Maps and Prints

  [Souvenir of the Czechoslavic Ethnographic Exhibition in Prague 1895]   Folding paper fan with a chromolithographed view on the front and poem on the back, mounted on wooden sticks, joined with a metal loop at the bottom, 35 x 64 cm (13.8 x 25.2 inches) (Very Good, with only minor wear to the folds).  

  Very Rare - a colossal (over 1.5 metres wide!) and exquisitely detailed map of the first serious attempt to construct the Panama Canal, overseen in the 1880s by Ferdinand de Lesseps, the builder of the Suez Canal; by far and away the finest published rendering of the project, it traces the route of the intended channel across the rugged…

  A whiteprint issue of an apparently unrecorded official large-format transportation map of Panama made by the engineers of the U.S.-run Panama Canal Zone Government, issued early in World War II, when the canal was of special geostrategic concern; signed as “Approved” by Glen Edgar Edgerton, the Governor of the Canal Zone.   Photographically reproduced print from original manuscript (Very…

  This map of the Panama Canal was issued in 1915, the first year after opening of the canal as a folding map with information for travellers. The detailed large map in the middle shows the canal with its routes.

  A stunning set of 17 unused colourful flyers by Yugoslav Partisans with text in Slovenian and Italian language, printed over a flag of Yugoslavia and Italian minority in Istria, was made immediately after WWII for annexation of Trieste to Yugoslavia at a referendum.

  A rare, seemingly unrecorded flyer made by a clandestine Partisan press in Slovenia shows a caricature of Hitler unsuccessfully fighting away Allied planes.

  Highly Important and Rare – a great monument of Enlightenment Era thematic cartography - Vicomte Grenier’s of sea chart showcasing his new, faster sailing routes across the Indian Ocean, discoveries which revolutionized European-Asian transportation and geopolitics.

  A unique manuscript map of Pazin, today the administrative centre of Istria in Croatia, was probably made by the new Italian regime in 1920s for reordering the city under Italian lines.

  A 1778 manuscript map of the Spanish fortification Peñón de Alhucemas, off the Moroccan coast, was made by a North German officer and engineer Philip Ernst Colson.

  A set of three photographs, made in the Ottoman Empire, but distributed by a photographic studio Joseph (Papazian) from Iran, touches a little researched subject of documentary photography trade in the Middle East in the late 19th century. The motifs of the photographs concentrate on the formation of controversial Hamidiye Cavalry, which was at the time responsible for the…

  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).  

  An intriguing, large format propagandist map of Peru, devised by Eduardo Higginson, Peru’s hard-charging Consul General in Southampton, England, published on the orders of the country’s foreign minister, Eugenio Larrabure y Unánue, as a PR piece to showcase Peru’s economic and natural virtues and its maximalist (some might say ‘outrageous’) boundary claims with respect to its disputed frontiers with…

An extremely rare and highly decorative Art Nouveau era map of Peru that showcases the country’s maximalist (some might say ‘outrageous’) boundary claims with respect to its disputed frontiers with Ecuador, Brazil and Bolivia; designed by J. Boix Ferrer, the proprietor of the ‘Joya Literaria’ bookstore, with branches in Lima and Arequipa, it is predicated upon the best sources, detailing…

  A highly attractive contemporary manuscript copy of the famous map of the key port of Paita, Peru, from George Anson’s account of his Circumnavigation of the globe, during which his men attacked Paita in a dramatic piratical raid in 1741.

  A very rare broadside with Ottoman script showing the 23 days siege of Petrovaradin, Serbia, 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 pictorial map of Hyogo in Japanese and English, made during the American occupation of Japan   Colour lithograph, 76 x 54 cm (30 x 21.3 inches), verso text in blue (soft folds slightly worn, with tiny tears and holes on crossings, minor staining).  

A rare master plan of Piraeus, the port of Athens, made during the Roaring ‘20s when the city was undergoing a dramatic transformation towards becoming one of the world’s great commercial and a passenger ports, detailing every block, major building and site, as well as outlining the new neighbourhoods that were in the process of being developed north of the…

Broadside, 39 x 27 cm (15. 3 x 10.6 inches), (mounted old title in the upper right corner, soft folds, partly repaired sporadic tiny holes, but overall in a good condition).

