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- Africa, Australia, Books, Geography, Maps and Prints, Ottoman Books, South America, Turkica
AFRICA / AUSTRALIA / SOUTH AMERICA / SOUTH POLE: سعدى عبدالقادر لر قطعه آفريقا و آستراليا آمريقا، جنوبى اجاه جوغرافيا عمومى [Umumi coğrafya ile Cenubî Amerika, Avustralya ve Afrika Kıtaları / Basic Geography. Continents South America, Australia and Afr
- 480.00€
- A rare, richly illustrated book in Ottoman script on Africa, North Pole, Australia and South America.
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- Americas, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: October 2020
AMERICA – OTTOMAN SCHOOL ATLAS: آمريقا [Amerika]
- 380.00€
- 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).
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- Americas, Caribbean, Maps and Prints
Antigua in the West Indies America. Laid Down by actual Survey, and engraved by John Luffman, in the years 1787 and 1788. / To His Excellency Major General Sir Thomas Shirley Governor Bart. Captain General & Governor in Chief in and over all His Majestys Leeward Caribee Islands, in America. Chancellor, Vice Admiral & Ordinary of the same. This Map is Dedicated, by his obliged humble Servant, John Luffman.
- 9,500.00€
- 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…
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- Americas, Caribbean, Maps and Prints
ANTIGUA, WEST INDIES / SLAVERY & EMANCIPATION: A New & Improved Map of the Island of Antigua, in the West Indies. Constructed and drawn chiefly from original Materials and most Recent Surveys. By J. Johnson.
- 9,500.00€
- J. JOHNSON. London: Smith, Elder & Co., August 1829. Copper engraving and aquatint with full original wash hand colour, dissected into 6 sections and mounted upon original linen (Very Good, resplendent original colours and gorgeous print quality, just some light toning and minor print transference), 73.5 x 82.5 cm (29 x 32.5 inches) (#70644a). Exceedingly rare – one…
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- Americas, Maps and Prints, South America
BOLIVIA: Mapa comercial de la República de Bolivia compilado estampado y publicado por Richard Mayer.
- 550.00€
- Colour print, folding into original printed paper wrappers (Excellent, clean and crisp with vibrant colours), 75 x 58 cm (30 x 22.8 inches).
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- Americas, Maps and Prints, South America
Bolivia: Mapa de la Republica de Bolivia mandado publicar pr el Gobierno de la Nacion en la Administracion del Presidente Doctor José Maria Linares… Levantado y organindo en los años de 1842 à 1859 Por el Teniente Coronel Juan Ondarza, Commandante Juan Mariano Mujia y Mayor Lucio Camacho.
- 5,500.00€
- 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…
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- Maps and Prints, South America
BRASIL: Karte Von Ostbrasilien.
- 3,500.00€
- 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…
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- Americas, Maps and Prints, South America
BRASÍLIA, BRAZIL – EARLY MASTERPLAN / PLANNED CITIES / MODERNISM: Novo Distrito Federal / Organização do Escritório de Representação do Governo de Goiás no Rio de Janeiro / Sendo Presidente de la República o Excelentíssimo Snr. Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira / Governador do Estado o Senr. José Ludovico de Almeida / Represente o Snr. Segismundo de Araújo Mello / Organização e desenho do Eng.o-Cartografo Clovis De Magalhães.
- 2,200.00€
- 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;…
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- Americas, Maps and Prints, South America
Brazil
- 150.00€
- 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).
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- Americas, Maps and Prints, South America
Buenos Aires (Buenos Ayres)
- 150.00€
- 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).
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- Americas, Maps and Prints
Canada
- 150.00€
- 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).
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- Americas, Maps and Prints, Newly Catalogued Items: August 2022
CHICAGO: Rand McNally & Co.’s New and Concise Map of Chicago.
- 550.00€
- An authoritative composition featuring two maps of Chicago, one centring upon the inner city and the other showcasing the fast-growing suburban areas of the future ‘Chicagoland’, by Rand, McNally & Company, the nationally important Chicago-based map house. Bi-chrome lithograph (black and green) printed on both sides, folding into original printed tan card wrappers (Very Good, clean, bright and…
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