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- Maps and Prints, Middle East
- ‘THE BAGHDAD PROCLAMATION’ / WWI in IRAQ / MILITARY and DIPLOMATIC HISTORY: Proclamation / To the People of Baghdad Vilayet.
- 1,200.00€
- An exceedingly rare broadside bearing the text of ‘The Baghdad Proclamation’, the most famous and consequential document relating to WWI’s Mesopotamian Campaign; pronounced by General Sir Stanley Maude, declaring that British forces arrived in Baghdad as ‘liberators’ of the Iraqi people, bearing ‘florid’ text written by the controversial fixer Sir Mark Sykes; this being the second printing of the…
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- Maps and Prints, Ottoman Books
- ‘The Invisible Sultan’ Artistic Curiousity Fine Watermarks Ottoman Court Patronage: [A Stationary Sheet featuring Elaborate Watermarks of the Portrait of the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed V Reshad and the Imperial Coat of Arms].
- 1,780.00€
- A stationary sheet with extraordinary, elaborate watermarks featuring a portrait of Ottoman Sultan Mehmed V Reshad and the imperial coat of arms, a curious work of court patronage. Stationary sheet bearing elaborate watermarks, original vertical centrefold (Good, a couple light irregular folds and a crease emanating from centrefold into watermarks, stain in lower-left side), 20.5 x 25.5 cm…
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- Maps and Prints
- [BULGARIA – BORDER PATROL MAP:] Карта на България. Мѣрка 1:800,000. (Разположение на Българскитѣ Погранични Постове.) [Map of Bulgaria. Scale 1:800,000. (Location of the Bulgarian Frontier Posts.)].
- 300.00€
- An extremely rare, large-format separately-issued map of Bulgaria that specifically details the nation’s international boundaries and border patrol infrastructure, printed in 1904 in Sofia for official use, during a tense period leading to major warfare in the region.
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- Armenian Books, Maps and Prints, Posters
- [ISTANBUL OPERA BROADSIDE / ARMENIAN-OTTOMAN PRINTING:] Teatro Naum in Pera in Costantinopoli / Per la sera di Mercoledì 16 Maggio 1855 / Serata Straordinaria Devoluta a totale Beneficio. Del primo Buffo Comico Assoluto. Vincenzo Galli prima rappresentazi
- 7,700.00€
- An amazing survivor – an early Istanbul opera broadside advertising the 1855 single-show performance of Gaetano Donizetti’s ‘Don Pasquale’ at the famous Naum Theatre in Pera (Beyoğlu), Constantinople, headlined by the legendary basso buffo singer Vincenzo Galli, published locally in Italian, Ottoman Turkish, Greek, Armenian and Armenian printed in the Ottoman Alphabet!
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- Bosnia, Croatia, Europe, Maps and Prints, Serbia, Slovenia
- [Yugoslavian Anti-Russian Political Board Game for Children]
- 250.00€
- An uncommon anti-Communist political board game for children, was printed in Yugoslavia in the Informbiro period.
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- Europe, Maps and Prints, Russia
- 28 LUBKI: Russia, Cossacks & Ottomans
- 5,500.00€
- A series of 28 Russian lubki showcases the main protagonists of the Caucasian war, battles with the Ottomans, and Cossacks.
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- Armenian Books, Maps and Prints
- A rare theatre program was issued in French, Ottoman and Armenian in Istanbul circa 1910 for the matinee and evening performance of the Ottoman operetta Leblebici Horhor Ağa in the Orieantal Theater (Şark Theatre) in the Şehzadebaşı neighborhood in Istanb
- 380.00€
- A rare ephemeral program written in French, Armenian and Ottoman, was published for a for the matinée and evening performance of the Ottoman operetta Leblebici Horhor Aga, written by an Armenian author Tigran Tchoukhajian.
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- Maps and Prints
- A SET OF 8 MINIATURE EMBOSSED (RAISED RELIEF) PORTRAITS ON CARD OF BRITISH LUMINARIES
- 1,000.00€
- A finely executed set of miniature embossed portraits of British luminaries, contained within an interesting envelope, suggesting that the set was posted from India to London in 1891.
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- Maps and Prints
- ABSINJA I WLOCHY [Abyssinia and Italians].
- 180.00€
- A Polish political broadside showcasing the Italian occupation of the Ethiopian Empire, as a warning to the upcoming situation.
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- Asia, Central Asia, Maps and Prints
- AFGHANISTAN – KANDAHAR / URUZGAN / HELMAND: [Untitled Manuscript Map of the Region to the North of Kandahar, Afghanistan, made during the period of the ‘Derawat Rebellion’].
- 6,500.00€
- An extraordinarily rare discovery – an original, large military field manuscript map from the First Anglo-Afghan War (1839-42), depicted the region to the north of Kandahar, then, as now, a hotbed of tribal insurgency, made during the period of the ‘Derawat (Deh Ravod) Rebellion’ by Edward Sanders and Charles Frederick North, military engineers serving under General William Nott, the…
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- Asia, Maps and Prints
- AFGHANISTAN / PAKISTAN: Geological Map of the country between Sibi and Girishk [with] Geological Map of the neighborhood of Kandahar.
- 200.00€
- The first geological map of the critical corridor between Girisk, Afghanistan through Kandahar and Quetta to Sibi, Pakistan, by the Austrian-British adventurer Carl Griesbach.
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- Africa, Maps and Prints
- AFRICA – SÃO TOMÉ: África Ocidental – Carta da Ilha de S. Tomé. Escala 1/100000, 1922.
- 350.00€
- The first edition of the first map of the island of São Tomé to be predicated upon systematic triangulated surveys, by Gago Coutinho, who subsequently became a world famous aviator, published in Lisbon in 1922.
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- Africa, Maps and Prints
- AFRICA (NORTH-EASTERN) – EGYPT, LIBYA, SUDAN and TUNISIA
- 380.00€
- A highly attractive separately issued Ottoman map of North-Eastern Africa (Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and Sudan), also embracing adjacent parts of the Middle East and Southern Europe.
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- Africa, Books, Geography, History, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: November 2020
- AFRICA (TANZANIA, CAMEROON, NAMIBIA, TOGO, CONGO) – NAZI DESIGNS IN AFRICA / CARTOGRAPHY / TRANSPORTATION: Straßen im tropischen Afrika: Auszüge aus den Mandatsberichten der Jahre 1922-1937 und aus den Abhandlungen des Kgl. Belgischen Kolonialinstituts 1939.
- 1,200.00€
- An extremely rare Nazi report on the state of roads in Germany's former African colonies and the Belgian Congo, made early in World Wat II in preparation for plans for the Third Reich to regain its African empire either by diplomacy or force, being a printed copy of an original typescript labelled as 'Als Manuskript gedruckt' ('Printed as a manuscript'), issued…
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- Africa, Australia, Books, Geography, Maps and Prints, Ottoman Books, South America, Turkica
- AFRICA / AUSTRALIA / SOUTH AMERICA / SOUTH POLE: سعدى عبدالقادر لر قطعه آفريقا و آستراليا آمريقا، جنوبى اجاه جوغرافيا عمومى [Umumi coğrafya ile Cenubî Amerika, Avustralya ve Afrika Kıtaları / Basic Geography. Continents South America, Australia and Afr
- 480.00€
- A rare, richly illustrated book in Ottoman script on Africa, North Pole, Australia and South America.
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- Africa, Books, Geography, Maps and Prints
- Africa / Ephemera: آفريقا قطعه سى [The Africa Part]
- 120.00€
- A rare ephemeral Ottoman map of Africa was printed on the back cover of a notebook 8°. [48 pp.] manuscript in pencil on paper with printed stripes, stapled, original pink illustrated wrappers (front cover with light water-staining, tears, loss of image and recently repaired with scotch tape, map with soft folds and tiny tears in the margins, staples…
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- Africa, Books, Geography, Maps and Prints, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- AFRICA TRAVELOUGE: افريقا سياحتنامه سى [Afrika Seyahatnâmesi / Africa Book of Travels, i. e. The Heart of Africa / Im Herzen von Afrika]
- 1,500.00€
- A complete set of the contemporary Ottoman translations of Schweinfurth’s influential travelogue to Africa. 8°: 911 pp. with black and white illustrations, folding map, coloured in outline, one toned lithograph with hand coloured details, contemporary Ottoman black calf with gilt and debossed decoration (remboîtage in a contemporary Ottoman binding) (minor age-toning and foxing, holes in the map on the crossings…
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- Maps and Prints
- ALASKA – ETHNOGRAPHIC MAP: Ethnographische Skizzen über die Völker des Russischen Amerika. Erste Abteilung: Die Thlinkithen. Die Konjagen. Karte des Russischen Amerika. Nach den neuesten Quellen gezeichnet von H. J. Holmberg. 1854.
- 750.00€
- The first ethnographic map of Alaska, by the Finnish anthropologist H.J. Holmberg, bound within the accompanying Part 1 (of 2 independently-issued parts) of Holmberg’s groundbreaking study of the region.
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- Maps and Prints
- ALBANIA / GEOLOGY – ORIGINAL PUBLISHER’S PROOF: Geologische Karte von Nordalbanien aufgenommen von Dr. Franz Baron Nopcsa 1905 – 1916.
- 450.00€
- The original publisher’s proof of Franz Baron von Nopcsa’s geological map of Northern Albania, the first scientific geological map of the region.
