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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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