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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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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
BRAZIL – JAPANESE IMMIGRATION TO BRAZIL SÃO PAULO STATE: 南米土地組合便覧 [South American Land Association Handbook]. / ブラジル国サンパウロ州之図 [Map of the State of São Paulo, Brazil].
- 1,800.00€
- An extremely rare large format Japanese map of São Paulo State, Brazil, showing the locations of 42 Japanese immigrant communities in the state (as numbered red dots), as well as in adjacent jurisdictions, plus detailing the region’s land use, transport infrastructure and industrial sites, while the flipside features an illustrated guide for new arrivals to Brazil; the map was made…
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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, Books, Maps and Prints, South America
CARACAS, VENEZUELA: Plano regulador de Caracas. / Estudio preliminar.
- 1,800.00€
- The original proposal for the grand Modernist masterplan to redevelop Caracas, conceived at the hight of the Venezuelan Oil Boom, when the city was one of the fastest growing and most economically vibrant urban areas on earth; illustrated by over a dozen sophisticated thematic maps, this preliminary study of the ‘Plano Regulador’, developed by an all-star international team of urban…
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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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- Books, Geography, Maps and Prints, South America
CHILE – NATIONAL ATLAS: Atlas de Chile Arreglado para la Jeografia Descriptiva de la Republica de Chile por Enrique Espinoza.
- 1,400.00€
- A fine example of an important and beautifully produced national atlas of chile, featuring 39 maps predicated upon the best scientific sources, made by Enrique Espinoza, who is credited with revolutionizing the study of geography in Chile, published by the venerable Paris firm of Erhard Frères. Small 4° (27 x 20.5 cm): 2 pp., 39 maps (5 folding;…
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- Americas, Maps and Prints, South America
Chile: Chili
- 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
Colombia
- 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, Croatia, Europe, Maps and Prints, South America
CROATIAN ART-DECO MAP: Putovanja „Jutranjeg lista“ [Travels of „Jutranji list“].
- 300.00€
- A beautifully designed art deco map centred on Zagreb, Croatia, made as an advertisement for a competition, organised by a newspaper Jutranji list (Morning Paper), was drafted by a pioneer of the Croatian graphic design Otto Antonini.
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- Americas, Caribbean, Maps and Prints
GRENADA – ST. GEORGE’S: “Plan of the Town and Heights and A Survey of the Cay, Carenage and Lagoon of St. George’s Grenada”.
- 8,500.00€
- A grand format original manuscript that is one of the finest and most detailed maps of St. George’s, the capital of Grenada, from the slave-plantation era, the result of a collaboration between Captain William Elliott, James Langley and James Young of the Royal Engineers; drafted shortly after the Napoleonic Wars, when the Grenada lived under the spectre of a possible…
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- Americas, Maps and Prints, Others, South America
Guyana – Georgetown Urban Masterplan: DIRECTORATE OF OVERSEAS SURVEYS (GREAT BRITAIN). Greater Georgetown / Guyana. / North Sheet [and] South Sheet.
- 1,200.00€
- An exceedingly detailed, very large masterplan of Georgetown, then the capital of British Guiana (today Guyana), amazingly defining every property lot, outlining and labeling every major building, depicting all parks and recreational facilities, and delineating every street and alleyway, being one of the most ‘panoptic’ of all West Indian city maps of its era; created by the Directorate of Overseas…
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- Americas, Maps and Prints, South America
GUYANA / SURINAM / FRENCH GUIANA – GOLD MINING: Kaart van Guiana, Engelsch, Nederlandsch en Fransch. Naar de beste bronnen en eigen opnemingen geteekend in 1888 door W.L. Loth, gouvernements-landmeter in Suriname. Uitgegeven met goedkeuring van Zijne Excellentie Mr. H.J. Smidt, gouverneur der kolonie Suriname.
