Maps and Prints

  Colour lithograph, printed from both sides, 49 x 69 cm (27.1 x 19.3 inches) (soft folds, but otherwise in a good condition).  

  A set of 5 original photographs, most probably made during WWI, showcase the byzantine capitals of four different cisterns of Istanbul.

Anon. Istanbul, Fatih [S. l., S. d., but Istanbul: between 1923-1928]. Black ink and water-colours in blue, orange, green and red on tracing paper, irregular format, but at widest points 142 x 160 cm (55.9 x 63 inches), originally dissected in segments and mounted on linen (minor tears and folds to the edges of segments, but overall in a good…

  A rare large chromolithographed map of Turkey with Istanbul in the middle was published in Russian Cyrillic as a part of a detailed series of maps of European Russia, made in the late 1920s by the Soviet Military Topographic Office, under the command of the Red Army.

  A rare chromolithographed plan of Istanbul with charming wrappers, printed in Zürich and published by a German book shop in Istanbul.   Chromolithographed map, originally dissected in 15 segments and mounted on paper, 63 x 73 cm (24.8 x 28.7 inches), folded in original illustrated cromolithographed wrappers 8° (Slightly age-toned, minor chips to the edges of segments, sporadic annotations…

  Rare smaller Santini's version of the map of Istria.

  A scarce separately-issued, large-format map of the theatre of the Italo-Turkish War (1911-2), an important precursor to WWI during which Italy conquered Libya and Greece’s Dodecanese Islands from the Ottoman Empire.  

  Lithograph with a pasted down instructions and manuscript annotations in pencil and pink colour, 70 x 102 cm (27.6 x  40.1 inches) (Very Good, soft folds).