![(Second World War - Okinawa) [Battlefield Composite Map of Southern Okinawa]](/map/small/63897.jpg)
Battle-Used Map of Okinawa. Impressive battlefield composite map of Okinawa, composed of numerous sections of SECRET Army Map Service sheets cut and pasted together to form one large image. The map covers the southern most parts of Okinawa, including...
Top Secret American Map Used to Capture Kadena Airfield on Okinawa. Top Secret map of the Okinawa landing beaches Orange 1 & 2, and Purple 1 & 2, and the defenses between those beaches and Kadena airfield. The map was prepared based on...
Restricted U.S. Military Map of Okinawa as it was Being Converted into a Major American Base. Color-printed map of Okinawa, produced by the 3020th Engr. Topo. Co. (Corps) on Okinawa, in September 1945, immediately after the end of World War II. The...
![(Commodore Perry) [Illustration of the Steam Locomotive.] [Jokisha no zu]](/map/small/55566.jpg)
The Miniature Steam Locomotive Commodore Perry Brought to Japan. Woodblock kawaraban print showing the miniature steam locomotive, which is one of the gifts to the Edo government Commodore Perry brought to Japan. The caption says "Gifts from Emperor...
Fine large map of Korea and contiguous parts of China, published in 1904 or Meiji 37. The map was issued during the early days of the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905), including the Japanese invasion of China and Korea, and the conflict that ensued with...
Vintage Korean War-Era map of the Korean Peninsula, published by Geographia Map Co. Inc., in New York City around 1950. The title panel on the verso of the map includes an image of an M46 Patton (?) and G.I.s in a Korean town. The verso includes a...
Decorative map of Korea, intended for distribution to soldiers stationed in Korea in the 1950s. Shaded relief with key military features locations marked and described. Includes a decorative border of flags of allies and insignia of military units.
The First Printed Map Based Upon the Projections of the Ancient Greek Geographer, Marinus of Tyre Nice example of Francesco Berlingheri's map Cyprus, the Holy Land and Middle East, from his Septe Giornate della Geographia di Francesco Berlinghieri...
![[Taprobana] Duodecima Asie Tabula](/map/small/58553.jpg)
Sri Lanka, As Known To The Greeks Fine old color example of this remarkable early map of Taprobana (Sri Lanka), from the 1486 Ulm edition of Ptolemy's Geographia. The map is drawn from the work of Nicolas Germanicus, whose manuscript maps were...
Martin Waldseemuller's Map of Southeast Asia, Based Upon Claudius Ptolemy Fine example of this important early map of the Indian Ocean and Southeast Asia, from the 1513 Waldseemuller edition of Ptolemy's Geography, Claudii Ptholomei Alexandrini. The...
![Tabula XII. Asiae [Title on verso] (Sri Lanka)](/map/small/55866.jpg)
Important early modern map of Taprobana, from Fries's 1525 edition of Geographia. This is an early woodblock map of the island of Taprobana, which depicts the typical misconceptions of Ptolemy showing the island greatly enlarged, surrounded by...
![Tabula IX Asiae [Pakistan & India] (Title on Verso)](/map/small/49098.jpg)
Gorgeous Ptolemaic map of Pakistan and Western India, from Lorenz Fries' edition of Ptolemy's Geographia. This map is largely based on the 1513 map by Waldseemuller.
![[Southeast Asia]](/map/small/59685op.jpg)
One of Ptolemy's Greatest Errors An important early map of the Indian Ocean and Southeast Asia, drawn from Ptolemy's Geography. The map illustrates one of the greatest of the Ptolemy errors, the belief that a southern continent existed, which...
![Tabula Asiae IX [Northern India & Pakistan]](/map/small/48947.jpg)
Important early map of part of Northen India, Pakistan and the Indian Ocean, based upon the work of Ptolemy. The map is unchanged from the 1540 edition. Munster's Geographia was a cartographic landmark, including not only Ptolemaic maps, but also a...
![Tabula Asiae XI [Southeast Asia]](/map/small/60635.jpg)
Rare early example of Munster's map of the Indian Ocean and contiguous regions, extending from Southeast Asia to the Ganges River and north to the Himalayas. The map is based upon the writings of Ptolemy and does not show a passage to the Pacific....
![Tabula Asiae X [India]](/map/small/0125gh.jpg)
Early example of Munster's map of part of India and the Indian Ocean, extending north to the sources of the Indus and Ganges Rivers, based upon Ptolemy. Munster's Geographia was a cartographic landmark, including not only Ptolemaic maps, but also a...
