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- Europe, New Acquisitions: October 2020
LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND CITY MAP – PANORAMA: Plan monumental de Lausanne. Légende des principales curiosités, artères , places et promenades. Panorama du signal.
- 220.00€
- Colour lithograph, 70 x 51 cm (27.6 x 20 inches), verso views and advertisements (soft folds with small partly repaired holes on the crossings and tears in margins, minor staining, otherwise in a good condition).
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- Europe, Italy, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: October 2020, Slovenia
LJUBLJANA-TRIESTE RAILROAD: Karte der k.k. Staats-Eisenbahn zwischen Laibach und Triest. Sr. Excellenz dem Hochgeborenen Herrn Gustav Grafen Chorinsky, Freiherrn von Ledske…
- 2,200.00€
- [Map of the K. K. State Railway between Ljubljana and Trieste. To His Excellency the Noble Gustav Count Chorinsky, Baron von Ledske…] A rare, charming map of the railroad between Ljubljana and Trieste was lithographed in Ljubljana, possibly at the occasion of the opening of the line. Lithograph, 66 x 41 cm (26 x 16.1 inches), originally dissected in…
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- Europe, Maps and Prints
MEDITERRANEUM – SOVIET CARTOGRAPHY: Средиземное море [Sredizemnoe more],
- 45.00€
- Colour print, 52 x 88 cm (20.4 x 34.6 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, Maps and Prints, Montenegro
Montenegro – Important Ottoman Cartography
- 4,500.00€
- Extremely rare – the finest printed Ottoman map of Montenegro and the surrounding region ever created, the culmination of forty years of advanced military and boundary surveys, produced by the Ottoman Military Survey Office in Istanbul in 1875, on the eve of the Montenegrin–Ottoman War 1876 to 1878, which marked the Turks’ last stand in the land they called Karadağ…
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- Europe, Maps and Prints, Montenegro, Montenegro
MONTENEGRO: КАРТА ЦРНЕГОРЕ. خريطه مملكت قره طاغ Carte du Pays de Montenegro dressée d’après les opérations géodétiques sur les lieux et recherches les plus soigneuses, par Mr. le Comte Fedor de Karacsay, Colonel au Service d’Autriche.
- 1,800.00€
- Rare and historically important - the second corrected edition of the first broadly accurate map of Montenegro, after the surveys of the Hungarian military engineer Colonel Count Fedor von Karacsay. Lithograph with original outline colour, dissected into 6 sections and mounted upon original linen, some place names contemporarily underlined in original colours or marked with brown ink dots,…
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- Balkans, Europe, Middle East, Others, Turkey
Ottoman Empire Telegraph Maps / Thematic Cartography
- 1,100.00€
- Very Rare - a matching pair of relatively early ‘flow maps’ of the telegraph systems in the both the European and Asian parts of the Ottoman Empire, published entirely in Ottoman Turkish text, fine examples of advanced thematic cartography detailing one of the world’s most important communications systems that was literally the nexus between the East and the West. …
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- Maps and Prints, Turkey
Ottoman Geological Map: اناطولى علم ارض خريطه سى [Geological Map of Anatolia].
- 1,400.00€
- Rare and Important – the first proper geological map of Turkey; a large, separately published work created by the professors Damat Kenan and Ahmet Malik Sayar, issued by the imperial printer in 1920 during the twilight of the Ottoman Empire, forming the foundation for scientific and commercial discovery during the upcoming Turkish Republican Era; printed in Ottoman Turkish text with…
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- Balkans, Books, Croatia, Geography, History, Hungary, Maps and Prints, Ottoman Books, Serbia, Turkey, Turkica
OTTOMAN MILITARY ATLAS: محاربات مشهوره عثمانه البومى
- 3,500.00€
- [Muharebat-ı meşhure-i osmaniye albümü / Album of Famous Ottoman Battles] A monumental portfolio of the famous Ottoman battles, edited by a famous military leader Ahmed Muhtar Pacha during WWI to commemorate the glorious military past of the Ottoman Empire Folio. Title page, 33 unbound double page maps, partly printed in colours, with text, 5 single page maps,…
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- Balkans, Europe, Maps and Prints
Ottoman Mss. / Telegraph Map – Greece / North Macedonia / Albania: [No Title – Map of the Telegraph System in the Vilayets of Salonica, Monastir, Janina and Scutari].