- 2,500.00€
- Very rare - the finest early general gold mining map of ‘The Guianas’ (British Guiana, Dutch Surinam and French Guiana), depicting numerous gold mining concession in the colonies’ incredibly rugged, jungle-covered interiors, resources which prospectors and government officials hoped would yield a ‘bonanza’ that would reverse the economic decline caused by the abolition of slavery; created from the best and…
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- Americas, Maps and Prints, South America
Guyanna
- 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, Caribbean, Maps and Prints
HAVANA, CUBA: De Stad en Haven van Havana op’t Eÿland Cuba met alle Desselfs Droogtens en Dieptens.
- 3,200.00€
- One of the rarest and most attractive of the great historical sea charts of Havana Harbour, and one which grants a fine rendering of the cityscape of what was then the New World’s most sophisticated metropolis; first published in the mid-18th century by the eminent Amsterdam cartographer Johannes Van Keulen II, but here with the plate re-employed around 1780…
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- Americas, Central America, Maps and Prints
Isle of St Domingo or Hispaniola
- 1,200.00€
- A rare and high quality separately issued map of Hispaniola, including the French colony of Saint-Domingue (today’s Haiti) and the Spanish realm of Santo Domingo (today’s Dominican Republic), issued by William Faden, the leading British commercial cartographer, to satiate the intense public interest in the ongoing British Occupation of parts of Saint-Domingue (1793-8), an epic endeavour that was planned to…
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- Americas, Caribbean, Maps and Prints
JAMAICA – PAIR (2) ORIGINAL MSS. VIEWS / SLAVERY / IMMEDIATE POST- EMANCIPATION ERA
- 4,500.00€
- A pair (2) of historically important original manuscript sepia views, depicting 1) the Great House and windmill of Perrins’s Estate, one of Jamaica’s leading sugar plantations, and 2) the St. Dorothy’s (or the ‘Tamarind Tree’) Church, established in 1681, which is today one of the oldest and most culturally significant churches in Jamaica; executed to an unusually high degree…
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- Americas, Books, Geography, Maps and Prints, South America
Kolonisations-Gebiete im Süden der Argentinischen Republik. [2 Parts:] Erster Theil: Die grosse Neuquen-Bahn und der Rio Negro; Zweiter Theil: Ein Ausflug nach dem Chubut-Territorium.
- 1,200.00€
- 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…
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- Americas, Maps and Prints
Manhattan. New York
- 350.00€
- Colour lithograph, 45,5 x 68 cm (18 x 26.8 inches), verso text and colour images (soft folds, otherwise in a good condition.
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- Americas, Central America, Maps and Prints
Mapa de la Republica de Nicaragua / Levantado por orden de su Exa. el Presidente Cap.n General Martinez por Maximiliano de Sonnenstern 1863.
- 5,200.00€
- Maximilian von SONNENSTERN (1819 – 1895). Paris: Broise & Tiheffry, 1863. Lithograph with original outline hand colour, dissected into 24 sections and mounted upon original linen, contemporary map seller’s label of ‘Auguste Logerot / Paris’ to linen verso folding into forest green original patterned cloth covers with gilt title to front cover (Very Good, lovely original colours, overall clean and…
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- Americas, Maps and Prints, South America
Mappa della Provincia di S. Paolo organizzata dalla Società Promotrice d’Immigrazione di S. Paolo 1886.
- 1,400.00€
- BRAZIL - SÃO PAULO STATE / ITALIAN IMMIGRATION TO BRAZIL: José C. de CARVALHO, Cartographer. / ORGANIZZATA DALLA SOCIETÀ PROMOTRICE D’IMMIGRAZIONE DI S. PAOLO, Sponsor. Rio de Janeiro: Lith. Paulo Robin & C.a, 1886. Colour lithograph, mounted upon modern linen, with register on verso preserving the view of the contemporary handstamp of a ‘Pietro Milanese’, a Genoa…
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- Americas, Central America, Maps and Prints
Mexico
- 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, Central America, Maps and Prints
MEXICO CITY: [Ciudad de México] Carta de la Republica Mexicana, á la 100 000a. 1a. Serie. Hoja 19-I-(M).
