Maps and Prints

  An extremely rare, large-format separately-issued map of Bulgaria that specifically details the nation’s international boundaries and border patrol infrastructure, printed in 1904 in Sofia for official use, during a tense period leading to major warfare in the region.

  An amazing survivor – an early Istanbul opera broadside advertising the 1855 single-show performance of Gaetano Donizetti’s ‘Don Pasquale’ at the famous Naum Theatre in Pera (Beyoğlu), Constantinople, headlined by the legendary basso buffo singer Vincenzo Galli, published locally in Italian, Ottoman Turkish, Greek, Armenian and Armenian printed in the Ottoman Alphabet!

Srinagar, Kashmir, India / Indian Urbanism / Calcutta Imprint   An extremely rare map of Srinagar and environs, the capital of Kashmir and famed as one of the most beautiful places in the world, the map full of intriguing cultural details, published in Calcutta by the Survey of India.   Colour heliozincograph (Very Good, clean and bright with attractive colours,…

Enrico BOMBIG. Gorizia [S. l., but probably area around Gorizia, possibly Farra d’Isonzo]: 1904. Papier-mâché or plaster in relief, with hand-colour, title and names of places in manuscript, 73,5 x 132 cm (29 x 52 inches), with frame 90 x 148 cm (35.4 x 58.3 inches), verso originally stabilized with wooden boards. [And:] Enrico BOMBIG. Contea Principesca di Gorizia e…

  A series of 28 Russian lubki showcases the main protagonists of the Caucasian war, battles with the Ottomans, and Cossacks.

A very rare and important landmark of the study of the Malagasy language and early printing in Madagascar, being a comprehensive grammar of Malagasy made by the Reverend William Edward Cousins, who was one of the leading figures in the 1860s revival of Western and missionary and activity in Madagascar and one of the most prolific authors and connoisseurs of…

  Extremely rare – the foundational modern map of Burma, being the first realistic general map of the country, as well as a monument of early lithography in India; the very large format work was published in Calcutta by the Asiatic Lithographic Press during the height of the First Anglo-Burmese War (1824-6), it served as an invaluable strategic aid for…

  A rare ephemeral program written in French, Armenian and Ottoman, was published for a for the matinée and evening performance of the Ottoman operetta Leblebici Horhor Aga, written by an Armenian author Tigran Tchoukhajian.

A finely executed set of miniature embossed portraits of British luminaries, contained within an interesting envelope, suggesting that the set was posted from India to London in 1891.

administrator or military officer to be employed while making a reconnaissance of the island in the tense period leading up to World War I; featuring 26 colour photolithographed maps and 1 legend sheet all published in Antananarivo by the colonial military press, the ‘Service géographique de l’Etat Major du groupe de l’Afrique Orientale’, including 19 provincial maps and 6 large-format, sophisticated…

  A Polish political broadside showcasing the Italian occupation of the Ethiopian Empire, as a warning to the upcoming situation. 

  Four large photographs with German titles depicting Aden in the late 19th century  

  The first edition of the first map of the island of São Tomé to be predicated upon systematic triangulated surveys, by Gago Coutinho, who subsequently became a world famous aviator, published in Lisbon in 1922. 

  A highly attractive separately issued Ottoman map of North-Eastern Africa (Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and Sudan), also embracing adjacent parts of the Middle East and Southern Europe.

An extremely rare Nazi report on the state of roads in Germany's former African colonies and the Belgian Congo, made early in World Wat II in preparation for plans for the Third Reich to regain its African empire either by diplomacy or force, being a printed copy of an original typescript labelled as 'Als Manuskript gedruckt' ('Printed as a manuscript'), issued…

  A rare, richly illustrated book in Ottoman script on Africa, North Pole, Australia and South America.

