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…
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.
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!
Srinagar, Kashmir, India / Indian Urbanism / Calcutta Imprint An extremely rare map of Srinagar and environs, the capital of Kashmir and famed as one of the most beautiful places in the world, the map full of intriguing cultural details, published in Calcutta by the Survey of India. Colour heliozincograph (Very Good, clean and bright with attractive colours,…
A rare, fascinating and historically significant map of what is today Ghana, showing the British Colony of the Gold Coast and the vast inland domains of the Ashanti Empire, a powerful, culturally sophisticated state that was long Britain’s arch-nemesis in West Africa; compiled and issued by the world-leading map house of Edward Stanford Ltd., it showcases the best knowledge…
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
A scarce, pioneering atlas of Africa with 18 colour plates featuring 50 maps designed by the leading Vienna map house of Freytag & Berndt, including some sophisticated works of thematic cartography and original maps showcasing the level of Western knowledge of the continent, made to capitalize upon the Africa-mania that swept the general public in the wake of the…
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…
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…
A very rare, large format, separately issued map of Africa 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 and some…
Colour lithograph, folding into original printed card covers bearing title and view on front cover and a map of the Léopoldville area on back cover (Excellent condition, Map amazingly clean, bright and crisp, seemingly barely ever opened, only the lightest marginal wear to covers), 86 x 68.5 cm (34 x 27 inches). A very rare and early cartographic…
A very rare ‘Restricted’ map of Agra made during World War II, when the city was feared to be a target of Japanese bombing, such that the dome of the Taj Majal was covered in camouflage, published in Dehra Dun by the Survey of India. Colour print (Good, some wear along old folds, some conspicuous toning to lower…
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.
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.
A large uncommon tourist map of Albania in Macedonian language, showing the local flair, including historical monuments, beaches, national costumes and guns.
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.
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).
Colour print, 63 x 46 cm (inches) (soft folds, minor age-toning, but overall in a good condition). A decorative late art deco map showcases Ankara with its modern neighborhoods
John Luffman’s grand map of Antigua, one of the cartographic monuments of the 18th century British West Indies; predicated upon the goldsmith-cartographer’s reconnaissance of the island conducted when it was still one of the world’s leading sugar-slave economies, as well as hosting a major Royal Navy base (then commanded by the future Lord Admiral Horatio Nelson); the map served as…
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
[Confidential Conversations about Sexual Life]. A rare manual on sexuality and impotence, printed in the Armenian Language in Istanbul. 8°: 223 pp., original illustrated wrappers (good, wrappers with minor staining and small tears and tiny loss of paper to spine, minor old annotation in blalck ink on the cover).
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.
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).
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).
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;…
An outstanding rarity – one of the foundational maps of Greater Melbourne, a grand and meticulous large format work that more than any other map captures the state of play in the region on the eve of the Victoria Gold Rush (1851-69), detailing the topography, all town sites, rural cadastral divisions (with a gazetteer listing their acreage and their owners,…
An exceedingly rare and attractive large format map of Southeast Asia, Australia and Polynesia, with a special emphasis upon the new colony of ‘Deutsch-Neuguinea’, a ‘boutiquey’ provincial production drafted by Professor Franz Behr and published in Canstatt, just outside of Stuttgart. Colour lithograph, dissected into 8 sections and mounted upon original linen with original red silk edging, folding…
A very rare and unusually attractive large format WWII Japanese map of Australia, New Guinea and the Eastern Indonesian Archipelago, made in 1942, the year that the Japanese Air force mounted the shocking ‘Bombing of Darwin’, the largest ever attack upon Australia mounted by a foreign power, and just before the Allies endeavoured to take the offensive in New…
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…
Chromolithograph, 51 x 34 cm (13.4 x 20 inches), (small repaired tears in the fold, sporadic light staining in white margins, but otherwise in a good condition).
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.
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.
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.
An attractive cartographic ‘Sugoroku’ gameboard commemorating the 1925 Asahi Shinbun Trans-Eurasian flight, a major landmark of early aviation, whereby two Japanese planes flew from their homeland over 16,500 km to tour various European capitals as part of a patriotic PR tour to showcase Japan’s role as world power, printed by the mission’s sponsor, the ‘Asahi Shinbun’, a leading Japanese…
The first wall map of Azerbaijan SSR, made in 1925 by a pioneer of Azerbaijani map-making İbrahim Ağa Vəkilov Colour lithography, printed on four sheets and originally mounted on linen, 100 x 135 cm (39.8 x 53.1 inches) (small tears, folds and holes with tiny loss of material, light staining).
