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- Celestial Charts, Maps and Prints
CELESTIAL CHART / OTTOMAN CARTOGRAPHY: خريطه سما [Map of the Sky]
- 350.00€
- Colour lithograph, 24 x 33 cm (9.44 x 13 inches) (soft fold, minor staining, otherwise in a good condition).
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- Maps and Prints
CELESTIAL NAVIGATION FOR MARINERS: Sternkarte nebst Anweisung zur Kenntniß der vornehmsten Fixsterne, nach ihrem wechselseitigen Stande. Insonderheit zum Gebrauch für Seefahrende. Herausgegeben vom königlichen Dänischen Seekartenarchive.
- 950.00€
- A very rare and excellent treatise on celestial navigation for mariners, anchored by a custom-made chart of the Northern Celestial Hemisphere, by the esteemed Danish astronomer and hydrographer Poul de Løvenørn.
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- Africa, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: December 2020
CENTRAL AFRICA: [Congo, Cameroon, Angola, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda]
- 120.00€
- 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).
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- Archives and Documents, Maps and Prints, South America
Chart of the Coast from Salinas to Para taking the Longitude from the Meridian of Lisbon
- 4,200.00€
- An amazing survivor - a large format working manuscript sea chart of Brazil’s Rio Pará Estuary, leading to the port of Belém, a great trading port of tropical cash crops that was the gateway to the Amazon; the chart was obviously drafted by one of the many British merchant mariners who frequented Belém during the 1820s, during the heady…
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- Americas, Maps and Prints, Newly Catalogued Items: August 2022
CHICAGO: Rand McNally & Co.’s New and Concise Map of Chicago.
- 550.00€
- An authoritative composition featuring two maps of Chicago, one centring upon the inner city and the other showcasing the fast-growing suburban areas of the future ‘Chicagoland’, by Rand, McNally & Company, the nationally important Chicago-based map house. Bi-chrome lithograph (black and green) printed on both sides, folding into original printed tan card wrappers (Very Good, clean, bright and…
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- Books, Geography, Maps and Prints, South America
CHILE – NATIONAL ATLAS: Atlas de Chile Arreglado para la Jeografia Descriptiva de la Republica de Chile por Enrique Espinoza.
- 1,400.00€
- A fine example of an important and beautifully produced national atlas of chile, featuring 39 maps predicated upon the best scientific sources, made by Enrique Espinoza, who is credited with revolutionizing the study of geography in Chile, published by the venerable Paris firm of Erhard Frères. Small 4° (27 x 20.5 cm): 2 pp., 39 maps (5 folding;…
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- Americas, Maps and Prints, South America
Chile: Chili
- 150.00€
- Steel engraved playing card, overlaid in coloured stencil, blank on verso (Very Good, minor stainng verso, a small scratch and stain on the front), 97 x 65 mm (3.8 x 2.6 inches).
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- Asia, China, Maps and Prints
CHINA – BEIJING – BOXER REBELLION: 京城各國暂分界址全图 [Jing cheng ge guo zan fen jie zhi quan tu]
- 5,500.00€
- [Complete Map of Various Foreign Countries’ Temporarily Divided Territory Boundaries within the City of Beijing.] [China, likely Beijing, no publisher, 1900]. A very rare, attractive and intriguing map, capturing Beijing during the Boxer Rebellion (1899 - 1901), when ‘Zongli Yamen’ (Legation Quarter) of the Old City was besieged by ultra-nationalist rebels, only for the barricade to be lifted by…
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- Maps and Prints
CHINA – DALIAN / OTTOMAN MAP / SIEGE OF PORT ARTHUR (1904-5): [ پورارتور…باشلا حرب Map of the Russian-Japanese War…].
- 1,200.00€
- A seemingly unrecorded, separately issued Ottoman map depicting the Siege of Port Arthur (1904-5), today part of Dalian, China, whereby a massive Japanese force took the heavily fortified Russian base after an unexpectedly brutal showdown, one of the great military events and global media spectacles fin-de-siècle era, and one watched with special interest by the Sublime Porte, long Russia’s…
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- Maps and Prints
CHINA – ENORMOUS HYDROLOGICAL MAP: 中國水系 [China: Water Systems / Zhongguo shui xi gua tu].
- 450.00€
- A rare, very large format official hydrological map of China, issued in the wake of The Great Leap Forward (1958-62), Chairman Mao’s monumental programme to rapidly industrialize the country, a vision that involved massive water management and reallocation projects; published in Beijing by the China Cartographic Publishing House, the state workshop that specialized in producing such high-quality, original thematic…
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- Maps and Prints
CHINA – ENORMOUS TRANSPORTATION AND COMMUNICATIONS MAP: 中國交通 [China: Communications / Zhongguo Jiaotong].
- 450.00€
- A rare, very large format official transportation and communications map of China, issued in the wake of The Great Leap Forward (1958-62), Chairman Mao’s monumental programme to rapidly industrialize the country, a vision that involved massive infrastructure projects; published in Beijing by the China Cartographic Publishing House, the state workshop that specialized in producing such high-quality, original thematic maps.
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- Asia, China, Maps and Prints
CHINA – HAINAN (South Coast, including Yalong Bay): A Chart of the South Coast of Hay-nan: from Tinhosa to Guichou Survey’d in 1776 and 77 By Captn. Haldane.