  A scarce, pioneering atlas of Africa with 18 colour plates featuring 50 maps designed by the leading Vienna map house of Freytag & Berndt, including some sophisticated works of thematic cartography and original maps showcasing the level of Western knowledge of the continent, made to capitalize upon the Africa-mania that swept the general public in the wake of the…

  A rare ephemeral Ottoman map of Africa was printed on the back cover of a notebook   8°. [48 pp.] manuscript in pencil on paper with printed stripes, stapled, original pink illustrated wrappers (front cover with light water-staining, tears, loss of image and recently repaired with scotch tape, map with soft folds and tiny tears in the margins, staples…

A complete set of the contemporary Ottoman translations of Schweinfurth’s influential travelogue to Africa. 8°: 911 pp. with black and white illustrations, folding map, coloured in outline, one toned lithograph with hand coloured details, contemporary Ottoman black calf with gilt and debossed decoration (remboîtage in a contemporary Ottoman binding) (minor age-toning and foxing, holes in the map on the crossings…

  Lithograph with original colour: 18 x 23 cm (7 x 9 inches) (soft fold, slightly age-toned and stained).

A very rare, large format, separately issued map of Africa that is perhaps the last great map of the continent to be printed in Ottoman Turkish script, with attractive colours and adorned with the flags of major African states and colonies, published in Istanbul for the Kitabhane-yi Sudi bookshop.   Colour off-set print (Good, some light staining, wear and some…

  Colour lithograph, folding into original printed card covers bearing title and view on front cover and a map of the Léopoldville area on back cover (Excellent condition, Map amazingly clean, bright and crisp, seemingly barely ever opened, only the lightest marginal wear to covers), 86 x 68.5 cm (34 x 27 inches).   A very rare and early cartographic…

  The first ethnographic map of Alaska, by the Finnish anthropologist H.J. Holmberg, bound within the accompanying Part 1 (of 2 independently-issued parts) of Holmberg’s groundbreaking study of the region.   

  A very rare lithographed postcard map of the Scutari Vilayet in Ottoman script was made in Istanbul during the Young Turks Regime by a Romanian born publisher Tüccarzâde İbrahim Hilmi Çığıraçan.

  A very rare lithographed postcard map of the Aleppo Vilayet in Ottoman script was made in Istanbul during the Young Turks Regime by a Romanian born publisher Tüccarzâde İbrahim Hilmi Çığıraçan.

A scarce large representation of the German explorer Alexander von Humboldt in his Berlin library, and surrounded by the artefacts from his journeys in the last years of his life. Colour Lithograph, 70 x 85 cm (27 x 33.3 inches) (minor age-toning, tiny chips in margins, repaired tear in the lower margin).

  A rare, seemingly unrecorded lithographed broadside, printed in Switzerland, shows Algiers, besieged by French in 1830. 

8°. 29-35 pp., facing pages marked with the same number, with colour lithographed plates, printed covers, stapled (tiny loss of paper in the lower corners of the last pages, light staining and foxing, otherwise in a good used condition).

A trio of very large format diagrams (2 blueprint maps, 1 line chart) made for the Companhia de Petróleo de Angola in the 1920s, when it was prospecting the Cuanza (Kwanza) Basin, one of Africa’s great petroleum deposits; the works were drafted by James J. McGowan, a larger-than-life Irish-American engineer who later became a pillar of Luanda’s business community; the…

  Colour print, 63 x 46 cm (inches) (soft folds, minor age-toning, but overall in a good condition).   A decorative late art deco map showcases Ankara with its modern neighborhoods  

John Luffman’s grand map of Antigua, one of the cartographic monuments of the 18th century British West Indies; predicated upon the goldsmith-cartographer’s reconnaissance of the island conducted when it was still one of the world’s leading sugar-slave economies, as well as hosting a major Royal Navy base (then commanded by the future Lord Admiral Horatio Nelson); the map served as…

  Lithograph with original colour: 18 x 23 cm (7 x 9 inches) (soft fold, slightly stained in the upper margin).

Chromolithograph. 9 x 13,5 cm (3.5 x 5.3 inches). Slightly stained.

  An intriguing original manuscript sketch map of Heraclea Pontica (modern Karadeniz Ereğli), one of the most important Greco-Roman historical sites along the Black Sea coast of Anatolia, made in 1806 by Louis Allier de Hauteroche, the esteemed archaeologist and numismatist who was then Napoleon’s vice-consul to the region.

A Armenian language edition of the first thematic atlas of Armenia; one of the most impressive and engaging works of Soviet scientific cartography, featuring 97 full-page, full-colour plates of sophisticated maps plus diagrams covering virtually all aspects of the geography, geology, economy, transport and demographics of the Armenian SSR; predicated upon years of careful research and draughtsmanship by the Armenian…

  Colour lithography, 87 x 77 cm (34.2 x 30.3 cm) (tiny holes on the crossings of the folds, otherwise in a good condition).  

