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- Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- WORLD WAR I MIDDLE EAST / LEBANON / ISRAEL / PALESTINE / SYRIA / JORDAN / EGYPT / SUEZ CANAL: Operationskarte / Beirut.
- 650.00€
- Rare - a seminal map used for strategic planning by German commanders during the Sinai and Levant theatre of World War I, a classified work created under the supervision of the orientalist Franz Gustav Taeschner for the German General Staff, it depicts all details necessary to inform broad military movement during one of the most dramatic and surprising campaigns of…
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- Archives and Documents, Europe, Germany, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: October 2020
- WORLD WAR II – ALLIED BOMBING OF GERMAN CITIES MAP ARCHIVE
- 3,500.00€
- A fascinating archive relating to the World War II Allied Bombing of Germany, featuring 7 maps of German cities especially designed to be read in the cockpit by Allied pilots during their final approach towards striking their targets, here featuring maps of Berlin, Munich, Frankfurt, Nuremberg, Pölitz (now a part of Szczecin, Poland) and Hanau (Hessen), plus a blank ‘Bomber…
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- Archives and Documents, Asia, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- WORLD WAR II MIMEOGRAPHED ARCHIVE / U.S. ARMED FORCES INDIA-CHINA DIVISION / NEWSLETTER PRINTED ABOARD SHIP
- 1,200.00€
- A fascinating original mimeographed archive concerning the return of U.S. servicemen from the India-China theatre in the immediate wake of World War II, in this case a group of army officers travelling aboard the ‘USS Anderson’ from Karachi to New York; including a custom guide and map of Karachi; a description of the Suez Canal with a World map; special…
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- Europe, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: October 2020, Ukraine
- WORLD WAR II UKRAINE / OPERATION BARBAROSSA / TANK WARFARE / THIRD REICH CARTOGRAPHY: Ukraine: Straßenkarte.
- 650.00€
- A very rare, large format map of Ukraine made by the General Staff of the German Army on the eve of Operation Barbarossa, the Nazi ‘blitzkrieg’ invasion of the Soviet Union, featuring advanced intelligence on the condition of highways and roads for the use of officers commanding tanks and armoured vehicles; the present example being a unique artefacts hailing from…
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: December 2020
- WWI PALESTINE / ISRAEL / BATTLE OF JERUSALEM: Syria / Jerusalem (Kuds-Esh-Sherif).
- 1,200.00€
- Rare – one of the most important of the maps made by the Egyptian Expeditionary Force during World War I, depicting Southern Palestine with the Ottoman-German Gaza-Beersheba defensive line, as well as the vicinity of the Battle of Jerusalem (1917), one the great British triumphs of the war in the Middle East, published in Cairo by the Survey of Egypt…
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- Europe, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: October 2020
- WWI PICTORIAL MAP: Europa 1914
- 1,200.00€
- Halftone and colour printing on newsprint, 38.5 x 51 cm (15.1 x 20 inches) (soft fold, tiny chips in margins, otherwise in a good condition).
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- Europe, History, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: October 2020
- WWI PICTORIAL MAP: Europäische Treibjagd [European Hunting Party]
- 1,200.00€
- Colour lithograph 39 x 44.5 cm (15.3 x 17.5 inches), contemporary stamp in the lower white margin (in a good condition).
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- Africa, Americas, Europe, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: December 2020, WWII Maps
- WWII ‘BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC’ / U-BOATS / THIRD REICH CARTOGRAPHY: Nord-Atlantischer Ozean maszstab auf 32° Breite 1: 12 000 000 Linien gliecher magnetischer Maẞweisung für 1940 höhen und tiefen in metern Abkürzungen und Zeichen siehe Karte Nr. 1 1911.
- 850.00€
- An exceedingly rare sea chart of the North Atlantic Ocean printed for the ‘Oberkommando der Marine’ (Nazi German Navy High Command) early in World War II, depicting the entire theatre of the ‘Battle of the Atlantic’, the terrifying 5-year long contest between the German U-boats and the navies of Britain, Canada and the Unites States, described as the “longest, largest,…
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- Books, New Acquisitions: October 2020, Slavica
- WWII FEMALE POLITICAL PRISONERS / SLOVENIAN THEATRE PLAY PRINTED IN TRIESTE: Svet brez sovraštva
- 85.00€
- [World without Hate] 8°, 61 pp., [3 pp.] blank, original illustrated wrappers, stapled (wrappers with light foxing and tiny folds in margins, otherwise in a good condition).
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- Africa, Europe, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: November 2020
- WWII IN NORTH AFRICA / SICILY / D-DAY / FRANCE / GERMANY / SOLDIERS’ ITINERARY CARTOGRAPHY: The Route of The Ninth Division Thru the Natousa & Etousa Nov. 8, 1942 – June 1945.
- 650.00€
- A fascinating itinerary map of the route of the U.S. Army’s Ninth Infantry Division during their World War II active combat tours, featuring their routes in North Africa, Sicily, England, France (including the D-Day Landings) and Germany; published in Germany only 2 months after the end of the war as a memento for the troops – notably, one of only…
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- Africa, Madagscar, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: October 2020
- WWII MADAGASCAR / BRITISH INVASION OF MADAGASCAR – OPERATIONS ‘IRONCLAD’ AND ‘STREAM LINE JANE’: Madagascar et dépendances. Carte routière.
- 1,200.00€
- An extraordinary artefact from the World War II British Invasion of Madagascar, being a very rare large format early automotive map of the island printed by the French colonial mapping service in Tananarive (Antananarivo), but here used by a British army officer as a strategic aid, bearing extensive manuscript additions marking the progress of Operations ‘Ironclad’ (the capture of Diego-Suarez)…
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- Europe, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: October 2020, Portugal
- WWII POLAND – ŁÓDŹ / HOLOCAUST: Plan der Stadt Lodsch.
- 850.00€
- A deeply disturbing but historically important map depicting Łódź, Poland shortly after it was conquered by the Nazis in early World War II; all the of place and street names have been changed from Polish to German nomenclature and all signs of the city’s Polish population and Jewish community (which numbered over 30% of the city’s residents) has been erased;…
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