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ASIA101 - V. LEVASSEUR “Asie” Paris. 1854. Partial color. 12X17. Finely engraved map shows all of Asia & Asia Minor, the Near, Middle & Far East. India, Russia, China & Japan & Southeast Asia. Map is surrounded by fanciful engraved scenes of native peoples, animals & vegetation & includes a population table for the primary countries & regions depicted on the map. The handsome illustrations were drawn by the prominent French artist, Raimond Bonheur. 

ASIA104 - LAURIE & WHITTLE “Asiae, Quae, Vulgo Minor Dicitur et Syriae.” London. 1794. Outline color. 20X24. Striking map of Asia Minor depicts a large area of Turkey down to Syria & Mesopotamia (Iraq,) including the islands of Crete and Cyprus in the Mediterranean. Locates many regions & states in Turkey, Armenia, Pontus, Phrygia, Lycia, Mysia, Propontis, Galatia, Paphlagonia, Bythynia & others; and kingdoms in Syria and Iraq. Includes a fine depiction of the Black Sea named “Pontus Euxinus” with its extensive shoreline. A very handsome map, finely engraved by Jean Baptiste D'Anville. 

ASIA105 - J. N. BELLIN “Carte De La Tartarie Orientale Pour Servir a l'Histoire Générale des Voyages. Tirée des Cartes Levees par les P. P. Jesuits.” Paris. 1749. Colored. 8¼X12. Very decorative chart shows Manchuria in northern China & Russian Siberia & Sakhalin Island off the coast. The island is now a centre for herring fisheries & its commerce is coal, naptha, oil, timber & alluvial gold. The chart shows many mountains, rivers, lakes & settlements inland, & includes a very decorative ornamental title cartouche with leaf, flower & scroll motifs. The chart was taken from surveys by Jesuit Missionaries & was included in De La Harpe's Voyages. 1780. 

ASIA106 - J. N. BELLIN “Carte De La Tartarie Occidentale Pour Servir a l'Histoire Générale des Voyages. Tirée des Auteurs Anglois.” Paris. 1749. Colored. 9X12. Finely engraved chart shows China's capital city of Peking inland from the Gulf of Lyau-tong. Chart locates northeastern China to the border of Russia & includes part of Mongolia & the Gobi Desert. Depicts many mountain ranges, rivers, & lakes & includes a mileage scale surrounded by an ornamental cartouche with leaf & scroll motifs. Chart was based on information taken from English maps and was included in De La Harpe's Voyages. 1780. A fine chart. 

ASIA108 - H. JAILLOT “L'Asie divisee en ses Principales Regions et se peut voir l'estondue Des Empires Monarchies Royaumes et Estats qui partagent presentement L'Asie. Presentee A Monseigneur Le Dauphin par son tres humble, tres obeissant, et tres fidele, serviteur Hubert Jaillot.” Paris 1695-98. Colored. 22X34. Stunning map of Asia from eastern Europe & the Mediterranean Sea to Africa & the Red Sea, Arabia & the Persian Gulf and thence to India, Burma and Southeast Asia, including China & the islands of Japan. The islands in the Indian Ocean and around Malaysia and Indonesia & New Guinea are clearly depicted including the Philippines. The map has an extraordinary amount of detailed place names overall for such an early date. The title in top left is in an elaborate cartouche topped with shield & crown and surrounded by figures, scrolls, leaves & flowers. A second cartouche in top right surrounds the mileage scale with leaves & scrolls and topped with finely engraved drawings of camels & drivers. From “Atlas Francois” by Hubert Jaillot. Paris. 1695 

ASIA117 - P. LAPIE “Asie”. Paris. 1812. Colored. 8½X12. Finely engraved map of Asia shows all of the Asian countries stretching eastward from Europe and the Mediterranean Sea across to the Middle East, Russia, India, Burma, Siam, Malaysia, the Philippines and Marianas, to the coast of China and the islands of Japan. Depicts the Kuriles Isles and Russian Kamptchatka and the coast to the Bering Strait and America's Pacific Northwest coast of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands. Title in lower right is in a circle surrounded by leaf branches, spears, fruit, banners and weapons. Published by Conrad Malte Brun (1775-1826) in “Atlas Complet Du Precis de la Geographie Universelle” and prepared by Pierre Lapie (1777-1850) a well-known surveyor and cartographer in early 19th century Paris.

ASIA118 - J. TALLIS “Asia Minor” London. c. 1850. Colored. 10X13. Very decorative map of Asia with colorful figures in native dress, a coastal sailing vessel, a scene on the island of Rhodes and a view of Mount Olympus, the tallest mountain in Greece. The map shows Turkey & Constantinople, the Black Sea & the Sea of Marmara, Smynra & the Aegean Coast with the islands of Rhodes & Scarpanto. Includes Cyprus & the eastern end of the Mediterranean with the Gulf of Adalia & Aleppo in northern Syria. This is a fine map with a Grecian Fret border. From “The Illustrated Atlas and Modern History of the World, Geographical, Political, Commercial & Statistical,” by John Tallis in 1850.

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