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- 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€
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- 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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- AFGHANISTAN / PAKISTAN: Geological Map of the country between Sibi and Girishk [with] Geological Map of the neighborhood of Kandahar.
- 200.00€
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- 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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- AGRA, INDIA: Agra Guide Map.
- 400.00€
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- 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…
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- ARABIAN PENINSULA / OTTOMAN EMPIRE: اسياى غرب [West Asia]
- 280.00€
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- Lithograph with original colour: 18 x 23 cm (7 x 9 inches) (soft fold, slightly stained in the upper margin).
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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€
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- 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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- ASIA: Yeni Asya Haritasi [Map of Modern Asia]
- 220.00€
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- Colour lithograph, (Very Good, minor staining and tiny tears in margins, just some light wear along original folds), 58 x 82 cm (22.8 x 32.3 inches).
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- Azerbaijan SSR: Azerbajcanın sijasi va təbii Xərıtəsi [Political and Natural Map of Azerbaijan]
- 2,800.00€
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- 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).
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- BANDO POW CAMP, JAPAN / WOLRD WAR I: 14 Steinzeichnungen [14 Lithographs]
- 1,600.00€
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- Large 4°. Introduction, index, 14 full-page lithographies in black and white and sepia, , blank, original tan wrappers with lettering, originally bound together with a blue string (front wrapper cracked along the ribbon, minor staining to the lower right margin, but overall in a good, clean condition).
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- BANDO POW CAMP, JAPAN / WOLRD WAR I: 10 Zeichnungen aus dem Lager. Originalzeichnungen auf Wachsbogen von W. Blomberg
- 1,600.00€
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- 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…
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- CALCUTTA – FIREFIGHTING: The Town and Suburbs of Calcutta (including Howrah) / Map Illustrating the Annual Report of the Calcutta Fire Brigade showing the Positions of Fires, Fire Stations etc. during the Year ended March 31st 1913.
- 1,600.00€
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- 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…
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- CAMBODIA – SOVIET CARTOGRAPHY: Кампучия [Kampučija]
- 90.00€
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- 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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- CHINA – SICHUAN PROVINCE / CHENGDU IMPRINT: 新繪四川全省明細輿圖 [Xin hui Sichuan quan sheng ming xi yu tu / Newly Drawn Detailed Map of Sichuan Province].
- 12,000.00€
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- A great monument in the modern cartography of China – a colossal wall map (measuring 1.5 x 3 metres!) of Sichuan Province, the finest cartographic rendering of the region made during the Late Qing Dynasty, created by Fu Chongju (傅崇榘), the father of modern journalism in Chengdu and the first local mapmaker to adapt Western scientific cartographic methods to…
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