Decorative Prints

  A collection of 19 large drafts for textile patterns by an Austrian designer Ludmila Hellmann-Kavalla  

A remarkable manuscript map of Trieste vividly illustrates the city during its pivotal development into one of the world's largest ports.   Black ink and water colours on paper, 129 x 195 cm (50.8 x 77 inches), contemporarily dissected into 24 segments and mounted on brown linen (minimal staining, but overall good).  

  An exquisite and rare example of late-Ottoman surrogate publishing, this 16-page pocket pamphlet seamlessly blends the romantic, Western-inspired aesthetic of Art Nouveau with traditional Eastern poetic tropes to market one of the era’s most famous global patent medicines: Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People. Disguised as an elegant literary guide to the coded language of flowers (Çiçeklerin Dili),…

Intriguing, unique, and historically important – one of only very few surviving original manuscript plans of the archetype army bases established in key towns across French Indochina (today’s Vietnam and Cambodia) that were the foundation of colonial power in the region; the present finely rendered and highly detailed plan showcases the French army base at Tân An, a provincial capital…

A rare detailed wall-map of the Caucasus, printed in Tiflis and drafted by Military Topographic Department of the Caucasus Military District under the leadership of the prolific surveyor Hieronymus Stebnitsky  

  Blatt mit kardinalischem Wappen, allegorischen und heiligen Figuren, gestochen von Pieter de Jode d. Ä. nach einer Zeichnung von Francesco Vanni.

Lithograph in blue and red, 53 x 33 cm (21 x 13 inches) (soft folds with minor wear and tiny scuffing on the crossings, minor staining, overall in a good condition).