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- Balkans, Maps and Prints
- ALBANIA & MONTENEGRO: ِاشقودره ولآيت [İşkodra Vilayet / Scutari Vilayet].
- 250.00€
- A very rare lithographed postcard map of the Scutari Vilayet in Ottoman script was made in Istanbul during the Young Turks Regime by a Romanian born publisher Tüccarzâde İbrahim Hilmi Çığıraçan.
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- Albania, Balkans, Europe, Greece, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: December 2020
- ALBANIA, CORFU, GREECE: يانينه ولايتى [Janina Vilayet]
- 120.00€
- A map from Umûm Vilayât-ı Şâhâneyi Hâvi Küçük Atlas - Umûmî Küçük Atlas (General Small Atlas) Chromolithograph. 9 x 13,5 cm (3.5 x 5.3 inches).
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- Maps and Prints
- ALBANIA: Karte des Fürstentums Albanien.
- 150.00€
- A separately published map shows the Principality of Albania in the year the country became indipendant and one year before the WW I, showcasing the new and disputed borders.
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- Maps and Prints
- ALBANIA: Албания [Albanija].
- 250.00€
- A large uncommon tourist map of Albania in Macedonian language, showing the local flair, including historical monuments, beaches, national costumes and guns.
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East, Turkey
- ALEPPO, SYRIA & TURKEY: حلب ولآيت [HALEP VILAYET / ALEPPO VILAYET].
- 200.00€
- A very rare lithographed postcard map of the Aleppo Vilayet in Ottoman script was made in Istanbul during the Young Turks Regime by a Romanian born publisher Tüccarzâde İbrahim Hilmi Çığıraçan.
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- Africa, Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: December 2020
- ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT: Mediterranean Sea – Egypt. Approaches to Alexandria and Abu Qir Bay surveyed by Commanders F.A. Reyne & S.A.G. Hill…1920-22. / Abu Qir Bay (Western Part) surveyed by Commanders F.A. Reyne & S.A.G. Hill…1920-22.
- 150.00€
- This is a large and exceedingly detailed sheet of sea charts of the Alexandria area, Egypt, made during the twilight of Britain’s domination of the country. Photozincograph with some navigational details heightened in purple, pastedown printed correction slip added over Alexandria’s Inner Harbour, manuscript notes regarding a 1958 voyage and contemporary manuscript additions added in red pen (Good, old…
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- Maps and Prints
- ALGIERS, Algeria: Carte von Algier mit seinen Umgebungen.
- 450.00€
- A rare, seemingly unrecorded lithographed broadside, printed in Switzerland, shows Algiers, besieged by French in 1830.
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- Maps and Prints
- ALICANTE, Spain. “Plan de la rade Alicant en Espagne”.
- 900.00€
- A fine manuscript chart of Alicante Bay, Spain, drafted by a French naval officer during the Seven Years’ War.
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- Americas, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: October 2020
- AMERICA – OTTOMAN SCHOOL ATLAS: آمريقا [Amerika]
- 380.00€
- 8°. 29-35 pp., facing pages marked with the same number, with colour lithographed plates, printed covers, stapled (tiny loss of paper in the lower corners of the last pages, light staining and foxing, otherwise in a good used condition).
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- ARABIAN PENINSULA:جزيرة العرب [Arabian Peninsula]
- 550.00€
- Chromolithograph. 9 x 13,5 cm (3.5 x 5.3 inches). Slightly stained.
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- Maps and Prints
- ARCHAEOLOGICAL MAP OF TURKEY: Archäologische Karte von Kleinasien.
- 380.00€
- An uncommon archaeological map of Turkey, with antique names marked in red, was published in the time of discovery of the remains of Troy.
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- Maps and Prints
- ARCHAEOLOGY / TURKEY / HERACLEA PONTICA: “figuré par M. Allier, Csul de france à Héraclée du Pont, le 15 9bre, 1806”.
- 1,500.00€
- An intriguing original manuscript sketch map of Heraclea Pontica (modern Karadeniz Ereğli), one of the most important Greco-Roman historical sites along the Black Sea coast of Anatolia, made in 1806 by Louis Allier de Hauteroche, the esteemed archaeologist and numismatist who was then Napoleon’s vice-consul to the region.
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- Maps and Prints
- ARCHITECTURE: Etching by Wendel Dietterlin
- 120.00€
- A stunning detailed etching with architectural details was made for the first edition of the revolutionary work by Wendel Dietterlin (c.1550–1599), who introduced the Five Architectural Orders by Vitruvius and Italian Renaissance elements north of the Alps. First edition, printed on fine handmade paper, with wide margins.
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- Maps and Prints
- ARCHITECTURE: Etching by Wendel Dietterlin
- 120.00€
- A stunning detailed etching with architectural details was made for the first edition of the revolutionary work by Wendel Dietterlin (c.1550–1599), who introduced the Five Architectural Orders by Vitruvius and Italian Renaissance elements north of the Alps. First edition, printed on fine handmade paper, with wide margins.
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- Maps and Prints
- ARCHITECTURE: Etching by Wendel Dietterlin
- 120.00€
- A stunning detailed etching with architectural details was made for the first edition of the revolutionary work by Wendel Dietterlin (c.1550–1599), who introduced the Five Architectural Orders by Vitruvius and Italian Renaissance elements north of the Alps. First edition, printed on fine handmade paper, with wide margins.
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- Maps and Prints
- ARCHITECTURE: Etching by Wendel Dietterlin
- 120.00€
- A stunning detailed etching with architectural details was made for the first edition of the revolutionary work by Wendel Dietterlin (c.1550–1599), who introduced the Five Architectural Orders by Vitruvius and Italian Renaissance elements north of the Alps. First edition, printed on fine handmade paper, with wide margins.
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- Maps and Prints
- ARCHITECTURE: Etching by Wendel Dietterlin
- 120.00€
- A stunning detailed etching with architectural details was made for the first edition of the revolutionary work by Wendel Dietterlin (c.1550–1599), who introduced the Five Architectural Orders by Vitruvius and Italian Renaissance elements north of the Alps. First edition, printed on fine handmade paper, with wide margins.
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- Maps and Prints
- ARCHITECTURE: Etching by Wendel Dietterlin
- 120.00€
- A stunning detailed etching with architectural details was made for the first edition of the revolutionary work by Wendel Dietterlin (c.1550–1599), who introduced the Five Architectural Orders by Vitruvius and Italian Renaissance elements north of the Alps. First edition, printed on fine handmade paper, with wide margins.
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- Maps and Prints
- ARCHITECTURE: Etching by Wendel Dietterlin
- 120.00€
- A stunning detailed etching with architectural details was made for the first edition of the revolutionary work by Wendel Dietterlin (c.1550–1599), who introduced the Five Architectural Orders by Vitruvius and Italian Renaissance elements north of the Alps. First edition, printed on fine handmade paper, with wide margins.
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- Maps and Prints
- ARCHITECTURE: Etching by Wendel Dietterlin
- 120.00€
- A stunning detailed etching with architectural details was made for the first edition of the revolutionary work by Wendel Dietterlin (c.1550–1599), who introduced the Five Architectural Orders by Vitruvius and Italian Renaissance elements north of the Alps. First edition, printed on fine handmade paper, with wide margins.
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- Maps and Prints
- ARCHITECTURE: Etching by Wendel Dietterlin
- 120.00€
- A stunning detailed etching with architectural details was made for the first edition of the revolutionary work by Wendel Dietterlin (c.1550–1599), who introduced the Five Architectural Orders by Vitruvius and Italian Renaissance elements north of the Alps. First edition, printed on fine handmade paper, with wide margins.
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- Maps and Prints
- ARCHITECTURE: Etching by Wendel Dietterlin
- 120.00€
- A stunning detailed etching with architectural details was made for the first edition of the revolutionary work by Wendel Dietterlin (c.1550–1599), who introduced the Five Architectural Orders by Vitruvius and Italian Renaissance elements north of the Alps. First edition, printed on fine handmade paper, with wide margins.
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- Maps and Prints
- ARCHITECTURE: Etching by Wendel Dietterlin
- 120.00€
- A stunning detailed etching with architectural details was made for the first edition of the revolutionary work by Wendel Dietterlin (c.1550–1599), who introduced the Five Architectural Orders by Vitruvius and Italian Renaissance elements north of the Alps. First edition, printed on fine handmade paper, with wide margins.
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- Maps and Prints
- ARCHITECTURE: Etching by Wendel Dietterlin
- 120.00€
- A stunning detailed etching with architectural details was made for the first edition of the revolutionary work by Wendel Dietterlin (c.1550–1599), who introduced the Five Architectural Orders by Vitruvius and Italian Renaissance elements north of the Alps. First edition, printed on fine handmade paper, with wide margins.
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- Maps and Prints
- ARCHITECTURE: Etching by Wendel Dietterlin
- 120.00€
- A stunning detailed etching with architectural details was made for the first edition of the revolutionary work by Wendel Dietterlin (c.1550–1599), who introduced the Five Architectural Orders by Vitruvius and Italian Renaissance elements north of the Alps. First edition, printed on fine handmade paper, with wide margins.
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- Maps and Prints
- ARCHITECTURE: Etching by Wendel Dietterlin
- 120.00€
- A stunning detailed etching with architectural details was made for the first edition of the revolutionary work by Wendel Dietterlin (c.1550–1599), who introduced the Five Architectural Orders by Vitruvius and Italian Renaissance elements north of the Alps. First edition, printed on fine handmade paper, with wide margins.
