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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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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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