[Baba Diène et Morceau-de-Sucre / Baba Diène and Sugar Cube] 8°. 110 pp. with black and white illustrations, [2 pp.], original illustrated covers (minor wear to the corners, minor annontations from the publisher's library, otherwise a good unread example).
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.
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…
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…
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.
Screen prints from a rare portfolio made at Bando prison camp in 1919, represent parts of the camp. Large 4°. 11 screen prints in black and white (title page and 10 loose images), inserted in original thin card folder with flaps and illustrated cover (folded slightly scuffed on the corners, lower flap missing, inside in a good, clean…
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…
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.
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.
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.
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.
An exquisitely rendered Russian manuscript map of the Battle of Zorndorf (August 25, 1758), a critical showdown of the Seven Years’ War, and one of the most ferocious altercations of the entire conflict, during which Frederick the Great’s forces narrowly prevented the Russians from marching upon Berlin; in beautiful bright hues of watercolour and wash, and with all text in…
Colour lithograph, originally dissected on 25 panels and mounted on linen, printed title page mounted verso on one of the panels, 118 x 85 cm (46.4 x 33.4 inches) (linen slightly age-toned, tears in the folds repaired with modern linen, soft folds in the corners, otherwise in a good condition).
[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…
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…
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
Very rare – Juan Ondarza’s large and highly detailed wall map of Bolivia, the first proper survey of the republic and one of the great monuments of the 19th Century cartography of Latin America, published by J.H. Colton in New York; at the centre of an entertaining, yet bizarre, story of intrepid Andean surveying, patriotic pride, financial scandal and…
A rare, large format map depicting Greater Bombay just before World War I, when it was one of the busiest ports in the world and the ‘Gateway of India’, drafted by the office of the ‘Times of India’ and published in London by the venerable firm of Edward Stanford. Colour lithograph, mounted upon original linen, folding, contemporary hand-stamp…
Brazil (Eastern – Core Regions) – Rio De Janeiro, São Paulo, Minas Gerais, Bahia, Pernambuco / The ‘Brazilian Enlightenment’ Karte Von Ostbrasilien. Carte géographique de la partie orientale de l’empire du Brésil, en quatre feuilles, contenant les Provinces maritimes de Pernambuco jusqu’a Rio de Janeiro, celle de Minas Geraës, et une partie des provinces limitrophes, redigée d’apres leurs propres observations…
Steel engraved playing card, overlaid in coloured stencil, blank on verso (Very Good, minor stainng verso, a small scratch and stain on the front), 97 x 65 mm (3.8 x 2.6 inches).
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.
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.
An unusual visualization of the end of the Balkan Wars and the beginning of the World War I, representing the last stages of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, connecting rotating nationalistic thoughts in a flower-shaped pattern, centralized on the word “Homeland” Colour print, 57 x 40 cm (22.4 x 15.7 inches) (minor staining, soft folds, verso proof state…
A rare Venetian broadside forbids uncontrolled Turkish trade in the Lazaret of Split in Dalmatia as a health precaution against spreading of the plague.
A rare Venetian broadside forbids uncontrolled Turkish trade in the Lazaret of Split in Dalmatia as a health precaution against spreading of the plague.
Steel engraved playing card, overlaid in coloured stencil, blank on verso (Very Good, minor stainng verso, a small scratch and stain on the front), 97 x 65 mm (3.8 x 2.6 inches).
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.
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).
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…
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.
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.
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.
An extremely rare, large format map of Calcutta, depicting the revolutionary fire prevention and control infrastructure devised by its new Fire Chief, Bernard Westbrook, giving the city one of the most advanced fire systems in Asia, saving untold lives and properties. Zincograph in colours by the Vandyke Process, mounted upon original linen and folding into original black cloth…
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.
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).
Steel engraved playing card, overlaid in coloured stencil, blank on verso (Very Good, minor stainng verso, a small scratch and stain on the front), 97 x 65 mm (3.8 x 2.6 inches).
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.
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.
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.
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.
A highly important and attractive work on the Eighth Xhosa War (1850-3), a critical conflict in which the British scored a crushing defeat upon the Xhosa, so securing permanent dominance over the Eastern Frontier regions of the Cape Colony, a victory secured by the ‘scorched earth’ offensive launched by Governor George Cathcart from the spring of 1852 to the…
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.
