Search Results: Asia: Far East from Bryars and Bryars

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

London: Henry George Collins, 1845. Steel engraving, approx 26 x 34 cm, original hand colour in outline, blank verso; listing the 26 Counties in Western Australia and 19 Counties in New South Wales and published in 'Gilbert's Family Atlas of Modern Geography' by James Gilbert. A variant with an inset of New Zealand bottom left, published in Collins’ ‘College Atlas’, is cited in Tooley, Mapping of Australia, no. 1464. Map

London, 1894. Lithograph, 47 x 64.5 cms, colour printed, blank verso; prepared for the London Atlas. Map

Amsterdam, c. 1770. Copper engraving, 22 x 15 cms, original hand-colour, blank verso; chart of the coasts of Vietnam and southern China, extending as far as Macau, from a Dutch edition of Bellin’s ‘Petit Atlas Maritime’. Map

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 a member of the Royal Society of London. Bellin compiled the maps for Prévost's Histoire Générale des Voyages, and he later reworked them for his Petit Atlas Francaise and his Petit Atlas Maritime. Our example is numbered correctly for appearance in volume II of Prévost. C.f. Walter, Japan, 83. Map

Paris, c. 1757. Copper engraving, 26 x 30 cms, recent hand colour, blank verso. Map

Paris, F. Buisson, 1799-1804. Two copper engraved maps, each 65 x 47 cm, engraved by Jean-Baptiste Pierre Tardieu, ‘l’ainé’, of 385 Rue de Sorbonne; black and white, a couple of closed tears, old fold lines, blank verso. Maps 38 and 39 from the atlas volume of ‘Voyage dans l'intérieur de la Chine et en Tartarie, fait dans les années 1792,1793 et 1794, par Lord Macartney, Ambassadeur du Roi d'Angleterre auprès de l'Empereur de Chine’, the French translation of Sir George Staunton’s account of the first British diplomatic mission to China, headed by Lord Macartney. The maps cover the route between Guangzhou (Canton) and Beijing (Peking). Map

London, 1831. Steel engraving, 35.5 x 43 cm, engraved by John Dower, original hand colour, numbered in an old hand, blank verso; published in a first edition of Teesdale’s ‘New General Atlas of the World’. The site of Cook’s death on Hawaii (‘Owhyhee’) is noted. The map features two regions named New South Wales. Cook’s New South Wales in Australia remains familiar, but the other, on the shores of Hudson Bay, was named in the early 17th century; like some of the other nomenclature including New Georgia and New Hanover on the west coast of Canada, it has fallen out of use. Map

London,, 1912. Engraved British chart of Jiaozhou Bay on the southern coast of the Shandong Peninsula, 66 x 100 cm, black and white, engraved by John and Charles Walker after A.J. Boyle, centrefold; shows soundings etc, with interior detail of relief, roads and settlements. Surveyed by the sloop HMS Swallow in 1863 and first published in 1865, our example of the chart incorporates additions and corrections to 1912 from various sources, including German charts to 1911. Jiaozhou Bay was a German colonial concession, the Kiautschou Bay concession, between 1898 and 1914, with its adminstrative centre at Tsingtau, or Quingdeo. The layout of the town, rapidly expanded by the Germans, is shown in detail at the centre of the chart. Map

London,, 1903. Engraved British chart of the Bangka Strait, sheet size 101 x 67 cm, black and white, engraved by John and Charles Walker, centrefold; shows soundings etc, with interior detail of relief, roads and settlements. First published in 1858, but revised from British and Dutch surveys. Bangka and Sumatra, in modern Indonesia, were part of the Dutch East Indies. Map

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 of the Empire of Japan in China and Inner Mongolia from 1932 until 1945. The inset of Shanghai at the foot of the map still shows the International Settlement and French Concession. In 1943 the British and Americans agreed to relinquish their extraterritorial rights to China, although the process was complicated by the Chinese Civil War. Two copies located on Worldcat: OCLC: 1400672662 (KBR); OCLC: 888954363 (Zurich). Map

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 US Navy Hydrographic Office and US Naval Air Combat Intelligence. They were “designed primarily for use by Navy and Marine pilots operating from carriers or island bases and were intended for use in the event of a forced sea landing and as an aid in the navigation of rubber life rafts” (escape-maps.com). Map

London, 1844. Lithographed map, 52 x 61 cms, original outline colour, blank verso; from the National Atlas. Shows the routes of recent explorers (Mitchell, Tyers & Townsend and Count Streletsky). Map

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 successful 'New General Atlas', but in the 1820s he bankrupted himself, twice (in the process of creating his large-scale 'Atlas of Scotland' in a burst of patriotic pride) and he disappears from the historical record. Thomson's maps are characteristic of the Edinburgh school of cartography which flourished at the beginning of the nineteenth-century and is noted for its clarity and elegance; other exponents include John Cary and John Pinkerton. Walter, Japan: A Cartographic Vision, 128. Map

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 teaching purposes. The location map of the eastern Mediterranean, top left, has an overlay of the British Isles for scale. Map

London: George Philip & Son Ltd, c. 1904. Third edition ‘completing twentyfive 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 which was used as a ladies’ seminary in the early 20th century). With inset map of southeastern England for scale, and location maps of Asia and a broader area of east Asian than the main map. Produced to illustrate the Russo-Japanese War, the map indicates Treaty Ports, dockyards and naval bases, including the German Kiautschou Bay concession, the British leased territory at Weihaiwei, and Port Arthur, then under Russian control and a major contributory factor to the outbreak of war. Map

London,, 1942. Engraved British chart, sheet size 70 x 51.5 cm, black and white with pink wash, traces of pink paper label in lower left hand margin, blank verso; shows soundings etc, with interior detail of relief, roads and settlements. First published in 1884, with corrections to 1942. Shows the Portuguese colony of Goa and the forts protecting the approaches to the city at Aguada and Marmagoa. Portugal rermained neutral during the Second World War, and three German merchant vessels sought refuge in Marmagoa harbour on the outbreak of war. One of these, the Ehrenfels, operated a secret transmitter which guided U-boats against Allied shipping in the Indian Ocean. The freighter was sunk in a clandestine mission by members of the Calcutta Light Horse, known as Operation Creek, in March 1943. Map

Paris, 1683. Copper engraving, 15 x 10.5 cms, recent hand-colour, French text on verso, from Mallet’s ‘Description de l’Univers’. The Maluku Islands, part of the mountainous, volcanic archipelago known to Europeans as the ‘spice islands’ and the focus of Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch and English attempts to control the lucrative spice trade. Map

Washington,, 1911. US naval chart, sheet 2579, sheet size 78 x 53 cm, black and white, ink stamp confirming corrections to November 1911, old folds, blank verso; detail includes soundings, anchorages, relief and the principal roads, settlements etc. Covering a stretch of coastline to the south of Osaka and Wakayama on the main island of Japan. Map

Paris, 1873. French naval chart, sheet 3245, sheet size 51 x 36 cm, engraved by Régnier after a British Admiralty chart of 1871, black and white, blank verso. Akkeshi Bay, located in Kushiro Subprefecture on the east coast of Hokkaido, the most northerly of the main islands of Japan. Map