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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€
- 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€
- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Asia, China, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: October 2020
- CHINA / MISSIONARY OPERATIONS: A Map of China prepared for the China Inland Mission.
- 780.00€
- Extremely rare – 1 of only 2 known examples - an extraordinary variant of the first edition of the China Inland Mission’s (CIM) map of China, depicting all of the leading evangelical society’s outposts founded during its first 13 years of operation, with the present example depicting the travel routes of named CIM missionaries, vital details useful for academic research…
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- INDIA (NORTHERN) / PAKISTAN / BANGLADESH: Vicariati e prefetture Apostoliche nell’ Indostan.
- 1,500.00€
- Extremely Rare – a pair of large-format maps respectively depicting Northern and Southern India, featuring the ecclesiastical divisions of the Roman Catholic on the subcontinent, prepared for the Vatican’s State Secretariat by Girolamo Petri, issued within his monumental atlas, ‘L’Orbe Cattolico ossia Atlante Geografico Storico Ecclesiastico’.
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- INDONESIA – SOUTHWESTERN SUMATRA (BENGKULU): [Untitled Chart of the West Coast of Sumatra, including Bengkulu (Bencoolen), extending to the Straits of Sunda].
- 750.00€
- Very Rare – the first broadly accurate British sea chart of the southwestern coast of Sumatra, a critical region home to the important British base of Benccoolon-Fort Marlborough (modern Bengkulu), published by William Herbert in 1758.
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- INDONESIA – WEST JAVA (JAKARTA) / SUNDA STRAITS / SOUTHEASTERN SUMATRA: [Untitled Sea Chart of the Straits of Sunda, West Java, Southeastern Sumatra, Banka and Belitung].
- 850.00€
- Very Rare - the first broadly accurate British sea chart of the Straits of Sunda, but also extending to include West Java (including Jakarta) and southeastern Sumatra, published by William Herbert in 1758.
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- MALAYSIA – TIOMAN ISLAND: A Draught of the Bay on the S W. side of Island Timoan… The Whole Surveyed & Drawn with Accuracy by Wm. Nichelson, Master of His Majesty’s Ship Elizabeth, in January 1763.
- 850.00€
- Very Rare – the first printing of Captain William Nichelson’s fine chart and profile view of Tioman Island (Malaysia), then a important waypoint for navigation between the Straits of Malacca and the Far East, issued within William Herbert’s ‘A New Directory for the East Indies’ – a stellar example with the often-lacking original extension fly-leaf of remarks.
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