  The extremely rare first edition of the first scientifically accurate survey of Tobago, made in the wake of France ceding the island to Britain upon the conclusion of the Seven Years’ War (1756-63); created as part of the ‘Ceded Islands Surveys’ under the direction of John Byres; the map precisely depicts the topography and infrastructure of Tobago and carefully…

A great rarity of Cuban cartography, being a city plan of Santiago de Cuba, drafted and lithographed locally by Louis François Delmés, the French émigré portraitist and miniaturist who was the father of academic painting in eastern Cuba; the map, executed in the artist’s signature resplendent colour palette, portrays Cuba’s second city during the island’s last ‘sugar boom’, showcasing Santiago…

LA LIBRERÍA DEL MERCURIO DE VALPARAÍSO.  Valparaíso: Litografia Excelsior de R. Abrines y Ca. for La Librería del Mercurio, [circa 1893].   Colour lithograph, printed on 2 joined sheets (Very Good, overall clean with attractive, bright colours, some light marginal staining, some wear along old folds, especially in upper right corner, minor old repairs from verso along fold vertices), 55…

  A seemingly unrecorded miniature map of India printed on a playing card from a deck of Italian playing cards, made in Jesuit academic circles in Padova at the end of the 18th century.

  This unique set of 13 etched cards is a proof state for reissued late 15th century card deck, printed around 1820 by a British collector, artist and keeper of the print collection in the British Museum William Young Ottley.

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.

  A separately published city and transportation map of Poznań in Poland, with letters in art deco style, was printed a year before WWII. 

  A rare map of Gottschee in Slovenia, privately published in Germany by the exiles from the area.

  A rare, possibly unique series of 28 original large photographs, showcasing one of the largest private mid-European art collections on the turn of the century, assembled in Zürich by a German medical doctor and industrialist Dr. Adolf Friedrich Hommel.

A fantastic large-format propaganda broadside, or ‘wall newspaper’, made to celebrate the exploits of German General Erwin Rommel, the ‘Desert Fox’, and his Afrikakorps, printed in Fascist Spain in July 1942, before the pivotal showdown at El Alamein had been decided. 

An exceedingly rare depiction of a Prague folk festival for the Coronation of Emperor Ferdinand I and Maria Anna of Savoy, lithographed in Litoměřice, showcases unique ethnographic and documentary details from this historic event as well as the diversity of Bohemian culture and social life of the early 19th century in Prague.   Lithograph, 55 x 69 cm (21.6 x…

  A very rare cartographic playing card featuring a map of the Prussia.

  Three numbers (of 6) of an extremely rare newspaper “Africa-Post. Weekly Newspaper for the German Troops in Tunisia”, printed by the Allies in Tunisia during WWII, in German language for the German troops, in order to cause a psychological warfare.

  An attractive pictorial map of Québec and the Gaspé Peninsula was published by the Québec-Gaspé Péninsula Hotel-Motel Association for the summer holidays of 1966. 

Samuel HOLLAND (1728 - 1801). London: William Faden, April 12th, 1813.   Copper engraving with original outline hand colour, dissected into 21 sections and mounted upon original linen, Faden’s printed pastedown label to verso, folding into original marbled card slipcase with printed pastedown title label to upper cover (Good, some toning and staining, slipcase worn with some old stains from…

  An important, gargantuan map of Quebec’s Gaspé Peninsula, predicated on the surveys of the Bahamian-born cartographer Gerald George Dunlevie, published in Toronto for the Canada’s Crown Land Office, serving as the official blueprint for the administration of the region during a generation of transformative change.  

  The first comprehensive printed scientific survey of the Quebec’s Saguenay-Lac St. Jean Region, taken during a time of transformative change, commissioned by Canada’s Crown Land Office, printed in Toronto in 1857.

  A historically important, gargantuan map of Canada East (Quebec), commissioned by the Canada’s Crown Land Office as a strategic blueprint to manage the government’s numerous infrastructure, settlement and economic development.

