Maps and Prints

  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).  

Highly important – the charismatic and controversial former (and future) Mexican President Antonio López de Santa Anna’s official and most detailed defense of his leadership when he oversaw the cession of Texas (1836) and the total defeat of this armies during the Mexican-American War (1846-8); the superficially persuasive but ‘creative with the truth’ narrative was written while Santa Anna was…

  The rare Mexico City sheet from the famed ‘Carta de la Republica Mexicana’, the awesomely ambitious, but ultimately unfinished mega-project to map all of Mexico to a scale of 1:100 000, conducted by the Comisión Geográfico-Exploradora; importantly, this sheet was separately issued and is a complete publication in and of itself; one of the seminal maps of the Metropolitan…

CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE GOBIERNO DEL DISTRITO FEDERAL. Mexico City: Compañía Litográfica y Tipográfica, S.A., 1906.   Colour lithograph on thick paper, housed in original red cloth slipcase bearing gilt short title of ‘Plano de la Ciudad de México / 1906’ to front side (Good, clean and bright, some hairline tears entering image but archivally repaired from verso with no loss,…

  One of the early posters by the Polish graphic designer Roman Cieślewicz, later Paris based designer and an art director at Vogue and Elle magazines

  Chromolithograph, 51 x 34 cm (13.4 x 20 inches), (small repaired tears in the fold, sporadic light staining in white margins, but otherwise in a good condition).   Istanbul: Matbaa-I Amire [1307-1309 AH [1891-1893 AD] Atlas] – Mahmud Bey Matbaası 1309 AH [1893 AD] [date on the map].  

  A rare map with blank spaces, meant to be filled in by hand, was printed to showcase the drill of the military troops of the Electorate of Saxony in the area between Leipzig and Dresden.

    Camocio’s separately issued map of the Greek island Milos with handsome old colouring   Originally coloured copper engraving, 20 x 14,5 cm, mounting paper: 21,5 x 19 cm (minor staining, a tiny repaired tear in the white margin, but overall in a good condition).