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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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