Maps and Prints

  A highly attractive double-sided tourist map of Jaipur, Rajashathan - the ‘enlightened’ city of Northern India, with verso maps of Udaipur and Chittorgarh.  

  A pair of attractive and richly composed original 19th century watercolour views of two of Batavia’s (Jakarta, Indonesia) most important colonial buildings, being the ‘Willemskerk’ and the Residence of the Commander-in-Chief of the Dutch Army in the East Indies; executed by “D. Colleart” – a rare find, as very few original manuscript views of Batavia from the era survive.#…

  A pair (2) of historically important original manuscript sepia views, depicting 1) the Great House and windmill of Perrins’s Estate, one of Jamaica’s leading sugar plantations, and 2) the St. Dorothy’s (or the ‘Tamarind Tree’) Church, established in 1681, which is today one of the oldest and most culturally significant churches in Jamaica; executed to an unusually high degree…

  [Commemorative Map of the World War. The Great Footprint of Meiji, the Great Undertaking of Taisho].   An extremely rare and very large format Japanese propaganda map, a grand pageant of imagery celebrating Japan’s military triumphs during the Meiji and Taishō Eras that made her an Asian-Pacific superpower and gave her a great empire, showcasing elements of the just-concluded World…

  An especially attractive large-format early 19th Century map of Nagasaki, then Japan’s ‘Window to the World,’ printed in Nagasaki by Baikö-dö.  

  A unique and historically important artefact, being a highly detailed and beautifully coloured original manuscript map of Sendai, then the largest city in Japan north of Edo (Tokyo), and a major commercial centre of around 50,000 residents, built just across the river form the famous Aoba Castle, labelling all streeta, outlining all major cadastral lots and noting all key…

  [Map of the Fire of Tokyo. Edited by the Relief Information Bureau of the Tokyo Imperial University]   A very large and impressive map chronicling how the Great Kanto Earthquake (1923) and the resulting inferno, that was the greatest urban fire to date, destroyed much of Tokyo, based upon analysis conducted by academics at the Tokyo Imperial University, it…

A rare and highly decorative Meiji Era World Map, an important landmark in the Japanese adoption of Western cartographic methods, as it one of the first Japanese maps to feature charts showing the comparative heights of the world’s main mountains and the lengths of its longest rivers, clearly used for pedagogic purposes, fulfilling the major Meiji changes to the Japanese…

  A 1923 pictorial map of the world by a Japanese manga artist Ogawa Jihei.   Colour lithograph, 78 x 110 cm (30.7 x 43.3 inches) (soft folds with small holes partly repaired with tape, tiny tears in margins, otherwise in a good condition).  

A decorative rare invitation card, designed by a famous Slovenian Architect Jože Plečnik, for his honorary doctorate, with usual contemporary manuscript corrections of the wrong quoted year.

  A set of original fotos of Yugoslavian president Josib-Broz-Tito was made by Yugoslav official photographers, for the central agency, which distributed the copies to the national and international newspapers.

This chart maps the mouth of the Jubba River in southern Somalia, long a vital lifeline for agriculture and trade.  The chart was made from surveys conducted by Commander Giovatto of the Italian Navy in 1908.    Zincograph (Very Good, some light toning and light wear along old folds), 53 x 61 cm (21 x 24 inches).  

  12°. 160 pp., contemporary red patterned boards, original cover mounted on the front board (old signature on the title page, otherwise in a good condition).

  A very rare cartographic playing card featuring a map of Kasakhstan, Uzbekistan & Turkmenistan.

  An unusual, well designed map of Kathmandu that was printed in 1972, during the height of the Nepal-Himalaya tourism craze.

An Italian map of the natural harbour of Kismaayo, in the far south of Somalia.     Photozincograph, with navigational markers heightened in yellow and some details added in manuscript in red pen, with pastedown date stamp in lower left corner (Very Good, some wear along old folds), 55.5 x 70.5 cm (22 x 27.5 inches).  

  A rare collection of two titles that feature entertaining and valuable accounts of early frontier life in Patagonia, the result of separate investigative tours of the Río Negro and Chubut territories by the brothers Moritz and Theodor Alemann, prominent journalists, who endeavored to assess the regions’ suitability for Germanic immigration and to weave German immigrant ‘colonies’ in Argentina into…

  A very rare broadside with Ottoman script showing the Battle of Kosovo was made in the series of large separately published maps by the Turkish War Office the late Hamidian period as a part of intellectual propaganda to revive patriotic sentiment.

  A rare poster map, showing the Battle of Kursk during WWII, was published by the Higher School of Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the highest educational institution on the Soviet Union. 

  Very rare and historically important – the most detailed and accurate Ottoman map of the Kuwait and the Basra region of Iraq, issued by the General Staff of the Ottoman Army for strategic and operational planning early in World War I and during the twilight of the reign of Sheikh Mubarak Al Sabah, the ‘Father of Modern Kuwait’; depicting…

  A rare broadside was printed for a controversial Lady Godiva Procession in Coventry, in the time of highly moralistic Victorian Era. 

