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- India, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: December 2020
INDIA – SATARA DISTRICT MAHARASHTRA: Map of the Satara Territory, Shewing the Territories of the Jageerdars and that Lapsed to the British Government. Scale Six Miles to an Inch. Compiled in the Quarter Master General’s Office from Maps received from the Political Secretary to Government and other Sources in the Office.
- 650.00€
- A sophisticated topographical map, of charmingly crude ‘provincial’ printing style, of the strategically key district of Satara, in today’s southwestern Maharashtra, expressly made for the British colonial regime to depict the recent developments in local administration, but to also satisfy important military and infrastructure mandates; created by J.W. Windsor of the Quarter Master General’s Department (Bombay Army), and printed…
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- Asia, India, Maps and Prints
INDIA (NORTHERN) / PAKISTAN / BANGLADESH: Vicariati e prefetture Apostoliche nell’ Indostan.
- 1,500.00€
- Extremely Rare – a pair of large-format maps respectively depicting Northern and Southern India, featuring the ecclesiastical divisions of the Roman Catholic on the subcontinent, prepared for the Vatican’s State Secretariat by Girolamo Petri, issued within his monumental atlas, ‘L’Orbe Cattolico ossia Atlante Geografico Storico Ecclesiastico’.
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- Asia, India, Maps and Prints
INDIA / BURMA: 國帝度印 [The British Raj].
- 650.00€
- A rare large format Japanese map of India and Burma, ‘pirated’ from a British map by the venerable bookseller Maruzen, issued during the height of World War II, as Japan conquered Burma and before its (ultimately ill-fated) invasion of India during ‘Operation U-Go’ (1944). Colour print, folding into original printed paper sleeve (Very Good, some toning along old…
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- India, Maps and Prints
INDIA: Map of India Constructed with Great Care and Research from all the Latest Authorities and intended more particularly to facilitate a reference to the Civil and Military Stations. Dedicated to Sir James Rivett Carnac, Bart. …Arranged under the direc
- 1,200.00€
- A fine early, edition of example of James Wyld’s highly important wall map of India, made under the direction of the artist and banker Robert Melville Grindlay, attractively mounted in wall map format with rollers.
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- Asia, Maps and Prints, Newly Catalogued Items: August 2022, South-East Asia
INDONESIA – JAVA / CIREBON-KROYA RAILWAY: Opname Cheribon-Maos.
- 750.00€
- A seemingly unique engineer’s planning map of the Cirebon-Kroya Railway, a vital link that traversed the midriff of Java, connecting the north coast and south coast rail networks, likely made in 1912-3, just before construction was commenced on the project, which was completed in 1917; the map is printed by an unusual blue-tinted photolithographic technique and features the proposed…
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- Asia, Maps and Prints, South-East Asia
INDONESIA – SOUTHWESTERN SUMATRA (BENGKULU): [Untitled Chart of the West Coast of Sumatra, including Bengkulu (Bencoolen), extending to the Straits of Sunda].
- 750.00€
- Very Rare – the first broadly accurate British sea chart of the southwestern coast of Sumatra, a critical region home to the important British base of Benccoolon-Fort Marlborough (modern Bengkulu), published by William Herbert in 1758.
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- Maps and Prints
INDONESIA – SPICE ISLANDS: De Landvoogdy van Amboina met de elf onderhoorige Eylanden.
- 500.00€
- François Valentijn’s magnificent map of Indonesia’s Spice Islands, the finest map of the region made during the dramatic era of the Dutch East India Company’s hegemony.
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- Asia, Maps and Prints, South-East Asia
INDONESIA – WEST JAVA (JAKARTA) / SUNDA STRAITS / SOUTHEASTERN SUMATRA: [Untitled Sea Chart of the Straits of Sunda, West Java, Southeastern Sumatra, Banka and Belitung].
- 850.00€
- Very Rare - the first broadly accurate British sea chart of the Straits of Sunda, but also extending to include West Java (including Jakarta) and southeastern Sumatra, published by William Herbert in 1758.
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- Asia, Maps and Prints, South-East Asia
INDONESIA – WEST SUMATRA / PADRI (MINANGKABAU) WAR: “Etappe-Kaart van het Militair Kommando, Westkust Sumatra. Schaal van 16 Palm op 1 duim Rh”.
- 2,800.00€
- An unique and extraordinary artifact of the successful Dutch endeavours to gain colonial dominion over West Sumatra during the 1830s, in the wake of the Padri War (concluded 1837) and the 1832 intervention against the Aceh Sultanate, being an impressively detailed original manuscript itinerary map of West Sumatra, including it rugged Minangkabau Highlands, depicting a dense archipelago of villages and…
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- Maps and Prints
IRAN (PERSIA): [Detailed Chart of the Country of Iran…].
