Asia

Discover rare hydrographic maps of Asia, featuring historic nautical charts of the East Indies, South China Sea, Indian Ocean routes, and Asian harbours. These antique sea charts helped early mariners navigate complex island networks and coastal waters that were critical to trade.

Antique hydrographic maps of Asian waters reflect centuries of maritime exploration, commerce, and naval power across the Indian Ocean, Southeast Asia, China’s southern seas, and the Japanese archipelago. These charts reveal intricate coastlines, reef systems, island passages, and deepwater routes used by merchants and explorers.

Produced by celebrated navigators and cartographers such as Willem Blaeu, Jan Huygen van Linschoten, Johannes van Keulen, and the Dutch East India Company (VOC) chart makers, these nautical charts serve as historical records of early trade routes and coastal knowledge.

Collectors prize these Asian hydrographic maps for their technical detail, historical context, and visual appeal as works of marine cartography.

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