  A very rare larger portrait of Mehmed V with titles in Ottoman and Armenian script, was published for the occasion of his investiture in 1909, only days after the massacre of Armenians in Adana. The Armenian Genocide under the reign of Mehmed IV happened six years later.

This manuscript broadside is a stunning example of artistry, seamlessly blending Armenian calligraphy with its distinctive letters and rich Christian symbolism that is deeply embedded in the nation’s identity. The inclusion of a traditional labyrinth form elevates the piece, serving as a profound tool for meditation and concentration.   Drawing and manuscript in various colours on paper, 62 x 44…

  [Confidential Conversations about Sexual Life].   A rare manual on sexuality and impotence, printed in the Armenian Language in Istanbul.   8°: 223 pp., original illustrated wrappers (good, wrappers with minor staining and small tears and tiny loss of paper to spine, minor old annotation in blalck ink on the cover).  

  A unique manuscript map by one of the most important Venetian map-makers of the early 19th century Bernardo Combatti, shows the Arsenal, as rebuilt by Napoleon around 1810, to the form known today. The Arsenal today hosts the Venetian Biennale. 

  A book with original artwork. A numbered example, signed by the author.

  An exceedingly rare map by Gerard de Jode, printed only as a broadside after the publication of his atlas of 1578.

  A rare book in Ottoman script on Asia, richly illustrated with black and white photographs and maps.

سودى نك يكى خريطه كلياتندن [SÛDÎ’NIN YENI HARITA KÜLLIYATINDAN / SUDI’S NEW CARTOGRAPHIC ESTABLISHMENT]. Istanbul: كتابحانه سودى [Kitaphane-yi Sûdî] 1927. Colour off-set print (Good, light stains mostly visiable verso, some wear along fold folds, tiny chips to the folds in the image and in the margins), 67 x 100 cm (26.5 x 39.5 inches). ‘Ana Vatan’ (Homeland) is one of…

  A fine example the authoritative chart used by the French Government to manage their fishing rights in Newfoundland and the Grand Banks, in part based on the magisterial surveys of Newfoundland by James Cook & Michael Lane and Samuel Holland’s survey of the Island of St. John (Prince Edward Island). 

  A very rare atlas made by the Berlin Missionary Society, one of the most important missionary organizations in Africa and China during the 19th and early 20th Centuries, featuring 16 original maps made by missionary cartographers, including important figures such as Alexander Merensky and Bernhard Struck, containing 14 maps of South and East Africa and 2 maps of China;…

  An exceedingly rare and attractive large format map of Southeast Asia, Australia and Polynesia, with a special emphasis upon the new colony of ‘Deutsch-Neuguinea’, a ‘boutiquey’ provincial production drafted by Professor Franz Behr and published in Canstatt, just outside of Stuttgart.   Colour lithograph, dissected into 8 sections and mounted upon original linen with original red silk edging, folding…

  A very rare and unusually attractive large format WWII Japanese map of Australia, New Guinea and the Eastern Indonesian Archipelago, made in 1942, the year that the Japanese Air force mounted the shocking ‘Bombing of Darwin’, the largest ever attack upon Australia mounted by a foreign power, and just before the Allies endeavoured to take the offensive in New…

A very rare, large format, separately issued map of Australia and Oceania that is perhaps the last great map of the continent to be printed in Ottoman Turkish script, with attractive colours and adorned with the flags of major African states and colonies, published in Istanbul for the Kitabhane-yi Sudi bookshop.   Colour off-set print (Good, some light staining, wear…

  Chromolithograph, 51 x 34 cm (13.4 x 20 inches), (small repaired tears in the fold, sporadic light staining in white margins, but otherwise in a good condition).  

  Lithograph with original colour: 18 x 23 cm (7 x 9 inches) (soft fold, slightly age-toned and stained).

  A photo with an autograph of Zlatko Baloković, a famous Croatian violinist, visible figure among the Yugoslavian immigrants to the United States, and a personal friend of Nikola Tesla, who played Ave Maria and a Serbian song Tamo daleko, when New York City mayor Fiorello La Guardia read Tesla’s eulogy on the radio. 

