Asia: Far East from Bryars and Bryars

Singapore, published by Kohbunkwan, c. 1920. Lithographed map, sheet size 54 x 79 cm, text in English and Japanese, printed in colours, inset map of Singapore Island, minor wear to old folds, some of which are strengthened on the verso with archival tape, blank verso. On a scale of 5 inches to the mile, with a key providing information… Read more about this item

Wilmington, Kaumagraph Company, 1944. Double-sided survival chart, 70 x 90 cm, printed in colours on acetate rayon, old folds. Covering the Western Pacific, this is the largest of the US Navy ‘handkerchief’ charts. Side one shows winter ocean and wind currents (Nov-Mar) while side two shows summer currents (May-Sep). The charts were prepared through the collaboration of the… Read more about this item

Leipzig, c. 1750. Copper engraving, 30 x 40.5 cm, modern hand colour, blank verso. With text in French and German, and with simplified cartouches for the text on the left hand side of the map, our example of Bellin’s map appears to have been prepared for Johann Joachim Schwabe’s collection of English and French voyages translated into German, ‘Allgemeine… Read more about this item

Paris, 1752. Copper engraving, 21 x 35 cm, engraved by Guillaume Dheulland, modern hand colour, blank verso. Plan of the port city of Nagaski, one of Japan’s chief points of contact with the outside world during the seclusion era. Prominent in the centre of of the map is Dejima, the artifical island in Nagaski harbour, from which the Dutch… Read more about this item

Paris, 1746. Copper engraving, 22 x 30 cm, modern hand colour, 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 by Louis XIV with mapping the coasts of France first and then the rest of the world. He was also… Read more about this item

Leeds, John Waddington Ltd, 1944. Double sided Escape and Evasion map, 92 x 60 cm, printed in colours on rayon, old folds. As with Series 43, the base map for Series 44 was the International Map of the World (IMW). Bond notes that this series appears to have been ‘produced for both escape and evasion and operational purposes’ by… Read more about this item

London, c. 1904. Lithographed folding map, 55 x 76 cm, printed in colours, minor wear to folds, old split along one fold and short tear repaired with tape on verso, blank verso; folding into red stiff-card printed wraps, with bookseller’s label on front cover. Produced to illustrate the Russo-Japanese War, the map indicates Treaty Ports, dockyards and naval bases,… Read more about this item

Brussels: Editions R. de Rouck et L. De Moor, c. 1940. Lithographed folding map, sheet size 71 x 54 cm, printed in colours, some wear along folds, mostly marginal, blank verso; folding into stained and worn grey printed paper wraps. Stated ‘Carte n° 21’ in lower margin. Manchukuo - a Japanese term for Manchuria - was a puppet state… Read more about this item

Saigon, Kha Tri, 1966. Folding lithographed map, 49.5 x 64.5 cm, printed in colours, text in English and Vietnamese on verso (useful information for visitors), folding into printed card covers. Vietnam War era city plan of Saigon (modern Ho Chi Minh City), coloured by district, with a street index at the foot of the map. Map

Wellington, c. 1940. Lithographed folding map, 100 x 75.5 cm, printed in colours, dissected into 9 panels and laid on linen, eylets mounted in upper margin, marginal pin-holes, a few minor spots and stains including a lightened area of sea on the right hand side where a pencil note has been partially erased. A schoolroom map of New Zealand… Read more about this item

Amsterdam, c. 1600. Copper engraving, 8.6 x 12.5 cm, second state (left-hand border re-engraved with latitude graduations), black and white, Latin text on verso. The Maluku Islands or Moluccas, part of the mountainous, volcanic Indonesian archipelago known to Europeans as the ‘spice islands’ and the focus of Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch and English attempts to control the lucrative spice… Read more about this item

London: George Philip & Son Ltd, c. 1904. Third edition ‘completing twenty-five thousand’, sheet size 50.5 x 75 cm, lithographed folding map, printed in colours, laid on linen, slight toning to folds, folding into original cloth covers with printed publisher’s label, minor wear, publisher’s adverts to endpapers. Ink stamp on cover: Tynyrheol, Tonna Neath (a Grade II listed house… Read more about this item

Edinburgh, 1815. Copper engraving, 51.5 x 66 cm, engraved by John and George Menzies, original hand colour, blank verso; engraved in 1814 and first published in Thomson’s ‘New General Atlas’ in 1815. A detailed map which Walter suggests has ‘several clear improvements’ on its immediate predecessors, such as Jones’ map of 1813. Thomson made his fortune through his extremely… Read more about this item

Washington, 1927. US naval chart, sheet 2065, sheet size 55 x 75.5 cm, black and white with a pale ochre tint, ink stamp confirming corrections to 30 April 1927, one or two light creases, blank verso; detail includes soundings, anchorages, relief etc. Derived from French surveys of 1869 and 1885, the first US edition was printed in 1902; in… Read more about this item

Japan, c. 1850. Manuscript map, sheet size 48.2 x 73.7 cm, ink on laid paper. The focus of the map is Toyama, a significant sea-port in what was once Etchu province on Honshu. On stylistic grounds the map appears to date from the mid 19th century, and the script is pre-Meji era. Toyama and the surrounding towns are shown… Read more about this item

London: Eductional Productions, Ltd, 1954. Lithographed map sheet, 44.5 x 61 cm, printed in colours on stiff paper, blank verso, a visual aid published as sheet 3 in a portfolio titled ‘Empire Information Project’; holes punched for a binder in left hand margin. A simplified map of Malta and Gozo is surrounded by views, statistics and historical information considered… Read more about this item

London: Eductional Productions, Ltd, 1954. Lithographed map sheet, 44.5 x 61 cm, printed in colours on stiff paper, blank verso, a visual aid published as sheet 4 in a portfolio titled ‘Empire Information Project’; holes punched for a binder in left hand margin. A simplified map of Cyprus is surrounded by views, statistics and historical information considered suitable for… Read more about this item

London, 1859. Steel engraving, 26 x 33 cm, original outline colour, blank verso; engraved by John Rapkin for the ‘Illustrated Atlas’ with vignettes, including Leh in Ladakh, a stretch of the Great Wall of China and Llhasa, engraved by George Greatbach after Henry Winkles. This example was published in 'The British Colonies; Their History, Extent, Condition and Resources' by… Read more about this item

Paris, 1750. Copper engraving, 49.5 x 62.5 cm, engraved by Guillaume Delhaye, original hand colour in outline, blank verso. Map of Indonesia and the Philippines, derived from the ‘Neptune Orientale’, with an inset of the Marianas. Pedley, Bel et Utile: the Work of the Robert de Vaugondy Family of Mapmakers, 413. Map

Paris, 1751. Copper engraving, 49.5 x 55 cm, dated within the elaborate rococo cartouche, original hand colour in outline, marginal spotting, blank verso. A detailed and relatively accurate map of China, Korea and Taiwan, derived from the series of maps in the French Jesuit Jean-Baptiste du Halde’s 1735 ‘Description’, and published in the ‘Atlas Universel’. Pedley, Bel et Utile:… Read more about this item