Shop

  An illustrated summary of modern Ottoman medicine, including the first presentation of the use of X-rays in the field.   8°: [8 pp.], 420 pp., with original brown wrappers with gilt lettering (good, clean and partly uncut, wrappers with minor scratches and hand-written numbers to corners).  

  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.

A very rare Austro-Hungarian pilot for the Red Sea, illustrated by 4 colour lithographed sea charts, being the first separate printing of Captain Wilhelm Kropp’s observations and mapping of that critical maritime space, created in the wake of the opening of the Suez Canal, published in Fiume (today Rijeka, Croatia) in the Italian language for the benefit of Istrian and…

  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 historically important and unique assemblage of three works, including Object A, being the original manuscript of the first modern Ottoman pilot guide to the Red Sea, commissioned by Sultan Abdul Hamid II, it was written by Captain Cemal Bey, who later served as the ‘Bahr-i Ahmer Komodoru’ (the Commander-in-Chief of the Ottoman Navy in the Red Sea), and…