Maps and Prints

  [Primary Atlas of the World. For use in Egyptian Schools. First Edition]   First Egyptian modern school atlas of the world, published in the year of the country’s independence, in 1922.   Square 4°. Title page, 35 pp. with full page colour lithographed maps, bound in original blue card covers with title printed on front cover (title page little…

The first printed translation of the Bible into Ottoman language and the basics for all the later Turkish translations of the text. Printed in Paris with 17th century Arabic types, previously used in Napoleon’s Cairo press and one of the most elegant types made in the West.   Two volumes in one. 4°. [4 pp.], 7 pp., 984 pp. [2…

  First Soviet historical atlas, made by one of the leading historians Konstantin Kurjashov and accompanied with an introduction by a pioneering historian of the Russian revolutionary movement Mikhail Pokrovsy, glorifying Russian economy of the past and presenting the newly founded Soviet Union as a historical self sufficient formation.   Oblong folio, 12 pp. XVIII with 58 numbered maps, printed…

  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,…

  A decorative originally coloured mezzotint portrait showcasing General George Eliott, the Governor of Gibraltar with a siege in the background, was drafted by a Brussels-based artist Pierre de Glimes, and printed by Johan Fredrik Martin, a Swedish specialist in mezzotint stipple engraving and colour printing.

  A stellar example of perhaps the most beautiful and one of the most information-packed maps of the Victoria Gold Rush, an event which transformed Australia and saw the rise of Melbourne, by Frederick Proeschel, the Alsatian émigré who was the Australia’s first dedicated commercial mapmaker; predicated upon the best official sources, with resplendent original hand colour, it shows all…

Pierre Nicolas Langlet Du Fresnoy. Avignon: Chambeau 1782.   12°, viii, 116 pp., folding map of the world (old Catholic school stamp on the title page, small cracks in the hinges of endpapers, otherwise in a good condition with minor staining, binding little scuffed and rubbed).

  A large, seemingly unrecorded geological wall map of South Istria and Northern Dalmatian Islands with manuscript colouring was made after WWII, when the territory was regained by Yugoslavia after more than two decades under Fascist Italian government.

  A fine example of the first scientific geological map of Bosnia & Herzegovina, published by Austrian Imperial and Royal Geological Institute, shortly after Austria-Hungary conquered the region from the Ottomans.  

A George III mahogany globe case, being an extraordinary, and likely unique master piece of the 18th English furniture maker’s art, its grand scallop shell shaped compartment is skillfully composed of thick pieces of pure mahogany, while the case it designed to house a normal midsize globe; the con sequence of an expensive bespoke commission, it is a striking oeuvre…

  A set of 6 original gouache drawings, including one original photomontage with mounted newspaper images, was made for advertisements in the early 1950s in Germany.   

  The only known example of a fascinating cyanotype (blueprint) plan of Sekondi, capturing the Gold Coast’s (Ghana) main commercial port during the Edwardian boom period of economic and infrastructure development - a value artefact of the the Industrial Revolution and urbanism in Sub-Saharan Africa.  

  A very rare large format work from the sequence of the first broadly accurate maps of the Gold Coast (today’s Ghana), created by the Intelligence Division of the British War Office, with exceedingly detailed coverage of travel routes into the interior and the labelling of the domains of tribal nations, the present edition was made to guide British forces,…

  Circa 185 x 130 cm (72 x 50 inches), lithograph in colour, printed from two originally joined plates, originally mounted on linen with wooden rollers. With contemporary annotations in pencil and pen.   A rare gigantic wall map of Fatih in the European Part of Istanbul is the first official survey project of the city, made in the newly…

  A very rare, large-format separately issued map of the Portuguese Territory of Goa, India; being the finest general map of the colony issued during the second half of the 19th Century, with the present edition being the first major map to depict the entire completed line of the Mormugao Railway, Goa’s first railroad; predicated upon the stellar surveys of…

Lithograph printed on two joined sheets 58 x 69 cm (22.8 x 27.2 inches) (minor staining, tiny tears in the margins, overall in a good condition).

[Edict of Restitution of Trade. Verified by Divine Clemency the remission of the Plague [lit. Contagious Disease] which broke out in Transylvania in October 1737…]   Broadside: 44 x 32 cm (17.3 x 12.6 inches), (soft folds, tiny tears, contemporary annotations in brown ink in the lower margins, overall in a good condition).    

  A detailed meteorological atlas of Greece with 119 coloured maps was printed in 1935 in Greece. This copy was dedicated by the author Elias Mariolopulos to his professor, a British meteorologist Sir William Napier Shaw.

[New Political Map of Greece under D. Dimitrakos] [Neos politikos khartis tes Ellados ipo D. Dimitraki]   Colour lithograph, 100 x 70 cm (39.4 x 27.6 inches) (soft folds, tiny tears in margins, otherwise in a good condition).  

