East Asia & Australasia

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...

This map of China was published in ‘Oddy’s New General Atlas of the World’. James Wallis (fl. 1810-1825) was born in Southampton in 1784, the son o...

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 ...