Asia

  Extremely rare – the foundational modern map of Burma, being the first realistic general map of the country, as well as a monument of early lithography in India; the very large format work was published in Calcutta by the Asiatic Lithographic Press during the height of the First Anglo-Burmese War (1824-6), it served as an invaluable strategic aid for…

  Lithograph with original colour: 18 x 23 cm (7 x 9 inches) (soft fold, slightly stained in the upper margin).

  The first wall map of Azerbaijan SSR, made in 1925 by a pioneer of Azerbaijani map-making İbrahim Ağa Vəkilov   Colour lithography, printed on four sheets and originally mounted on linen, 100 x 135 cm (39.8 x 53.1 inches) (small tears, folds and holes with tiny loss of material, light staining).  

OBERKOMMANDO DER KRIEGSMARINE (NAZI GERMAN NAVY HIGH COMMAND). Berlin: Dietrich Reimer (Andrews & Steiner), August 27, 1942. Photolithograph on thick paper, with the h Photolithograph on thick paper, with the handstamps of the ‘Kriegsmarinewerft Wilhelmshaven Kartengruppe’ as well as classification handstamps and a pastedown label regarding the accuracy of the chart (Very Good, overall clean and bright, some wear along…

  A rare, stellar and very large format bilingual (Chinese, French) map of China, made by Stanislas Chevalier, the polymath Jesuit-scientist who was famously the father of meteorology in China, beautifully colour lithographed at the Imprimerie Hong-pao-tchai, a printing house located at Zi-Ka-Wei, the missionary education-science centre in the Xuhui District of Shanghai, with Chinese-style blue silk endpapers, the map is…

[Complete Map of Various Foreign Countries’ Temporarily Divided Territory Boundaries within the City of Beijing.] [China, likely Beijing, no publisher, 1900].   A very rare, attractive and intriguing map, capturing Beijing during the Boxer Rebellion (1899 - 1901), when ‘Zongli Yamen’ (Legation Quarter) of the Old City was besieged by ultra-nationalist rebels, only for the barricade to be lifted by…

  Very Rare – the first issue of the first large-format printed sea chart of the South Coast of Hainan, based on a reconnaissance survey conducted by John Haldane of the British East India Company, from Sayer & Bennett’s magnificent ‘The East-India Pilot, or Oriental Navigator’.

Adolf HAUPT (fl. 1900 – 1933). Tsingdao [Qingdao]: Printed at the Catholic Mission Press, 1927. 8° (19 x 11.5 cm): [13 pp. advertisements, title, preliminaries], 1-48 pp., [16 pp. advertisements on coloured paper], 49-156 pp. (with 82 photographic images imbedded within text), [2 pp.], plus 2 large folding colour lithographed maps on thick paper, bound in original printed boards with…

  One of the finest general maps of China produced during the fin de siècle period, a large format, highly detailed work produced as part of map sequence for the China Inland Mission (CIM) by the world leading firm of Edward Stanford, and the first issue to be predicated upon the revolutionary cartography of the Russian sinologist Emil Bretschneider, providing…

  A very rare, large-format separately issued map of the Portuguese Territory of Goa, India; being the finest general map of the colony issued during the second half of the 19th Century, with the present edition being the first major map to depict the entire completed line of the Mormugao Railway, Goa’s first railroad; predicated upon the stellar surveys of…