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- Maps and Prints
- ARCHITECTURE: Etching by Wendel Dietterlin
- 120.00€
- A stunning detailed etching with architectural details was made for the first edition of the revolutionary work by Wendel Dietterlin (c.1550–1599), who introduced the Five Architectural Orders by Vitruvius and Italian Renaissance elements north of the Alps. First edition, printed on fine handmade paper, with wide margins.
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- Maps and Prints
- ARMENIA / HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY / BAGRATID DYNASTY (‘SECOND GOLDEN AGE’ OF ARMENIA): Հայաստանը և հարևան երկրները 855-953 թթ. [Armenia and its Neighbours 855-953].
- 250.00€
- A rare map depicting historical Armenia under the Bagratid Dynasty, in the 9th and 10th Centuries AD, known as the ‘Second Golden Age’ of Armenia, featuring a wealth of information predicated upon the ground-breaking research by Professor Suren Yeremian, the father of Armenian historical geography.
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- Maps and Prints
- ARMENIAN & OTTOMAN SCRIPT – PORTRAIT: Mehmed V.
- 850.00€
- A very rare larger portrait of Mehmed V with titles in Ottoman and Armenian script, was published for the occasion of his investiture in 1909, only days after the massacre of Armenians in Adana. The Armenian Genocide under the reign of Mehmed IV happened six years later.
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- Armenian Books, Books, Geography, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- ARMENIAN WORLD ATLAS / ‘ARMENIAN NATIONAL AWAKENING’: Ատլաս կամ աշխարհացոյց տախտակք Ի պէտս ազգային դպրոցաց / Յօրինեաց եւ ծրագրեաց Հ. Աստուածատուր Վ. Աւագեան ի Մխիթարեան Ուխտէն.
- 9,500.00€
- Extremely rare – one of the great milestones of Armenian language cartography, being the first Armenian school atlas and the second ever Armenian world atlas, created by Astvatsatur Avakian, a monk at the Mekhitarist Monastery in Vienna, a beautifully produced work of 21 maps, importantly including one of the earliest maps to depict a proposed future independent state of ‘Armenia’…
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- Maps and Prints
- ARSENAL OF VENICE, ITALY: Plan général de l’Arsenal de Venise.
- 3,500.00€
- A unique manuscript map by one of the most important Venetian map-makers of the early 19th century Bernardo Combatti, shows the Arsenal, as rebuilt by Napoleon around 1810, to the form known today. The Arsenal today hosts the Venetian Biennale.
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- Maps and Prints
- ART-DECO – CROATIA – PHARMACY: Gardenija. Uputa za upotrebu preparata za njegu lijepote lica, ruku i čitavog tjela [Gardenia, Instructions for the Use of Preparation for Nourishing Face, Hands and Whole Body].
- 42.00€
- A decorative Croatian advertisement in art deco style was made for a beauty product of a private pharmaceutical firm circa 1930.
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- Maps and Prints
- ART-DECO FINE ART: Sence ali knjiga lesorezov in linorezov [Shadows or a Book of Woodcuts and Linocuts].
- 950.00€
- A book with original artwork. A numbered example, signed by the author.
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- Europe, Maps and Prints
- Artois Atrebatum Regionis Vera Descriptio Johanne Surhouio monte Auctore
- 11,500.00€
- An exceedingly rare map by Gerard de Jode, printed only as a broadside after the publication of his atlas of 1578.
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- Asia, Central Asia, China, India, Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: October 2020, South-East Asia
- ASIA – OTTOMAN SCHOOL ATLAS: آسيا [Asya]
- 320.00€
- 8°. 15-21 pp., facing pages marked with the same number, with colour lithographed plates, printed covers, stapled (light staining and foxing, otherwise in a good used condition).
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- Maps and Prints
- ASIA: اسيا [Asya / Asia] 2nd Edition
- 480.00€
- A rare book in Ottoman script on Asia, richly illustrated with black and white photographs and maps.
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- Maps and Prints
- ATLANTIC CANADA: Carte Réduite des Bancs et de l’Ile de Terre Neuve avec les Côtes du Golfe de St. Laurent et de L’Acadie.
- 750.00€
- A fine example the authoritative chart used by the French Government to manage their fishing rights in Newfoundland and the Grand Banks, in part based on the magisterial surveys of Newfoundland by James Cook & Michael Lane and Samuel Holland’s survey of the Island of St. John (Prince Edward Island).
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- Africa, Books, Geography, Maps and Prints
- ATLAS – MISSIONS IN AFRICA AND CHINA: Karten über das Arbeitsfeld der Berliner Mission.
- 550.00€
- A very rare atlas made by the Berlin Missionary Society, one of the most important missionary organizations in Africa and China during the 19th and early 20th Centuries, featuring 16 original maps made by missionary cartographers, including important figures such as Alexander Merensky and Bernhard Struck, containing 14 maps of South and East Africa and 2 maps of China;…
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- Australia, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND: آوستراليا [Avustralya / Australia]
- 200.00€
- Chromolithograph. 9 x 13,5 cm (3.5 x 5.3 inches). Slightly stained, overall in a good condition.
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- Australia, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: December 2020, New Zealand
- AUSTRALIA AND OCEANIA: يكى اوقيانوسيا [New Oceania]
- 850.00€
- A very rare, large format, separately issued map of Australia and Oceania that is perhaps the last great map of the continent to be printed in Ottoman Turkish script, with attractive colours and adorned with the flags of major African states and colonies, published in Istanbul for the Kitabhane-yi Sudi bookshop. Colour off-set print (Good, some light staining, wear…
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- Australia, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: September 2020, New Zealand
- AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND & OCEANIA: اقيانوسيا [Okyanusya / Oceania]
- 160.00€
- Chromolithograph. 9 x 13,5 cm (3.5 x 5.3 inches). Slightly stained, overall in a good condition
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- Austria, Croatia, Europe, Hungary, Maps and Prints, Slovenia
- AUSTRIA, SLOVENIA, CROATIA, HUNGARY, ROMANIA and ITALY / JESUITS: Province d’Autriche Contenant 22 Col. une M.P. 1 N. 22 Sém. 6 Pen. 24 R. 21 Mis. 1772 Jésuites.
- 200.00€
- A very rare miniature map of the ecclesiastical province of Austria, an administrative jurisdiction of the Jesuit Order which contained all of modern Austria, Slovenia and Hungary, as well as parts of Croatia, Italy, Serbia and Romania, issued not along after the Order was revived in the wake of the Napoleonic Wars.
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- Maps and Prints
- AUSTRIAN SOUTHERN RAILWAY: Längenprofil der südlichen k.k.Staatsbahnen Mürzzuschlag bis Laibach.
- 980.00€
- A rare seemingly unrecorded long engineer’s elevation profile of the Southern Austrian Rail shows the newly built rail between Graz, Austria, and Ljubjana, Slovenia, finished by 1849. The map bears contemporary annotations and is accompanied with an original slipcase.
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- Maps and Prints
- AUTOGRAPH: Zlatko Baloković (1895 – 1965).
- 250.00€
- A photo with an autograph of Zlatko Baloković, a famous Croatian violinist, visible figure among the Yugoslavian immigrants to the United States, and a personal friend of Nikola Tesla, who played Ave Maria and a Serbian song Tamo daleko, when New York City mayor Fiorello La Guardia read Tesla’s eulogy on the radio.
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- Maps and Prints
- BADEN-WÜRTTEMBERG, Germany: Südliche Hälfte. Württemberg. Aus der Vogelschau. Gegen Süden gesehen.
- 100.00€
- Stunning bird's eye view of Baden-Württemberg, made in the 1920s by a German map-maker, painter and pilot Josef Ruep.
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- Maps and Prints
- BADEN-WÜRTTEMBERG: Neueste Karte von dem Königreich Würtemberg und dem Großherzogthum Baden mit den inclavirten Fürstenthümern Hechingen und Sigmaringen
- 450.00€
- A large detailed folding map in four parts and accompanied by original slipcase shows the Kingdom of Württemberg and Grand Duchy of Baden, today Baden-Württemberg in Germany.
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- BADEN, SWITZERLAND: Kursaal. Baden. Schweiz. Suisse. Switzerland
- 320.00€
- A stunning brochure in Art Nouveau style was made by a Swiss artist and poster designer Otto Baumberger for a spa resort Baden.
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- BAGHDAD / IRAQ: بغداد ولايتى [Baghdad Vilayet]
- 180.00€
- Chromolithograph. 9 x 13,5 cm (3.5 x 5.3 inches). Minor staining, overall in a good condition.
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- BAGHDAD RAILWAY / ANATOLIAN RAILWAY: يولجى رهبرى [Passenger Guide].
- 350.00€
- A highly attractive and informative ‘Passenger’s Guide’ for Turkey’s Anatolian Railway, which was in the process of being extended to finally complete the Baghdad Railway, running from Istanbul to the Iraqi capital, a project that had been viewed for decades as of the upmost geopolitical importance; published by the Anatolian-Baghdad Railway Company on the eve of its nationalization by…
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East
- Baghdad Region, Iraq – World War I / Mesopotamian Campaign / Calcutta Imprint: Bāghdād. Turkey in Asia and Persia. (Rough Provisional Issue, Second Edition) / No. 2C. [Baghdad Region].