- 650.00€
- The rare Mexico City sheet from the famed ‘Carta de la Republica Mexicana’, the awesomely ambitious, but ultimately unfinished mega-project to map all of Mexico to a scale of 1:100 000, conducted by the Comisión Geográfico-Exploradora; importantly, this sheet was separately issued and is a complete publication in and of itself; one of the seminal maps of the Metropolitan…
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- Americas, Central America, Maps and Prints
MEXICO CITY: Plano oficial de la ciudad de México. Edición especial para el Consejo Superior de Gobierno del Distrito Federal, con motivo de la reunión del X Congreso Geológico Internacional. Septiembre de 1906.
- 2,200.00€
- CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE GOBIERNO DEL DISTRITO FEDERAL. Mexico City: Compañía Litográfica y Tipográfica, S.A., 1906. Colour lithograph on thick paper, housed in original red cloth slipcase bearing gilt short title of ‘Plano de la Ciudad de México / 1906’ to front side (Good, clean and bright, some hairline tears entering image but archivally repaired from verso with no loss,…
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- Americas, Maps and Prints, South America
Municipio de Buenos Aires y parte del Partido de Avellaneda publicado por Pablo Ludwig publicado por Pablo Ludwig, cartógrafo, según los datos mas recientes, 1909. Edición extraordinaria para la Exposición internacional de ferro-carriles y transportes terrestres, mayo á noviembre 1910.
- 380.00€
- An attractive and vibrant large format map of Buenos Aires, capturing the city midway through its 50 year-long boom era, when it was one of the world’s most exciting, fast growing and cosmopolitan metropolises – an ‘Edición extraordinaria’ issued to celebrate the 1910 International Railway Exposition, a major sign of the Argentine capital’s coming of age - published by the…
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- Americas, Central America, Maps and Prints
Panama Canal / Ferdinand De Lesseps’s ‘Dry Run’: Plan Général du Canal (Juillet 1886) / Compagnie universelle du canal interocéanique de Panama.
- 3,200.00€
- Very Rare - a colossal (over 1.5 metres wide!) and exquisitely detailed map of the first serious attempt to construct the Panama Canal, overseen in the 1880s by Ferdinand de Lesseps, the builder of the Suez Canal; by far and away the finest published rendering of the project, it traces the route of the intended channel across the rugged…
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- Americas, Central America, Maps and Prints
Panama Canal Zone: Road Map of Republic of Panama. / The Panama Canal / Department of Operation and Maintenance / Office Engineering Division / Balboa Heights, Canal Zone.
- 650.00€
- A whiteprint issue of an apparently unrecorded official large-format transportation map of Panama made by the engineers of the U.S.-run Panama Canal Zone Government, issued early in World War II, when the canal was of special geostrategic concern; signed as “Approved” by Glen Edgar Edgerton, the Governor of the Canal Zone. Photographically reproduced print from original manuscript (Very…
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- Americas, Maps and Prints, South America
Peru
- 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, South America
PERU / PERSUASIVE CARTOGRAPHY / PERU-ECUADOR BOUDARDY DISPUTE: Karte von Perú herausgegeben von D.E. Larrabure y Unánue, Minister des Auesseren. R.E. Baluarte Kartenanstalt. / Mappe der Republik Peru: sammt einer kurzen Beschreibung des Landes, seiner geographischen und klimatischen Verhältnisse, der politischen Verfassung…
- 950.00€
- An intriguing, large format propagandist map of Peru, devised by Eduardo Higginson, Peru’s hard-charging Consul General in Southampton, England, published on the orders of the country’s foreign minister, Eugenio Larrabure y Unánue, as a PR piece to showcase Peru’s economic and natural virtues and its maximalist (some might say ‘outrageous’) boundary claims with respect to its disputed frontiers with…
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- Americas, Caribbean, Maps and Prints
Plano de la Ciudad de Santiago de Cuba
- 4,800.00€
- A great rarity of Cuban cartography, being a city plan of Santiago de Cuba, drafted and lithographed locally by Louis François Delmés, the French émigré portraitist and miniaturist who was the father of academic painting in eastern Cuba; the map, executed in the artist’s signature resplendent colour palette, portrays Cuba’s second city during the island’s last ‘sugar boom’, showcasing Santiago…
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- Americas, Maps and Prints
Plano de Valparaiso editado por la Libreria del Mercurio de Valparaiso en la Litografia Excelsior de R. Abrines y Ca. Serrano, 14 y 16.