- 750.00€
- A very large and beautifully produced separately issued map of the Empire of Persia (Iran), issued during the early days of the Pahlavi Dynasty; employing Persian script, it showcases the entire country in resplendent detail, predicated upon the best official sources; published in Tabriz’s glorious bazaar by the Saadat Central Library.
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- Maps and Prints
IRAN: Iran, Highway Map. وزارت راه. راهنماى ايران
- 150.00€
- A large map of highways in Iran, printed by the Ministry of Roads, was printed in English recto and Farsi verso in 1970, in the time of the rapid development of the country under Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in the time of the White Revolution.
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- Maps and Prints
IRAN: Road Map of Iran. Highways – Railways – Airways – Waterways. Relief Map of Iran.
- 250.00€
- A detailed road map of Iran, with a chart of distances between the major Persian cities and an inset relief map, was made in 1960 by an Iranian cartographer Abbas Sahab.
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- Maps and Prints
IRAN: Road Map of Iran. Highways – Railways – Airways – Waterways. Relief Map of Iran.
- 250.00€
- A detailed road map of Iran, with a chart of distances between the major Persian cities and an inset relief map, was made in 1963, in the year of the White Revolution, by an Iranian cartographer Abbas Sahab.
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- Iran, Maps and Prints, Middle East
IRAN: كشورشا هنشاهى ايران [The Country of Iran]
- 3,200.00€
- 4 sheets, not joined, colour lithographs. Each sheet circa 95 x 111 cm (37.4 x 43.7 inches), if assembled: circa 180 x 203 cm (70.8 x 80 inches). Small tears and holes in folds and margins, tiny creases on surfaces, old repairs, partly with postal slips from 1984 in English language, and traces of tape, later annotations in the…
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East
IRAQ / IRAN – PETROLEUM (OIL) HISTORY / DIPLOMATIC HISTORY: [A Complete Collection of the 3 Official Maps (on 4 Sheets) certifying the Ottoman-Persian Boundary Survey by the Shatt Al-Arab Waterway, along today’s Iraq-Iran Frontier, according to the Anglo-Turkish Declaration of July 29, 1913].
- 1,800.00€
- Extremely rare – the complete series of the 3 maps (on 4 sheets) of the Ottoman-Persian Boundary Survey in the vicinity of the Shatt Al-Arab waterway, along today’s Iraq-Iran frontier, above the head of the Persian Gulf, as mandated by the Anglo-Turkish Declaration of July 29, 1913; this boundary settlement was surveyed by Indian Army engineers under the supervision…
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East, Newly Catalogued Items: August 2022
IRAQ / KUWAIT / IRAN / PETROLEUM HISTORY / WORLD WAR I: Lower Mesopotamia between Baghdad and the Persian Gulf.
- 980.00€
- The rare first edition of the first accurate and highly detailed topographical general map of Central and Southern Iraq, Kuwait and Khuzestan (Iran), created by the British War Office, the culmination of three generations of espionage and exploration missions, capped by late breaking discoveries; the authoritative map used by both sides during World War I’s ‘Mesopotamia Campaign’, Britain’s dramatic…
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East
Iraq WWI – Mesopotamia Campaign Siege of Kut Al-Amara Ottoman Military Field Cartography “Captured” Enemy Map: [Iraq WWI – Mesopotamia Campaign. Siege of Kut Al-Amara]
- 3,600.00€
- A fascinating artefact of World War I’s Mesopotamian Campaign – an Ottoman map of the vicinity of the Siege of Kut al-Amara, one of the conflict’s most dramatic events and one of the greatest defeats in British Imperial History; crudely lithographed in theatre by Ottoman engineers, based upon a “captured” British map that was itself based on fresh, detailed…
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East
ISFAHAN / IRAN: Guide Map of Isfahan
- 220.00€
- Colour print, 73 x 60 cm (28.7 x 23.6 inches), verso text, illustrations, photograph and a map (soft folds, otherwise in a good condition).
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- Maps and Prints
ISFAHAN, IRAN: Sahab Guide Map of Isfahan.
- 150.00€
- Detailed map of Isfahan, made by a "Father of Iran'S Cartography" Abbas Sahab.
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- Americas, Central America, Maps and Prints
Isle of St Domingo or Hispaniola
- 1,200.00€
- A rare and high quality separately issued map of Hispaniola, including the French colony of Saint-Domingue (today’s Haiti) and the Spanish realm of Santo Domingo (today’s Dominican Republic), issued by William Faden, the leading British commercial cartographer, to satiate the intense public interest in the ongoing British Occupation of parts of Saint-Domingue (1793-8), an epic endeavour that was planned to…
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- Europe, Maps and Prints, Turkey
Istanbul
- 180.00€
- Colour lithograph, printed from both sides, 49 x 69 cm (27.1 x 19.3 inches) (soft folds, but otherwise in a good condition).
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