A seemingly unrecorded variant of an extremely rare, colossal ‘Headquarters Map’ of French Indochina (modern day Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos) that was the blueprint for the imminent French colonial control takeover of Laos; the map was made in the immediate wake of the Third Mission Pavie (1889-91), led by the brilliant eccentric diplomat-explorer August Pavie that secured the pathway for…

A charming advertisement in a shape of a pear, composed of Islamic calligraphy, for the subscription of two Ottoman newspapers in Ruse, Bulgaria.   Colour lithography, 47,5 x 36 cm (18.7 x 14.2 inches), (little age-toned and stained, minor loss of white margins, overall in a good condition)

  A charming pocket atlas in Ottoman language, made in the first years of the Republic of Turkey.   Long small 8°: [4 pp.], 24 pp., 120 pp., 34 colour lithographed maps and charts, some folding (complete – matching the list in text), contemporary half linen binding, debossed dark faux leather boards (minor staining, mostly on the edges, front endpapers…

A rare and highly attractive 19th Century sea chart of the coasts of Latvia and Estonia, by the Russian Maritime Ministry, with Toponymy in Cyrillic.

Colour lithograph, 70 x 51 cm (27.6 x 20 inches), verso views and advertisements (soft folds with small partly repaired holes on the crossings and tears in margins, minor staining, otherwise in a good condition).

A map from Umûm Vilayât-ı Şâhâneyi Hâvi Küçük Atlas - Umûmî Küçük Atlas (General Small Atlas)   Chromolithograph. 9 x 13,5 cm (3.5 x 5.3 inches).

A seemingly unrecorded collection of cards featuring transparent illuminations that depict demons, illusions, and portraits of Napoleon Bonaparte, accompanied by sheets containing macabre tales and other stories, created during the height of gothic novels' popularity.   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,…

  Set of fascinating letter openers by the Eastern Telegraph Company, decorated with maps, calendar, measurements etc. 

  A rare empty official letterhead on parchment, with arms of the house of Bourbon-Two Sicilies. 

عثمان نورى [Osman Nuri, Sabık Coğrafya-yı Askeri Muavini Piyade Kol Ağası / Senior Chief Military Cartographer for the Infantry]. جغرافياى عسكرى و عثمانى درسلرينه مخصوص سوريه قطعة سى [Part of Syria for Specific Military and Ottoman Geographical Operations / Lessons] Inset Map: حجاز دميريولى كذركاهى [Hicaz demiryolu güzergah / Route of the Hejaz Railway] Istanbul: مكتب حربيه مطبعه سى [Maktaba…

  A rare and highly attractive work of patriotic propaganda, being a large map of Libya celebrating Italy’s invasion of the country during the Italo-Turkish War (1911-2), created early in the conflict by the Societá editoriale milanese.   Colour print (Very Good, clean and bright, some wear along old folds, some minor marginal staining, far right margin, once bearing additional…

The first edition of the first comprehensive, scientifically accurate geological map of Libya, a grand, bilingual (English - Arabic) separately issued production primarily made to aid the country’s burgeoning oil industry; the result of a collaboration between Louis Conant and Gus Goudarzi, two of America’s most esteemed geologists, fulfilling a joint project of the U.S. State Department and the pro-Western…

  A stunning example of a rare, separately issued map of Burgundy by Abraham Ortelius, was coloured in the late 16th century in the style of the frescoes of the Gallery of Maps in Vatican.

  Exquisitely executed painted view of Lipowa landscape, Poland, by acclaimed Polish artist Arthur Blaschnik. One of Blaschnik’s relatively few original artworks relating to his native Polish region.

  An Excellent sea chart of Lisbon Harbour, made under the direction of the British Admiralty, considered the finest and most accurate nautical map of the Mouth of the Tagus of the first half of the 19th Century.

  A rare and exceptionally fine sea chart of Lisbon Harbour and surrounding waters, predicated upon surveys made during the Peninsular War and subsequently updated by the Royal Navy.

  A remarkably fine example of an Ottoman Tanzimat Era lithographed calendar scroll (ruzname), headed with an image of a clock, with original rollers and wrappers   Paper Scroll (rotulus), mounted upon an original wood roller original patterned brown paper wrappers (Very Good, a few minor tears and light staining, tears in the upper part repaired with modern tape) 205…

  A large wall map in photo-reproduction and manuscript with a plan for the new railroad system of Ljubljana.

  Extremely rare folding one sheet pamphlet issued at the time of a visit of the emperor Franz Joseph I to Ljubljana on Novemeber 19th 1856.

Lithographed map with original hand colour, dissected into 18 sections and mounted upon original linen, folding into original dark green cloth covers with publisher’s pastedown label, publisher’s advertisements as front endpaper (Wrappers slightly pale with worm holes on the spine, internally clean), 51 x 70 cm (20 x 27.6 inches).