  One of the first etchings made by Queen Victoria and representing her niece. With original signature of the Queen, possibly given by the author to her step-sister Feodora of Leiningen   Etching on India laid paper, platemark: 12,5 x 8 cm (4.9 x 3.1 inches), sheet: 22 x 14 cm (8.7 x 5.5 inches), mounted on a 19th century…

A beautiful Ottoman lithographed Qur’an with hand-coloured details, imitating the appearance of traditional manuscripts.   12°, [608 pp.], margins of opening double pages with fine colouring in polychrome and gold, gold decoration in surah headings, polychrome marginal medallions, sporadic marginal annotations in red ink, original brown goat binding with a flap and gold tooling, accompanied with an original goat leather…

  A very rare newspaper with maps, printed by the Allies in Slovenian language, and dropped with airplanes in Yugoslavia, during the WWII.

  A unique, large attractive and modernly architected mid 19th century map in French language, represents modern railroad system as well as geographic and political features of Europe, relevant for railway construction.   Manuscript in gouache and black ink on two thick originally joined sheets, 104 x 118 cm (40.1 x 46.5 inches), (repaired tears and tiny losses of image…

An extremely rare and intriguing raised relief map of Prague and its environs, created by the innovative professor, Anton Hickmann, whose passion was popularizing geography; published in Reichenberg, in northern Bohemia (today Liberec, Czech Republic).   Lithograph in colour, pressed into raised relief on thick card (Good, even toning and some wear to highest points of relief, edges worn and…

  An extraordinary woodcut view of the Iberian enclave of Ceuta, on the north coast of Morocco, apparently a proof for Braun & Hogenberg’s famous copper engraved view of the city.

  A fine map of the Red Sea depicting Italy’s first major operation to establish an overseas colony, in Eritrea, commissioned by the Società Africana d’Italia, an influential lobbying-research organization, and originally published in an issue of their rare journal.

  An exceedingly rare map of a port in the Red Sea, printed on thin paper in Italian language, was sold separately for navigational uses.   Lithograph on thin paper, each 31 x 23 cm (12.2 x 9 inches).

  An exceedingly rare map of a port in the Red Sea, printed on thin paper in Italian language, was sold separately for navigational uses.   Lithograph on thin paper, each 31 x 23 cm (12.2 x 9 inches).

  An exceedingly rare map of a port in the Red Sea, printed on thin paper in Italian language, was sold separately for navigational uses.   Lithograph on thin paper, each 31 x 23 cm (12.2 x 9 inches).

  A highly decorative pictorial map of Rhodes, representing the newly built Fascist urban structures, was printed by the Italian State Tourist Department.   Colour lithography, 69 x 49 cm (27.1 x 19.3 inches) verso black and white illustrations and text (soft folds, overall in a good condition).  

  A rare pioneering Ottoman work on the history of Rhodes before the Muslim Ottoman rule. Printed in Rhodes.   8°, 160 pp. with black and white illustrations, [1] full page black and white map, later black cloth binding with debossed ornaments and gilt lettering (tiny tears in margins, softs fold, map with small loss of paper in the margins,…

  A rare tourist map of Rhodes in Arabic language was made at the occasion of the 1949 Armistice Agreements between Israel and neighboring Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, and Syria.   

  A rare transportation map, published in the last months of WWI in Switzerland, showcases the navigable river routes of the central Europe and the planned projects.

  A very rare map of Moldavia and Bessarabia by the boutique cartographer Jakob Adam, published in Vienna at a time when the region was a focal point of tensions between Austria and Russia (on one side) and the Ottoman Empire.

  A very rare gigantic road and transportation wall map of Romania was made in German language during WWI, in the year when Romania joined the Entente Powers.

Pilgrim's Game. Memory of Rome 1950.   Colour lithograph on thick paper, 61 x 81 cm (24 x 31.9 inches) (soft folds and light foxing, but otherwise in a good condition).  

