Maps and Prints

  An attractive Pre-Revolution Plan of Moscow, printed in Cyrillic text.

  First modern, separately printed geological map of Mount Fuji   Colour print on thin paper 95 x 75 cm (38.2 x 29.5inches) (slightly age-toned, soft folds, small holes on the crossings of the folds).  

  An extremely rare and important sea chart depicting the mouth of the Limpopo River, in southern Mozambique; for centuries the Limpopo was one of the great transport corridors into the interior of southern Africa; the chart is based upon groundbreaking scientific surveys by a team of Portuguese naval officers, led by João António Ludovice, conducted in 1893, when the…

  An extremely rare and attractive late 19th century Portuguese sea chart of the mouth of the Rio Tejungo (today known as the Rio Moniga), a key trading port along the north-central coast of Mozambique, the chart being the first edition of the first scientific, trigonometric survey of estuary, conducted in 1898 by Lieutenant João Carlos da Silva Nogueira of…

An exceedingly rare – 1 of only 3 known examples - and historically consequential map; its contents enraged the people of Porto, helping to fuel the Republican Revolt that occurred there on January 31, 1891; the map, which embraces the midriff of Southern Africa, depicts Portugal’s premier colonies of Angola and Mozambique with greatly reduced boundaries, to the benefit of…

  An amazing and unique survivor, being a finely executed original manuscript map of the Praça de São Sebastião, the grand 16th century fortress which guarded the town of Ilha de Moçambique, the capital of Portuguese East Africa and a globally significant entrepôt for slaves, gold and ivory, and which today has the distinction of being the oldest complete fortress…

  Map of Munich made for the occassion of the Arts & Crafts Fair of 1908 as an advertisement by a world famous fabrics and clothing factory Lodenfrey, which specialised in Bavarian and early hiking clothing.  

An attractive and vibrant large format map of Buenos Aires, capturing the city midway through its 50 year-long boom era, when it was one of the world’s most exciting, fast growing and cosmopolitan metropolises – an ‘Edición extraordinaria’ issued to celebrate the 1910 International Railway Exposition, a major sign of the Argentine capital’s coming of age - published by the…

The most consequential map of Namibia made during the German colonial era, a gigantic 8-sheet work that is the first broadly accurate general map of what was the protectorate of Deutsch-Südwestafrika of a scale sufficient for operational use, compiled in great haste but with considerable skill, at the ‘Kolonial-kartographischen Institut’ in Berlin by the master cartographers Paul Sprigade and Max…