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- Africa, Maps and Prints
- AFRICA – SÃO TOMÉ: África Ocidental – Carta da Ilha de S. Tomé. Escala 1/100000, 1922.
- 350.00€
- The first edition of the first map of the island of São Tomé to be predicated upon systematic triangulated surveys, by Gago Coutinho, who subsequently became a world famous aviator, published in Lisbon in 1922.
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- Africa, Maps and Prints
- AFRICA (NORTH-EASTERN) – EGYPT, LIBYA, SUDAN and TUNISIA
- 380.00€
- A highly attractive separately issued Ottoman map of North-Eastern Africa (Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and Sudan), also embracing adjacent parts of the Middle East and Southern Europe.
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- Africa, Books, Geography, History, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: November 2020
- AFRICA (TANZANIA, CAMEROON, NAMIBIA, TOGO, CONGO) – NAZI DESIGNS IN AFRICA / CARTOGRAPHY / TRANSPORTATION: Straßen im tropischen Afrika: Auszüge aus den Mandatsberichten der Jahre 1922-1937 und aus den Abhandlungen des Kgl. Belgischen Kolonialinstituts 1939.
- 1,200.00€
- An extremely rare Nazi report on the state of roads in Germany's former African colonies and the Belgian Congo, made early in World Wat II in preparation for plans for the Third Reich to regain its African empire either by diplomacy or force, being a printed copy of an original typescript labelled as 'Als Manuskript gedruckt' ('Printed as a manuscript'), issued…
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- Africa, Australia, Books, Geography, Maps and Prints, Ottoman Books, South America, Turkica
- AFRICA / AUSTRALIA / SOUTH AMERICA / SOUTH POLE: سعدى عبدالقادر لر قطعه آفريقا و آستراليا آمريقا، جنوبى اجاه جوغرافيا عمومى [Umumi coğrafya ile Cenubî Amerika, Avustralya ve Afrika Kıtaları / Basic Geography. Continents South America, Australia and Afr
- 480.00€
- A rare, richly illustrated book in Ottoman script on Africa, North Pole, Australia and South America.
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- Africa, Books, Geography, Maps and Prints
- Africa / Ephemera: آفريقا قطعه سى [The Africa Part]
- 120.00€
- A rare ephemeral Ottoman map of Africa was printed on the back cover of a notebook 8°. [48 pp.] manuscript in pencil on paper with printed stripes, stapled, original pink illustrated wrappers (front cover with light water-staining, tears, loss of image and recently repaired with scotch tape, map with soft folds and tiny tears in the margins, staples…
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- Africa, Books, Geography, Maps and Prints, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- AFRICA TRAVELOUGE: افريقا سياحتنامه سى [Afrika Seyahatnâmesi / Africa Book of Travels, i. e. The Heart of Africa / Im Herzen von Afrika]
- 1,500.00€
- A complete set of the contemporary Ottoman translations of Schweinfurth’s influential travelogue to Africa. 8°: 911 pp. with black and white illustrations, folding map, coloured in outline, one toned lithograph with hand coloured details, contemporary Ottoman black calf with gilt and debossed decoration (remboîtage in a contemporary Ottoman binding) (minor age-toning and foxing, holes in the map on the crossings…
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- Africa, Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: December 2020
- ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT: Mediterranean Sea – Egypt. Approaches to Alexandria and Abu Qir Bay surveyed by Commanders F.A. Reyne & S.A.G. Hill…1920-22. / Abu Qir Bay (Western Part) surveyed by Commanders F.A. Reyne & S.A.G. Hill…1920-22.
- 150.00€
- This is a large and exceedingly detailed sheet of sea charts of the Alexandria area, Egypt, made during the twilight of Britain’s domination of the country. Photozincograph with some navigational details heightened in purple, pastedown printed correction slip added over Alexandria’s Inner Harbour, manuscript notes regarding a 1958 voyage and contemporary manuscript additions added in red pen (Good, old…
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- Africa, Books, Geography, Maps and Prints
- ATLAS – MISSIONS IN AFRICA AND CHINA: Karten über das Arbeitsfeld der Berliner Mission.