- 1,800.00€
- A stellar, large format, original manuscript map of the telegraph system in the Ottoman Balkans, specifically in modern Greece, Northern Macedonia and Albania; with text entirely in Ottoman Turkish, it was drafted in 1889 seemingly as working document by the governmental administration that managed the empire’s telegraph network – an extraordinary survivor documenting a critical medium that revolutionized society during…
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- Czech Republic, Europe, Maps and Prints
Pan-Slavism / Prague: Upomínka na Národopisnou výstavu českoslovanskou v Praze 1895
- 1,400.00€
- [Souvenir of the Czechoslavic Ethnographic Exhibition in Prague 1895] Folding paper fan with a chromolithographed view on the front and poem on the back, mounted on wooden sticks, joined with a metal loop at the bottom, 35 x 64 cm (13.8 x 25.2 inches) (Very Good, with only minor wear to the folds).
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- Africa, Maps and Prints, Spain
PEÑÓN DE ALHUCEMAS, Spain / Morocco: Alhuzemas
- 750.00€
- A 1778 manuscript map of the Spanish fortification Peñón de Alhucemas, off the Moroccan coast, was made by a North German officer and engineer Philip Ernst Colson.
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- Europe, Greece, Maps and Prints
Piraeus, Greece / Urban Planning: Πειραιευσ και Συνοικισμοι…1:8.000. [Piraeus and its Neighbourhoods].
- 950.00€
- A rare master plan of Piraeus, the port of Athens, made during the Roaring ‘20s when the city was undergoing a dramatic transformation towards becoming one of the world’s great commercial and a passenger ports, detailing every block, major building and site, as well as outlining the new neighbourhoods that were in the process of being developed north of the…
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- Europe, Maps and Prints, Poland
POLISH 20TH CENTURY CARTOGRAPHY: Krakowsko-śląski okręg turystyczny. Rayon touristique des districts de Cracovie et de la Silésie Polonaise.
- 420.00€
- Colour lithograph, folded in original paper wrappers with lettering, 41 x 64 cm (16.1 x 25.2 inches) (soft folds, otherwise in a good condition).
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- Austria, Europe, Maps and Prints
Portrait of Friedrich von GENTZ (1764-1832).
- 32,500.00€
- Of great historical importance – the earliest known portrait of Friedrich von Gentz, one of the central figures of the Vienna Conference of 1814-1815.
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- Europe, Germany, Maps and Prints
POST-KARTE / POSTAL MAP: Neuste Post Karte von Deutschland und dessen angrenzenden Laender 1801.
- 250.00€
- Seltene Faltkarte zeigt die Poststrassen in Deutschland und umfasst das Gebiet zwischen Belgium, der Schweiz, Slowenien, Osijek in Kroatien und Königsberg.
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- Europe, Germany, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: October 2020
POST-WWII GERMAN CARTOGRAPHY: Der Wegweiser von und nach der Lutherstadt Wittenberg [The Road Map to and from Lutherstadt Wittenberg]
- 320.00€
- A beautifully designed, optically effective road map to the protestant cultural center Wittenberg in Eastern Germany under the Soviet occupation was made in 1946, immediately after WWII in destroyed Berlin, and printed on the leftovers of an older larger map. Colour lithograph, printed from both sides, original label mounted on the back, 86 x 69 cm (33.9 x 27…
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- Europe, Maps and Prints, Poland
Prussia
- 120.00€
- Copper engraving, 8.5 x 12.5 cm (3.3 x 5 inches).
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- Czech Republic, Europe, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: October 2020
RAISED RELIEF MAP – PRAGUE (CZECH REPUBLIC): Die Umgegend von Prag in plastischer Aufnahme von Prof. A.L. Hickmann, k.k. Bezirks-Schulinspector.
- 680.00€
- An extremely rare and intriguing raised relief map of Prague and its environs, created by the innovative professor, Anton Hickmann, whose passion was popularizing geography; published in Reichenberg, in northern Bohemia (today Liberec, Czech Republic). Lithograph in colour, pressed into raised relief on thick card (Good, even toning and some wear to highest points of relief, edges worn and…
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