Maps and Prints

  A very rare lithographed postcard map of the Aleppo Vilayet in Ottoman script was made in Istanbul during the Young Turks Regime by a Romanian born publisher Tüccarzâde İbrahim Hilmi Çığıraçan.

A scarce large representation of the German explorer Alexander von Humboldt in his Berlin library, and surrounded by the artefacts from his journeys in the last years of his life. Colour Lithograph, 70 x 85 cm (27 x 33.3 inches) (minor age-toning, tiny chips in margins, repaired tear in the lower margin).

  A rare, seemingly unrecorded lithographed broadside, printed in Switzerland, shows Algiers, besieged by French in 1830. 

8°. 29-35 pp., facing pages marked with the same number, with colour lithographed plates, printed covers, stapled (tiny loss of paper in the lower corners of the last pages, light staining and foxing, otherwise in a good used condition).

A trio of very large format diagrams (2 blueprint maps, 1 line chart) made for the Companhia de Petróleo de Angola in the 1920s, when it was prospecting the Cuanza (Kwanza) Basin, one of Africa’s great petroleum deposits; the works were drafted by James J. McGowan, a larger-than-life Irish-American engineer who later became a pillar of Luanda’s business community; the…

  Colour print, 63 x 46 cm (inches) (soft folds, minor age-toning, but overall in a good condition).   A decorative late art deco map showcases Ankara with its modern neighborhoods  

John Luffman’s grand map of Antigua, one of the cartographic monuments of the 18th century British West Indies; predicated upon the goldsmith-cartographer’s reconnaissance of the island conducted when it was still one of the world’s leading sugar-slave economies, as well as hosting a major Royal Navy base (then commanded by the future Lord Admiral Horatio Nelson); the map served as…

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

Chromolithograph. 9 x 13,5 cm (3.5 x 5.3 inches). Slightly stained.

  An intriguing original manuscript sketch map of Heraclea Pontica (modern Karadeniz Ereğli), one of the most important Greco-Roman historical sites along the Black Sea coast of Anatolia, made in 1806 by Louis Allier de Hauteroche, the esteemed archaeologist and numismatist who was then Napoleon’s vice-consul to the region.

A Armenian language edition of the first thematic atlas of Armenia; one of the most impressive and engaging works of Soviet scientific cartography, featuring 97 full-page, full-colour plates of sophisticated maps plus diagrams covering virtually all aspects of the geography, geology, economy, transport and demographics of the Armenian SSR; predicated upon years of careful research and draughtsmanship by the Armenian…

  Colour lithography, 87 x 77 cm (34.2 x 30.3 cm) (tiny holes on the crossings of the folds, otherwise in a good condition).  

  A very rare larger portrait of Mehmed V with titles in Ottoman and Armenian script, was published for the occasion of his investiture in 1909, only days after the massacre of Armenians in Adana. The Armenian Genocide under the reign of Mehmed IV happened six years later.

This manuscript broadside is a stunning example of artistry, seamlessly blending Armenian calligraphy with its distinctive letters and rich Christian symbolism that is deeply embedded in the nation’s identity. The inclusion of a traditional labyrinth form elevates the piece, serving as a profound tool for meditation and concentration.   Drawing and manuscript in various colours on paper, 62 x 44…

  [Confidential Conversations about Sexual Life].   A rare manual on sexuality and impotence, printed in the Armenian Language in Istanbul.   8°: 223 pp., original illustrated wrappers (good, wrappers with minor staining and small tears and tiny loss of paper to spine, minor old annotation in blalck ink on the cover).  

  A unique manuscript map by one of the most important Venetian map-makers of the early 19th century Bernardo Combatti, shows the Arsenal, as rebuilt by Napoleon around 1810, to the form known today. The Arsenal today hosts the Venetian Biennale. 

  A book with original artwork. A numbered example, signed by the author.

  An exceedingly rare map by Gerard de Jode, printed only as a broadside after the publication of his atlas of 1578.

  A rare book in Ottoman script on Asia, richly illustrated with black and white photographs and maps.

سودى نك يكى خريطه كلياتندن [SÛDÎ’NIN YENI HARITA KÜLLIYATINDAN / SUDI’S NEW CARTOGRAPHIC ESTABLISHMENT]. Istanbul: كتابحانه سودى [Kitaphane-yi Sûdî] 1927. Colour off-set print (Good, light stains mostly visiable verso, some wear along fold folds, tiny chips to the folds in the image and in the margins), 67 x 100 cm (26.5 x 39.5 inches). ‘Ana Vatan’ (Homeland) is one of…

  A fine example the authoritative chart used by the French Government to manage their fishing rights in Newfoundland and the Grand Banks, in part based on the magisterial surveys of Newfoundland by James Cook & Michael Lane and Samuel Holland’s survey of the Island of St. John (Prince Edward Island).