antique maps (4 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Very Good. 1988. Paperback. Paperback, white cover. 36pp. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Zustand: Very Good. 1988. Paperback. Paperback, white cover. 36pp. . . . .

Lithographed maps on two sides of a single leaf with original hand-colouring, 27 x 34 cms (map size) 31.1 x 37.1 cms (sheet) with a finely-engraved foliated border, margins age-toned, one margin tide-marked at the edge (not affecting the maps), a handsome pair of maps in very good condition. A most attractive pair of late 19th Century maps on two sides of a single leaf: Asia as a whole (polar projection), with Europe and parts of Africa and New Guinea. Scale 1:1000 miles. It includes steamship routes and mileages from London to destinations in Asia: Zhoushan (Chusan) Island, Hong Kong, Manilla, Sarawak, Bombay etc., along with political and geographical details; and on the verso the map covers the regions of Persia (Iran), Arabia (including parts of the Arabian Peninsula), Turkey in Asia (Anatolia), Afghanistan, and Beloochistan (parts of Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan), and marks key settlements, rivers, and geographic features.

Two engraved maps on laid paper each 30.3 x 19.5 cm printed on the one sheet 48 x 60 cm, original fold, attractive hand colour, with related French text on verso, slight toning and spotting to the margins, but the maps in very good condition, preserved in a modern window mount. Attractive maps of the German coast published in Ortelius' great atlas "Theatrum Orbis.". The left-hand map showing the mouths of the Elbe (complete with sea monster) and Eider Rivers, and the coast of Schleswig-Holstein; the right-hand map of the Baltic coast, with the Pomeranian islands of Rugen and Usedom.