The colossal, authoritative general map of Anatolia, the Levant, Lower Egypt and western Iraq made for strategic use by the French Army on the eve of World War I; these regions all being scenes of pivotal military action and espionage operations during and in the wake of the conflict, from which France played a critical (and controversial) role in the…
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.
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.
An authoritative composition featuring two maps of Chicago, one centring upon the inner city and the other showcasing the fast-growing suburban areas of the future ‘Chicagoland’, by Rand, McNally & Company, the nationally important Chicago-based map house. Bi-chrome lithograph (black and green) printed on both sides, folding into original printed tan card wrappers (Very Good, clean, bright and…
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.
A fine example of an important and beautifully produced national atlas of chile, featuring 39 maps predicated upon the best scientific sources, made by Enrique Espinoza, who is credited with revolutionizing the study of geography in Chile, published by the venerable Paris firm of Erhard Frères. Small 4° (27 x 20.5 cm): 2 pp., 39 maps (5 folding;…
Steel engraved playing card, overlaid in coloured stencil, blank on verso (Very Good, minor stainng verso, a small scratch and stain on the front), 97 x 65 mm (3.8 x 2.6 inches).
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…
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…
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.
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’.
An exceedingly rare and highly detailed ‘Roaring Twenties’ map 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 in 1925-6, during the brief window after the Russian Concession as abolished but just before the dissolution of the British Concession, which occurred as the…
A seemingly unrecorded blueprint map of Southern China depicting major railways routes, made by French colonial administrators in the French Leased Territory of Guangzhouwan (Kouang-Tchéou-Wan) who used the map as strategic aid to oversee the extensive French commercial interests in the region (mines, factories, plantations, etc., as well as the railway lines themselves) during a time of booming business and…
One of the finest general maps of China produced during the fin de siècle period, a large format, highly detailed work produced as part of map sequence for the China Inland Mission (CIM) by the world leading firm of Edward Stanford, and the first issue to be predicated upon the revolutionary cartography of the Russian sinologist Emil Bretschneider, providing…
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,…
Steel engraved playing card, overlaid in coloured stencil, blank on verso (Very Good, minor stainng verso, a small scratch and stain on the front), 97 x 65 mm (3.8 x 2.6 inches).
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...
A stellar moment of African cartography and inland hydrography, being the first atlas, or accurate, complete large-scale map, of the 1,724 km-long navigable route of the Upper Congo River from Léopoldville (Kinshasa) to Stanleyville, the only natural passage into the heart of Africa, made during World War I for the use of steamer captains by the specialist Belgian colonial…
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.
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.
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.
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…
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.
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.
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…
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.
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).…
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.
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.
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.
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.
![‘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].](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/rachid-265x331.jpg)
![[ALASKA / BERING STRAIT]. Chart of the Northern Passage between Asia & America](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/6517_1-265x331.jpg)
![[ARGENTINA, URUGUAY, PARAGUAY] Paraguay, o Prov. De Rio de la Plata…](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/6510-265x331.jpg)
![[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.)].](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/66006-265x331.jpg)
![[CRETE]. Cretae seu Candiae.](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/6524-265x331.jpg)
![[CYPRUS]. Cyprus Insula.](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/6521-265x331.jpg)
![[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](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/66036-265x331.jpg)