- 550.00€
- A very rare atlas made by the Berlin Missionary Society, one of the most important missionary organizations in Africa and China during the 19th and early 20th Centuries, featuring 16 original maps made by missionary cartographers, including important figures such as Alexander Merensky and Bernhard Struck, containing 14 maps of South and East Africa and 2 maps of China;…
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- Africa, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: December 2020
- BENGHAZI, LIBYA: Mediterranean Sea. Tripioli. Benghazi to Derna. Surveyed… under the direction of Capt.n T.A.B. Spratt, R.N.; C.B.; F.R.S. 1861.
- 250.00€
- An updated 1914 edition of fine sea chart made by the British Admiralty of the northwestern coast of Libya, known as the Jebel Akhdar, the historical region of Cyrenaica. Photozincograph with some navigational details heightened in yellow (Good, noticeable staining in upper and lower margins, some print transference), 102.5 x 68.5 cm (40.5 x 27 inches).
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- Africa, Maps and Prints
- BENIN – SOVIET CARTOGRAPHY: Бенин [Benin]
- 75.00€
- Colour print, 52 x 89 cm (20.2 x 35 inches), accompanied by an original brochure with an index: 8°, 7 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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- Africa, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: December 2020
- CENTRAL AFRICA: [Congo, Cameroon, Angola, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda]
- 120.00€
- 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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- Africa, Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: December 2020
- EGYPT / ISRAEL / PALESTINE / JORDAN / LEBANON / SYRIA / ARCHAEOLOGY: Carte topographique de l’Egypte et de plusieurs parties des pays limitrophes, levée pendant l’expédition de l’armée française, par les ingénieurs-géographes, les officiers du génie militaire, et les ingénieurs des ponts et chaussées, assujettie aux observations des astronomes, construite par M. Jacotin, colonel, au corps royal des ingénieurs-géographes militaires, gravée au dépôt général de la guerre, à l’échelle de 1 millimètre pour 100 mètres.
- 1,800.00€
- An absolutely stellar example of the first broadly accurate map of Egypt and Palestine, predicated upon advanced trigonometric surveys undertaken by the cartographer Pierre Jacotin on the orders of Napoleon Bonaparte during the French occupation of Egypt, considered to be one of the great achievements of Enlightenment science. Copper engraving, dissected into 32 sections and mounted upon…
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- Africa, Maps and Prints
- EGYPT / SUDAN / ETHIOPIA / RED SEA: Karte von Egypten Verfast von Herrn Robert Vaugondy, Geographen des Königs von Polen.
- 250.00€
- A scarce and highly attractive map of Egypt and the entire Nile Valley, including Sudan and Ethiopia, plus the Red Sea, with lovely adornments such a maritime view of Alexandria and a vignette with ancient architectural wonders, by Johann Walch of Augsburg.
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- Africa, Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: December 2020
- EGYPT, HEJAZ.
- 120.00€
- 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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- Africa, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: December 2020
- EL ATALEH, SOMALIA: Africa – Costa Est. Ancoraggi di Itala (Ata Eh). Rilievi eseguiti dalle R. Navi Staffetta e Governolo Comandanti: Capitano di Fregata P. Botti – 1898, Capitano di Fregata G. Patris – 1904, Capitano di Fregata A. Riva di Fenile – 1906.
- 150.00€
- This is the extremely rare first edition of the Italian Navy’s sea chart of stretch of the Somali coast around El Ataleh, some ways up from Mogadishu. Zincograph (Good, but with noticeable wear along old folds with some toning in upper area), 63 x 59 cm (25 x 23 inches).
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- Africa, Maps and Prints
- ETHIOPIA: Эфиопия [Efiopija]
- 85.00€
- Colour print, 70 x 78 cm (27.6 x 30,7 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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- Africa, Maps and Prints
- ETHIOPIAN EMPIRE / ABYSSINIA: Neue Karte von Abessinien und Somaliländern.
- 280.00€
- A German map shows Abyssinia on the eve of the Second Italo-Ethiopian War, in 1935.
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- Africa, Maps and Prints
- GHANA – SOVIET CARTOGRAPHY: Гана [Gana],
- 85.00€
- Colour print, 66 x 52 cm (26 x 20,5 inches), with an original brochure with an index: 8°, 8 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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- Africa, Maps and Prints
- GHANA (GOLD COAST) – SEKONDI AFRICAN URBANISM: Sketch Plan of Secondee.
