East Asia & Australasia

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 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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

South Pacific Ocean – Santa Cruz Islands – Vanikoro Islands (La Pérouse) This British chart of Vanikoro was first published in 1873, with correctio...

Stiller Ozean – Hermit Inseln This is a German chart of the Hermit Islands in the Bismarck Archipelago of Papua New Guinea. German New Guinea, a Ge...

A chart of part of the coast of Cochin-China including Turon Harbour and the island Callao from an actual survey in June 1793. By HW Parish of the ...

Japan – Honshu – South Coast – Kii Suido – Yurano Uchi and Hii Wan This sea chart covers a stretch of coastline to the south of Osaka and Wakayama ...

Japón – Cote Est de Yesso – Baie Akishi This is a French chart of Akkeshi Bay, located in Kushiro Subprefecture on the east coast of Hokkaido, the ...

This chart of the Pacific Ocean features two regions named New South Wales. Cook’s New South Wales in Australia remains familiar, but the other, on...

This map of New Zealand was published in the second trade edition of Stanford’s London Atlas. Edward Stanford (senior) acquired Arrowmsith's stock ...