A grand format original manuscript that is one of the finest and most detailed maps of St. George’s, the capital of Grenada, from the slave-plantation era, the result of a collaboration between Captain William Elliott, James Langley and James Young of the Royal Engineers; drafted shortly after the Napoleonic Wars, when the Grenada lived under the spectre of a possible…

  Thomas Jefferys’ scarce plan of Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, published at the height of the Seven Years’ War.

  Etching with roulette, printed in sanguine, marked 2 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).  

Very rare - the finest early general gold mining map of ‘The Guianas’ (British Guiana, Dutch Surinam and French Guiana), depicting numerous gold mining concession in the colonies’ incredibly rugged, jungle-covered interiors, resources which prospectors and government officials hoped would yield a ‘bonanza’ that would reverse the economic decline caused by the abolition of slavery; created from the best and…

An exceedingly detailed, very large masterplan of Georgetown, then the capital of British Guiana (today Guyana), amazingly defining every property lot, outlining and labeling every major building, depicting all parks and recreational facilities, and delineating every street and alleyway, being one of the most ‘panoptic’ of all West Indian city maps of its era; created by the Directorate of Overseas…

  An excellent large-format official map of British Guiana, made under the direction of George D. Bayley, the colony’s Land Commissioner, rich in new information from recent surveys.

  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.

  Colour lithograph, 64 x 94 cm (25. 2 x 37 inches), originally dissected in 16 segments and mounted on linen (minor staining, overall in a good clean condition).  

A very rare and intriguing ethnographic map showcasing ‘Schwäbische Türkei’ (Swabian Turkey), the region of southwestern Hungary that since the late 17th century had been home to a large enclave of German Settlers (‘Donauschwaben’), who were imported to the region by the Austrian Habsburgs to revive the agrarian economy in the wake of the eviction of the Ottomans; the ‘Donauschwaben…

  8°: 98 pp., (some leaves mispaginated, but complete) lithographed text written in Nastaliq, 1 folding lithographed view, 1 folding lithographed map, original green printed boards (boards slightly scuffed, stained and with small loss of paper, small wormholes in the inner margins, otherwise in a good, clean condition).

Jasper NANTIAT (d. 1817), Cartographer; William FADEN (1749 – 1836), Publisher. London: William Faden, January 1, 1810. Copper engraving with full original hand colour, dissected and mounted on 4 parts of original linen, all housed in an exquisite custom-made full brown calf box (measuring 23 x 16.5 x 4.5 cm), dating from 1811-5, with elegant gilt tooling and a black…

  Au Boulet Bleu. Coueille Dégraisseur de Paris, a l’honneur de prévenir la haute Noblesse et l’estimable Public de Constantinople qu’il a ouvert un magasin a Dégraissage en face du Palais de Galata-Sérail. Il enlève toutes sortes de taches de n’importe quelle étoffe que ce soit, sans altérer les couleurs; il rêmet les effets a neuf et leur donne leur…

  A rare and fine pair of sea charts, presented together on a single sheet, of Chennai & Pulicat and the Cuddalore area (Tamil Nadu), from the ‘Secret Atlas’ of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), issued in Amsterdam by Johannes van Keulen II.

An attractive late 19th Century original watercolour view of Kumbhalgarh Fort, one of the most impressive of the Rajasthan ‘Hill Forts’, probably drafted by a British soldier.

  Extremely Rare – a pair of large-format maps respectively depicting Northern and Southern India, featuring the ecclesiastical divisions of the Roman Catholic on the subcontinent, prepared for the Vatican’s State Secretariat by Girolamo Petri, issued within his monumental atlas, ‘L’Orbe Cattolico ossia Atlante Geografico Storico Ecclesiastico’.

  A rare large format Japanese map of India and Burma, ‘pirated’ from a British map by the venerable bookseller Maruzen, issued during the height of World War II, as Japan conquered Burma and before its (ultimately ill-fated) invasion of India during ‘Operation U-Go’ (1944).   Colour print, folding into original printed paper sleeve (Very Good, some toning along old…

  A very rare scientific survey of the crucial Bombay-Poona (Mumbai-Pune) corridor, issued by the Survey of India in Dehra Dun just after World War II and in the twilight days of the British Raj; showcasing a wealth of information on urban development in one of India’s fastest growing regions at critical historical juncture.

A rare and fine pair of sea charts, presented together on a single sheet, of Kayalpatnam and Thoothukudi / Tuticorin (Tamil Nadu), from the ‘Secret Atlas’ of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), issued in Amsterdam by Johannes van Keulen II.

