Maps and Prints

  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).  

A portrait of Jean-Baptiste Riché (1780–1847), the president of Haiti between March 1, 1846 and February 27, 1847.   Watercolours on paper, mounted on larger piece of brown paper, 23,5 x 16 cm (9.2 x 6.3 inches), German (wrong) title in black ink on the bottom (light foxing).

  Highly decorative late Renaissance coat of arms of Michael von Herberstein from an Album Amicorum from 1600.

  The very rare first edition of a fascinating and wonderfully eccentric treatise on the philosophical, scientific and political state of the world during the Napoleonic Wars, and the historical journey that led to those times, by the German military scientist Rühle von Lilienstern, illustrated by a large, unique and resplendently coloured World Map on an oblique double-elliptical projection, illustrating…

  A rare and historically important map of Honolulu made only months after the coup d’état that toppled Queen Liliuokalani. 

  A rare, seemingly unrecorded lithographed broadside, made in Freiburg, Germany, showcases the biggest German rail disaster of the late 19th century.