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- Maps and Prints, Newly Catalogued Items: August 2022, World Maps
AVIATION HISTORY / FIRST JAPANESE TRANS-EURASIAN FLIGHT / SUGOROKU BOARDGAME: 歐訪大飛行記念飛行遊戯 [Ōhō daihikō kinen hikō yūgi / Great European Visit Memorial Flight Game].
- 680.00€
- An attractive cartographic ‘Sugoroku’ gameboard commemorating the 1925 Asahi Shinbun Trans-Eurasian flight, a major landmark of early aviation, whereby two Japanese planes flew from their homeland over 16,500 km to tour various European capitals as part of a patriotic PR tour to showcase Japan’s role as world power, printed by the mission’s sponsor, the ‘Asahi Shinbun’, a leading Japanese…
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- Books, Maps and Prints, Ottoman Books, Turkica, World Maps
Early Ottoman Lithographed Map of the World: مجموعهء معارف [Mecmua-i maarif]
- 550.00€
- A first issue of an exceedingly rare ephemeral Ottoman magazine, with possibly largest lithographed map of the world before the appearance of the late Ottoman chromolithographed atlases. 8°, 40 pp. with lithographed black and white plates, coloured folding lithographed map, 25 x 39 cm, original green wrappers with lettering on the inner sides (repaired tear in the folding…
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- Books, Geography, Maps and Prints, World Maps
Geographie Des Enfans, Ou Méthode Abrégée, De La Geographie
- 150.00€
- Pierre Nicolas Langlet Du Fresnoy. Avignon: Chambeau 1782. 12°, viii, 116 pp., folding map of the world (old Catholic school stamp on the title page, small cracks in the hinges of endpapers, otherwise in a good condition with minor staining, binding little scuffed and rubbed).
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- Books, German Books, History, Maps and Prints, World Maps
Hieroglyphen oder Blicke aus dem Gebiete der Wissenschaft in die Geschichte des Tages.
- 1,800.00€
- The very rare first edition of a fascinating and wonderfully eccentric treatise on the philosophical, scientific and political state of the world during the Napoleonic Wars, and the historical journey that led to those times, by the German military scientist Rühle von Lilienstern, illustrated by a large, unique and resplendently coloured World Map on an oblique double-elliptical projection, illustrating…
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- Maps and Prints, World Maps
JAPAN – CARTOGRAPHIC PROPAGANDA / WORLD WAR I / RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR / STELLAR MAP DESIGN: 世界大戰紀念地圖 明治之偉跡 大正之偉業
- 3,200.00€
- [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…
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- Maps and Prints, World Maps
JAPANESE PICTORIAL MAP: 世界新漫画鳥瞰圖 [New Pictorial Bird’s Eye View of the World]
- 1,200.00€
- 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).
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- Maps and Prints, September 2023: 50 under 1000 EUR, World Maps
MAP OF THE WORLD: ΠΑΓΚΟΣΜΙΟΣ ΓΕΩΓΡΑΦΙΚΟΣ ΧΑΡΤΗΣ. [World Geographical Map]
- 280.00€
- Colour lithography, 26 x 38 cm (10.2 x 15 inches) (soft fold, minor staining).
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- Maps and Prints, Russia, Slavica, World Maps
Mapping Lenin’s Work: Kарта составлена и подготовлена к печати Научно-редакционной картосоставительской частью ГУГK при участии научных сотрудников Института марксизма-ленинизма при ЦK Kпcс. Редакторы: Е.В. Гладкова, Г.В. Шадрина Научные консультанты: Г.Н. Голиков, Д.С. Kислик, 3.А. Лёвина, Н.П. Мамай, Т.В. Панченко, Р.М. Савицкая
- 2,200.00€
- [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,…
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- Africa, Asia, Australia, Maps and Prints, World Maps
OTTOMAN CARTOGRAPHY / EASTERN HEMISPHERE
- 1,500.00€
- Colour lithography, 96 x 63 cm (37.9 x 24.8 inches), (minor staining, tears repaired with modern tape and partly age-toned).
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- Maps and Prints, World Maps
OTTOMAN CARTOGRAPHY / MAP OF THE WORLD: كرۀ مسطحه [Kürre-i Müsattaha also Küre-i Müsattaha / Hemispheres of Earth lit. Flat Sphere]
- 1,800.00€
- A larger charming and seemingly unrecorded separately published map of the world in Ottoman language. Colour lithograph, 49 x 63 cm (19.3 x 24.8 inches) (light water-staining and staining on the left-hand side, otherwise in a good condition).
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- Maps and Prints, World Maps
THE WORLD / MEIJI JAPAN’S ‘AWAKENING’: 重訂万国全図 [Jutei bankoku zenzu / Complete Map of All Countries].
- 5,500.00€
- A colossal composition that has the distinction of being the second ever official Japanese map of the world, with the present edition revised to epitomize the Japanese geographic conception of the globe near the beginning of the Meiji Era, when the country embarked upon a program of hyper-industrialization and international interaction; one of the iconic Japanese maps of the…
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- Books, Geography, Maps and Prints, World Maps
THEMATIC CARTOGRAPHY – GEOMAGNETISM ATLAS / OSLO IMPRINT: Magnetischer Atlas gehörig zum Magnetismus der Erde von Chr. Hansteen, Professor.
- 2,400.00€
- A great monument of thematic cartography, being an atlas of world maps that depict geomagnetic declination and inclination throughout the globe as it varied at different historical times, created by the eminent Norwegian physicist and astronomer Christopher Hansteen, its 15 maps, printed on 7 plates, are largely predicated upon the author’s own meticulous data collection methods and analytical skills which…
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