘New General Atlas’. The map covers the southern part of the subcontinent (Mumbai is near the upper border), and includes the northern part of Sri Lanka. Pink denotes territory controlled by… Read more about this item

Nuremberg, 1744. Copper engraving, 51 x 58.5 cm, original hand colour, one or two light creases and a few light marginal spots and stains, blank verso. Map of the continent of Asia prepared for the Homann firm by Johann Matthias Hase, professor of mathematics in Wittemberg, on his stereographic horizontal projection; Hase died in 1742, and many of his… Read more about this item

Tehran, Sahab Geographic and Drafting Institute, 1961. First edition (March 1960), sheet size 60 x 58 cm, printed in colours, text in Persian and English, blank verso, folding into publisher’s printed paper wrappers; price ticket on upper cover; date lightly pencilled in lower margin. Inset of Wakhan and Pamir, and illustrated with depictions of antiquities and figures in regional… Read more about this item

Amsterdam, Joannes &: Cornelis Blaeu, 1640. Copper engraving, 42 x 52.5 cm, modern hand colour, slight spotting, closed centrefold split in lower margin, Latin text on verso. Dedicated by the Blaeu brothers to Joan Huydecoper van Maarsseveen (1599–1661), a prosperous dealer in pelts and armaments, property developer and six times mayor of Amsterdam. There is no obvious connection with… Read more about this item

Paris, chez Demonville , 1775. Copper engraved chart of the Bay of Bengal, 50.5 x 69 cm, blank and white, slight creasing on either side of centrefold, light waterstain in lower margin, blank verso. D’Après de Mannevillette (1707-1780) was a practical seaman as well as a mapmaker; his sea atlas was published in Paris in 1745 with the backing… Read more about this item

Amsterdam: E. van Harrevelt and D.J. Changuion, 1773. Copper engraving, 23.5 x 27.5 cm, engraved by Schley after Bellin, black and white, blank verso. Jacques Nicolas Bellin the elder (1703-1772) was first chief hydrographic engineer of the "Dépôt des cartes, plans et journaux du Ministère de la Marine," charged early in the reign of Louis XV with mapping the… Read more about this item

London, Samuel Augustus Oddy, 1811. Copper engraving, 30 x 25 cm, original hand-colour, latitude adjusted by 10 degrees in faint pencil in the lower margin, blank verso; published in ‘Oddy’s New General Atlas of the World’. New South Wales appears here on the west coast of ‘New Holland’. James Wallis (fl. 1810-1825) was born in Southampton in 1784, the… Read more about this item

Paris, 1787. Copper engraving, 29 x 41 cm, engraved by Moithy after Herault, black and white, blank verso. Map of Asia as understood in the Greco-Roman world in classical antiquity; subsequent European discoveries are shown in outline. Map

London, c. 1851. Steel engraving, 34.5 x 25 cm, original hand-colour in outline, numbered in an old hand in upper margin, blank verso; engraved by John Rapkin for the ‘Illustrated Atlas’, with vignettes including a view of Potosi engraved by James Harfield Kernot after H. Winkles. Map

Paris: Charles François Delamarche, c. 1790. Copper engraving, 50.5 x 64.5 cm, original hand colour in outline, light marginal waterstaining which does not affect the printed area, blank verso. A map added as a ‘Supplément à l'Atlas de M. Robert de Vaugondi’ in the 1780s, sometimes seen with the Boudet imprint and the date 1786. The paper of our… Read more about this item

London, 1887. Lithograph, 65 x 50.5 cm, original colour, blank verso; Sri Lanka, published in the first trade edition of Stanford’s ‘London Atlas’. Edward Stanford (senior) acquired Arrowmsith's stock in 1874. His own version of the London Atlas, dedicated to Queen Victoria in her Golden Jubilee year, is considered to be his last significant work before his retirement. Later… Read more about this item

Paris, 1753. Copper engraving, 23 x 26 cm, modern colour, blank verso. Bellin notes that his map of Tibet was compiled from British sources, although most of the European knowledge of the region in the first part of the 18th century was via Jesuit and Capuchin missionaries. The map is detailed for the period, and includes the ‘Pagode du… Read more about this item

London, 1894. Lithograph, 61 x 47 cms, colour printed, blank verso; published in the second trade edition of Stanford’s London Atlas. Edward Stanford (senior) acquired Arrowmsith's stock in 1874. His own version of the London Atlas, published in 1887 and dedicated to Queen Victoria in the year of her Golden Jubilee, is considered to be his last significant work… Read more about this item

Calcutta: Survey of India, 1929. Detailed plan of Calcutta, 73.5 x 64.5 cms, black and white, laid on linen as issued, folding into printed stiff paper wraps. Old ownership signature (? J. Mackinnon, November 1939). Map

Venice: Remondini, 1779. Copper engraving, 49 x 57.5 cms, original hand-colour in outline, blank verso. Santini’s edition of Robert de Vaugondy’s map of the Indian subcontinent and mainland southeast Asia. Venetian map-makers and engravers Paolo and Francesco Santini (their precise relationship is uncertain but they were almost certainly related) are chiefly known for their Atlas Universel, which follows… Read more about this item

London, 1894. Lithograph, colour printed, blank verso; published in the second trade edition of Stanford’s London Atlas. Edward Stanford (senior) acquired Arrowmsith's stock in 1874. His own version of the London Atlas, published in 1887 and dedicated to Queen Victoria in the year of her Golden Jubilee, is considered to be his last significant work before his retirement. Later… Read more about this item

London, 1894. Lithograph, 71.5 x 51 cms, colour printed, blank verso; published in the second trade edition of Stanford’s London Atlas. Edward Stanford (senior) acquired Arrowmsith's stock in 1874. His own version of the London Atlas, published in 1887 and dedicated to Queen Victoria in the year of her Golden Jubilee, is considered to be his last significant work… Read more about this item