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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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- Europe, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: October 2020, Portugal
- WWII POLAND – ŁÓDŹ / HOLOCAUST: Plan der Stadt Lodsch.
- 850.00€
- A deeply disturbing but historically important map depicting Łódź, Poland shortly after it was conquered by the Nazis in early World War II; all the of place and street names have been changed from Polish to German nomenclature and all signs of the city’s Polish population and Jewish community (which numbered over 30% of the city’s residents) has been erased;…
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- Books, Maps and Prints, Slavica
- WWII POLISH BOOK ON IRAQ: Irak, jego przeszłość i teraźniejszość [Iraq, Its Past and Present].
- 350.00€
- A rare book on the history and geography of Iraq was printed and published by the Polish Carpathian Rifle Division during their campaign in the country during WWII in 1943.
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- Europe, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: October 2020
- WWII THIRD REICH CARTOGRAPHIC PROPAGANDA: Unser Vormarsch im Osten / Tatsaschen gegen Lügen. [Our Advance in the East / Facts against Lies].
- 420.00€
- A rare and well-designed work of WWII Third Reich cartographic propaganda proclaiming the success of the ‘Operation Barbarossa’, the ongoing German ‘blitzkreig’ invasion of the Soviet Union, made by the Nazi Propaganda Directorare. Colour off-set print (Very Good, some light wear along old folds, a few tiny marginal tears with no loss), 84 x 59 cm (33 x 23…
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: October 2020
- YEMEN (NORTH) GEOLOGICAL MAP / SATELLITE PHOTOGRAPHIC CARTOGRAPHY / PETROLEUM INDUSTRY
- 1,200.00€
- An impressive paring of colossal related maps, being 1) a map of North Yemen (a country that existed from 1967 and 1990, until Yemen was unified) constructed from NASA Landsat imagery, leading to the creation of 2) the first edition of the first scientific geological map of North Yemen; highly sophisticated works created by the geologists Maurice J. Grolier and…
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East
- Yemen (North) Geological Map Printed On 4 Separately Issued Sheets
- 1,200.00€
- The first edition of the first scientific geological map of North Yemen, officially the Yemen Arab Republic (centred on its capital Sana’a), a country that existed between 1967 and 1990, until Yemen was unified; a highly sophisticated work published on 4 large, brightly coloured sheets in Hannover by West Germany’s Federal Institute of Geosciences and Natural Resources, predicated upon…
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- Maps and Prints
- YEMEN: Tabula Itineraria sistens illam partem Terrae Yemen
- 400.00€
- Deatailed early road map of Yemen, made by Carsten Niebuhr based on surveys from a scientific expedition sponsored by Frederick V of Denmark
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- Maps and Prints
- YEMEN. Karte von dem groessten Theil des Landes Jemen Imame, Kaukeban &c
- 400.00€
- Magnificent large map of Yemen and Saudi Arabia based on Carsten Niebuhr's discoveries
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