- 1,500.00€
- The seminal map of the Baghdad region used by British Imperial forces during World War I’s Mesopotamian Campaign for operational planning during their two attempts to take the Iraqi capital, being the extremely rare ‘Degree Sheet’ survey of the area predicated upon the best available sources, published in 1915 in Calcutta by the Survey of India on the orders of…
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- BAGHDAD, IRAQ: Directorate General Passenger Transport Service / Baghdad Bus Map.
- 220.00€
- A scarce and detailed map of circa 1960 Baghdad, capturing the city during a period of rapid development due to the on-going oil boom, made by the local public transit authority to show bus routes.
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- BAGHDAD: بغداد ولايتى [Baghdad Vilayeti]
- 180.00€
- Postcard. Lithography in colour (Very Good, slightly age-toned, tiny tears and chips in margins ) 10 x 14cm (5.11 x 3.5 inches).
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- BAJA CALIFORNIA / SONORA, MEXICO: Seno de California, y su costa oriental nuevamente descubierta, y registrada desde el Cabo de las Virgenas, hasta su termino, que es el Rio Colorado año 1747.
- 1,500.00€
- Rare - the first edition of the famous map that definitively proved that California was not an island, by the Croatian Jesuit explorer Ferdinand Konšćak (Fernando Consag), printed in Madrid in 1757.
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East
- BATTLE OF ALEPPO / PURSUIT TO HARITAN / MANUSCRIPT MILITARY FIELD ANNOTATIONS: Karte von Mesopotamien und Syrien / Aleppo.
- 1,500.00€
- A stellar and unique artefact of World War I in the Middle East - an advanced topographical map of north-western Syria and the adjacent parts of Anatolia issued by the German Army in May 1918, with extensive contemporary manuscript additions in coloured crayon added by an Ottoman officer depicting the key military actions during the Battle of Aleppo and the…
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- Maps and Prints
- BATTLE OF DUMLUPINAR, TURKEY: Büyük Taarruz Ve Başkumandan Meydan Muharebesi [Great Offensive and Commander-in-Chief Battle].
- 420.00€
- A fascinating, extremely rare Turkish 20th century map by a military historian Hakki Tümerdem shows the development of the Battle of Dumlupınar, the last battle in the Greco-Turkish War in 1922.
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- Battle of Mohács 1526, HUNGARY: مهاچ ميداز مجاربى سى
- 550.00€
- A very rare broadside with Ottoman script showing the Battle of Mohács was made in the series of large separately published maps by the Turkish War Office the late Hamidian period as a part of intellectual propaganda to revive patriotic sentiment.
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- Battle of Saint Gotthard, HUNGARY: سنغوتار ميداز محاربى سى
- 480.00€
- A very rare broadside with Ottoman script showing the Battle of Saint Gotthard was made in the series of large separately published maps by the Turkish War Office the late Hamidian period as a part of intellectual propaganda to revive patriotic sentiment.
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- Battle of Slankamen, SERBIA: صلانقمين ميداز محادبى سى
- 480.00€
- A very rare broadside with Ottoman script showing the Battle of Slankamen was made in the series of large separately published maps by the Turkish War Office the late Hamidian period as a part of intellectual propaganda to revive patriotic sentiment.
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- Books, Maps and Prints, Slavica
- BATTLE OF STALINGRAD – PARTISAN CARTOGRAPHY: Velika Bitka pod Stalingradom. [The Great Battle at Stalingrad].
- 250.00€
- A rare Slovenian Partisan publication of Nikolai Talensky’s description of the Battle of Stalingrad, published by the ‘top secret’ Triglav Press, one of the two most important underground Slovenian Partisan printing operations.
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- Broadsides, Europe, Germany, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- BAVARICA / LUDWIG I / EPHEMERA: Nice, le 5 Mars 1868. Le Comte de Castell, Grand Maitre de la Cour, et le Lieutenant-Géneral, Baron de Jeetze, Aide de Camp de sa Majesté le Roi Louis Ier de Bavière, ont l’honneur de vous prier d’assister au SERVICE FUNERE qui sera célébré, demain, Vendredi 6 Mars, à 9 heures, à l’Église Cathédrale pour le repos se âme de S. M. le Roi Louis Ier de Bavière.
- 250.00€
- [Nice, March 5, 1868. The Count of Castell, Grand Master of the Court, and the Lieutenant-General, Baron de Jeetze, Aide-de-Camp to his Majesty King Louis I of Bavaria, have the honour to ask you to attend the FUNERE SERVICE which will be held tomorrow, Friday March 6th, at 9 am, at the Cathedral for the rest of the soul of…
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- BEIRUT / LEBANON
- 220.00€
- Chromolithograph. 9 x 13,5 cm (3.5 x 5.3 inches). Minor staining, overall in a good condition.
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- BEIRUT / LEBANON: بيروت ولايتى [Beirut Vilayet]
- 220.00€
- Chromolithograph. 9 x 13,5 cm (3.5 x 5.3 inches). Minor staining, overall in a good condition.
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- BEIRUT / LEBANON: بيروت ولايتى [Beirut Vilayeti]
- 220.00€
- Postcard. Lithography in colour (Very Good, slightly age-toned) 10 x 14cm (5.11 x 3.5 inches).
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East
- Beirut, Lebanon / Lebanese Civil War: Beirut, Lebanon Lebanese Civil War
- 650.00€
- A fascinating large format map of greater Beirut made by the U.S. Defense Mapping Agency to aid the CIA and the American military early in the Lebanese Civil War when the city was a hotbed of espionage and major faultline in the Cold War; an extremely accurate and detailed depiction based upon satellite reconnaissance, it labels every major building, street…
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- Maps and Prints
- BELGIUM – Flemish Region: Exactissima Flandriae Desciptio
- 2,200.00€
- A stunning example of a rare, separately issued map of the Flemish Region by Gerard de Jode, was coloured in the late 16th century in the style of the frescoes of the Gallery of Maps in Vatican.
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- BELGIUM: Les campemens des armées du roy dans les Pays-Bas depuis l’année 1690 jusques à present. Dediés a sa Maieste Par le Sr. Vaultier, A Paris 1698.
- 350.00€
- Deatailed map of the battlefields in Belgium from the late 17th century, from a counterfeited French atlas, published by Pierre Mortier in Amsterdam around 1700.
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- Africa, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: December 2020
- BENGHAZI, LIBYA: Mediterranean Sea. Tripioli. Benghazi to Derna. Surveyed… under the direction of Capt.n T.A.B. Spratt, R.N.; C.B.; F.R.S. 1861.
- 250.00€
- An updated 1914 edition of fine sea chart made by the British Admiralty of the northwestern coast of Libya, known as the Jebel Akhdar, the historical region of Cyrenaica. Photozincograph with some navigational details heightened in yellow (Good, noticeable staining in upper and lower margins, some print transference), 102.5 x 68.5 cm (40.5 x 27 inches).
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- Africa, Maps and Prints
- BENIN – SOVIET CARTOGRAPHY: Бенин [Benin]
- 75.00€
- Colour print, 52 x 89 cm (20.2 x 35 inches), accompanied by an original brochure with an index: 8°, 7 pp, wrappers with title, stapled. Housed in an original illustrated wrappers with a flap (a small hand-written monogram of the previous owner, otherwise in a near-mint unused condition with a minimal stains on the spine of the wrappers).
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- BERCHTESGADENER LAND: Special Karte der Berchtesgadener Alpen.
- 150.00€
- A fine detailed map, issued by a German and Austrian Alpine association, showcases the Berchtesgadener Land in Bavaria and Austria with the Königssee in the middle.
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- Books, Europe, Germany, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: November 2020, Slavica
- BERLIN – 1930s: Berlin i okolice. Dodatek: Rozmówki i słowniczek polsko-niemiecki
- 380.00€
- [Berlin and Surroundings. Appendix: Phrasebook and Polish-German Dictionary] A rare polish guidebook to a Nazi Berlin with a Polish-German dictionary and a map 12°, XVI, 151 pp., folding map, original illustrated wrappers (wrappers with light folds, minor are-toning and staining, repaired tear in the left-hand side of the map, otherwise in a good condition).
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- BERLIN 1952: Berlin is calling the world. Visit the city of the Freedom Bell.
- 120.00€
- A pocket map in English language shows East in West Berlin in 1952, in the year when the border between the two halves of the city oficially closed.
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- BERLIN WALL: Berlin. JRO-Sonderkarte.
- 180.00€
- A large map showing the partition of Berlin and a newly built wall was printed in circa 1962. The statistic charts verso show the development of economy and numbers of refugees until 1960.
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- BERLIN: Deutsche Lufthansa. Berlin
- 200.00€
- Highly decorative 1950s Lufthansa map of East Berlin, made in a contemporary mid-century design, trying to show the capital of the German Democratic Republic as amusing, progressive and modern.
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- Maps and Prints
- Bezengi, Russia & Georgia: Skupina Bezengi [Bezengi Group].
- 380.00€
- This is probably the first correct survey of the Bezengi Massive in the Caucasus, Russia, made in the mid 1960s by the Yugoslavian expedition, in cooperation with the Soviet mountaineers during the height of the Cold War.
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- Bezengi, Russia & Georgia: Zentraler Kaukasus
- 150.00€
- The map is probably the first Western survey of the Bezengi Massive in the Caucasus, Russia, made in 1962 by the Austrian expedition. This photograph of the map was used by the Yugoslavian expedition in cooperation with the Soviet mountaineers during the height of the Cold War.
