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[Nice, March 5, 1868. The Count of Castell, Grand Master of the Court, and the Lieutenant-General, Baron de Jeetze, Aide-de-Camp to his Majesty King Louis I of Bavaria, have the honour to ask you to attend the FUNERE SERVICE which will be held tomorrow, Friday March 6th, at 9 am, at the Cathedral for the rest of the soul of…

  This is probably the first correct survey of the Bezengi Massive in the Caucasus, Russia, made in the mid 1960s by the Yugoslavian expedition, in cooperation with the Soviet mountaineers during the height of the Cold War. 

Postcard. Lithography in colour (Very Good, slightly age-toned) 10 x 14cm (5.11 x 3.5 inches).

  A very rare cartographic playing card featuring a map of the Canary Islands, being the ‘2 of Clubs’.

The colossal, authoritative general map of Anatolia, the Levant, Lower Egypt and western Iraq made for strategic use by the French Army on the eve of World War I; these regions all being scenes of pivotal military action and espionage operations during and in the wake of the conflict, from which France played a critical (and controversial) role in the…

  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.

Colour lithograph, 19,5 x 26 cm (7.6 x 10.3 inches) (soft fold, otherwise in a good condition).

Very Rare – the first broadly accurate and detailed map of the course of the lower Danube River, that flowed 1,400 km from Belgrade to the Black Sea; a colossal 7-sheet work (bound in atlas form) that would measure a course approximately 420 cm (almost 14 feet!) long if joined, based on the first serious attempt to map this vital…

Mapka narodowościowa i polityczna obszarów b. W. Ks. Litewskiego [Title on the Map] [National and Political Map of the Areas of the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania, with a Statistical Table]   A demographic map of Lithuania, showcasing various population of the area, made by a member of Provisional Political Committee of Kaunas Land, which supported the union of historical…

A particularly handsome example of Stanford’s map of Denmark and Iceland with original brown covers.   Copper engraved map, originally coloured in outline, dissected into 20 sections and mounted upon original linen, folding into original brown cloth covers with publisher’s pastedown label, publisher’s advertisements as front endpaper (Good, clean example), 68 x 55 cm (26.8 x 21.6 inches).

  The very first distance-time-route map of the Ottoman Empire, one of the great masterpieces of Hamidian Era thematic cartography, it depicts the entire realm of the Sublime Porte from Albania to Yemen, noting the travel times between hundreds of locations, including various routes of the Hajj; devised by the General Staff of the Ottoman Army and published in Istanbul.…

The probably first separately published forensic map showcases the location of a well-publicized early 19th century femicide, followed by a famous court case, which brought changes to English legal history. The author was Rowland Hill (1795-1879), an English social reformer and inventor. He is mostly famous as the inventor of the first adhesive pre-paid postal stamp, the Penny Black, in…