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.
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.
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’.
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.
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.
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.
An exceedingly rare map of a port in the Red Sea, printed on thin paper in Italian language, was sold separately for navigational uses. Lithograph on thin paper, each 31 x 23 cm (12.2 x 9 inches).
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.
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).
![OTTOMAN SCHOOL ATLAS OF AFRICA آفريقا [Arika / Africa]](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/68823-265x331.jpg)
![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](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/64838-265x331.jpg)
![PROPAGANDA / WORLD WAR II / ROMMEL’S AFRIKAKORPS: Rommel Persigue a los Ingleses en el Africa del Norte. [Rommel Pursues the English in North Africa].](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/65360-265x331.jpg)
![RED SEA NAVIGATION: [SUWAKIN, SUDAN]. Ingresso nel Porto di Suakin / / Secondo le carte Ingles del 1870.](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/69368-265x331.jpg)
![SOUTH AFRICA – Eastern Cape / XHOSA WARS: [Untitled Manuscript Sketch Map of the ‘Eastern Frontier’ of the Cape Colony / Grahamstown-Great Fish River Area].](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/65468-265x331.jpg)