East Indies Maps - Baldwin's Old Maps & Prints

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East Indies

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"East India Isles" , 1808, Published by C. Smith, $195. 12 1/2" x 15 1/2", Hand colored engraving. A very nice map on a large scale. Includes Cochin China, Cambodia, Siam, the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo, Celebes, New Guinea, and the Phillipines. Condition: Some agetoning, several spots along edges of map, otherwise very good.
"East India Islands", Drawn & Engraved by W.H. Lizars, ca. 1845, $150. Hand colored engraving with elaborate scrollwork border. Paper size is approx. 12" X 14 1/2" with the actual map dimensions being approx. 7 3/4" X 9 1/2". A decorative map engraved for Lizars School Atlas. Includes the Philipines (annotated,"Manillas or Philippine Islands"), Papua or New Guinea, Spice Islands, Celebes, Sumatra, the Malaccan Peninsula, Cochin China, "Camboja", and the Aracan coast of Burma. Condition: Some agetoning and handling, otherwise very good.
"Perspective Projection of the Southern Hemisphere on the Plane of the Horizon of London." Projected, Drawn, and Engraved by Joseph Lowry, published by J. Mawman, London in 1824, $95, Engraving. Size is 16 1/2" x 18 1/4". An unusual perspective with much interesting detail. This map includes the South Pole, some of South America, Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Borneo, Sumatra, Malacca, and all of the island groups in the Southern Pacific Ocean. There is no representation of any part Antarctica. Inscribed below the hemisphere: "In this projection the Eye is situated 68/100 of the radius distant from the surface of the sphere, it being the point very nearly whence equal portions of the spherical surface will be projected with the greatest equality on the plane --This has been generally called the globular projection and was first recommended by De La Hire and afterwards by various Foreign and English Mathematicians, particularly by Mr. P. Nicholson, but owing to various difficulties in drawing the curves, it has not before been executed except in the common case where the Poles are in the Circumference and the Meridians and Parallels improperly made circular." Condition: Folds as issued, overall foxed, but no tears and paper is sound. A good, clear impression of this engraving.
"L'Oceanie" Grosselin- Delamarche $45 A nice map of the southern Pacific. Hand Colored Engraving, 13" x 19" , ca 1870. Beautifully colored plate from Atlas Grosselin-Delamarche. Coloring is keyed to identify possesions of each European power. At lower right there are small insets of Tahiti and of the Marquesas. Some age toning at edge of paper (in margin), centerfold as issued, otherwise very good condition. Note: Picture shown only gives you a general idea of what this map looks like. Scanner is adding moire patterns and blurring some of the detail. Margins are not shown.
"Pacific Ocean" , 1851, $35. Map from Morse's school geography. Hand colored engraving. Paper size is 9 1/2" x 12", map is 7 1/4" x 8 1/4" . Ocean is shown from the Straits of Malacca to the North & South American coasts. The map divides the Pacific into Australasia, Polynesia, Asiatic Isles, and Japan Isles. Antarctica is labelled "Newly Discovered Continent". Text at bottom is about the "Asiatic Isles" and includes a small engraving of "A Malay running Amok.".

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