- 850.00€
- The only known example of a fascinating cyanotype (blueprint) plan of Sekondi, capturing the Gold Coast’s (Ghana) main commercial port during the Edwardian boom period of economic and infrastructure development - a value artefact of the the Industrial Revolution and urbanism in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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- Africa, Maps and Prints, Mauritius, Réunion
- INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS – MAURITIUS / RÉUNION / SEYCHELLES, etc.: A Chart of the Islands in the Middle Part of the Indian Ocean. London, 1780.
- 1,900.00€
- An extremely rare sea chart of the middle of the Indian Ocean, featuring Northeast Madagascar, Mauritius, Réunion, the Seychelles, as well as many other islands and nautical features, made during a great era of piracy and Anglo-French naval rivalry in the region, issued by the boutique London chartmakers of Henry Gregory & Son.
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- Africa, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: December 2020
- JUBBA RIVER, SOMALIA: Africa Orientale (Benadir) Foce del Giuba. Rilievi eseguiti dalle R. Navi “Staffetta” Comandante Giavotto, Capitano di Vascello – 1908.
- 150.00€
- This chart maps the mouth of the Jubba River in southern Somalia, long a vital lifeline for agriculture and trade. The chart was made from surveys conducted by Commander Giovatto of the Italian Navy in 1908. Zincograph (Very Good, some light toning and light wear along old folds), 53 x 61 cm (21 x 24 inches).
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- Africa, Maps and Prints
- KENYA – SOVIET CARTOGRAPHY: Кения [Kenija]
- 85.00€
- Colour print, 66 x 52 cm (26 x 20.5 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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- Africa, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: December 2020
- KISMAAYO, SOMALIA: Africa – East Coast. Kisimayu Bay (Refuge Bay). Surveyed by Captain W.J.L. Wharton and the Officers of H.M.S. Fawn, 1877.
- 180.00€
- An Italian map of the natural harbour of Kismaayo, in the far south of Somalia. Photozincograph, with navigational markers heightened in yellow and some details added in manuscript in red pen, with pastedown date stamp in lower left corner (Very Good, some wear along old folds), 55.5 x 70.5 cm (22 x 27.5 inches).
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- Africa, Books, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: December 2020
- LIBYA GEOLOGICAL MAP / OIL-PETROLEUM INDUSTRY: Geologic Map of the Kingdom of Libya Compiled by Louis C. Conant and Gus H. Goudarzi under the joint sponsorship of the Kingdom of Libya and the Agency for International Development, U. S. Department of State. / خريطة جيولوجية للمملكة الليبية
- 750.00€
- The first edition of the first comprehensive, scientifically accurate geological map of Libya, a grand, bilingual (English - Arabic) separately issued production primarily made to aid the country’s burgeoning oil industry; the result of a collaboration between Louis Conant and Gus Goudarzi, two of America’s most esteemed geologists, fulfilling a joint project of the U.S. State Department and the pro-Western…
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- Africa, Madagscar, Maps and Prints
- MADAGASCAR – Anantson̈o (St. Augustin’s Bay) & Toliara (Tullea): The Bays of St. Augustin and Tullea, on the Western Coasts of Madagascar, Surveyed in 1755 and 1768.
- 500.00€
- A fine and scarce sea chart of St. Augustin’s (Anantson̈o) and Tullea (Toliara) bays, amongst the finest anchorages on the west coast of Madagascar, published by the leading chartmakers of Laurie & Whittle.
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- Africa, Madagscar, Maps and Prints
- MADAGASCAR – Anantson̈o (St. Augustin’s Bay): A Chart of St. Augustin’s Bay, on the Island Madagascar As Surveyed by Wm. Nichelson, (Master of His Majesty’s Ship Elizabeth) in the Year 1758.
- 750.00€
- Very rare – the first edition of Captain William Nichelson’s masterly large-format sea chart of St. Augustin’s Bay, Madagascar, a key harbour on the Mozambique Channel, along the route between Europe and India, first issued in the 1767 edition of William Herbert’s important atlas, ‘A New Directory for the East Indies’.
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- Africa, Madagscar, Maps and Prints
- MADAGASCAR – WEST COAST: A Chart of the Western Coast of Madagascar from St Augustin’s Bay to Cape St. Andrew (from Mr. D’Apres de Mannevillette).
