A rare unusual large originally coloured aquatint and etching showcasing the fortress Hohentwiel on the top of a volcanic dome in the German province Baden-Württemberg, as it look like before the demolition by the Napoleonic army in 1801, is presented in an unusual perspective of hemiorama.
An extremely rare, resplendently coloured broadside map of Uruguay made during the country’s 1880s boom period by the renown military engineer, topographical artist and photographer Lieutenant Colonel Gabino Monegal, published in Montevideo. Lithograph in colours (Very Good, lovely vibrant colours, some short clean tears closed from verso by old repairs, some marginal foxing), 47.5 x 38 cm (18.5 x 15…
An extremely rare early ephemeral map of the ‘Ferrocarril Bolívar’, the first railway line in Venezuela, connecting the famous Aroa Copper Mines with the sea, published in London for the benefit of the mines and railway’s British investors.
An uncommon map of the World with marked vulcanic lines was published to accompany a scientific article by a German researcher of antiquity and Egyptologist Friedrich Sickler in 1812.