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- Maps and Prints
- BICYCLE MAP – CZECH REPUBLIC: Mapa Království českého pro cestující, turisty, cyklisty a. t. d.
- 280.00€
- An early chromolithographed bicycle map of Czech Republic.
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- Maps and Prints
- BINDING & MAP: Uebersichts-Karte für die Concentrirung des X. Deutschen Bundes-Armee-Corps 1858 [General Map of the Maneuvers of the 10th Corpus of the German Army. 1858].
- 220.00€
- A German military map was bound in a highly decorative red binding with gilt embossed royal coat of arms.
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- Balkans, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- BITOLA -MANASTIR / NORTH MACEDONIA / OTTOMAN CARTOGRAPHY / POSTCARD MAP: مناستر ولآيتى [Vilayet Manastir]
- 120.00€
- Postcard. Lithography in colour (Very Good, slightly age-toned) 10 x 14cm (5.11 x 3.5 inches).
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- BOARD GAME: Čez hrib in dol [Over Hill and Dale].
- 220.00€
- A rare, seemingly unrecorded educational propaganda geographical game was made in post-WWII Yugoslavia for young children (pioneers).
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- BRISBANE, Australia. Australia, East Coast: Queensland: Brisbane River surveyed by Staff Comr. Bedwell & Navg. Lieut. Connor. R.N. 1873 With corrections to 1899.
- 650.00€
- The first advanced scientific survey of Brisbane’s Harbour, the British Admiralty’s rare large-scale sea chart, based on the work of Commander Edward Parker Bedwell and Lt. Edward Connor.
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- BRITISH ISLES: Angliae Scotiae et Hiberniae Nova descriptio.
- 2,000.00€
- A stunning example of a separately issued de Jode map of the British Isles was coloured in the late 16th century in the style of the frescoes of the Gallery of Maps in Vatican.
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- BROADSIDE, HEALTH – SPLIT, DALMATIA: Terminazione degl’ Illustrissimi, ed Eccellentissimi Signori Sopra Proveditori, e Proveditori alla Sanità.
- 550.00€
- A rare Venetian broadside forbids uncontrolled Turkish trade in the Lazaret of Split in Dalmatia as a health precaution against spreading of the plague.
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- BROADSIDE, HEALTH – SPLIT, DALMATIA: Terminazione degl’ Illustrissimi, ed Eccellentissimi Signori Sopra Proveditori, e Proveditori alla Sanità.
- 550.00€
- A rare Venetian broadside forbids uncontrolled Turkish trade in the Lazaret of Split in Dalmatia as a health precaution against spreading of the plague.
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- Europe, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: October 2020, Romania
- BUCHAREST, ROMANIA / WORLD WAR II / THIRD REICH CARTOGRAPHY: Bukarest
- 350.00€
- A rare, very large format double-sided sheet of maps of Bucharest (thus 2 maps), showcasing both the city proper and the metropolitan area, made during the early days of World War II by the General Staff of the Nazi German Army, just as Romania was switching sides from the Allies to the Axis cause; predicated upon the best information, the…
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- Americas, Archives and Documents, Maps and Prints, South America
- BUENOS AIRES – BRITISH INVASIONS OF THE RÍO DE LA PLATA (1806-7) – MANUSCRIPT MAP & PORTRAIT COLLECTION: A fine collection relating to the British Invasion of the Río De La Plata (1806-7), highlighted by an original contemporary manuscript map of the Seco
- 4,500.00€
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- BUENOS AIRES, AREGENTINA: Plano Bemporat de la Capital. Plano Especial para Automóviles.
- 400.00€
- A large and highly attractive Art Nouveau style street plan of Buenos Aires, especially made for drivers in the early age of automobiles.
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- Maps and Prints
- BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA: Vodić kroz Buenos Aires [Guide of Buenos Aires].
- 180.00€
- A seemingly unrecorded guidebook of Buenos Aires in Croatian language with a map, was printed in the late 1920s for the Croatian immigrants, providing basic information on the city and useful addresses.
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- Bulgaria, Europe, Maps and Prints
- BULGARIA – SOVIET CARTOGRAPHY: Болгария [Bolgarija]
- 55.00€
- Colour print, 67 x 78 cm (26.3 x 30.7 inches). Housed in an original illustrated wrappers with a flap (a small hand-written monogram of the previous owner, otherwise in a near-mint unused condition with a minimal stains on the spine of the wrappers).
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- Balkans, Bulgaria, Greece, Maps and Prints, Turkey
- BULGARIA / GREECE / BALKAN WARS DIPLOMACY IMPORTANT CONTEMPORARY MANUSCRIPT ADDITIONS: Stanford’s Large Scale Map of the Country between Bulgaria & Constantinople.
- 1,200.00€
- A very rare, large format map of the traditional region Thrace especially commissioned by the British Foreign Office from the leading mapmaker Edward Stanford Ltd. to depict the theatre of the ongoing First Balkan War, a conflict between the Ottoman Empire and the ‘Balkan League’; showcasing a vast wealth of topographical and military information; the present example importantly featuring extensive…
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- Bulgaria
- BULGARIA, WWII propaganda flyer: Българино! За какво ще це биешъ ти? За тази България ли? Или за тази? … Размисли и реши! [Bulgarian! What are you going to be fighting for? For this Bulgaria? Or for this? … Think and decide!]
- 280.00€
- An rare WWII propaganda flyer in Bulgarian and partly German language, made by the Wehrmacht and showcasing Large and Small Bulgaria, was distributed as legitimate pass for the Bulgarians to join the German army.
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- Maps and Prints
- BULGARIAN TOBACCO ATLAS: Карти на тютюневиѣ райони вь Бьлгария [Karti na tjutjunevia rajoni v Blgarija / Maps of Tobacco Regions in Bulgaria].
- 650.00€
- A rare, seemingly unrecorded tobacco atlas of Bulgarian regions was made on the eve of WWII, in 1940, in Plovdiv. Some manuscript annotations were added up to 1944.
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- Maps and Prints
- BURGUNDY – Franche-Comté: Comitatus Burgundiae
- 650.00€
- A stunning example of a rare, separately issued map of Burgundy by Gerard de Jode, was coloured in the late 16th century in the style of the frescoes of the Gallery of Maps in Vatican.
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- Maps and Prints
- BURMA – TAVOY (DAWEI) MAP WITH MSS. ADDITIONS OF MINING CONCESSIONS: Map of the Tavoy District / Scale 1 inch = 2 miles.
- 350.00€
- Extremely rare – seemingly unrecorded – a large, separately-issued map of the Tavoy (Dawei) District of Tenasserim, Burma made by the engineer J.V. Griffin and published in 1914 by the government press in Rangoon – a unique example with extensive contemporary manuscript additions showcasing numerous named mining concessions and the routes of proposed roads.
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- Maps and Prints
- BURMA / NORTHEASTERN INDIA: Eastern Bengal, Assam, Burmah, and parts of China and Siam mostly adapted from the maps of the Surveyor General of India by Robert Gordon, Esq., M.I.C.E. and M.I.M.E.
- 950.00€
- A fascinating, very rare large-format map of Burma and Northeastern India composed by Robert Gordon, a prominent explorer, Ruby prospector and the principal engineer of the Irrawaddy River system, published in Calcutta by the Surveyor General of India’s Office.
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- Maps and Prints
- CALLIGRAPHY DRAWING – FRENCH REVOLUTION.
- 2,000.00€
- A highly decorative politically motivated calligraphy darwing in the immediate run-up to the French Revolution, made by the French ‘Master Calligraphers’ during the era, and one of the early images of spectacles, in the form we know today.
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- Asia, Bulgaria, Maps and Prints
- CAMBODIA – SOVIET CARTOGRAPHY: Кампучия [Kampučija]
- 90.00€
- Colour print, 56 x 67 cm (22 x 26.3 inches), accompanied by an original brochure with an index: 8°, 11 pp., wrappers with title, stapled. Housed in an original illustrated wrappers with a flap (a small hand-written monogram of the previous owner, otherwise in a near-mint unused condition with a minimal stains on the spine of the wrappers).
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- Maps and Prints
- CANADA – MUSKOKA / GEORGIAN BAY / NIPISSING / ALGONQUIN / UPPER OTTAWA VALLEY (Ontario): Map of the Ottawa and Huron Territory.
- 750.00€
- A scarce, historically important and monumental map of Ontario’s Muskoka, Georgian Bay, Nipissing, Algonquin and Upper Ottawa Valley regions, based upon groundbreaking surveys, made as a blueprint for the regional settlement designs of Canada’s Department of Crown Lands, published in Toronto in 1857.
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- Maps and Prints
- CANADA – QUEBEC (Montreal-Quebec City Corridor): Plan of the St. Maurice Territory.
- 750.00€
- A scarce and monumental map of Quebec’s St. Maurice Territory, the northern section of the Montreal-Quebec City Corridor, based upon groundbreaking surveys, created as a blueprint for the settlement of the interior regions beyond the seigneuries along the St. Lawrence, published for Canada’s Department of Crown Lands by George Matthews in Montreal, in 1856.
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- Maps and Prints
- CANADA – QUEBEC (Montreal-Quebec City Corridor): Plan of the St. Maurice Territory.
