Maps and Prints

  [Special Map of Australia in 9 Sheets, after Original and Official Sources by A. Petermann]   A rare, separately issued Petermann’s map of Australia on 9 sheets with old colour, originally mounted on linen and joined together in a wall map, printed by the finest German cartographic office.   Original coloured lithography, 98 x 122 cm (38.6 x 48…

A rare detailed wall-map of the Caucasus, printed in Tiflis and drafted by Military Topographic Department of the Caucasus Military District under the leadership of the prolific surveyor Hieronymus Stebnitsky  

  A small uncommon pocket map of Würzburg in Germany, with a highly decorative Art Nouveau cover, was made for the occasion of a Franconian Singing Festival in 1904. 

  Blatt mit kardinalischem Wappen, allegorischen und heiligen Figuren, gestochen von Pieter de Jode d. Ä. nach einer Zeichnung von Francesco Vanni.

  A very rare issue of ‘Warszawa Walczy’ [Warsaw Fights], a large illustrated broadside ‘wall newspaper’ issued by the propaganda bureau of the ‘Armia Krajowa’ [Polish Home Army] during the Warsaw Uprising, one of the most popular works published within the barricaded city to inform both resistance fighters and local residents, an especially fine example in very good condition.  

  The first and only edition of a decorative Art Deco map of Warsaw shows post, telegraph and telephone stations in 1936.

  A unique Bidermeier hand painted miniature portrait of young Karl Freiherr von Schrenck, a later famous lawyer and Bavarian minister of Justice, fired for signing a memorandum against Lola Montez.

  An extremely rare, large format work that is the first edition one of the seminal maps of Wellington, depicting the New Zealand capital when it was one of the fastest growing cities in the British Empire, with a wealth of finely executed and intriguing details, granting a peerless record of the city as it was, as well as prefiguring…

  Seemingly unrecorded - a content-rich Scottish broadside, being on open letter written by Colonel William Fullarton, a prominent liberal statesman, addressed to the Duke of York, the Commander-in-Chief of the British Army; created as part of the former’s legal and propaganda war against General Thomas Picton (later famous for his final act at the Battle of Waterloo), who had…