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- Africa, Maps and Prints
NAMIBIA: Kriegskarte von Deutsch-Südwestafrika. / Bearbeitet von P. Sprigade u. M. Moisel.
- 4,500.00€
- 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…
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NAPOLEONIC WARS / AUSTRIA / CRIME: Circulare von der k. auch k. K. Landesregierung in Erzherzogthume Oesterreich unter der Enns. Die Beraubung der Todten ist als Diebstahl zu bestrafen.
- 120.00€
- A broadside, announcing that robbing of the corpses as a crime, was printed amid the Napoleonic wars, two days after the Austrian invading of Bavaria and weeks after Napoleon’s taking over Vienna.
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Narrative of an Expedition into Southern Africa, during the years 1836, and 1837, from the Cape of Good Hope, through the Territories of the Chief Moselekatse, to the Tropic of Capricorn, with a Sketch of the Recent Emigration of the Border Colonists, and a Zoological Appendix.
- 3,000.00€
- A bespoke example of Captain William Cornwallis Harris’ fascinating and important account of his 1836-7 expedition to the Transvaal, featuring the complete collation of the first edition, published in Bombay in 1838, with 4 plates lithographed by the author, plus, his excellent and important map, plus, extra-illustrated by 24 resplendently hand-colored lithographed plates and the map from the subsequent London…
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NATURAL HISTORY – DODO BIRD: “Didus ineptus.”
- 3,200.00€
- An exquisitely rendered large-format watercolor of the Dodo Bird of Mauritius, after an image published in 1835 by the eminent zoologist Henri de Blainville.
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NEPAL / MT. EVEREST / HIMALAYAS: Latest Trekking Map / Lamosangu to Everest & Solu-Khumbu. 1991/92 Edition.
- 250.00€
- An interesting, ephemeral photoprint map especially made for trekkers depicting the southern approaches to Mount Everest, published in Kathmandu, Nepal.
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NEW ZEALAND / MAORI WARS – TRIO OF ILLUSTRATED BROADSIDES:
- 2,200.00€
- Very rare monuments of colonial New Zealand printing and history - a trio of broadsides depicting the locations of the decisive battles of both Te Kooti’s War and Titokowaru’s War, the last major armed Maori uprisings against British colonial rule, published in Wellington, in 1869, by the General Government Lithographic Press.
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NEW ZEALAND: Die Colonisation von Neu-Seeland. Ein Vortrag, im wissenschaftlichen Vereine zu Berlin am 22. Januar 1842, von Karl Ritter.
- 480.00€
- Very rare – the first printing of the famous geographer Carl Ritter’s insightful and influential discourse on the early colonization of New Zealand, based upon his extensive interviews of principals of the New Zealand Company, featuring an original map, published in Berlin in 1842.
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