Maps and Prints

Colour Lihograph 65 x 87 cm (25.6 x 34.2 inches), verso German map from 1941. (Soft folds, small partly repaired tears, tiny loss of paper in margins, slightly dusty.

  Colour lithograph, folded in original paper wrappers with lettering, 41 x 64 cm (16.1 x 25.2 inches) (soft folds, otherwise in a good condition).  

  An extremely rare broadside, printed in Üsküdar, Istanbul, in Polish language is announcing the discharging of the Division of Cossacks, serving the Ottoman Sultan, led by the Polish nobleman Władysław Stanisław Zamoyski.

  Rare – one of the seminal works on early 20th century Macau, being an anthology of articles by Henrique Travassos Valdez, the liberal republican firebrand who was the incumbent Portuguese national senator for Macau, with brilliant yet controversial analyses of Macau’s place within the Portuguese Empire, its heated relations with China, its vital port and economic development, as well…

  Of great historical importance – the earliest known portrait of Friedrich von Gentz, one of the central figures of the Vienna Conference of 1814-1815.

  The scarce wall map issue of Tomás López’s magnificent map of Portugal, one of the finest national maps of the kingdom from the Enlightenment period.

  Document on vellum for a post manager in Braunau, Austria, by the Family Thurn und Taxis, a key player in the postal services in Europe from the 16th century on. 

A beautifully designed, optically effective road map to the protestant cultural center Wittenberg in Eastern Germany  under the Soviet occupation was made in 1946, immediately after WWII in destroyed Berlin, and printed on the leftovers of an older larger map.   Colour lithograph, printed from both sides, original label mounted on the back, 86 x 69 cm (33.9 x 27…

  Highly detailed wall map of Bavaria with unique colouring, showing the time of postal deliveries from the north to the south of the state.

  A large, exceedingly rare poster from circa 1925 was printed in Munich for a private liquor store.