Geography

  A manuscript travelogue of Europe with stunning illustrations, made by a female author   Oblong 8°. [5 pp.] blank, [16 pp.] manuscript in black ink with illustrations in gouache, pencil and pencil, accompanied with yellow highlights and toning, illustrated titles and initials, yellow endpapers, [15 pp.] blank, dark green washed silk binding with gold tooling and lettering, gilt edges…

  [Primary Atlas of the World. For use in Egyptian Schools. First Edition]   First Egyptian modern school atlas of the world, published in the year of the country’s independence, in 1922.   Square 4°. Title page, 35 pp. with full page colour lithographed maps, bound in original blue card covers with title printed on front cover (title page little…

Pierre Nicolas Langlet Du Fresnoy. Avignon: Chambeau 1782.   12°, viii, 116 pp., folding map of the world (old Catholic school stamp on the title page, small cracks in the hinges of endpapers, otherwise in a good condition with minor staining, binding little scuffed and rubbed).

  A rare Greek manual on quick and precise map-making on the field with limited equipment.   8°,77 pp. with black and white illustrations, original illustrated wrappers, stapled(printed on thin paper with traces of printed text on reverse side, small tears in margins, wrappers slightly stained, with tiny loss of paper in margins, but overall in a good condition).  

An extremely rare early issue of Charles Kennedy Jardine’s directory and almanac for British Guiana, an unusually comprehensive work of its kind, featuring a vast wealth of information available nowhere else, a critical resource for the study of the colony during this critical period, compiled and published in Georgetown by the ‘Daily Chronicle’ newspaper.   8° (16.5 x 10.5 cm):…

A highly important work on early petroleum history, being the official account of the first scientific geological reconnaissance of Northern Iraq, featuring 10 large, colourful maps that are the first detailed, accurate geological maps of the same region, a work that served as the blueprint for the Turkish Petroleum Company to discover the world’s largest oil field near Kirkuk in…

Fahreddin Reşad Bey (Rumbeyoğlu Fahreddin Bey also Rumbeyoğlu Fahr al-Din Bey,1867–1943) - Mehmed Nâbi Bey (1868-1924). [The Problem of Irrigation and Water Supply in Mesopotamia] Istanbul: Matbaa-i Âmire 1334 [1918]. 8°, 14 pp., [2 pp.] blank, original tan wrappers with lettering on the cover (minor foxing, otherwise in a good, clean condition) (#70726). An Ottoman pamphlet on the irrigation in…

  Japan. Past. Present. Future   The first Ottoman book on Japan.   8°. [2 pp.] index on pink paper, 131 pp., double-page colour map, folding map, later wrappers (folding map with partly repaired tears, otherwise in a good condition).    

  A rare collection of two titles that feature entertaining and valuable accounts of early frontier life in Patagonia, the result of separate investigative tours of the Río Negro and Chubut territories by the brothers Moritz and Theodor Alemann, prominent journalists, who endeavored to assess the regions’ suitability for Germanic immigration and to weave German immigrant ‘colonies’ in Argentina into…

  Extremely rare – no other examples recorded – the first edition of Reverend Buckley Wood’s history of Lagos, one of the seminal sources on the city’s precolonial period, printed in Exeter in 1878.

  A charming pocket atlas in Ottoman language, made in the first years of the Republic of Turkey.   Long small 8°: [4 pp.], 24 pp., 120 pp., 34 colour lithographed maps and charts, some folding (complete – matching the list in text), contemporary half linen binding, debossed dark faux leather boards (minor staining, mostly on the edges, front endpapers…

Mehmet Ziya GÖKALP (1876 – 1924). [Konya Seyahati Hâtırâtından / Memories from Travel to Konya] Istanbul: Araks Matbaası 1328 [1912]. 8°, 39 pp. lithography in gold, illustrated pink wrappers, unbound as originally published (wrappers slightly dusty and stained with small tears in margins, internally with tiny worm holes in inner margins, margins little dusty with tiny tears) (#70621). A description…

  Very rare – a great monument of Arctic exploration and cartography, being a colossal 19-sheet map (or atlas) that represents the first systematic scientific and broadly complete mapping of North Greenland, charting a 1,200 km-long arc from Cape York, in the southwest to Danmark Fjord, in the northeast, conducted by the ‘Danish Bicentenary Jubilee Expedition (1921-3)’ led by Lauge…

A scarce Japanese Meiji era atlas, based on Johnston’s The National Atlas of Historical, Commercial and Political Geography   4°, [1 pp.] text in red with gold decorative margins, 7 double-page colour lithographed maps, 23 pp. with imprint on the inner side of the rear pasted endpaper, original card wrappers with lettering, black cloth spine (sporadic minor foxing, world map…

  A very rare and attractive Mexican manual for instructing light infantry in the field, published shortly after Mexican Independence, with 2 charmingly crudely engraved plates depicting suggested reconnaissance formations, published in Mexico City for the Ministerio de Guerra y Marina. 12° (14.5 x 10 cm): [2], 251 pp., plus, 2 folding engraved plates (with Fig. 1 measuring 15 x…

8°, 34 pp., [2 pp.] blank, later marbled wrappers (slightly stained, otherwise in a good condition).

  Very rare in commerce – the authoritative firsthand account of the first European attempt to colonize New Guinea, written by Lieutenant Justin Modera of the expedition ship ‘Triton’, who recounts the harrowing attempt to establish Fort Du Bus and to explore the forbidding southwestern coast of New Guinea, featuring a stellar sea chart of the region from Modera’s groundbreaking…

  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…

[İlk ve Orta Mekteblere Mahsus Coğrafya Atlası / Geographical Atlas for Primary and Middle Schools] Istanbul: A. M. Karmi, Publisher - Leipzig: Wagner & Debes, Printer [1922]. 4°, [2 pp.] lithographed title page and index verso, 24 pp. chromolithographed maps, original green card binding with lettering and green cloth spine (good used condition with minor foxing and minor chips in…

  [Mükemmel ve Mufassal Co‎ğrafya-yı Umumi Atlası /  Complete and Detailed General Geographical Atlas]   8°, [8 pp.], 188 pp.,, [4 pp.], interleaved page between p. 28-29, 37 colour lithographed double paged maps (complete) including one plate with two maps and one folding map, original blue binding with debossed lettering and decoration (sporadic old annotations in Ottoman, one map (Asia)…

  [Usûl-i Coğrafya-yı Sagir / Small Introduction to Geography]   An early Ottoman geography book with large, wonderfully originally coloured maps.   12°: 156 pp., [4 pp.] blank and errata, 3 folding plates with maps – lithographs with original colour, original green boards and green cloth spine (binding with small chips and scratches, inside in a good condition with minor…