Asia

An historical disquisition concerning the knowledge which the ancients had of India; and the progress of trade with that country prior to the disco...

This map of British India was engraved by John Rapkin for John Tallis’ Illustrated Atlas, and includes vignettes engraved by George Greatbach after...

This map of Calcutta includes inset views of the Writers’ Buildings, Government House and Esplanade Row.  Calcutta expanded rapidly under the Gover...

This map of Malaya has an inset regional map locating Malaya  in the context of ‘adjacent terrritories’. A previous owner of this, map Lieutenant D...

Victoria or Port Phillip Engraved by John Rapkin for the Illustrated Atlas, this map includes vignettes of Melbourne, the River Glenelg, a kangaroo...

This miniature map of Gujarat and northern India was published in one of the earlier editions of Bertius’ Tabularum Geographicarum Contractum issue...

This tourist plan of Jakarta and Bali was published in Japan Airlines’ Orient Times in September 1975. The map is unsigned, but part of a series in...

This tourist plan of Singapore was published in Japan Airlines’ Orient Times in May 1975.  American commercial artist Raymond Ameijide (1924-2000) ...

This tourist plan of Bangkok was published in Japan Airlines’ Orient Times in August 1975.  American commercial artist Raymond Ameijide (1924-2000)...

This, the sixth volume of Blaeu’s great ‘Theatrum Orbis Terrarum’or ‘Novus Atlas’ is also the first atlas of China published in Europe. More proper...

Sheets 44E/44F: North Sumatra and part of Siam/Part of Siam, Malaya and East Sumatra For the highly classified production of Escape & Evasion m...

Cloth Survival Chart S-12: Western Pacific Covering the Western Pacific, this is the largest of the  US Navy ‘handkerchief’ charts. One side shows ...

Map of India and Birmah  This map of India and Burma features an inset location map with British possessions coloured red, next to a distance table...

Map of India, constructed with great care and research from all the Latest Authorities and intended more particularly to facilitate a reference to ...

Map of China, Japan and Korea. / [Cover title:] The Eastern Crisis. Bacon's large-scale map of Japan, Korea, China, Manchuria Produced to illustrat...

Chine du nord - Corée - Manchoukouo Manchukuo – a Japanese term for Manchuria – was a puppet state of the Empire of Japan in China and Inner Mongol...

Plan du Port et de la Ville de Nangasaki This is a plan of the port city of Nagaski, one of Japan’s chief points of contact with the outside world ...

Carte de Isles du Japont et la presqu' Isle de Coree avec les costes de la Chine depuis Pekin jusqua Canton . . . Bellin compiled maps like this on...

L’Empire du Chine pour servir a l’Histoire Universelle, d’une Societe de Gens de Lettres Our example of Bellin’s map of China, with text in French ...

This Vietnam War-era city plan of Saigon (modern Ho Chi Minh City) is coloured by district, with a street index at the foot of the map. Useful info...

Moluccae Insulae This map shows the Maluku Islands (or Moluccas), part of the volcanic Indonesian archipelago known to contemporary Europeans as th...

The Daily Mail Special Map Of The Far East Produced to illustrate the Russo-Japanese War, this map indicates Treaty Ports, dockyards and naval base...

John Thomson's map of Korea and Japan was engraved by John and George Menzies in 1814 and published in his ‘New General Atlas’ in 1815. Walter sugg...

Moll's map of Asia is dedicated to William Cowper (1665-1723), the first to hold the office of Lord Chancellor (and from 1718 the first Earl Cowper...

Thibet, Mongolia, and Mandchouria This map was engraved by John Rapkin for the ‘Illustrated Atlas’; with vignettes including Leh in Ladakh, a stret...

Les Indes Orientales This is Santini’s edition of Robert de Vaugondy’s map of the Indian subcontinent and mainland southeast Asia. Venetian map-mak...

Burma – Gulf of Mataban – Rangoon River and Approaches This chart covers the mouth of the river between Rangoon (Yangon) and the sea. It shows vill...

This map of the continent of Asia was prepared for the Homann firm by Johann Matthias Hase, professor of mathematics in Wittemberg, on his stereogr...

[Map of] Afghanistan, political, phisical [sic], roads and distances, important historical sites According to the online resource Encyclopaedia Ira...

This map of the Mughal Empire is dedicated by the Blaeu brothers to Joan Huydecoper van Maarsseveen (1599–1661), a prosperous dealer in pelts and a...

This map of Persia, Afghanistan and Balochistan is part of the Authentic Imperial Maps series published by the London Geographical Institute. Condi...

This map of Tasmania was engraved by John Rapkin for the ‘Illustrated Atlas'. John Rogers engraved the black and white vignettes including Hobart T...

This map of Asia was published in ‘Oddy’s New General Atlas of the World’. New South Wales appears here on the west coast of ‘New Holland’. James W...

Asia veteribus nota. L’Asie ancienne, dirigée par M. Philippe This is a map of Asia as it was understood in the Greco-Roman world in classical anti...

Sinus Gangeticus; vulgo Golfo de Bengale nova descriptio This is a map of the Bay of Bengal with north oriented to the right. Petrus Schenk and Ger...

This map covers the southern part of the subcontinent (Mumbai is near the upper border), and includes the northern part of Sri Lanka. Pink denotes ...

The focus of this map is Toyama, a significant sea-port in what was once Etchu province on Honshu. On stylistic grounds the map appears to date fro...

South Pacific Ocean – Society Islands – Tahiti and Moorea (Otaheite and Eimeo) This chart was derived from French surveys of 1869 and 1885. The fir...

Carte Reduite du Golfe de Bangale D’Après de Mannevillette (1707-1780) was a practical seaman as well as a mapmaker; his sea atlas was published in...

This map of Australia has a table in the bottom left, showing the European population (supposedly revised to 1846 but with the original figure give...

This is a map of the Maluku Islands, part of the mountainous, volcanic archipelago known to Europeans as the spice islands. The islands were the fo...

Archipel des Indes Orientales, qui comprend les Isles de la Sonde, Moluques et Philippines, tirées des Cartes du Neptune Oriental This map of Indon...

L’Empire de la Chine dressé d’apres les Cartes de l’Atlas Chinois This detailed and relatively accurate map of China, Korea and Taiwan was derived ...

China – East Coast – Province of Shan Tung – Kyau Chau Bay This is a British chart of Jiaozhou Bay on the southern coast of the Shandong Peninsula....

Mae Nam Wen and Entrance, Surveyed by the Hydrographic Department, Royal Thai Navy, March-May 1944 This is a Thai chart of the Mae Nam Welu estuary...

China Sea – Banka Strait This chart of the Bangka Strait was first published in 1858, but revised from British and Dutch surveys. Bangka and Sumatr...

Sheet III – West Coast of India – from Arnol I. to Kundari I This chart shows the approaches to Bombay harbour, modern Mumbai, with significant det...

Bismark Archipel – Neu Hannover This is a German chart of New Hanover Island or Lavongai in the Bismarck Archipelago of Papua New Guinea. German Ne...