Maps and Prints

  The very rare first edition of the foundational map of the British colonial regime in Egypt; created by the Intelligence Department of the War Office on the eve of the Anglo-Egyptian War (1882), whereby Britain forcibly made Egypt a protectorate, so gaining dominance over the Suez Canal; predicated upon the best sources, the very large four-sheet work was the…

  Very rare – a great monument of Arctic exploration and cartography, being a colossal 19-sheet map (or atlas) that represents the first systematic scientific and broadly complete mapping of North Greenland, charting a 1,200 km-long arc from Cape York, in the southwest to Danmark Fjord, in the northeast, conducted by the ‘Danish Bicentenary Jubilee Expedition (1921-3)’ led by Lauge…

Colour lithography, 26 x 38 cm (10.2 x 15 inches) (soft fold, minor staining).

A rare and highly detailed bilingual map of Victoria (Central), depicting the governmental and commercial epicentre of Hong Kong as it appeared on the eve of the Roaring ’20s, labeling every street and outlining every key building and institution, published in Shanghai by the Guoguang Shuju printing house.   Photolithograph, small contemporary mss. annotation in pink crayon, with printed pastedown…

An exquisite ‘objet d’art’, being a unique example of William Faden’s map of the Battles of Abukir and Alexandria (1801), France’s ‘last stand’ in Egypt, printed on silk with details richly embroidered in coloured silk thread, clearly a prestation piece made for a highly important figure.   Copper engraving on silk with details contemporarily heightened in embroidery of coloured silk thread, contemporarily…

Maximilian von SONNENSTERN (1819 – 1895). Paris: Broise & Tiheffry, 1863. Lithograph with original outline hand colour, dissected into 24 sections and mounted upon original linen, contemporary map seller’s label of ‘Auguste Logerot / Paris’ to linen verso folding into forest green original patterned cloth covers with gilt title to front cover (Very Good, lovely original colours, overall clean and…

BRAZIL - SÃO PAULO STATE / ITALIAN IMMIGRATION TO BRAZIL:   José C. de CARVALHO, Cartographer. / ORGANIZZATA DALLA SOCIETÀ PROMOTRICE D’IMMIGRAZIONE DI S. PAOLO, Sponsor.   Rio de Janeiro: Lith. Paulo Robin & C.a, 1886.   Colour lithograph, mounted upon modern linen, with register on verso preserving the view of the contemporary handstamp of a ‘Pietro Milanese’, a Genoa…

[The map was compiled and prepared for printing by the Scientific and Editorial Mapping Department of the Federal Agency for Geodesy and Cartography with the participation of researchers from the Institute of Marxism-Leninism at the Central Scientific Research Center of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Editors: E.V. Gladkova, G.V. Shadrina Scientific advisers: G.N. Golikov,…

  A rare complete set of 7 highly detailed maps of the administrative areas of Holland and Belgium, were printed in black and red, and accompanied by a title page and a key map and housed in a decorative contemporary marbled paper slipcase.

The authoritative chart of the harbour of Lourenço Marques (today Maputo, Mozambique), shown in the wake of World War II, showcasing what was one of Africa’s busiest and most modern ports, published by the British Admiralty.   Polychrome photolithograph on thick paper, contemporary hand-stamped price revision to title, rolled (Very Good, overall clean and bright, light wear along vertical centrefold),…

  An intriguing, and likely unique, artefact of the early era of Mozambican independence under the rule of the Socialist FRELIMO movement, being a map of the Mozambican capital Maputo (formerly Lourenço Marques), hastily published in the whiteprint method, that interestingly showcases the city with most of its major streets renamed after Socialist / Communist luminaries such Vladimir Lenin, Mao…