Maps and Prints

  A stunning example of a separately issued first map of the duchy of Luxembourg, published by Gerard de Jode, was coloured in the late 16th century in the style of the frescoes of the Gallery of Maps in Vatican.

  A fine and scarce sea chart of St. Augustin’s (Anantson̈o) and Tullea (Toliara) bays, amongst the finest anchorages on the west coast of Madagascar, published by the leading chartmakers of Laurie & Whittle.

  Very rare – the first edition of Captain William Nichelson’s masterly large-format sea chart of St. Augustin’s Bay, Madagascar, a key harbour on the Mozambique Channel, along the route between Europe and India, first issued in the 1767 edition of William Herbert’s important atlas, ‘A New Directory for the East Indies’.

  Three original drawings of the destruction of Mainz after the explosion of the Pulverturm, the powder tower, were made in-situ by an English journalist.  

  A very rare wall map of the Federation of Malaya (today’s peninsular Malaysia) made only the year after its independence from Britain, an entirely bilingual work (Chinese-English) executed by a Chinese draftsman, Li Menphy, and published in Hong Kong for the benefit of Malaya’s large Chinese population and the many Hong Kongers who had strong connections to that country…

  Scarce – the definitive official overview of the Federated Malay States at the beginning of the 20th Century, during the rubber and tin boom; richly illustrated with 5 folding maps and 7 photographic plates, by Sir H. Conway Belfield, the British Resident in Selangor.

  Art-Deco map of Manhattan, made for the World Fair in New York in 1939. 

  Art-Deco map of Manhattan, made for the World Fair in New York in 1939. 

  Colour lithograph, 45,5 x 68 cm (18 x 26.8 inches), verso text and colour images (soft folds, otherwise in a good condition.  

  A detailed hand drawing in pencil and red and black ink from circa 1700 shows Fort-Louis in France, close to the German border.