  A fine large-format map of Louisbourg (Cape Breton) especially prepared for the use of the French Royal Navy during the American Revolutionary War.

  Two uncut rare 19th century photolithoraphed lubki (Russian popular broadsides) with text in early cyrillic alphabet and with original colour show popular motives from Russian folklore.

  A rare lubok (Russian popular broadside) with text in early cyrillic script and with original colour shows popular motives from Russian folklore.

  A rare lubok (Russian popular broadside) with text in early cyrillic script and with original colour shows popular motives from Russian folklore.

  A rare lubok (Russian popular broadside) with text in early cyrillic script and with original colour shows popular motives from Russian folklore.

  A rare lubok (Russian popular broadside) with text in early cyrillic script and with original colour shows popular motives from Russian folklore.

  A rare lubok (Russian popular broadside) with text in early cyrillic script and with original colour shows popular motives from Russian folklore.

  A rare 19th century photolithoraphed lubok (Russian popular broadside) with original colour ahows four scenes from the life of Jesus, accompanied with figures of sibyls from ancient Greece.  

A rare 19th century photolithoraphed lubok (Russian popular broadside) with text in early cyrillic alphabet and with original colour shows a variation of the motiv of a fountain of youth. 

A rare 19th century photolithoraphed lubok (Russian popular broadside) with text in early Cyrillic alphabet and with original colour shows a restaurant scene accompanied by comical poem in Russian language.  

  A rare 19th century photolithoraphed lubok (Russian popular broadside) with text in early cyrillic alphabet and with original colour shows a holy fool and a clairvoyant Ivan Yakovlevich Koreisha. 

  A stunning example of a separately issued first map of the duchy of Luxembourg, published by Gerard de Jode, was coloured in the late 16th century in the style of the frescoes of the Gallery of Maps in Vatican.

  A fine and scarce sea chart of St. Augustin’s (Anantson̈o) and Tullea (Toliara) bays, amongst the finest anchorages on the west coast of Madagascar, published by the leading chartmakers of Laurie & Whittle.

  Very rare – the first edition of Captain William Nichelson’s masterly large-format sea chart of St. Augustin’s Bay, Madagascar, a key harbour on the Mozambique Channel, along the route between Europe and India, first issued in the 1767 edition of William Herbert’s important atlas, ‘A New Directory for the East Indies’.

  Three original drawings of the destruction of Mainz after the explosion of the Pulverturm, the powder tower, were made in-situ by an English journalist.  

  A very rare wall map of the Federation of Malaya (today’s peninsular Malaysia) made only the year after its independence from Britain, an entirely bilingual work (Chinese-English) executed by a Chinese draftsman, Li Menphy, and published in Hong Kong for the benefit of Malaya’s large Chinese population and the many Hong Kongers who had strong connections to that country…

  Scarce – the definitive official overview of the Federated Malay States at the beginning of the 20th Century, during the rubber and tin boom; richly illustrated with 5 folding maps and 7 photographic plates, by Sir H. Conway Belfield, the British Resident in Selangor.

  Art-Deco map of Manhattan, made for the World Fair in New York in 1939. 

  Art-Deco map of Manhattan, made for the World Fair in New York in 1939. 

  Colour lithograph, 45,5 x 68 cm (18 x 26.8 inches), verso text and colour images (soft folds, otherwise in a good condition.  

  A detailed hand drawing in pencil and red and black ink from circa 1700 shows Fort-Louis in France, close to the German border.

  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…

  A monumental map of Minas Gerais, the vast inland Brazilian state that was long home to immensely productive gold and diamond mines, and more recently had become an agrarian powerhouse fueled by a railway boom; compiled the eminent civil engineer João Chrockatt de Sá from a wide variety of recent sources, it is the definitive geographical record of Minas…

[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…

This is the first sea chart of the harbour of Massawa predicated upon proper scientific surveys, as well as one of the only detailed early maps of the city of Massawa as remodeled by the new Italian colonial regime.   Zincograph, with some navigation markers heightened in yellow, some contemporary manuscript navigational additions in pencil (Good, but with noticeable wear…

  An historically significant and beautifully rendered original manuscript map of Le Chateau de Reduit, the official residence of the Governor of Île de France (Mauritius), today the home of the President of Mauritius, depicting what was then a fortified working indigo plantation, a masterplan capturing the estate at an early stage in its development during the French colonial era,…

Chromolithograph. 9 x 13,5 cm (3.5 x 5.3 inches). Minor staining, overall in a good condition.

A scarce Japanese Meiji era atlas, based on Johnston’s The National Atlas of Historical, Commercial and Political Geography   4°, [1 pp.] text in red with gold decorative margins, 7 double-page colour lithographed maps, 23 pp. with imprint on the inner side of the rear pasted endpaper, original card wrappers with lettering, black cloth spine (sporadic minor foxing, world map…