  An attractive cartographic ‘Sugoroku’ gameboard commemorating the 1925 Asahi Shinbun Trans-Eurasian flight, a major landmark of early aviation, whereby two Japanese planes flew from their homeland over 16,500 km to tour various European capitals as part of a patriotic PR tour to showcase Japan’s role as world power, printed by the mission’s sponsor, the ‘Asahi Shinbun’, a leading Japanese…

  The first wall map of Azerbaijan SSR, made in 1925 by a pioneer of Azerbaijani map-making İbrahim Ağa Vəkilov   Colour lithography, printed on four sheets and originally mounted on linen, 100 x 135 cm (39.8 x 53.1 inches) (small tears, folds and holes with tiny loss of material, light staining).  

  A stunning brochure in Art Nouveau style was made by a Swiss artist and poster designer Otto Baumberger for a spa resort Baden.

The seminal map of the Baghdad region used by British Imperial forces during World War I’s Mesopotamian Campaign for operational planning during their two attempts to take the Iraqi capital, being the extremely rare ‘Degree Sheet’ survey of the area predicated upon the best available sources, published in 1915 in Calcutta by the Survey of India on the orders of…

  A scarce and detailed map of circa 1960 Baghdad, capturing the city during a period of rapid development due to the on-going oil boom, made by the local public transit authority to show bus routes.

Postcard. Lithography in colour (Very Good, slightly age-toned, tiny tears and chips in margins ) 10 x 14cm (5.11 x 3.5 inches).

A resplendent and unique presentation piece given to Pieter Meijer, the Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia), being the very rare economic yearbook for the colony for 1867, custom bound in sumptuous full red morocco with elaborate gilt neo-rococo designs and bearing a dedication to the His Excellency; published locally by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Batavia,…

A stellar and unique artefact of World War I in the Middle East - an advanced topographical map of north-western Syria and the adjacent parts of Anatolia issued by the German Army in May 1918, with extensive contemporary manuscript additions in coloured crayon added by an Ottoman officer depicting the key military actions during the Battle of Aleppo and the…

  A fascinating, extremely rare Turkish 20th century map by a military historian Hakki Tümerdem shows the development of the Battle of Dumlupınar, the last battle in the Greco-Turkish War in 1922. 

  A very rare broadside with Ottoman script showing the Battle of Mohács was made in the series of large separately published maps by the Turkish War Office the late Hamidian period as a part of intellectual propaganda to revive patriotic sentiment.

  A very rare broadside with Ottoman script showing the Battle of Saint Gotthard was made in the series of large separately published maps by the Turkish War Office the late Hamidian period as a part of intellectual propaganda to revive patriotic sentiment.

  A very rare broadside with Ottoman script showing the Battle of Slankamen was made in the series of large separately published maps by the Turkish War Office the late Hamidian period as a part of intellectual propaganda to revive patriotic sentiment.

An exquisitely rendered Russian manuscript map of the Battle of Zorndorf (August 25, 1758), a critical showdown of the Seven Years’ War, and one of the most ferocious altercations of the entire conflict, during which Frederick the Great’s forces narrowly prevented the Russians from marching upon Berlin; in beautiful bright hues of watercolour and wash, and with all text in…

  Colour lithograph, originally dissected on 25 panels and mounted on linen, printed title page mounted verso on one of the panels, 118 x 85 cm (46.4 x 33.4 inches) (linen slightly age-toned, tears in the folds repaired with modern linen, soft folds in the corners, otherwise in a good condition).  

[Nice, March 5, 1868. The Count of Castell, Grand Master of the Court, and the Lieutenant-General, Baron de Jeetze, Aide-de-Camp to his Majesty King Louis I of Bavaria, have the honour to ask you to attend the FUNERE SERVICE which will be held tomorrow, Friday March 6th, at 9 am, at the Cathedral for the rest of the soul of…

Chromolithograph. 9 x 13,5 cm (3.5 x 5.3 inches). Minor staining, overall in a good condition.

Chromolithograph. 9 x 13,5 cm (3.5 x 5.3 inches). Minor staining, overall in a good condition.

Postcard. Lithography in colour (Very Good, slightly age-toned) 10 x 14cm (5.11 x 3.5 inches).

