Europe

  The rare map of the Balkans, Austria and Southern Germany from the ‘Rome Ptolemy’, a monument in the early history of engraving and the cartography of Central and Southeastern Europe.

Lithograph, 57 x 84 cm (22.4 x 33 inches) (soft folds with tiny tears, but overall in a good condition).

  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).  

  Copper engraving, 50 x 67 cm (inches) (minor age-toning and staining, old stamps and inventory numbers and a stamp Erledigt (meaning ‘Deaccessioned’).  

A proof state of an exceptionally rare sea chart of Vyborg Harbour, Russia, prepared for Charles-Pierre Fleurieu’s grand atlas of the Baltic Sea.

  Colour lithograph, printed from both sides, 46 x 62 cm (24.4 x 18.1 inches) (soft folds, but otherwise in a good condition).  

  A spectacular artefact of the Gallipoli Campaign, being an extremely rare ultra large map of the Cape Hellas-Krithia battle sector issued by T.E. Lawrence’s (later ‘Lawrence of Arabia’) map department at the Intelligence Office in Cairo, predicated upon a recently “captured” Ottoman map that was the first proper survey of this critical military zone; greatly augmented by extensive and…

A fascinating itinerary map of the route of the U.S. Army’s Ninth Infantry Division during their World War II active combat tours, featuring their routes in North Africa, Sicily, England, France (including the D-Day Landings) and Germany; published in Germany only 2 months after the end of the war as a memento for the troops – notably, one of only…

A deeply disturbing but historically important map depicting Łódź, Poland shortly after it was conquered by the Nazis in early World War II; all the of place and street names have been changed from Polish to German nomenclature and all signs of the city’s Polish population and Jewish community (which numbered over 30% of the city’s residents) has been erased;…