- 250.00€
- A fine and scarce sea chart of the West Coast of Madagascar, published by the leading British chart-making firm of Laurie & Whittle.
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- Africa, Maps and Prints, Middle East
- MAP PRINTED ON SILK / OBJECT D’ART / ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT / NAPOLEONIC CAMPAIGN IN EGYPT: A Plan of the Operations of the British Forces in Egypt from the Landing in Aboukir Bay on the 8th of March to the Battle of Alexandria March 21st inclusive.
- 3,500.00€
- An exquisite ‘objet d’art’, being a unique example of William Faden’s map of the Battles of Abukir and Alexandria (1801), France’s ‘last stand’ in Egypt, printed on silk with details richly embroidered in coloured silk thread, clearly a prestation piece made for a highly important figure. Copper engraving on silk with details contemporarily heightened in embroidery of coloured silk thread, contemporarily…
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- Africa, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: December 2020
- MASSAWA, ERITREA: (Mar Rosso – Africa) Porto di Massaua rilievi eseguiti dai T.ti di V.llo G. Boccardi, C. Marcacci, E. Presbitero, G. Roncagli e sotto T.te S. Bellini sotto la direzione del capitano di Corvetta C. Mirabello, Comandante la R. Connoniera Scilla…1886.
- 450.00€
- This is the first sea chart of the harbour of Massawa predicated upon proper scientific surveys, as well as one of the only detailed early maps of the city of Massawa as remodeled by the new Italian colonial regime. Zincograph, with some navigation markers heightened in yellow, some contemporary manuscript navigational additions in pencil (Good, but with noticeable wear…
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- Africa, Maps and Prints
- MAURITANIA – SOVIET CARTOGRAPHY: Мавритания [Mavritanija]
- 85.00€
- Colour print, 65 x 59 cm (35.6 x 23.1inches), with an original brochure with an index: 8°, 4 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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- Africa, Maps and Prints, Mauritius, Réunion
- MAURITIUS / RÉUNION / RODRIGUES / MASCARENE ISLANDS: [5 Charts on 1 Sheet:] A New Chart of the Isle of France or Mauritius [and] Plan of Port Louis [and] Plan of Port Bourbon with its Entrances, &c. [and] The Island of Bourbon, called also Mascarenhas [an
- 1,800.00€
- Very rare - a stellar example of a sheet featuring the most important sea charts of the Mascarene Islands (Réunion, Mauritius and Rodrigues) made during the 19th Century, created by the Heather-Norie dynasty, predicated upon the finest sources collected in the wake of Britain attaining dominance over the Indian Ocean.
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- Africa, Books, Maps and Prints, Mauritius
- MAURITIUS: Charte von Île de France oder der Insel Frankreich Nach der Zeichnung von Bory de St. Vincent. Prag 1811
- 140.00€
- Copper engraving, 21.5 x 16 cm (8,5 x 6.3 inches) (in a good condition).
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- Africa, Maps and Prints
- MOROCCO – Essaouira (Mogador): Verklaaring van deeze Paskaart Sedy Besorktom is de Graf plaats van een Marabouw, hebbende rondom de muer cenige spitze Naaden, Zynde een goed merk als men uit het Noorden komt om niet roorby Magodor te zeilen t Rif Teran va
- 750.00€
- An extremely rare separately-issued chart of the important port of Essaouira (formerly Mogador), Morocco, issued when the city was being transformed into the country’s greatest port, by Gerard Hulst van Keulen, masterfully engraved and of an uncommonly beautiful design.
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- Africa, Maps and Prints
- NIGERIA – SOVIET CARTOGRAPHY: Нигерия [Nigerija]
- 85.00€
- Colour print, 67 x 78 cm (26.3 x 30.7 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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- Africa, Archives and Documents, Books, Geography, Maps and Prints
- NILE RIVER EXPLORATION ARCHIVE: An Archive consisting of 1 Original Photograph and 16 Manuscript Documents from the Personal Papers of Gabriel Aubaret, the Chief Scientific Officer of the Comte d’Escayrac’s 1856 Expedition that aimed to discover the Sourc
- 3,500.00€
- An impressive archive consisting of a stellar original photograph and sixteen manuscript documents relating to the Comte d’Escayrac’s 1856 planned expedition to find the source of the White Nile, two years before John Hanning Speke successfully accomplished said objective, from the personal papers of Gabriel Aubaret, the mission’s second-in-command and subsequently a famous diplomat and a leading figure in…
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- Africa, India, Maps and Prints
- PASSAGE TO INDIA / THEMATIC MAPPING / INDIAN OCEAN / HYDROLOGY / IMPORTANT ENLIGHTENMENT CARTOGRAPHY: Carte du Sisteme des Courants des Mers de l’Inde dans le Tems de la Mousson du N.E. au N. de la Ligne. Publiée par le Vicomte Grenier.
