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  A gigantic late 19th century map of the Ottoman Empire  

  An exquisite and rare example of late-Ottoman surrogate publishing, this 16-page pocket pamphlet seamlessly blends the romantic, Western-inspired aesthetic of Art Nouveau with traditional Eastern poetic tropes to market one of the era’s most famous global patent medicines: Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People. Disguised as an elegant literary guide to the coded language of flowers (Çiçeklerin Dili),…

  A handsome Ottoman lithographic edition of the Tutiname, a Middle Eastern tale in which a parrot entertains its mistress with stories, preventing her from visiting her lover during her husband’s absence.  

  Exceedingly rare – a complete set of three multilingual broadside proclamations issued simultaneously by the Austrian military high command to enforce absolute martial law over the occupied capital. This severe counter-revolutionary decree famously held the Jewish populations of Buda (Ofen), Pest, and Old Buda (Alt-Ofen) collectively liable for revolutionary activities, threatening a staggering 20,000 florin silver fine against the…

  A historically monumental, unrecorded field archive documenting the immediate practical, diplomatic, and economic implementation of the Treaty of Passarowitz (1718). This suite pairs the highly confidential, field-translated correspondence of the Ottoman Governor Mustafa Pasha with the exhaustive, two-part economic census of named frontier districts and Slavic estate owners ceded along the military demarcation lines of Habsburg Serbia—capturing the exact…

  Very rare in commerce – the authoritative firsthand account of the first European attempt to colonize New Guinea, written by Lieutenant Justin Modera of the expedition ship ‘Triton’, who recounts the harrowing attempt to establish Fort Du Bus and to explore the forbidding southwestern coast of New Guinea, featuring a stellar sea chart of the region from Modera’s groundbreaking…

  A fascinating, foundational work on the Brazil’s wild southern frontier during the generation following independence, being an account of Rio Grande do Sul written by Nicolào Dreys, a French merchant who lived in the province from 1818 to 1828, and published in Rio de Janeiro in 1839 during the height of the ‘Ragamuffin War’, a successionist struggle which gripped…

The foundational map of Namibia – created on the eve of the formal colonization of the region by the venerable linguist, trader, and explorer Dr. Theophilus Hahn from his extensive personal reconnaissance and indigenous interviews, this monumental cartographic achievement accurately charts the routes, European settlements and missions, water sources, as well as the tribal territories and population distribution of the…

  A monumental map of Minas Gerais, the vast inland Brazilian state that was long home to immensely productive gold and diamond mines, and more recently had become an agrarian powerhouse fueled by a railway boom; compiled the eminent civil engineer João Chrockatt de Sá from a wide variety of recent sources, it is the definitive geographical record of Minas…

  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.