Maps and Prints

  A set of original fotos of Yugoslavian president Josib-Broz-Tito was made by Yugoslav official photographers, for the central agency, which distributed the copies to the national and international newspapers.

This chart maps the mouth of the Jubba River in southern Somalia, long a vital lifeline for agriculture and trade.  The chart was made from surveys conducted by Commander Giovatto of the Italian Navy in 1908.    Zincograph (Very Good, some light toning and light wear along old folds), 53 x 61 cm (21 x 24 inches).  

  12°. 160 pp., contemporary red patterned boards, original cover mounted on the front board (old signature on the title page, otherwise in a good condition).

  A very rare cartographic playing card featuring a map of Kasakhstan, Uzbekistan & Turkmenistan.

  An unusual, well designed map of Kathmandu that was printed in 1972, during the height of the Nepal-Himalaya tourism craze.

An Italian map of the natural harbour of Kismaayo, in the far south of Somalia.     Photozincograph, with navigational markers heightened in yellow and some details added in manuscript in red pen, with pastedown date stamp in lower left corner (Very Good, some wear along old folds), 55.5 x 70.5 cm (22 x 27.5 inches).  

  A rare collection of two titles that feature entertaining and valuable accounts of early frontier life in Patagonia, the result of separate investigative tours of the Río Negro and Chubut territories by the brothers Moritz and Theodor Alemann, prominent journalists, who endeavored to assess the regions’ suitability for Germanic immigration and to weave German immigrant ‘colonies’ in Argentina into…

  A very rare broadside with Ottoman script showing the Battle of Kosovo was made in the series of large separately published maps by the Turkish War Office the late Hamidian period as a part of intellectual propaganda to revive patriotic sentiment.