Maps and Prints

  Etching with roulette, printed in sanguine, marked 3 in the upper right corner, platemark: 20,5 x 29 (8.2 x 11.4 inches), sheet: 28,5 x 37,5 cm (11.2 x 14.6 inches), (slightly stained and with light water-staining in margins).  

  A stunning example of a separately issued de Jode map of France  was coloured in the late 16th century in the style of the frescoes of the Gallery of Maps in Vatican. 

A map of France from the first Ottoman lithographed atlas.   Colour Lithography, 32 x 43 cm (12.6 x 17 inches), (soft fold slightly age-toned, minor wear to the margins, but overall in a good condition).

  A gigantic rare map of the World, published by Free French Forces (FFL, Forces françaises libres) led by Charles de Gaulle, was made during the Second World War just before the major battles for control of the French colonies worldwide.  

  Colour lithograph, 120 x 79 cm (47.2 x 31.1 inches) (soft folds slightly age-toned with tiny, partly repaired holes, tiny tears in margins, overall in a good clean condition).  

  An original 17th century hand-drawn portrait of count Friedrich Fugger, a member of the famous banking family from Augsburg. 

  A very rare large-format survey chart of the coasts of Gabon and what is today the Republic of Congo, executed shortly before World War I by the ‘Mission hydrographique du Gabon’.

This whiteprint photographic map, with its beautiful purple signature hue, depicts Ecuador’s Galapagos Islands.  The map was made by the Instituto Geográfico Militar, the Ecuadorian military mapping institution, predicated upon the best scientific surveys.  It shows all of the islands, while the legend, located under the title, gives symbols for the main towns and administrative centres; roads; airports; volcanic craters;…

Chromolithographs on thick paper. Each sheet: 11 x 15 cm (4.3 x 5.9 inches). Slightly stained, overall in a good condition

A rare ephemeral artefact from the Gallipoli Campaign of World War I, being a mimeographed map made in the field by Ottoman soldiers, depicting the theatre of the Battles of Krithia (Alçitepe), a series of four major altercations fought between British Imperial-French forces and the Turks between April and August 1915.   Mimeograph in purple (Very Good, old vertical centrefold,…