- 750.00€
- Highly Important and Rare – a great monument of Enlightenment Era thematic cartography - Vicomte Grenier’s of sea chart showcasing his new, faster sailing routes across the Indian Ocean, discoveries which revolutionized European-Asian transportation and geopolitics.
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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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- Africa, Madagscar, Maps and Prints
- PIRATES / MADAGASCAR: [2 Charts on 1 Sheet:] Ambodifotatra, Nosy Boraha Island (Île Sainte-Marie) and Antongil Bay: A Plan of the Principal Harbour & Town, of the Isl. S. Maries, Laying of the East Coast of the Isl. Madagascar in Lat. 17º 00’S. [and] The
- 850.00€
- Very Rare – two charts of Madagascar harbours on a single sheet, presenting the famed pirate base of St. Mary’s Harbour and Antongil Bay, from William Herbert’s magnificent sea atlas, ‘A New Directory for the East Indies’.
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- Africa, Maps and Prints
- PROPAGANDA / WORLD WAR II / ROMMEL’S AFRIKAKORPS: Rommel Persigue a los Ingleses en el Africa del Norte. [Rommel Pursues the English in North Africa].
- 700.00€
- A fantastic large-format propaganda broadside, or ‘wall newspaper’, made to celebrate the exploits of German General Erwin Rommel, the ‘Desert Fox’, and his Afrikakorps, printed in Fascist Spain in July 1942, before the pivotal showdown at El Alamein had been decided.
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- Africa, Maps and Prints
- RARE PROOF – SPAIN – CEUTA. Septa.
- 1,500.00€
- An extraordinary woodcut view of the Iberian enclave of Ceuta, on the north coast of Morocco, apparently a proof for Braun & Hogenberg’s famous copper engraved view of the city.
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- Africa, Maps and Prints
- RED SEA / ITALIAN COLONIAL VENTURES – ERITREA / ETHIOPIA / DJIBOUTI / SUDAN / YEMEN / SAUDI ARABIA: Carta del Mar Rosso e del Sudan orientale pubblicata per cura della Sezione Cartografia della Società Africana d’Italia.
- 350.00€
- A fine map of the Red Sea depicting Italy’s first major operation to establish an overseas colony, in Eritrea, commissioned by the Società Africana d’Italia, an influential lobbying-research organization, and originally published in an issue of their rare journal.
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- Africa, Books, Maps and Prints, Réunion
- RÉUNION: Neue Charte von der Insel Bourbon od Reunion nach der Zeichnung von Bory de St. Vincent
- 140.00€
- Copper engraving, 21.5 x 16 cm (8,5 x 6.3 inches) (in a good condition).
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- Africa, Maps and Prints
- Sahel – Africa – CARTOGRAPHIC PLAYING CARD: ‘Upper Guinea’ from The Court Game of Geography.
- 120.00€
- A very rare cartographic playing card featuring a map of Africa.
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- Africa, Maps and Prints
- SEYCHELLES: A Chart of the Mahé and Amirantes Islands with their Shoals by Monsr. le Vicomte Grenier 1776.
- 850.00€
- A scarce British edition of a sea chart that represents the first broadly accurate general mapping of the Seychelles and Amirantes Islands, based on the cartography of the Chevalier Grenier, conducted during his important expedition of scientific and commercial discovery.
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- Africa, Maps and Prints
- SIERRA LEONE / MANUMISSION OF SLAVES: Map of Part of the Western Coast of Africa extending from the Isles de Loss to Sherboro Island. Particularly Exhibiting the Discoveries lately made to the N.E. of Sierra Leone by Surgeon O’Beirne and Major Ling. Compi
- 550.00€
- James Wyld the Younger’s important map of Sierra Leone, featuring the tracks of British expeditions into the interior, a stellar example featuring unusually magnificent original hand colour.
