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- Asia, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: September 2020, South-East Asia
- SINGAPORE & SUMATRA: صوماطرا اطيه سى [Island Sumatra]
- 230.00€
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- Chromolithograph. 10 x 13,5 cm (4 x 5.3 inches). Slightly stained, overall in a good condition.
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- Asia, China, Maps and Prints, South-East Asia
- SOUTH CHINA SEA / KARIMATA ISLANDS, INDONESIA: A Chart of some Islands between Borneo and Banca, seen by the Osterly in her Passage Outward and Homeward, 1758 & 1759. Taken on the Spot by Mr. John Powell, Chief Mate of the Osterly.
- 650.00€
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- A very rare sea chart of the South China Sea around the Karimata Islands, just the west of Borneo, based on an original manuscript made by the master of the ‘HMS Osterly’ during the Seven Years’ War, published by William Herbert.
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- Asia, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: December 2020, South-East Asia
- SOUTHEAST ASIA: جزأير هند [Indian Islands]
- 200.00€
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- A map from Umûm Vilayât-ı Şâhâneyi Hâvi Küçük Atlas - Umûmî Küçük Atlas (General Small Atlas) Chromolithograph. 9 x 13,5 cm (3.5 x 5.3 inches).
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- Asia, Maps and Prints, Sri Lanka
- SRI LANKA – GALLE and SOUTHWEST COAST: Trigonometrical Survey of the West Coast of Ceylon, Executed by order of the Madras Government, By Lieuts. F.T. Powell & R. Ethersey, I.N. Sheet IV. From Point De Galle to Dondra Head by T.H. Twynam, Master Assistant
- 750.00€
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- Exceedingly rare – one of only 2 known examples - the first publication of the earliest systematic trigonometrical survey of the south-western coast of Sri Lanka, a self-contained section of a four-part series of charts resulting from Lieutenants Frederick Thomas Powell and Richard Ethersey’s masterly survey of the ‘West Coast of Ceylon’, undertaken upon the orders of the East…
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- Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: September 2020, Sri Lanka
- SRI LANKA: سيلان آطه سى [Seylan Atası]
- 180.00€
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- Chromolithograph. 9 x 13,5 cm (3.5 x 5.3 inches). Minor staining, overall in a good condition.
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- Asia, Books, Geography, Maps and Prints
- TAIWAN / BUENOS AIRES IMPRINT: Eine Reise in das Innere der insel Formosa und die erste Besteigung des Niitakayama (Mount Morrison), Weihnachten 1898.
- 1,200.00€
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- A fascinating account of the German economist and ethnographer Karl Theodor Stöpel’s tour of Taiwan which occurred just after the island was taken over by Japan, during which he witnessed the island rapid’s economic-political transition and the local Chinese’s rebellion against the new regime, as well as being one of the earliest scientific missions deep into the island’s interior,…
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- Asia, Books, Central Asia, Maps and Prints
- THE GREAT GAME – UZBEKISTAN: Aus Chiwa: Berichte [From Xiva. Reports].
- 380.00€
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- Archives and Documents, Asia, Maps and Prints, Turkica
- TURKISH BRIGADE ARCHIVE – KOREAN WAR
- 4,500.00€
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- A stellar archive of apparently unrecorded ephemeral publications and original photographs contemporarily made by members of the Turkish Brigade, the special force that bravely fought alongside the U.S. Army during the Korean War.
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- Archives and Documents, Asia, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- WORLD WAR II MIMEOGRAPHED ARCHIVE / U.S. ARMED FORCES INDIA-CHINA DIVISION / NEWSLETTER PRINTED ABOARD SHIP
- 1,200.00€
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- A fascinating original mimeographed archive concerning the return of U.S. servicemen from the India-China theatre in the immediate wake of World War II, in this case a group of army officers travelling aboard the ‘USS Anderson’ from Karachi to New York; including a custom guide and map of Karachi; a description of the Suez Canal with a World map; special…
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