- 3,600.00€
- LA LIBRERÍA DEL MERCURIO DE VALPARAÍSO. Valparaíso: Litografia Excelsior de R. Abrines y Ca. for La Librería del Mercurio, [circa 1893]. Colour lithograph, printed on 2 joined sheets (Very Good, overall clean with attractive, bright colours, some light marginal staining, some wear along old folds, especially in upper right corner, minor old repairs from verso along fold vertices), 55…
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- Americas, Maps and Prints
QUEBEC (LOWER CANADA) / WAR OF 1812: A New Map of the Province of Lower Canada, Describing all the Seigneuries, Townships, Grants of Land, &c., Compiled from Plans deposited in the Patent Office Quebec; By Samuel Holland, Esq.r, Surveyor General. To which is Added A Plan of the Rivers, Scoudiac and Magaguadavic, Surveyed in 1796, 97 and 98, by Order of the Commissioners, appointed to ascertain the true River St. Croix intended by the Treaty of Peace, in 1783 between His Britannic Majesty, and the United States of America.
- 2,200.00€
- Samuel HOLLAND (1728 - 1801). London: William Faden, April 12th, 1813. Copper engraving with original outline hand colour, dissected into 21 sections and mounted upon original linen, Faden’s printed pastedown label to verso, folding into original marbled card slipcase with printed pastedown title label to upper cover (Good, some toning and staining, slipcase worn with some old stains from…
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- Americas, Caribbean, Maps and Prints
ST. LUCIA / DOMINICA – ORIGINAL MSS. MAPS: “Gros Islet Bay St. Lucia.” [and] “Prince Ruperts Bay Dominica.”
- 4,500.00€
- A stellar pair of original manuscript sea charts, on a single sheet, being surveys by James Langley, the Master of the ‘HMS Scamander’, showing 1) Gros Islet Bay, a critical fortified harbour near the northern point of St. Lucia that was chosen by the famed Admiral George Rodney a key base of the Royal Navy; and 2) Prince Rupert’s Bay…
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- Americas, Caribbean, New Acquisitions: October 2020
ST. THOMAS, U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS / CHARLOTTE AMALIA HARBOR / JEWS IN THE WEST INDIES: West Indies – Virgin Islands. Harbour of St. Thomas surveyed by Lieut. G. B. Lawrence, R.N. 1851… Corrections by Captain Nares, H.M.S. Challenger, 1873.
- 620.00€
- An attractive large format sea chart of Charlotte Amalie Harbor, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, predicated upon detailed surveys made by Britain’s Royal Navy in 1851, but here updated to 1912, only five years before the Danish Virgin Islands were sold to the United States, featuring a wealth of details on the town and its environs including major public institutions, Jewish…
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- Americas, Maps and Prints, Newly Catalogued Items: August 2022, South America
SURINAM – PARAMARIBO / AERIAL CARTOGRAPHY: Stadsplattegrond van Paramaribo, schaal 1:10.000 / Townmap of Paramaribo / Plan de ville de Paramaribo / Mapa da cidade Paramaribo / Mapa de la ciudad Paramaribo / Stadtplan Paramaribo.
- 550.00€
- RESERVED An intriguing late colonial era map of Paramaribo, Surinam, in the form of an aerial photograph of the city tinted in green superimposed with information identifying all streets, 208 named key sites, neighborhoods, railways, and bus and ferry routes; created by the colony’s foremost geographer and geologist, Henk Dahlberg, working for the Surinam’s Central Bureau of Air…
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- Americas, Maps and Prints, South America
SURINAM – PARAMARIBO / WEST INDIES URBANISM: Paramaribo 1916-17.