- 950.00€
- Very Rare – the first issue of the first large-format printed sea chart of the South Coast of Hainan, based on a reconnaissance survey conducted by John Haldane of the British East India Company, from Sayer & Bennett’s magnificent ‘The East-India Pilot, or Oriental Navigator’.
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- Asia, Books, China, Geography, Maps and Prints
CHINA – QINGDAO (TSINGTAO / TSINGTAU): Guide Book on Tsingtao and its Vicinity by Adolf Haupt. With two Maps and many illustrations.
- 1,800.00€
- Adolf HAUPT (fl. 1900 – 1933). Tsingdao [Qingdao]: Printed at the Catholic Mission Press, 1927. 8° (19 x 11.5 cm): [13 pp. advertisements, title, preliminaries], 1-48 pp., [16 pp. advertisements on coloured paper], 49-156 pp. (with 82 photographic images imbedded within text), [2 pp.], plus 2 large folding colour lithographed maps on thick paper, bound in original printed boards with…
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- Asia, China, Maps and Prints
CHINA (SOUHTHERN – GUANGDONG HONG KONG / GUANGXI, ETC.): Kouang-si et Pays Limitrophes.
- 1,200.00€
- A seemingly unrecorded blueprint map of Southern China depicting major railways routes, made by French colonial administrators in the French Leased Territory of Guangzhouwan (Kouang-Tchéou-Wan) who used the map as strategic aid to oversee the extensive French commercial interests in the region (mines, factories, plantations, etc., as well as the railway lines themselves) during a time of booming business and…
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- Asia, China, Korea, Maps and Prints
CHINA / KOREA: Nördlicher Stiller Ozean / Ostküste von China / Gelbes Meer Nördlicher Teil.
- 2,500.00€
- OBERKOMMANDO DER KRIEGSMARINE (NAZI GERMAN NAVY HIGH COMMAND). Berlin: Dietrich Reimer (Andrews & Steiner), August 27, 1942. Photolithograph on thick paper, with the h Photolithograph on thick paper, with the handstamps of the ‘Kriegsmarinewerft Wilhelmshaven Kartengruppe’ as well as classification handstamps and a pastedown label regarding the accuracy of the chart (Very Good, overall clean and bright, some wear along…
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- Asia, China, Maps and Prints
CHINA / SHANGHAI IMPRINT: 皇朝直省地輿全圖 [Huang chao zhi sheng di yu quan tu / The Complete Geographic Map of the Imperial Provinces].
- 6,500.00€
- A rare, stellar and very large format bilingual (Chinese, French) map of China, made by Stanislas Chevalier, the polymath Jesuit-scientist who was famously the father of meteorology in China, beautifully colour lithographed at the Imprimerie Hong-pao-tchai, a printing house located at Zi-Ka-Wei, the missionary education-science centre in the Xuhui District of Shanghai, with Chinese-style blue silk endpapers, the map is…
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- Asia, China, Maps and Prints
CHINA: Map of China prepared for the China Inland Mission 1898.
- 1,400.00€
- One of the finest general maps of China produced during the fin de siècle period, a large format, highly detailed work produced as part of map sequence for the China Inland Mission (CIM) by the world leading firm of Edward Stanford, and the first issue to be predicated upon the revolutionary cartography of the Russian sinologist Emil Bretschneider, providing…
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- Maps and Prints, Posters
COLD WAR / ANTIPROPRAGANDA: CCCP USA
- 1,200.00€
- This is a superb example of a poster by a Poland-born artist Roman Cieślewicz, representing the SSSR and USA in forms of Supermen, as a mirror image of each-other, self-confidently rushing to save the world. The image was made amidst the Cold War and was published in a smaller scale on the cover of the esteemed French art magazine,…
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- Americas, Maps and Prints, South America
Colombia
- 150.00€
- Steel engraved playing card, overlaid in coloured stencil, blank on verso (Very Good, minor stainng verso, a small scratch and stain on the front), 97 x 65 mm (3.8 x 2.6 inches).
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- Photography
COLORADO / WESTERN PIONEER HISTORY / MINING: Ibex Mine
- 650.00€
- A photograph of the Ibex Mine in Leadville, Colorado, by the local photographer G.B. Sanborn, made around 1900 Albumen silver print 16,5 x 21,5 cm (6.5 x 8.5 inches), originally mounted on grey card 25,5 x 30,5 cm (10 x 12 inches), with stamp of the author verso (margins little scuffed and stained, but overall in a good condition).…
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- Africa, Books, Geography, Maps and Prints
Congo Belge / Service Hydrographique, Section du Haut Congo, Fleuve Congo / Leopoldville – Stanleyville / Travaux effectues sous la direction de J. Lauwers, Hydrographe, Chef de S.H. du H.C. …
- 2,500.00€
- A stellar moment of African cartography and inland hydrography, being the first atlas, or accurate, complete large-scale map, of the 1,724 km-long navigable route of the Upper Congo River from Léopoldville (Kinshasa) to Stanleyville, the only natural passage into the heart of Africa, made during World War I for the use of steamer captains by the specialist Belgian colonial…
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