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- Africa, Maps and Prints
- SOUTH AFRICA – Eastern Cape / XHOSA WARS: [Untitled Manuscript Sketch Map of the ‘Eastern Frontier’ of the Cape Colony / Grahamstown-Great Fish River Area].
- 750.00€
- An original manuscript sketch map of the Grahamstown-Great Fish River region of South Africa, the strategically critical ‘Eastern Frontier’ of the Cape Colony, made immediately in the wake of the Sixth European-Xhosa War (1834-6).
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- Africa, Archives and Documents, Maps and Prints
- SOUTH AFRICA – CAPE TOWN FORTIFICATIONS – THE PRINCE OF WALES BLOCKHOUSE – ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT PLANS
- 3,200.00€
- A set of original, exquisitely executed manuscript plans of the blockhouse of the Prince of Wales Battery, one of the key components of the elaborate new defensive system that the British constructed around Cape Town (South Africa) during their first occupation of the colony from 1795 to 1803; drafted by Captain (later Major-General) George Bridges, the commanding Royal Engineer…
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- Africa, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: December 2020
- SOUTH AFRICA : قاپ [Cape]
- 120.00€
- 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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- Africa, Maps and Prints
- SOUTH AFRICA / AUSTRALIANA: “Track of H.M.S. Tamer round the Cape of Good Hope” [manuscript title, pasted over original printed title: Track of the Ship Hannah John Lamb R. N. Commander Round the Cape of Good Hope in June & July 1822.]
- 950.00€
- A unique example of a very rare chart of South Africa, with a curious Australian connection! Commander John Lamb’s chart showing the 1822 route of his ship ‘Hannah’, fighting the Agulhas Current rounding the Cape of Good Hope; but this example with a manuscript pastedown title regarding the route of the ‘H.M.S. Tamar’, plus manuscript traces of its route,…
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- Africa, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- SOUTH AFRICA / GOLD MINING / ENGINEERS’ ‘MASTER PLAN’: Kinross Mines Ltd. – Underground Plan – 1:2,500.
- 2,500.00€
- A colossal ‘master plan’ of the Kinross Gold Mine in Transvaal (measuring 1.9 x 1.7 metres!), made by engineers around 1970 to showcase every detail of the immense subterranean world of one of South Africa’s largest and most productive gold operations; the mine since became world famous for the 1986 Kinross Mining Disaster, which highlighted the Apartheid regime’s horrific record…
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- Africa, Books, Geography, Maps and Prints
- SOUTH AFRICA / LESOTHO / EARLY ORANGE FREE STATE IMPRINT / ‘INTELLECTUAL PROPAGANDA’: Correspondence between the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope and the President of the Orange Free State, with Annexes thereto relative to the Basuto War and Convention e
- 1,200.00€
- An extremely rare early Bloemfontein imprint featuring seminal primary sources concerning the end of the Orange Free State-Basotho Wars which secured the Anglo-Afrikaner balance of power in the region, as well as the security of what would become Lesotho, commissioned by the Volksraad of the Orange Free State as a work of ‘intellectual propaganda’ advancing its national claims.
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- Africa, Maps and Prints
- SOUTH AFRICA: POTCHEFSTROOM (North West Province). Map of Potchefstroom shewing Fifteen Mile Radius.
- 850.00€
- An Exceptionally rare - seemingly unrecorded – and impressively large ‘Sunprint’ or cyanotype map on cotton cloth, depicting Major Robert Lyle McClintock’s advanced topographical survey of the environs of Potchefstroom, South Africa, executed in the period following the Second Anglo-Boer War, made in Potchefstroom after the original survey composed in Pretoria.
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- Africa, Maps and Prints
- SUDAN / EGYPT – MAHDIST WAR – PAIR OF MAPS:
- 1,200.00€
- A pair of fine, separately issued maps that represent the first broadly accurate general mapping of Southern Egypt and Northern Sudan; important masterpieces of frontier military cartography printed during the Siege of Khartoum, and which served as the definitive maps used by Anglo-Egyptian forces for the remainder of the Mahdist War (1881-99), the epic contest for control of Sudan;…
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- Africa, Maps and Prints
- SWAZILAND: Swaziland Scale 1:250,000.
