Americas

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…

  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).  

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

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…

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…

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…