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- Celestial Charts, Maps and Prints
- CELESTIAL CHART / OTTOMAN CARTOGRAPHY: خريطه سما [Map of the Sky]
- 350.00€
- Colour lithograph, 24 x 33 cm (9.44 x 13 inches) (soft fold, minor staining, otherwise in a good condition).
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- CELESTIAL NAVIGATION FOR MARINERS: Sternkarte nebst Anweisung zur Kenntniß der vornehmsten Fixsterne, nach ihrem wechselseitigen Stande. Insonderheit zum Gebrauch für Seefahrende. Herausgegeben vom königlichen Dänischen Seekartenarchive.
- 950.00€
- A very rare and excellent treatise on celestial navigation for mariners, anchored by a custom-made chart of the Northern Celestial Hemisphere, by the esteemed Danish astronomer and hydrographer Poul de Løvenørn.
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- Africa, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: December 2020
- CENTRAL AFRICA: [Congo, Cameroon, Angola, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda]
- 120.00€
- A map from Umûm Vilayât-ı Şâhâneyi Hâvi Küçük Atlas - Umûmî Küçük Atlas (General Small Atlas) Chromolithograph. 9 x 13,5 cm (3.5 x 5.3 inches).
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- Archives and Documents, Maps and Prints, South America
- Chart of the Coast from Salinas to Para taking the Longitude from the Meridian of Lisbon
- 4,200.00€
- An amazing survivor - a large format working manuscript sea chart of Brazil’s Rio Pará Estuary, leading to the port of Belém, a great trading port of tropical cash crops that was the gateway to the Amazon; the chart was obviously drafted by one of the many British merchant mariners who frequented Belém during the 1820s, during the heady…
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- Americas, Maps and Prints, Newly Catalogued Items: August 2022
- CHICAGO: Rand McNally & Co.’s New and Concise Map of Chicago.
- 550.00€
- An authoritative composition featuring two maps of Chicago, one centring upon the inner city and the other showcasing the fast-growing suburban areas of the future ‘Chicagoland’, by Rand, McNally & Company, the nationally important Chicago-based map house. Bi-chrome lithograph (black and green) printed on both sides, folding into original printed tan card wrappers (Very Good, clean, bright and…
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- Books, Geography, Maps and Prints, South America
- CHILE – NATIONAL ATLAS: Atlas de Chile Arreglado para la Jeografia Descriptiva de la Republica de Chile por Enrique Espinoza.
- 1,400.00€
- A fine example of an important and beautifully produced national atlas of chile, featuring 39 maps predicated upon the best scientific sources, made by Enrique Espinoza, who is credited with revolutionizing the study of geography in Chile, published by the venerable Paris firm of Erhard Frères. Small 4° (27 x 20.5 cm): 2 pp., 39 maps (5 folding;…
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- Americas, Maps and Prints, South America
- Chile: Chili
- 150.00€
- 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).
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- Asia, China, Maps and Prints
- CHINA – BEIJING – BOXER REBELLION: 京城各國暂分界址全图 [Jing cheng ge guo zan fen jie zhi quan tu]
- 5,500.00€
- [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…
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- CHINA – DALIAN / OTTOMAN MAP / SIEGE OF PORT ARTHUR (1904-5): [ پورارتور…باشلا حرب Map of the Russian-Japanese War…].
- 1,200.00€
- A seemingly unrecorded, separately issued Ottoman map depicting the Siege of Port Arthur (1904-5), today part of Dalian, China, whereby a massive Japanese force took the heavily fortified Russian base after an unexpectedly brutal showdown, one of the great military events and global media spectacles fin-de-siècle era, and one watched with special interest by the Sublime Porte, long Russia’s…
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- CHINA – ENORMOUS HYDROLOGICAL MAP: 中國水系 [China: Water Systems / Zhongguo shui xi gua tu].
- 450.00€
- A rare, very large format official hydrological map of China, issued in the wake of The Great Leap Forward (1958-62), Chairman Mao’s monumental programme to rapidly industrialize the country, a vision that involved massive water management and reallocation projects; published in Beijing by the China Cartographic Publishing House, the state workshop that specialized in producing such high-quality, original thematic…
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- CHINA – ENORMOUS TRANSPORTATION AND COMMUNICATIONS MAP: 中國交通 [China: Communications / Zhongguo Jiaotong].
- 450.00€
- A rare, very large format official transportation and communications map of China, issued in the wake of The Great Leap Forward (1958-62), Chairman Mao’s monumental programme to rapidly industrialize the country, a vision that involved massive infrastructure projects; published in Beijing by the China Cartographic Publishing House, the state workshop that specialized in producing such high-quality, original thematic maps.
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- Asia, China, Maps and Prints
- CHINA – HAINAN (South Coast, including Yalong Bay): A Chart of the South Coast of Hay-nan: from Tinhosa to Guichou Survey’d in 1776 and 77 By Captn. Haldane.
- 950.00€
- 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’.
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