A related pair of monumental and artistically virtuous manuscript maps on cloth created by the same anonymous Vietnamese mapmaker in the traditional style of the country, made in the summer of 1885 when France invaded central Vietnam (Annam), with one map showcasing the Quảng Bình Province, the strategic faultline of Vietnam, and featuring contemporary annotations by a French hand;…
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…
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.
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…
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).
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…
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).
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…
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’.
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…
A very rare, attractive and highly detailed map of Hanoi, issued by Prime Minister’s Office of North Vietnam not long after the city had defiantly withstood heavy U.S. aerial bombardment to find itself on the brink of becoming the capital of a united socialist state upon North Vietnam’s imminent victory in the Vietnam War; the map being a subtle…
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