A fascinating large format map of greater Beirut made by the U.S. Defense Mapping Agency to aid the CIA and the American military early in the Lebanese Civil War when the city was a hotbed of espionage and major faultline in the Cold War; an extremely accurate and detailed depiction based upon satellite reconnaissance, it labels every major building, street…

  This is probably the first correct survey of the Bezengi Massive in the Caucasus, Russia, made in the mid 1960s by the Yugoslavian expedition, in cooperation with the Soviet mountaineers during the height of the Cold War. 

  The map is probably the first Western survey of the Bezengi Massive in the Caucasus, Russia, made in 1962 by the Austrian expedition. This photograph of the map was used by the Yugoslavian expedition in cooperation with the Soviet mountaineers during the height of the Cold War. 

  A German military map was bound in a highly decorative red binding with gilt embossed royal coat of arms. 

Postcard. Lithography in colour (Very Good, slightly age-toned) 10 x 14cm (5.11 x 3.5 inches).

  Colour print, folding into original printed paper wrappers (Excellent, clean and crisp with vibrant colours), 75 x 58 cm (30 x 22.8 inches).  

  Very rare – Juan Ondarza’s large and highly detailed wall map of Bolivia, the first proper survey of the republic and one of the great monuments of the 19th Century cartography of Latin America, published by J.H. Colton in New York; at the centre of an entertaining, yet bizarre, story of intrepid Andean surveying, patriotic pride, financial scandal and…

  A rare, large format map depicting Greater Bombay just before World War I, when it was one of the busiest ports in the world and the ‘Gateway of India’, drafted by the office of the ‘Times of India’ and published in London by the venerable firm of Edward Stanford.   Colour lithograph, mounted upon original linen, folding, contemporary hand-stamp…

Extremely rare – a large format, separately issued map that is one of the earliest printed masterplans of Brazil’s ‘Novo Distrito Federal’, containing the city of Brasília, which would become Brazil’s capital in 1960; Brasília was an ‘ideal planned city’, designed in the shape of an airplane following the ‘Plano Piloto’, with its main public buildings being Modernist architectural masterpieces;…

Brazil (Eastern – Core Regions) – Rio De Janeiro, São Paulo, Minas Gerais, Bahia, Pernambuco / The ‘Brazilian Enlightenment’   Karte Von Ostbrasilien. Carte géographique de la partie orientale de l’empire du Brésil, en quatre feuilles, contenant les Provinces maritimes de Pernambuco jusqu’a Rio de Janeiro, celle de Minas Geraës, et une partie des provinces limitrophes, redigée d’apres leurs propres observations…

  Steel engraved playing card, overlaid in coloured stencil, blank on verso (Very Good, minor stainng verso, a small scratch and stain on the front), 97 x 65 mm (3.8 x 2.6 inches).  

  A fascinating, foundational work on the Brazil’s wild southern frontier during the generation following independence, being an account of Rio Grande do Sul written by Nicolào Dreys, a French merchant who lived in the province from 1818 to 1828, and published in Rio de Janeiro in 1839 during the height of the ‘Ragamuffin War’, a successionist struggle which gripped…

The first advanced scientific survey of Brisbane’s Harbour, the British Admiralty’s rare large-scale sea chart, based on the work of Commander Edward Parker Bedwell and Lt. Edward Connor.

  A stunning example of a separately issued de Jode map of the British Isles was coloured in the late 16th century in the style of the frescoes of the Gallery of Maps in Vatican.

  An unusual visualization of the end of the Balkan Wars and the beginning of the World War I, representing the last stages of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, connecting rotating nationalistic thoughts in a flower-shaped pattern, centralized on the word “Homeland” Colour print, 57 x 40 cm (22.4 x 15.7 inches) (minor staining, soft folds, verso proof state…

  A rare Venetian broadside forbids uncontrolled Turkish trade in the Lazaret of Split in Dalmatia as a health precaution against spreading of the plague.

  A rare Venetian broadside forbids uncontrolled Turkish trade in the Lazaret of Split in Dalmatia as a health precaution against spreading of the plague.

  Steel engraved playing card, overlaid in coloured stencil, blank on verso (Very Good, minor stainng verso, a small scratch and stain on the front), 97 x 65 mm (3.8 x 2.6 inches).  

  A seemingly unrecorded guidebook of Buenos Aires in Croatian language with a map, was printed in the late 1920s for the Croatian immigrants, providing basic information on the city and useful addresses.