![[ITALY – AMALFI COAST] Principato Citra olim Picentia.](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/6541-265x331.jpg)
![[NETHERLANDS – GELDERLAND]. Ducatus Gelriae pars tertia quæ est comitatus Zutphaniensis.](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/0033_1-265x331.jpg)
![[RUSSIA]. Moscovey in Europe.](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/6538-265x331.jpg)
![[SACRED GEOGRAPHY]. Geographia Sacra…](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/6535-265x331.jpg)
![[Srinagar] Kashmīr & Jammu. / 1:63.360. / Kashmir North (Bāramūla), Kashmir South (Anantnāg) / No. 43 J16.](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Aprmap173a-265x331.jpg)
![[VENEZUELA] Venezuela cum parte Australi Novae Andalusiae.](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/6511-265x331.jpg)
![ABSINJA I WLOCHY [Abyssinia and Italians].](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/65055-265x331.jpg)
![AFGHANISTAN / PAKISTAN: Geological Map of the country between Sibi and Girishk [with] Geological Map of the neighborhood of Kandahar.](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/63068-265x331.jpg)
![Africa / Ephemera: آفريقا قطعه سى [The Africa Part]](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/2020-07-04_160724-265x331.jpg)
![AFRICA TRAVELOUGE: افريقا سياحتنامه سى [Afrika Seyahatnâmesi / Africa Book of Travels, i. e. The Heart of Africa / Im Herzen von Afrika]](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/binf-265x331.jpg)
![AFRICA: افريقا قطعه سى [Parts of Africa]](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Dokument_2022-02-05_144741-copy-265x331.jpg)
![AFRICA: يكى افريقا [Yeni Afrika / New Africa].](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Febmap2-copy-scaled.jpg)
![ALBANIA & MONTENEGRO: ِاشقودره ولآيت [İşkodra Vilayet / Scutari Vilayet].](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/65982-265x331.jpg)
![ALBANIA: Албания [Albanija].](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/65066-265x331.jpg)
![ALEPPO, SYRIA & TURKEY: حلب ولآيت [HALEP VILAYET / ALEPPO VILAYET].](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/65983-265x331.jpg)
![AMERICA – OTTOMAN SCHOOL ATLAS: آمريقا [Amerika]](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/69080_2-265x331.jpg)
![ARABIAN PENINSULA / OTTOMAN EMPIRE: اسياى غرب [West Asia]](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/2022-02-05_144645-copy-265x331.jpg)
![ARABIAN PENINSULA:جزيرة العرب [Arabian Peninsula]](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/68977-6-4-265x331.jpg)
![ARMENIA: Армянская ССР. Экономическая учебная карта [Armenian SSR. School Map of Economy]](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/69870-scaled.jpg)
![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].](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/67750-265x331.jpg)
![ART-DECO FINE ART: Sence ali knjiga lesorezov in linorezov [Shadows or a Book of Woodcuts and Linocuts].](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/65198-265x331.jpg)
![ASIA – OTTOMAN SCHOOL ATLAS: آسيا [Asya]](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/69081-2-265x331.jpg)
![ASIA AND MIDDLE EAST: اسيا [Asia]](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/68780-265x331.jpg)
![ASIA: Yeni Asya Haritasi [Map of Modern Asia]](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Junemap201-copy-265x331.jpg)
![ASIA: اسيا [Asya / Asia] 2nd Edition](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/2019-05-28_193436-265x331.jpg)
![AUSTRALIA / NEW GUINEA – WORLD WAR II: 濠州詳細圖 附ニユーギニア [Gōshū shōsai zu fu niyūginia / Detailed Map of Australia with New Guinea].](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Aprillmap17-copy-265x331.jpg)
![AUSTRALIA AND OCEANIA: يكى اوقيانوسيا [New Oceania]](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/69234-265x331.jpg)
![AUSTRALIA: اوستراليا [Australia]](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/69871-scaled.jpg)
![AUSTRALIA: قطعه اوثآن غربى [Part of the Western Ocean]](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Dokument_2022-02-05_145045-copy-265x331.jpg)
![AUSTRIA: Die Agrarischen Operationen in Österreich [The Agrarian Operations in Austria].](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/67309-265x331.jpg)
![AVIATION HISTORY / FIRST JAPANESE TRANS-EURASIAN FLIGHT / SUGOROKU BOARDGAME: 歐訪大飛行記念飛行遊戯 [Ōhō daihikō kinen hikō yūgi / Great European Visit Memorial Flight Game].](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Julimap1-copy-265x331.jpg)
![Azerbaijan SSR: Azerbajcanın sijasi va təbii Xərıtəsi [Political and Natural Map of Azerbaijan]](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/IMG_8802-Recovered-265x331.jpg)
![BAGHDAD RAILWAY / ANATOLIAN RAILWAY: يولجى رهبرى [Passenger Guide].](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/2019-10-30_005615-265x331.jpg)