  Very Rare - a large format, separately issued work that is the first scientifically accurate, and by far and away the most detailed map to date of the Portuguese colony of Diu, an island strategically located just off the coast of Gujarat, that was long a great mart of trade and cross-cultural exchange, under Lisbon’s control from 1535 to…

      Extremely rare – no other examples traced – the authoritative city plan of Hyderabad created in the twilight days of Mir Osman Ali Khan’s transformative rule when the city was one of India’s leaders in urban planning and industrial modernization, the result of over a generation of ultra-advanced, continuously updated surveys made under the direction of the…

  A sophisticated topographical map, of charmingly crude ‘provincial’ printing style, of the strategically key district of Satara, in today’s southwestern Maharashtra, expressly made for the British colonial regime to depict the recent developments in local administration, but to also satisfy important military and infrastructure mandates; created by J.W. Windsor of the Quarter Master General’s Department (Bombay Army), and printed…

  A fine early, edition of example of James Wyld’s highly important wall map of India, made under the direction of the artist and banker Robert Melville Grindlay, attractively mounted in wall map format with rollers.

  A seemingly unique engineer’s planning map of the Cirebon-Kroya Railway, a vital link that traversed the midriff of Java, connecting the north coast and south coast rail networks, likely made in 1912-3, just before construction was commenced on the project, which was completed in 1917; the map is printed by an unusual blue-tinted photolithographic technique and features the proposed…

  Very Rare – the first broadly accurate British sea chart of the southwestern coast of Sumatra, a critical region home to the important British base of Benccoolon-Fort Marlborough (modern Bengkulu), published by William Herbert in 1758.

François Valentijn’s magnificent map of Indonesia’s Spice Islands, the finest map of the region made during the dramatic era of the Dutch East India Company’s hegemony.

  Very Rare - the first broadly accurate British sea chart of the Straits of Sunda, but also extending to include West Java (including Jakarta) and southeastern Sumatra, published by William Herbert in 1758.

An unique and extraordinary artifact of the successful Dutch endeavours to gain colonial dominion over West Sumatra during the 1830s, in the wake of the Padri War (concluded 1837) and the 1832 intervention against the Aceh Sultanate, being an impressively detailed original manuscript itinerary map of West Sumatra, including it rugged Minangkabau Highlands, depicting a dense archipelago of villages and…

  A very large and beautifully produced separately issued map of the Empire of Persia (Iran), issued during the early days of the Pahlavi Dynasty; employing Persian script, it showcases the entire country in resplendent detail, predicated upon the best official sources; published in Tabriz’s glorious bazaar by the Saadat Central Library.

  A large map of highways in Iran, printed by the Ministry of Roads, was printed in English recto and Farsi verso in 1970, in the time of the rapid development of the country under Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in the time of the White Revolution. 

  A detailed road map of Iran, with a chart of distances between the major Persian cities and an inset relief map, was made in 1960 by an Iranian cartographer Abbas Sahab.

  4 sheets, not joined, colour lithographs. Each sheet circa 95 x 111 cm (37.4 x 43.7 inches), if assembled: circa 180 x 203 cm (70.8 x 80 inches). Small tears and holes in folds and margins, tiny creases on surfaces, old repairs, partly with postal slips from 1984 in English language, and traces of tape, later annotations in the…

  Extremely rare – the complete series of the 3 maps (on 4 sheets) of the Ottoman-Persian Boundary Survey in the vicinity of the Shatt Al-Arab waterway, along today’s Iraq-Iran frontier, above the head of the Persian Gulf, as mandated by the Anglo-Turkish Declaration of July 29, 1913; this boundary settlement was surveyed by Indian Army engineers under the supervision…

  The rare first edition of the first accurate and highly detailed topographical general map of Central and Southern Iraq, Kuwait and Khuzestan (Iran), created by the British War Office, the culmination of three generations of espionage and exploration missions, capped by late breaking discoveries; the authoritative map used by both sides during World War I’s ‘Mesopotamia Campaign’, Britain’s dramatic…

  A fascinating artefact of World War I’s Mesopotamian Campaign – an Ottoman map of the vicinity of the Siege of Kut al-Amara, one of the conflict’s most dramatic events and one of the greatest defeats in British Imperial History; crudely lithographed in theatre by Ottoman engineers, based upon a “captured” British map that was itself based on fresh, detailed…

  Colour print, 73 x 60 cm (28.7 x 23.6 inches), verso text, illustrations, photograph and a map (soft folds, otherwise in a good condition).  

  Detailed map of Isfahan, made by a "Father of Iran'S Cartography" Abbas Sahab. 

A rare and high quality separately issued map of Hispaniola, including the French colony of Saint-Domingue (today’s Haiti) and the Spanish realm of Santo Domingo (today’s Dominican Republic), issued by William Faden, the leading British commercial cartographer, to satiate the intense public interest in the ongoing British Occupation of parts of Saint-Domingue (1793-8), an epic endeavour that was planned to…

  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).