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- Asia, Books, China, Geography, Maps and Prints
CHINA – QINGDAO (TSINGTAO / TSINGTAU): Guide Book on Tsingtao and its Vicinity by Adolf Haupt. With two Maps and many illustrations.
- 1,800.00€
- 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…
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- Asia, China, Maps and Prints
CHINA (SOUHTHERN – GUANGDONG HONG KONG / GUANGXI, ETC.): Kouang-si et Pays Limitrophes.
- 1,200.00€
- A seemingly unrecorded blueprint map of Southern China depicting major railways routes, made by French colonial administrators in the French Leased Territory of Guangzhouwan (Kouang-Tchéou-Wan) who used the map as strategic aid to oversee the extensive French commercial interests in the region (mines, factories, plantations, etc., as well as the railway lines themselves) during a time of booming business and…
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- Asia, China, Korea, Maps and Prints
CHINA / KOREA: Nördlicher Stiller Ozean / Ostküste von China / Gelbes Meer Nördlicher Teil.
- 2,500.00€
- 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…
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- Asia, China, Maps and Prints
CHINA / SHANGHAI IMPRINT: 皇朝直省地輿全圖 [Huang chao zhi sheng di yu quan tu / The Complete Geographic Map of the Imperial Provinces].
- 6,500.00€
- 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…
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- Asia, China, Maps and Prints
CHINA: Map of China prepared for the China Inland Mission 1898.
- 1,400.00€
- 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…
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- Maps and Prints, Posters
COLD WAR / ANTIPROPRAGANDA: CCCP USA
- 1,200.00€
- This is a superb example of a poster by a Poland-born artist Roman Cieślewicz, representing the SSSR and USA in forms of Supermen, as a mirror image of each-other, self-confidently rushing to save the world. The image was made amidst the Cold War and was published in a smaller scale on the cover of the esteemed French art magazine,…
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- Americas, Maps and Prints, South America
Colombia
- 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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- Photography
COLORADO / WESTERN PIONEER HISTORY / MINING: Ibex Mine
- 650.00€
- A photograph of the Ibex Mine in Leadville, Colorado, by the local photographer G.B. Sanborn, made around 1900 Albumen silver print 16,5 x 21,5 cm (6.5 x 8.5 inches), originally mounted on grey card 25,5 x 30,5 cm (10 x 12 inches), with stamp of the author verso (margins little scuffed and stained, but overall in a good condition).…
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- Africa, Books, Geography, Maps and Prints
Congo Belge / Service Hydrographique, Section du Haut Congo, Fleuve Congo / Leopoldville – Stanleyville / Travaux effectues sous la direction de J. Lauwers, Hydrographe, Chef de S.H. du H.C. …
- 2,500.00€
- A stellar moment of African cartography and inland hydrography, being the first atlas, or accurate, complete large-scale map, of the 1,724 km-long navigable route of the Upper Congo River from Léopoldville (Kinshasa) to Stanleyville, the only natural passage into the heart of Africa, made during World War I for the use of steamer captains by the specialist Belgian colonial…
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