A round view from the Milan Cathedral from circa 1880   Lithograph (Very Good, overall clean and bright, just some short tears entering from margins closed from verso, old folds), 43.5 x 43.5 (17 x 17 inches)

  A pamphlet, explaining a round panorama of the Battle of Waterloo, which was exhibited in a wooden pavilion in Amsterdam.   8°, 1 pp., folding map (40 x 29 cm / 15.7 x 11.4 inches), [8 pp.] text, interleaved sheet with manuscript in brown ink recto, original card boards with illustrations on yellow paper, modern bookplate “Ex Libris van…

  An exceedingly rare – possibly unique – artifact from the World War II Nazi German invasion of the Soviet Union, being a indigo photographic print of a Red Army map of Kursk, Russia, made on a portable printing press by one of the German Army’s ‘Motorized Surveying and Map Detachments’; Kursk, occupied by the Germans from November 1941 to…

  [Diagram of Railways in European Russia published by I.F. Zauer 1914].   An extremely rare large format map depicting the railway system in European Russia as its existed on the eve of World War I, executed in an arrestingly Modernist style some years ahead of its time, drafted by the architect Ivan Fedorovich Zauer and published in St. Petersburg…

  This rare poster in Serbian language featuring two Soviet documentary movies was made in 1948, in the year of Tito-Stalin fall-out, what caused Yugoslavia's expulsion from the Cominform.

Alexander Petrovich KARPINSKY [Александр Петрович КАРПИНСКИЙ] (1847 - 1936). / Sergei Nikolaevich NIKITIN (1851 - 1909). / Feodosy Nikolayevich CHERNYSHEV (1856 - 1914). / Nikolai Alekseevich SOKOLOV (1856 - 1907). / Aleksander MICHALSKI (1855 - 1904) et al. St. Peterburg: A. Ilyin’s Cartographic Establishment, 1892.   Colour lithograph printed on 6 sheets but here joined and mounted upon mid-20th century linen,…

  A very rare and decorative folding map of the Russian Empire, providing a fine overview of the growing railway system in European Russia and imperial expansion in the Far East, printed in Russian Cyrillic, and issued by a boutique printer in St. Petersburg.

  Extremely rare – a fine star chart depicting Hydra, Felis, Sextens and other constellations with nomenclature in Russian Cyrillic, from the first Russian celestial atlas, issued in St. Petersburg in 1829 by Kornelius Khristianovich Reissig.

  Extremely rare – the star chart of the Northern Celestial Hemisphere with nomenclature in Russian Cyrillic, from the first Russian celestial atlas, issued in St. Petersburg in 1829 by Kornelius Khristianovich Reissig.

  A rare broadside map depicting the Battle of Chesma in Turkey and Lemnos in Greece (1770), fought during the Russo-Turkish War of 1768–1774.

  Copper engraving, image: 13,5 x 10 cm; sheet: 22 x 15,5 cm (margins with staining and scratches, light staining in the image).  

  Copper engraving, 9,5 x 12,2 cm (3.7 x 4.8 inches).  

  Copper engraving, image: 13,5 x 10 cm; sheet: 22 x 15,5 cm (margins with staining and scratches, light staining in the image).  

  Copper engraving, image: 13,5 x 10 cm; sheet: 22 x 15,5 cm (margins with staining and scratches, light staining in the image).  

  Copper engraving, image: 13,5 x 10 cm; sheet: 22 x 15,5 cm (margins with staining and scratches, light staining in the image).  

  Copper engraving, image: 13,5 x 10 cm; sheet: 22 x 15,5 cm (margins with staining and scratches, light staining in the image).  

  Copper engraving, image: 13,5 x 10 cm; sheet: 22 x 15,5 cm (margins with staining and scratches, light staining in the image).  

  A very rare cartographic playing card featuring a map of Africa.

Lucien Florent Paul COFFYN (1810 - 1871). Manuscript, [Saigon, April-May 1862].   Manuscript, pen and ink and grisaille wash on paper, bearing three original manuscript signatures, being those of the author, draftsman and colonial governor, mounted upon a larger piece of 20th century paper (Good, wear along old folds with some minor loss at some fold vertices, some short closed tears…

  A large and exceedingly well executed decorative manuscript commissioned by the Deutsch Verein (German Society) of San Francisco, California, presented to the ‘Iron Chancellor’ Otto von Bismarck, in honour of his role as the Unifier of the German people, drafted by Carl Eisenschimel, a skilled Austrian Jewish artist and the Bay Area’s foremost forensic handwriting expert; with provenance from…

  A pair of cabinet cards by one of the pioneers of the Sarajevo photography, Anton Schädler, showcase a modern city couple with a child.