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  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…

  Exceedingly rare – 1 of only 2 known examples – a colossal work which is by far and away the finest map of Trinidad from the Post-Emancipation Era, complied by colonial authorities from the best sources, including the regional and cadastral surveys of Jospeh Basanta, the island’s surveyor general, and the railway surveys of the esteemed engineer William Joseph…

  A stellar example of perhaps the most beautiful and one of the most information-packed maps of the Victoria Gold Rush, an event which transformed Australia and saw the rise of Melbourne, by Frederick Proeschel, the Alsatian émigré who was the Australia’s first dedicated commercial mapmaker; predicated upon the best official sources, with resplendent original hand colour, it shows all…

  An amazing and unique survivor, being a finely executed original manuscript map of the Praça de São Sebastião, the grand 16th century fortress which guarded the town of Ilha de Moçambique, the capital of Portuguese East Africa and a globally significant entrepôt for slaves, gold and ivory, and which today has the distinction of being the oldest complete fortress…

  A comprehensive first-hand report on the Battle of Salman Pak, located south of Baghdad, which took place during the Mesopotamian campaign, authored by Bimbashi (Major) and military historian Mehmet Emin, featuring extensive maps and charts for detailed analysis.  

  An indispensable and highly sophisticated primary account tracking the interconnected geopolitical and cultural ties of the Nile Valley, written during the complex dual governance of the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium.  

  The first edition of the monumental Japanese work on insects.  

  An introductory educational textbook and Ottoman-Turkish alphabet primer (Elifbâ) designed for late-Ottoman student instruction.  

  An exceptionally rare and complete early Turkish Republican data visualization poster mapping the national prison population and judicial sentence distributions.  

  Very rare – a great monument of Arctic exploration and cartography, being a colossal 19-sheet map (or atlas) that represents the first systematic scientific and broadly complete mapping of North Greenland, charting a 1,200 km-long arc from Cape York, in the southwest to Danmark Fjord, in the northeast, conducted by the ‘Danish Bicentenary Jubilee Expedition (1921-3)’ led by Lauge…

  This rare pamphlet of the Diet of Augsburg (Reichstagsordnung) from 1582, printed under Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II, codifies essential legal and religious regulations from a pivotal period of European history.