Maps and Prints

S. l., s.d, but France, circa 1815. 11 originally coloured engravings, each 7 x 6 cm (2.7 x 2.3 inches), 9 folded green sheets, each with printed title on the front, 2 pages of miniature text in the inner side and blank verso (of probably 12 sets), housed in original slipcase with illustrated cover (slipcase soiled with folds and scratches,…

The very rare, spectacular and complete portfolio of 8 very large format maps and 2 Topographical Cross-Sections from the ‘Ordnance Survey of the Peninsula of Sinai’ (1868-9), the ambitious exploring expedition led by the Royal Engineer captains Charles William Wilson and Henry Spencer Palmer that conducted the first scientific mapping and archaeological reconnaissance of the interior of the Sinai, both to…

  A photograph of today little known Prague-based Linguistic Society, joining the prominent Austro-Hungarian researchers of Africa, as well as Indian, Arabic and Classical languages.   Gelatin silver photo, contemporary mounted on thick card, manuscript numbers recto in margin, black manuscript in black ink and pencil on the back, 12 x 16,5 cm (4.7 x 6.5 inches), (minor foxing verso,…

An elaborate large late 19th century colour photogravure of a painting of an Arabian charging army by Alfred Paris was made by a high-end Parisian gallery Boussod, Valadon & Cie.

[İlk ve Orta Mekteblere Mahsus Coğrafya Atlası / Geographical Atlas for Primary and Middle Schools] Istanbul: A. M. Karmi, Publisher - Leipzig: Wagner & Debes, Printer [1922]. 4°, [2 pp.] lithographed title page and index verso, 24 pp. chromolithographed maps, original green card binding with lettering and green cloth spine (good used condition with minor foxing and minor chips in…

  [Mükemmel ve Mufassal Co‎ğrafya-yı Umumi Atlası /  Complete and Detailed General Geographical Atlas]   8°, [8 pp.], 188 pp.,, [4 pp.], interleaved page between p. 28-29, 37 colour lithographed double paged maps (complete) including one plate with two maps and one folding map, original blue binding with debossed lettering and decoration (sporadic old annotations in Ottoman, one map (Asia)…

  Colour lithography, 96 x 63 cm (37.9 x 24.8 inches), (minor staining, tears repaired with modern tape and partly age-toned).  

A larger charming and seemingly unrecorded separately published map of the world in Ottoman language.   Colour lithograph, 49 x 63 cm (19.3 x 24.8 inches) (light water-staining and staining on the left-hand side, otherwise in a good condition).  

  A gigantic (over 2 m) wall map of Rumelia (Northern Greece) made by the Ottoman Military Office   Colour lithography, composed of 12 plates, originally mounted on linen and varnished, with original wooden rollers, 124 x 210 cm (48.8 x 82.7 inches) (minor staining and water-staining, light scratches, small losses of image in the middle part, rollers with chipping…

A unique pair of an Ottoman manuscript atlas and a map, made by a student of the Military Highschool in Bitola, in 1891, as a project for his final exams.

Photolithography, originally dissected in 8 segments and mounted on linen 74 x 103 cm (29.2 x 40.6 inches), (minor staining, sporadic annotations in pencil in Ottoman in margins, but overall in a good, use condition).