Paris: Jacques Nicolas Bellin, 1756. Map. Engraving. Page measures 10 3/4" x 15 5/8". Image measures 8.5" x 10.5". Beautifully drawn early map of Bombay Harbor, known today as "Front Bay". Shows depths and sandbars. Also includes pictorial details including churches, forts, and ships. Very good condition. Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772), was the official hydrographer to the French king and the first person to hold the title of "Ingénieur de la Marine of the Depot des cartes et plans de..... More

London: Bowles, 1794. Map, in two sheets. Colored outline. Top sheet measures 20 3/4" x 28 3/8", bottom sheet measures 20 3/4" x 27 9/16" Beautiful set of maps featuring the Coromandel Coast of southeast India from Narsapur south to Nagapattinam. Important cities, rivers, mountains and lakes noted. The Bowles family of publishers and map sellers were active in London for four generations, from the late 17th century to the early 19th century. Carrington Bowles took over the Cornhill bookshop..... More

Ministry of Scientific Research & Cultural Affairs, 1960. Map. Lithograph. 21.5 x 30 inches. In very good condition. Shows some staining, foxing, and wear at edges and along original fold lines. Beautifully designed and highly detailed map from the National Atlas of India shows transportation routes and places of interest in and around the region of Bombay, with explanatory text on verso. Insets detail Bombay and Mahabaleshwar. Comprehensive index list with air routes, Railroad routes, pilgrim centers and hill resorts..... More

Calcutta: DIPT printing. Pocket map. Lithograph. 33 1/2 x 23 inches. In very good condition. Lined. Beautiful large map of Calcutta with 3 inset boxes; Postal Zonal numbers, 7 References to temples and telegraph offices, and a list of 238 important places. More

Calcutta: Directorate of Advertising and Visual Publicity, 1962. Map. Lithograph. 18 x 28 inches. In very good condition. Shows some very light staining. This colorful guide map shows Mysore and Bangalore. Illustrates and describes many local places of interest and historical significance including the Jain statue at Shravan Belagola. More

London: Laurie and Whittle, 1794. Hand colored copper plate engraving. Image measures 23" x 27.5". This beautifully hand colored map of Southeast Asia depicts from Persia (Afghanistan) east as far as Macao to include the Indian subcontinent, Thailand, Vietnam, Burma (Myanmar), Malaysia, Sumatra and part of Borneo and China. It notes the various kingdoms and territories of the time including Pegu (Burma) Siam (Thailand), Tonkin and Chochin (Vietnam) and Camboja (Cambodia). Further South, the Straits of Singapore are labeled. Singapore..... More

London: Laurie & Whittle, 1799. Sea chart. Uncolored copper plate engraving. Image measures 13 1/8' x 27 1/8". Beautifully detailed map of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Bay of Bengal. Includes rhumb lines, a compass rose, extensive geographical descriptions of the area and five inset maps: "The Harbour of Carmorta or Noncowry", "North Part of Great Andaman on a larger Scale", "South Part of Great Andaman", "The Channel between the Great and Little Andaman Islands..." and "Port Cornwallis"..... More

Edinburgh: Lizars, William, 1831. Map in four sheets. Engraving with original hand outline. Each image measures 15.5" x 19.75". Beautifully detailed map of Asia, in four sheets. Full original margins, minor aging along edges. Two small tears to bottom margin. More

Paris: 1680. Map. Uncolored copper plate engraving. Image measures 7.5" x 10". 1680. This map of southeast Asia and the East Indies is essentially two maps on a single sheet. The map on the left depicts the northern portion of the India Ganges region, representing Burma (Myanmar), Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos, while the map of the right depicts the southern portion and includes the Malay Peninsula, Singapore, Sumatra. The most interesting feature is the Lacus Chimay (Chimay Lake), the..... More

India: Survey of India, 1934. Colored offset Lithograph. Sheet maps 22" x 29.5". This interesting 1934 pocket map depicts the plan of the Gulbarga Fort and vicinity located in the northern part of the state of Karnataka (at the time, Hyderabad State) in southern India. Beautifully detailed, the map notes the fort, important roads, lakes, wells, vegetation, and a host of other topographic elements. Originally built by Raja Gulchand, a feudatory of the Warangal Kakatiyas, it was further fortified and..... More

Venice: Bernado Sylvanus, 1511. Map. Original woodcut print with printed color.. Page measures 16 3/4" x 22". 1511. This rare Ptolemaic map of Central Asia features the regions east of the Caspian Sea with northern India and western China. Includes Scythia, Tajikistan, Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China), Kyrgyzstan. Geographic features include the Ganges and the Himalayas. Relief is beautifully rendered pictorially with places and natural features labeled. The margin includes notes on climate and latitude. The unusual perspective of the geographical..... More

London: London Printing and Publishing Company, 1851. Map. Steel engraving with outline hand color. Page measures 14 3/4" x 10 5/8" Lovely map of Southern India from Sinde in Pakistan, the Rann of Kutch in the Thar desert, the Deccan Plateau and South to include Sri Lanka. Seven lovely engravings surround the map. Engraved by J. Rapkin, illustrations by A. H. Wray and engraved by J. H. Kernot. John Tallis Jr. (1817-1876) was a London born bookseller who continued the..... More

London. Map. Uncolored engraving. Image measures 17" x 21". Sheet measures 17 7/16" x 21 5/8". Beautiful early sea chart of the Coromandel coast in southeast India covering the state of Andhra Pradesh from Bheemunipatnam (Bimlepatnam) near Visakhapatnam to Armegon dating to circa 1711. Includes soundings in fathoms, coastal features, rhumb lines, villages and geographical features. Towns and forests rendered in profile. Originally published in John Thornton's (1641-1708) "English Pilot the Third Book, describing the Sea Coasts...in Oriental Navigation" in..... More