- 950.00€
- A highly, detailed, large format separately issued official plan of Paramaribo, showcasing the capital of Surinam on the eve of the Roaring ’20s, when it was a fast growing mart of commodities and one of the most ethnically diverse cities in the world, depicting all significant aspects of infrastructure, land use and key institutions (including churches, mosques, Hindu temples and…
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- Americas, Books, Maps and Prints, South America
SURINAME – PARAMARIBO: [Figuratieve Plattegrond der Stad Paramaribo (Kolonie Suriname, Zuid-Amerika) in 9 Kaarten met een plan der geheele stad op schaal. door A.J. Meyer, Ambtenaar bij de Belastingen].
- 2,800.00€
- Exceedingly rare - 1 of only 3 known examples - the first ultra-detailed printed city plan of Paramaribo, the capital of Surinam, issued only 12 years after the abolition of slavery, when the city’s was experiencing dramatic physical and population growth due the influx of emancipated slaves migrating from rural plantations; made by Albertus Jacobus Meijer, a tax collector, who…
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- Americas, Caribbean, Maps and Prints
The Pleasant Isle of Barbados
- 380.00€
- A charming post war pictorial map of Barbados Colour lithography, 63 x 50 cm (24.8 x 19.7 inches) (soft folds, minor staining, but overall in a good condition).
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- Americas, Central America, Maps and Prints
TIME CHART / MEXICAN HISTORY / GUADALAJARA IMPRINT: Carta Sincronológica de Historia Universal Formada por Francisco j. Zavala Segun el Sistema de la Publicada en Ingles, por Adams.
- 4,400.00€
- A gigantic time chart of the world, based on Sebastian Adams’s legendary map of the history of time, printed in Guadalajara and pertinent to Mexican history. Colour lithography, originally mounted on linen and varnished, linen stripes on the joints between segments. 70 x 682 cm (27.6 x 268.5 inches), (tiny loss of margins, varnish chipped, one of the joints…
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- Europe, Maps and Prints, South America, Turkey
Turkey in Asia
- 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
UNITED STATES
- 200.00€
- Lithograph with original colour: 18 x 23 cm (7 x 9 inches) (soft fold, slightly age-toned and stained, small tears in margins).
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- Americas, Maps and Prints
Untitled Chart of Plymouth Bay, Massachusetts
- 4,200.00€
- The very rare first state of J.F.W. Des Barres’s beautifully rendered chart of Plymouth Bay, Massachusetts, famously the site of the Mayflower Pilgrims’ landing at ‘Plymouth Rock’; after the first scientific mapping of the bay executed by Thomas Wheeler, as part of Samuel Holland’s General Survey of the Northern District of British North America, an epic endeavour that trigonometrically charted…
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- Americas, Maps and Prints, South America
VENEZUELA – ORINOCO RIVER / GERMAN EXPLORERS: [Orinoco River with Flamingos]
- 3,200.00€
- Christian Anton GOERING (1836 - 1905). [Leipzig:] 1886. Water-colour on paper, mounted on later paper, sheet: 39 x 59 cm (15.3 x 23.2 inches), Drawing: 35 x 55 cm (13.8 x 21.6 inches), (light mat-burns to the margins, but otherwise in a good condition). An original drawing of the wildlife of the Orinoco River, made by the German explorer Christian…
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- Americas, Caribbean, Maps and Prints
WEST INDIES – HISPANIOLA – HAITI – DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Carte physique et politique de l’Ile d’Haïti / Dressée par Mr. A. Poujol, Ancien Chargé d’Affaires d’Haïti á Santo Domingo et Ancien Membre des Commission mixte de délimitation de 1899 et 1901 et Mr. H. Thomasset, Ingénieur de l’Ecole Centrale de Paris, Officier de la Légion d’Honneur. Publiée sous le Ministère de Mr. T. Laleu, Sécretaire d’Etat aux Départments de l’Instrucion Publique et de la Justice, Port-au-Prince, 1908. / Nouvelle édition rectifiée 1912.
- 4,800.00€
- Extremely rare - a monumental, brilliantly colour lithographed work that is by far and away the most accurate and detailed map of Hispaniola to date, and one of the great achievements of cartography of the early 20th century in the Americas, the result of a collaboration between Alexandre Poujol, a leading Haitian jurist and stateman, and Henri Thomasset, a Frenchman…
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