- 750.00€
- A scarce and monumental map of Quebec’s St. Maurice Territory, the northern section of the Montreal-Quebec City Corridor, based upon groundbreaking surveys, created as a blueprint for the settlement of the interior regions beyond the seigneuries along the St. Lawrence, published for Canada’s Department of Crown Lands by George Matthews in Montreal, in 1856.
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- Maps and Prints
- Canadian Map of the USSR (CCCP): News Fact Map of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic.
- 380.00€
- An uncommon Canadian news map of the USSR, with a marked project of the Central Siberian Sea - a supposedly planned large sea in the middle of the Russia.
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- Maps and Prints, Spain
- CANARY ISLANDS, Spain – CARTOGRAPHIC PLAYING CARD: ‘Canary Isles’ from The Court Game of Geography.
- 200.00€
- A very rare cartographic playing card featuring a map of the Canary Islands, being the ‘2 of Clubs’.
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- Maps and Prints
- CAROLINE ISLANDS / NEW GUINEA: Route de la Corvette l’Astrolabe au travers des Carolines…Avril, Mai, Juin 1828 [with]Carte générale de la côte septentrionale de la Nouvelle Guinée et de la côte meridionale de la Nouvelle Bretagne reconnues par le Cap.ne d
- 250.00€
- A fine large format sheet of two charts featuring the discoveries in the Caroline Islands (1828) and New Guinea (1827) by Jules Dumont D’Urville’s during his first voyage on the Astrolabe.
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- Maps and Prints
- CELESTIAL NAVIGATION FOR MARINERS: Sternkarte nebst Anweisung zur Kenntniß der vornehmsten Fixsterne, nach ihrem wechselseitigen Stande. Insonderheit zum Gebrauch für Seefahrende. Herausgegeben vom königlichen Dänischen Seekartenarchive.
- 950.00€
- A very rare and excellent treatise on celestial navigation for mariners, anchored by a custom-made chart of the Northern Celestial Hemisphere, by the esteemed Danish astronomer and hydrographer Poul de Løvenørn.
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- Africa, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: December 2020
- CENTRAL AFRICA: [Congo, Cameroon, Angola, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda]
- 120.00€
- A map from Umûm Vilayât-ı Şâhâneyi Hâvi Küçük Atlas - Umûmî Küçük Atlas (General Small Atlas) Chromolithograph. 9 x 13,5 cm (3.5 x 5.3 inches).
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- Maps and Prints
- CHARLATAN BROADSIDE: Wonderful and Amusing. Astonishing Experiments upon the highly interesting subject of Thusology or Biology. The Electrical Science of Life will be given by A.S. Pearce & J.J. Hatch…
- 220.00€
- An unusual broadside is an invitation to a mind reading and mind controlling charlatan show, camouflaged in a series pseudoscientific words, probably performed in New York in mid-19th century.
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- Maps and Prints
- CHILE – Chiloé: Plano de la entrada en el golfo de Chiloé, y Puerto de Chacao, en las costas del Mar del Sur ; cuya latitud austral es de 41 grads. 56 mins. y su longitud contada del meridiano de Tenerife 303 grads. 59 mins. Leventado de orden del Rey Nue
- 250.00€
- A fine mid 18th Century map of Chiloé, Chile, made during the height of the Jesuit Order’s dominance over the region, printed in Madrid as part of as part of Juan and Ulloa’s epic work on South America.
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- Asia, Maps and Prints
- CHINA – BEIJING-WUHAN CORRIDOR: Karte von Ost-China…Peking / Tsi nan fu / Hankau.
- 750.00€
- A magnificent early 19th Century overview of China’s Beijing-Wuhan corridor and the complete line of the Jinghan Railway made from three originally joined sheets from the colossal ‘Karte von Ost-China’, a masterpiece of scientific cartography created by the Prussian Land Office in the wake of the Boxer Rebellion, in part from the mapping of Ferdinand Freiherr von Richthofen, to…
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- Maps and Prints
- CHINA – DALIAN / OTTOMAN MAP / SIEGE OF PORT ARTHUR (1904-5): [ پورارتور…باشلا حرب Map of the Russian-Japanese War…].
- 1,200.00€
- A seemingly unrecorded, separately issued Ottoman map depicting the Siege of Port Arthur (1904-5), today part of Dalian, China, whereby a massive Japanese force took the heavily fortified Russian base after an unexpectedly brutal showdown, one of the great military events and global media spectacles fin-de-siècle era, and one watched with special interest by the Sublime Porte, long Russia’s…
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- Maps and Prints
- CHINA – ENORMOUS HYDROLOGICAL MAP: 中國水系 [China: Water Systems / Zhongguo shui xi gua tu].
- 450.00€
- A rare, very large format official hydrological map of China, issued in the wake of The Great Leap Forward (1958-62), Chairman Mao’s monumental programme to rapidly industrialize the country, a vision that involved massive water management and reallocation projects; published in Beijing by the China Cartographic Publishing House, the state workshop that specialized in producing such high-quality, original thematic…
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- Maps and Prints
- CHINA – ENORMOUS TRANSPORTATION AND COMMUNICATIONS MAP: 中國交通 [China: Communications / Zhongguo Jiaotong].
- 450.00€
- A rare, very large format official transportation and communications map of China, issued in the wake of The Great Leap Forward (1958-62), Chairman Mao’s monumental programme to rapidly industrialize the country, a vision that involved massive infrastructure projects; published in Beijing by the China Cartographic Publishing House, the state workshop that specialized in producing such high-quality, original thematic maps.
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- Asia, China, Maps and Prints
- CHINA – HAINAN (South Coast, including Yalong Bay): A Chart of the South Coast of Hay-nan: from Tinhosa to Guichou Survey’d in 1776 and 77 By Captn. Haldane.
- 950.00€
- Very Rare – the first issue of the first large-format printed sea chart of the South Coast of Hainan, based on a reconnaissance survey conducted by John Haldane of the British East India Company, from Sayer & Bennett’s magnificent ‘The East-India Pilot, or Oriental Navigator’.
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- Asia, China, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: October 2020
- CHINA – HANKOW / HANKOU (WUHAN) / URBANISM / FOREIGN TREATY PORTS: Foreign Settlement, Hankow, China.
- 2,000.00€
- A seemingly unrecorded whiteprint map of the ‘Foreign Settlements’ of Hankow (today part of Wuhan), which was long the industrial and logistics hub of inland China and a major focus of Western investment; created towards the end of the ‘Roaring Twenties’ by the prominent local architect and engineer R.N. Hewitt likely for the private use of a major British commercial…
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- CHINA, TAIWAN, KOREA and JAPAN: A Map of the Sea Coasts of China from Tonquin to Corea, also of the Islands of Japon.
- 600.00€
- A rare and unusual map of coastal China, Taiwan, Korea and Japan made by the Scottish adventurer and privateer Alexander Hamilton.
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- Maps and Prints
- CHINA: [The People’s Revolutionary Committees Are Good].
- 350.00€
- A large Chinese propaganda poster map with a portrait of Mao, was made on synthetic fabric and promotes the revolutionary committees of 1969.
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- Maps and Prints
- Chișinău, MOLDOVA. Stadtplan von Kischinew (Chișinău).
- 380.00€
- A map of Chișinău, the capital of Moldova, made in 1941 by the Luftwaffe, who invaded the city in the same year.
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- Books, Maps and Prints, Other
- CLASSIC AUTOMOBILES / ART DECO DESIGN: [Adler Automotive Company: An Art Deco Portfolio containing 10 Coloured Lithographs of New Car Models].
- 450.00€
- A sumptuous Art Deco portfolio of coloured lithographs of new luxury models of Adler Automobiles, made to celebrate Clärenore Stinnes’ pioneering around-the-world tour, made by the esteemed artist Georg Johann Köhler.
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- Maps and Prints, Posters
- COLD WAR / ANTIPROPRAGANDA: CCCP USA
- 1,200.00€
- This is a superb example of a poster by a Poland-born artist Roman Cieślewicz, representing the SSSR and USA in forms of Supermen, as a mirror image of each-other, self-confidently rushing to save the world. The image was made amidst the Cold War and was published in a smaller scale on the cover of the esteemed French art magazine,…
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- Maps and Prints
- COLOUR PRINTING – NETHERLANDS: Gezicht op de dijkbreuk en overstroming te Bemmel bij Nijmegen. Links het opgekruide ijs en doorbraak van de dijk.
- 950.00€
- A rare large view, made in the technique of colour aquatint and etching - one of the most demanding printing techniques in the history, showcases a flood in Bemmel, in the Netherlands, in 1799.
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- Broadsides, Europe, Greece, Maps and Prints, Romania, Serbia
- COLOUR PRINTING / SCOTLAND / NORWAY / CORFU / SERBIA / ROMANIA
- 850.00€
- Landinge en inhalinge van de Pretendent tot Peterhead..., De vugt van de Pretendent gaande tot Montros..., De Rievier de Swynsond in Noorweegen..., Het Kraambed van de Kyserin die op den 13. April 1716..., Zee battaille tussen de Deense en de Sweedse schepen, by de rivier de Swynsond...
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- Maps and Prints
- COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA: Радници, намјештеници, грађани и грађанке! [Radnici, namještenici, građani i građanke!]
- 250.00€
- A rare large Yugoslavian poster in Cyrillic and Latin script, invites citizens of Doboj in Bosnia, to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the formation of the National Liberation Army during WWII.