- 220.00€
- An attractive and informative 1960s map of Swaziland, published in Mbabane, the country’s capital.
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- Africa, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: November 2020
- TANZANIA / RWANDA / BURUNDI – WORLD WAR I IN EAST AFRICA: German East Africa. Scale 1:2,000,000 or 1.014 Inches = 32 Miles.
- 1,200.00€
- A seemingly unrecorded special ‘emergency’ issue of Max Moisel’s groundbreaking map of Deutsch-Ostafrika (today’s mainland Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi), issued in haste by British War Office immediately following the outbreak of World War I, whereupon East Africa became a surprisingly intense conflict theatre; the present example bearing evidence of field use, featuring contemporary manuscript additions. Photolithographic print, with contemporary…
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- Africa, Maps and Prints
- TRIPOLI, LIBYA: طرابلس غرب ولآيت [TRIPOLIS GARAB VILAYET / TRIPOLIS WESTERN VILAYET].
- 220.00€
- A very rare lithographed postcard map of the Vilayet Tripoli in Libya in Ottoman script was made in Istanbul by a Romanian born publisher Tüccarzâde İbrahim Hilmi Çığıraçan.
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- Africa, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: October 2020
- TUNISIA: Carte de la Régence de Tunis dressée d‘après les cartes nautiques de la Marine anglaise, les cartes de l‘Algérie et de la Tunisie publiées par le Depôt de la guerre franc̦ais et les itinéraires des voyageurs européens, surtout de feu M. Wilmanns par Henri Kiepert.
- 350.00€
- A rare map of Tunisia made by Heinrich Kiepert, the great German cartographer who was the world’s foremost authority on the geography of the Arab World, published the year that France colonized the country; the map features a wealth of topographic, infrastructure, ethnographic and archaeological details, some of which were gleaned from the recent expedition of the German historian Gustav…
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- Africa, Books, Geography, Maps and Prints
- WORLD WAR II U-BOAT ATLAS MOROCCO / WEST AFRICA INNOVATIVE SPACE VISUALIZATION: Atlas der Bodenbeschaffenheit des Meeres. 9. Lieferung. Westküste Afrikas zwischen 7° und 34° Nord-Breite. Bearbeitet von der Deutschen Seewarte.
- 2,500.00€
- A very rare, large-format atlas of the sea floor off the western and northwestern coasts of Africa, from Morocco down to Sierra Leone, made by the German Navy during the height of World War II expressly for the use of U-Boats; with 24 plates of highly sophisticated and brightly coloured sea charts predicated upon novel, recent intelligence, it was…
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- Africa, Maps and Prints
- WW2 SOMALIA / DJIBOUTI / ETHIOPIA / SOCOTRA (YEMEN): Somaliland / Third Edition. / Army/Air Style
- 180.00€
- A scarce military map of northern Somalia, eastern Ethiopia, Djibouti and Yemen’s Socotra Island, made by the British War Ministry in 1942, shortly after British forces had vanquished Italian positions in the region.
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- Africa, Europe, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: November 2020
- WWII IN NORTH AFRICA / SICILY / D-DAY / FRANCE / GERMANY / SOLDIERS’ ITINERARY CARTOGRAPHY: The Route of The Ninth Division Thru the Natousa & Etousa Nov. 8, 1942 – June 1945.
- 650.00€
- A fascinating itinerary map of the route of the U.S. Army’s Ninth Infantry Division during their World War II active combat tours, featuring their routes in North Africa, Sicily, England, France (including the D-Day Landings) and Germany; published in Germany only 2 months after the end of the war as a memento for the troops – notably, one of only…
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- Africa, Madagscar, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: October 2020
- WWII MADAGASCAR / BRITISH INVASION OF MADAGASCAR – OPERATIONS ‘IRONCLAD’ AND ‘STREAM LINE JANE’: Madagascar et dépendances. Carte routière.
- 1,200.00€
- An extraordinary artefact from the World War II British Invasion of Madagascar, being a very rare large format early automotive map of the island printed by the French colonial mapping service in Tananarive (Antananarivo), but here used by a British army officer as a strategic aid, bearing extensive manuscript additions marking the progress of Operations ‘Ironclad’ (the capture of Diego-Suarez)…
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