![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].](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/mecca_33-265x331.jpg)
![BAGHDAD: بغداد ولايتى [Baghdad Vilayeti]](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/68976-4-265x331.jpg)
![BATTLE OF DUMLUPINAR, TURKEY: Büyük Taarruz Ve Başkumandan Meydan Muharebesi [Great Offensive and Commander-in-Chief Battle].](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/65870-265x331.jpg)
![BATTLE OF ZORNDORF (1758): Карта положение медь между Город б. ландсберхомъ. [Map of the position between the city of Landsberg…]](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Zorndorf-scaled.jpg)
![BEIRUT / LEBANON: بيروت ولايتى [Beirut Vilayet]](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/68977-10-1-265x331.jpg)
![BEIRUT / LEBANON: بيروت ولايتى [Beirut Vilayeti]](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/68976-2-265x331.jpg)
![BENIN – SOVIET CARTOGRAPHY: Бенин [Benin]](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/69096_1-1-265x331.jpg)
![BERLIN: Berlin Lebt, Berlin Ruft! [Berlin Lives, Berlin Calls!]](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/65237a-265x331.jpg)
![Bezengi, Russia & Georgia: Skupina Bezengi [Bezengi Group].](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/65859-265x331.jpg)
![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].](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/65864b-265x331.jpg)
![BITOLA -MANASTIR / NORTH MACEDONIA / OTTOMAN CARTOGRAPHY / POSTCARD MAP: مناستر ولآيتى [Vilayet Manastir]](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/68976-1-265x331.jpg)
![BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA: Izložba. Drazavni Osiguravajuči Zavod. Direkcija za NR Bosnu i Hercegovinu. [Exhibition. State Insurance Institute. Directorate of Bosnia & Herzegovina].](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/66224-265x331.jpg)
![BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA: Vodić kroz Buenos Aires [Guide of Buenos Aires].](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/66290a-265x331.jpg)
![BULGARIA – SOVIET CARTOGRAPHY: Болгария [Bolgarija]](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/69097_1-265x331.jpg)
![BULGARIAN TOBACCO ATLAS: Карти на тютюневиѣ райони вь Бьлгария [Karti na tjutjunevia rajoni v Blgarija / Maps of Tobacco Regions in Bulgaria].](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/66262-265x331.jpg)
![CAMBODIA – SOVIET CARTOGRAPHY: Кампучия [Kampučija]](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/69092_1-265x331.jpg)
![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](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/63069-265x331.jpg)
![CELESTIAL CHART / OTTOMAN CARTOGRAPHY: خريطه سما [Map of the Sky]](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Junemap203-copy-265x331.jpg)
![CENTRAL AFRICA: [Congo, Cameroon, Angola, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda]](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/69208-5-265x331.jpg)
![CHINA – DALIAN / OTTOMAN MAP / SIEGE OF PORT ARTHUR (1904-5): [ پورارتور…باشلا حرب Map of the Russian-Japanese War…].](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/mai3_9a-265x331.jpg)
![CHINA – ENORMOUS HYDROLOGICAL MAP: 中國水系 [China: Water Systems / Zhongguo shui xi gua tu].](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/68204-265x331.jpg)
![CHINA – ENORMOUS TRANSPORTATION AND COMMUNICATIONS MAP: 中國交通 [China: Communications / Zhongguo Jiaotong].](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/68205-265x331.jpg)
![CHINA – HANKOU (WUHAN): 実測漢口街道全圖 [Surveyed Map of Hankou City].](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Julimap65-copy1-scaled.jpg)
![COSSACK CARTOGRAPHY – COSSACK ÉMIGRÉS – USA: Карта Кубанскаго Края 1792-1920 [Karta Kubanskago Kraja / Map of the Kuban Region].](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/ny36b-265x331.jpg)
![CROATIA, INDEPENDENT STATE: “Bayer”ova karta nezavisne Države Hrvatske [Bayer Map of the Independent State of Croatia].](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/66137-265x331.jpg)
![CROATIAN ART-DECO MAP: Putovanja „Jutranjeg lista“ [Travels of „Jutranji list“].](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/66279-265x331.jpg)
![CROATIAN POST WWII ANTI-CHURCH AND ANTI-FASCIST PROPAGANDA: Koncert koljača u Vatikanu [The Concert of the Slaughters in Vatican].](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/scan0408_1-265x331.jpg)
![CROATIAN YUGOSLAVIAN PROPAGANDA: 27. srpnja 1954. Velika proslava dana ustanka naroda Hrvatske [July 27 1954. Grand Celebration on the Day of Uprise of Croatian Nation]](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/65304-265x331.jpg)
![CUBA – SOVIET CARTOGRAPHY / COLD WAR: Куба [Kuba]](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/69093_1-265x331.jpg)
![CYPRUS / OTTOMAN CARTOGRAPHY: قبريس آطه سى [Kıbrıs Ada-sı / Island Cyprus]](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/2020-09-04_234428-265x331.jpg)