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- Maps and Prints
- COSSACK CARTOGRAPHY – COSSACK ÉMIGRÉS – USA: Карта Кубанскаго Края 1792-1920 [Karta Kubanskago Kraja / Map of the Kuban Region].
- 820.00€
- A pair of large maps showcasing the Kuban region, as it looked in 1920, made in the United States in 1960 and 1961 by a Cossack émigré, a former Major-General Vyacheslav Naumenko, who escaped the post WWII Repatriation of Cossacks.
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- Maps and Prints
- Course cycliste internationale circuit de la Croatie et de la Slovenie 24. VI. – 1. VII. 1950.
- 600.00€
- A rare smaller colourful poster was made for a bicycle race across Slovenia, Croatia, and the Free Territory to Trieste. The race was organised by Yugoslavia in the time of the Tito-Stalin split, as a response to its expel from the popular Peace Race, organised by the Communist countries.
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- Maps and Prints
- CRETAN STATE: Die Insel Candia oder Creta : (Kriti im Neugriech., Kirid im Türk.) ; Kriegsschauplatz ; Reduction der vom Hydrographic Office in London 1862 publicirten, 1852 durch Spratt aufgenommenen Karte in 2 Blatt (in Maßstab 1:146.000).
- 400.00€
- An uncommon separately published map of the island of Crete, shows the theatre of war of 1897, which lead to the establishment of the Cretan state a year later.
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- New Acquisitions: September 2020, Photography
- CROATIA – PHOTOGRAPHY / JUDAICA: Šandor 8. IV. 97
- 250.00€
- A seemingly unrecorded portrait of a Croatian philanthropist, industrialist and nobleman Šandor Alexander Sesvetski (1866-1929) from a prominent Zagreb Jewish family. Cabinet card with albumen print and lettering in the lower margin and verso, contemporary signature in black ink in the lower right corner 16,4 x 10,7 cm (6.4 x 4.3 inches) (minor staining, corners slightly bumped, overall in…
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- Maps and Prints
- CROATIA / BOSNIA EARTHQUAKE MAP: M. Kišpatić: Potresi u Hrvatskoj. Tabla II.
- 150.00€
- The first scientific seismological map of Croatia and Bosnia, by the eminent seismologist Mišo Kišpatić, issued during an era of major earthquakes in the region.
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- Maps and Prints
- CROATIA, INDEPENDENT STATE: “Bayer”ova karta nezavisne Države Hrvatske [Bayer Map of the Independent State of Croatia].
- 180.00€
- A larger school schedule with a map of the Independent State of Croatia was printed during WWII, in 1942.
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- Americas, Croatia, Europe, Maps and Prints, South America
- CROATIAN ART-DECO MAP: Putovanja „Jutranjeg lista“ [Travels of „Jutranji list“].
- 300.00€
- A beautifully designed art deco map centred on Zagreb, Croatia, made as an advertisement for a competition, organised by a newspaper Jutranji list (Morning Paper), was drafted by a pioneer of the Croatian graphic design Otto Antonini.
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- Books, Maps and Prints, Slavica
- CROATIAN FINE ART: Jama.
- 1,800.00€
- A rare monumental series of 41 folding colour lithographs accompanying a Croatian poem Jama (The Pit), one of the most powerful WWII lyrics, written by Ivan-Goran Kovačić. This 1982 version of illustrations was made by Croatian academic artists Edo Murtić and Zlatko Prica, the authors of the first illustrated edition, printed by a Partisan underground press during WWII. Number 82 of…
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- Maps and Prints
- CROATIAN POST WWII ANTI-CHURCH AND ANTI-FASCIST PROPAGANDA: Koncert koljača u Vatikanu [The Concert of the Slaughters in Vatican].
- 320.00€
- A pencil drawing, showcasing the soldiers of the Croatian Fascist movement Ustasha producing music on parts of human bodies and with weapons, conducted by a Catholic archbishop, as the Pope, and the Fascist and Nazi leaders are watching in the first row, was made in the post war time in Croatia.
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- Americas, Caribbean, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: October 2020
- CUBA – SOVIET CARTOGRAPHY / COLD WAR: Куба [Kuba]
- 380.00€
- Colour print, 51,5 x 86 cm (20.2 x 33.8 inches), accompanied by an original brochure with an index: 8°, 13 pp., [2 pp.], wrappers with title, stapled. Housed in an original illustrated wrappers with a flap (a small hand-written monogram of the previous owner, otherwise in a near-mint unused condition with a minimal stains on the spine of the wrappers).…
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- Americas, Caribbean, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: November 2020
- CUBA – HAVANA HARBOUR – UNRECORDED VIEW: Ansicht der Bucht von Regla.
- 3,400.00€
- A seemingly unrecorded early lithographed view of the town and bay of Regla, on Havana Harbour, after a drawing by the famed naturalist, explorer and artist Paul Wilhelm, Duke of Württemberg, made during his first tour in the Americas, an attractive large format work seemingly printed for private circulation. Lithograph (Fair, several unclosed tears from margins, with a few…
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- Caribbean
- CUBA: Carta topografica de la Isla de Cuba compuesta par A.H. Dufour geografo.
- 520.00€
- The first edition of an excellent separately issued large format map of Cuba, one of the finest representations of the island from its last great sugar boom; compiled by the leading French cartographer Auguste-Henri Dufour from the best official Cuban sources and published in Paris; with symbols and statistical tables detailing a wealth of information.
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- Maps and Prints
- CUBA: Mapa Historico Pintoresco Moderno de la Isla de Cuba.
- 400.00€
- An intriguing and scarce early road and railway map of Cuba, from Federico Miahle’s celebrated ‘Album Pintoresco de la Isla de Cuba’.
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- Cyprus, Europe, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- CYPRUS / OTTOMAN CARTOGRAPHY: قبريس آطه سى [Kıbrıs Ada-sı / Island Cyprus]
- 350.00€
- Colour lithograph, 19,5 x 26 cm (7.6 x 10.3 inches) (soft fold, otherwise in a good condition).
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- Maps and Prints
- CZECH REPUBLIC – SOKOL: Zdar X. všesokolskému sletu sokolska výchova získala nam samostatnost.
- 350.00€
- A scarce map of Czech Republich, made by the Pan-Slavic physical education movement Sokol, on the eve of the partition of the country.
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- Maps and Prints
- CZECH REPUBLIC / FREDERICK THE GREAT – BATTLE OF LOBOSITZ / LOVOSICE BROADSIDE: Deutliche Abbildung und Beschreibung von der grossen und hitzigen Schlacht bey Lowositz in Böhmen, den 1. Octobr. 1756.
- 800.00€
- A rare pictorial broadside featuring the Battle of Lobositz / Lovosice (1756), Bohemia, fought between Frederick the Great’s Prussians and Count von Browne’s Austrian forces, the first major European land battle of the Seven Years’ War.
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- Czech Republic, Germany, Maps and Prints, Poland
- CZECH REPUBLIC / POLAND and GERMAY / JESUITS: Province d Boheme Contenant 26 Col. 2 Nov. 16 Sém. Mn. Prof. 3 Pens. 13 Rés. 10 Mns. 1230 Jés.tes.
- 200.00€
- A very rare miniature map of the ecclesiastical province of Bohemia, an administrative jurisdiction of the Jesuit Order that consisted of the modern Czech Republic, Silesia (in modern Poland) and Saxony (Germany), issued not along after the Order was revived in the wake of the Napoleonic Wars.
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- Broadsides, Maps and Prints
- DALMATIA – BROADSIDE: Gl’ Illustrissimi & Eccellentissimi Signori Proveditori Sopra Feudi… Prisvytla i Pryuzuzscena Gospoda Provigiavzi Svarhu Aggaluka…
- 1,200.00€
- An exceedingly rare broadside with new regulations for Dalmatia, in Italian and Croatian language, printed in Venice.
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- Maps and Prints
- DALMATIA – UNUSUAL PRINTING: Karte des Königreichs Dalamtien.
- 550.00€
- Unusual printing: Map of the Kingdom of Dalmatia printed in four colours in letterpress in Vienna.
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- Maps and Prints
- DALMATIA, Croatia: Lighthouse Grebeni, Dubrovnik
- 1,500.00€
- A beautifully painted view of the lighthouse Grebeni off of the coast of Dubrovnik was painted by a Slovenian-born Anton Perko, a Royal Marine Draftsman to the Habsburg court.
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- Maps and Prints
- DAMASCUS & BAALBEK: Damascus le 20. Juin 1917, Baalbek, le 22. VI 917
- 250.00€
- A pair of original photos, made during WWI by a Bulgarian lieutenant colonel Kableshkov, showcase temple ruins of Baalbek and reception room of a private mansion in Damascus.
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- Maps and Prints
- DANUBE REGULATION / ENGINEERING: Cartes du delta du Danube et plans comparatifs de l’embouchure et de quelques sections fluviales du bras de Soulina indiquant les travaux qui y ont ete executes…, faisant suite au recueil de plans comparatifs publies pa
- 1,200.00€
- A rare gigantic atlas with highly decorative colour lithographed maps, charts and plans represents the regulations of the Danube Delta, after the Black Sea was pronounced neutral territory and the Danube opened a connection between the Central Europe and the Black Sea.
