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- Decorative Prints, Maps and Prints
Guinea Pig
- 420.00€
- Etching with roulette, printed in sanguine, marked 2 in the upper right corner, platemark: 20,5 x 29 (8.2 x 11.4 inches), sheet: 28,5 x 37,5 cm (11.2 x 14.6 inches), (slightly stained and with light water-staining in margins).
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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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Hydrotherapy: Kaplica Risalesi / Pamphlet on Hot Springs
- 1,400.00€
- 8°: 98 pp., (some leaves mispaginated, but complete) lithographed text written in Nastaliq, 1 folding lithographed view, 1 folding lithographed map, original green printed boards (boards slightly scuffed, stained and with small loss of paper, small wormholes in the inner margins, otherwise in a good, clean condition).
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JAPANESE MEIJI WORLD MAP: 萬國明細全圖 / 改訂新版. [Kaisei shinpan bankoku meisai zenzu / Detailed Map of the World / Revised New Edition].
- 1,200.00€
- A rare and highly decorative Meiji Era World Map, an important landmark in the Japanese adoption of Western cartographic methods, as it one of the first Japanese maps to feature charts showing the comparative heights of the world’s main mountains and the lengths of its longest rivers, clearly used for pedagogic purposes, fulfilling the major Meiji changes to the Japanese…
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Kızıl Pilot [Red Pilot: Memoirs of a Soviet Airman]
- 140.00€
- 12°. 160 pp., contemporary red patterned boards, original cover mounted on the front board (old signature on the title page, otherwise in a good condition).
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- Decorative Prints, Maps and Prints, Turkica
LATE OTTOMAN CALLIGRAPHY / RUSE IMPRINT: [Poster for Tuna Gazetesi and Uhuvvet Gazetesi]
- 940.00€
- A charming advertisement in a shape of a pear, composed of Islamic calligraphy, for the subscription of two Ottoman newspapers in Ruse, Bulgaria. Colour lithography, 47,5 x 36 cm (18.7 x 14.2 inches), (little age-toned and stained, minor loss of white margins, overall in a good condition)
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Map of Victoria, Hong Kong. / 最新香港詳細街道全圖
- 1,800.00€
- A rare and highly detailed bilingual map of Victoria (Central), depicting the governmental and commercial epicentre of Hong Kong as it appeared on the eve of the Roaring ’20s, labeling every street and outlining every key building and institution, published in Shanghai by the Guoguang Shuju printing house. Photolithograph, small contemporary mss. annotation in pink crayon, with printed pastedown…
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- Books, Other, Others
MEXICO CITY IMPRINT: Apelación al buen criterio de los nacionales y estrangeros: informe que el Escmo. Sr. General de división, benemérito de la patria Antonio López de Santa-Ana, dió por acuerdo del gran jurado, sobre las acusaciones presentadas por el señor diputado Ramón Gamboa. / Acompañan á dicho informe diversos documentos de la mayor importancia para la historia, y de los cuales algunos no se habian publicado hasta hoy.
- 2,200.00€
- Highly important – the charismatic and controversial former (and future) Mexican President Antonio López de Santa Anna’s official and most detailed defense of his leadership when he oversaw the cession of Texas (1836) and the total defeat of this armies during the Mexican-American War (1846-8); the superficially persuasive but ‘creative with the truth’ narrative was written while Santa Anna was…
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Narrative of an Expedition into Southern Africa, during the years 1836, and 1837, from the Cape of Good Hope, through the Territories of the Chief Moselekatse, to the Tropic of Capricorn, with a Sketch of the Recent Emigration of the Border Colonists, and a Zoological Appendix.
- 3,000.00€
- A bespoke example of Captain William Cornwallis Harris’ fascinating and important account of his 1836-7 expedition to the Transvaal, featuring the complete collation of the first edition, published in Bombay in 1838, with 4 plates lithographed by the author, plus, his excellent and important map, plus, extra-illustrated by 24 resplendently hand-colored lithographed plates and the map from the subsequent London…
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PERU / PERU-ECUADOR BOUDARDY DISPUTE: Novisima Mapa del Perú / J. Boix Ferrer Editor / Joya Literaria / Lima y Arequipa / 1904.
- 2,400.00€
- An extremely rare and highly decorative Art Nouveau era map of Peru that showcases the country’s maximalist (some might say ‘outrageous’) boundary claims with respect to its disputed frontiers with Ecuador, Brazil and Bolivia; designed by J. Boix Ferrer, the proprietor of the ‘Joya Literaria’ bookstore, with branches in Lima and Arequipa, it is predicated upon the best sources, detailing…
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- Books, Geography, History, Others
Por Macau!… Artigos e Discursos.
- 980.00€
- Rare – one of the seminal works on early 20th century Macau, being an anthology of articles by Henrique Travassos Valdez, the liberal republican firebrand who was the incumbent Portuguese national senator for Macau, with brilliant yet controversial analyses of Macau’s place within the Portuguese Empire, its heated relations with China, its vital port and economic development, as well…
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