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- Maps and Prints
- DANUBE REGULATION / ENGINEERING: Plans comparatifs de l’embouchure et et de differentes sections fluviales du bras de Soulina indiquant de ce bras du Danube anterieurement aux travaux d’amelioration executes, par la commission europeenne conformement a l’
- 1,400.00€
- A rare gigantic atlas with highly decorative colour lithographed maps, charts and plans represents the regulations of the Danube Delta after the Treaty of Paris, after the Black Sea was pronounced neutral territory and the Danube opened a connection between the Central Europe and the Black Sea.
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- Maps and Prints
- Das Egerland
- 150.00€
- A scarce map was printed by the émigré Sudeten Germans in Baden-Württemberg, showcasing their native land Egerland, in today’s Czech Republic.
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- Maps and Prints
- DATA VISUALISATION: Stanje in razvojne težnje v prostoru severovzhodne Slovenije [The Condition and Developing Directions in the Room of the Northeastern Slovenia].
- 150.00€
- A rare, well designed Yugoslav statistical atlas for the north-eastern region of the country includes 21 well designed statistic maps, made by one of the leading Slovenian modern surveyors Peter Svetik.
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- Maps and Prints
- DELHI, INDIA: Plan of Delhi and its Environs.
- 500.00€
- A fine plan of ‘Old Delhi’, depicting Shah Jahan’s imperial city as it appeared shortly after the during the Siege of Delhi, a major event of the Uprising of 1857.
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- Maps and Prints
- DERSO & KELEN – WWII, YUGOSLAVIA: A Collection of Drafts and Proofs
- 2,800.00€
- A small collection of proof states and unique 3D drafts for caricatures, concerning WWII in Yugoslavia, featuring powerful Anti-Hitler, Pro-Allied, Pro-Serbian Royalist messages; made in New York early in 1942 by Jewish expatriates from Hungary, Derso and Kelen.
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- Maps and Prints
- DJIBOUTI: Republioque de Djibouti. Carte Turistioque.
- 280.00€
- A rare large tourist poster map of the Republic of Djibouti was mad after the independence in 1977.
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- Europe, Germany, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- DRESDEN / COMMUNIST URBAN PLANNING / DESTRUCTION OF HISTORICAL MONUMENTS: Gesamtbebauungsplan Zentrum. Prognostische Entwicklung. Stand 1. Januar 1967
- 320.00€
- [General Development Plan for Center. Prognostic Development. The Situation of January 1st 1967] Colour lithograph, 71,5 x 57 cm (28.1 x 22.4 inches) (soft folds with tiny holes, otherwise in a good condition).
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- Americas, Central America, Maps and Prints
- ECUADOR, COLOMBIA, PANAMA and BRAZIL / JESUITS: Province de Quito Contenant 10 Collèges 1 Noviciat 2 Séminaires et 209 Jésuites.
- 200.00€
- A very rare miniature map of the ecclesiastical province of Quito (embracing Ecuador, western Colombia, eastern Panama and a part of Amazonian Brazil), an administrative jurisdiction of the Jesuit Order, issued not along after the Order was revived in the wake of the Napoleonic Wars.
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- Maps and Prints
- EGYPT / ART DECO DESIGN / ALEXANDRIA IMPRINT: Road Map of Egypt.
- 350.00€
- A large and highly attractive Art Deco road map of Egypt made during World War II, as the country was fighting off an invasion by the German Afrikakorps; drafted by Alexandre Nicohosoff, an engineer who was for many years the premier commercial mapmaker in Alexandria.
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- Maps and Prints
- EGYPT / BATTLE OF ABOUKIR: “Plan der Schlacht von Abukir am 25. Juli 1799”.
- 350.00€
- A beautifully drafted manuscript map of the Battle of Abukir (1799), a key showdown between French and Ottoman forces during Napoleon’s Egyptian Campaign, drafted in 1833 by the Austrian soldier Jacob Bodendorfer.
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- Africa, Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: December 2020
- EGYPT / ISRAEL / PALESTINE / JORDAN / LEBANON / SYRIA / ARCHAEOLOGY: Carte topographique de l’Egypte et de plusieurs parties des pays limitrophes, levée pendant l’expédition de l’armée française, par les ingénieurs-géographes, les officiers du génie militaire, et les ingénieurs des ponts et chaussées, assujettie aux observations des astronomes, construite par M. Jacotin, colonel, au corps royal des ingénieurs-géographes militaires, gravée au dépôt général de la guerre, à l’échelle de 1 millimètre pour 100 mètres.
- 1,800.00€
- An absolutely stellar example of the first broadly accurate map of Egypt and Palestine, predicated upon advanced trigonometric surveys undertaken by the cartographer Pierre Jacotin on the orders of Napoleon Bonaparte during the French occupation of Egypt, considered to be one of the great achievements of Enlightenment science. Copper engraving, dissected into 32 sections and mounted upon…
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- Africa, Maps and Prints
- EGYPT / SUDAN / ETHIOPIA / RED SEA: Karte von Egypten Verfast von Herrn Robert Vaugondy, Geographen des Königs von Polen.
- 250.00€
- A scarce and highly attractive map of Egypt and the entire Nile Valley, including Sudan and Ethiopia, plus the Red Sea, with lovely adornments such a maritime view of Alexandria and a vignette with ancient architectural wonders, by Johann Walch of Augsburg.
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- Africa, Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: December 2020
- EGYPT, HEJAZ.
- 120.00€
- A map from Umûm Vilayât-ı Şâhâneyi Hâvi Küçük Atlas - Umûmî Küçük Atlas (General Small Atlas) Chromolithograph. 9 x 13,5 cm (3.5 x 5.3 inches).
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- Maps and Prints
- EGYPT, SUEZ CANAL, SINAI: مصر سفرى [Mısır seferi / Egypt Travel]. …تايمس)ك تاريخ حربندن ترجمه اولنمشدر) ] (Tayms)ın Tarih-i harb’inden tercüme olunmuştur… / Translated from the history of …]
- 650.00€
- A rare pamphlet and map in Ottoman language showcasing the Sinai Campaign of 195 and 1916, was published by a government press in Istanbul.
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- Maps and Prints
- EINBLATTDRUCK: Wahre Abris des Prozesz, so zu Dresden Und Freyburg Über Der Begrebnüsz Des D.H. Fürsten Und H. Herrn Christian, Hertzogen In Sachs. Chürf. Und Marggaff. Zü Magdeb. Ist Gehalten den 4. und 26. Octob. 1591…
- 500.00€
- Prozession und Begräbnis des Fürsten Christian, Herzog in Sachsen, Kurfürst und Markgraf zu Magdeburg im Oktober 1591 zu Dresden und Freiburg.
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- Africa, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: December 2020
- EL ATALEH, SOMALIA: Africa – Costa Est. Ancoraggi di Itala (Ata Eh). Rilievi eseguiti dalle R. Navi Staffetta e Governolo Comandanti: Capitano di Fregata P. Botti – 1898, Capitano di Fregata G. Patris – 1904, Capitano di Fregata A. Riva di Fenile – 1906.
- 150.00€
- This is the extremely rare first edition of the Italian Navy’s sea chart of stretch of the Somali coast around El Ataleh, some ways up from Mogadishu. Zincograph (Good, but with noticeable wear along old folds with some toning in upper area), 63 x 59 cm (25 x 23 inches).
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- Maps and Prints
- ENGLAND – ISLE OF WIGHT: Bacon’s New Map of the Isle of Wight. An exact reduction from the Six inch Ordnance Survey. Scale. – One Inch to the Mile.
- 400.00€
- A rare and attractive late 19th Century map of the Isle of Wight, printed on linen, folding into its original slipcase.
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- Maps and Prints
- ETHIOPIA / SUDAN / SOUTH SUDAN: Abyssinia / Army/Air, Fifth Edition.
- 180.00€
- A rare advanced aeronautical chart of Central and South-western Ethiopia (including Addis Ababa) and Southern Sudan made in the wake of World War II, predicated upon the latest information supplied by Royal Air Force, published by the War Office in London.
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- Africa, Maps and Prints
- ETHIOPIA: Эфиопия [Efiopija]
- 85.00€
- Colour print, 70 x 78 cm (27.6 x 30,7 inches). Housed in an original illustrated wrappers with a flap (a small hand-written monogram of the previous owner, otherwise in a near-mint unused condition with a minimal stains on the spine of the wrappers).
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- Maps and Prints
- Ethiopian Empire – CARTOGRAPHIC PLAYING CARD: ‘Abyssinia’ from The Court Game of Geography.
- 120.00€
- A very rare cartographic playing card featuring a map of Africa.
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- Africa, Maps and Prints
- ETHIOPIAN EMPIRE / ABYSSINIA: Neue Karte von Abessinien und Somaliländern.
- 280.00€
- A German map shows Abyssinia on the eve of the Second Italo-Ethiopian War, in 1935.
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- Maps and Prints
- EUROPE – OROGRAPHIC-HYDROGRAPHIC MAP / THEMATIC CARTOGRAPHY: Carte Générale Orographique et Hydrographique de l’Europe qui montre les principales ramifications des montagnes, fleuves at chemins, avec les principales villes, dressée d’après les meilleures
- 550.00€
- A stellar example of a grand wall map of Europe depicting the mountain ranges and watersheds of Europe and the Near East; an original work of thematic cartography by the Austrian geographer and soldier General Baron Sorriot de l’Host – a magnificent example on crisp, un-joined sheets.
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