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Stanford's map of West Africa.   Lithographed map with original hand colour, dissected into 21 sections and mounted upon original linen, folding into original red cloth covers with publisher’s pastedown label, publisher’s advertisements as front endpaper (Good, clean example), 52 x 77 cm (20.5 x 30.3 inches).

[Including the Maps:] Sketch of the positions taken up before the Fort of Nowah 1819 and Plan & Sketch of the Fort of Nowah 1819.   An important issue of ‘The Calcutta Journal’, one of the highest quality, most influential and controversial newspapers in India of the first third of the 19th century, notably featuring an authoritative and detailed eyewitness…

12°: [2] blank, 135 pp., folding map, original printed cover, bound in a mid-20th century brown cloth binding with lettering on the cover and spine, old typed annotations on the inner side of the back cover (old hand-written price on the inner side of the back cover, map with minor tears in margins and pin-size holes on the crossings of…

  Rare – the first great counter-argument to Colonel George de Lacy Evans’ ‘Designs of Russia’, widely considered to be the intellectual genesis of ‘The Great Game’, by the esteemed economist Thomas Tooke.

A fascinating and academically valuable ‘insider’s account’ of the Jagannath Temple (in Puri, Odisha), perhaps the most famous and controversial place of Hindu worship in the world, home to the Ratha Yatra, a massive festival where in old times pilgrims were crushed under the wheels of gigantic ceremonial chariots (under mysterious circumstances), events the inspired the English work ‘Juggernaut’; featuring…

  The only known surviving examples of a pair of fine nautical works by Captain Edward Smith, R.N., being a large-format sea chart of the Levant, accompanied by a sheet of nautical views of the same coast, based on Smith’s reconnaissance of the coast aboard the yacht ‘Menai’ in the spring of 1840. 

  A rare first translation of The Little Prince to Esperanto was printed in 1961 in Orléans and was accomapnied with black and white illustrations, based on the original drawings. 

  A charming post war pictorial map of Barbados   Colour lithography, 63 x 50 cm (24.8 x 19.7 inches) (soft folds, minor staining, but overall in a good condition).  

  [M. Pasteur and His Discoveries and Especially Regarding the Preventive Method Against Rabies. Lecture Given First, in Istanbul, at the Imperial School of Medicine on March 7, and then in Péra, at the Greek Literary Sylloge on March 22, 1887].   8°: 41 pp., original front wrapper, later red cloth binding with gilt lettering (good, minor staining and age-toning,…

  Exceedingly rare and highly important – a complete, contemporarily bound annual run of 53 issues of the maiden and only full year of operation of the ‘The Regenerator of Aryavarta’, the short-lived but highly influential weekly journal published in Lahore, edited by a triumvirate of young luminaries led by the precocious 18-year-old Lala Lajpat Rai, who later gained fame…

Thomas WINGATE (1807-1869) (att.). [S. l., S. d., but probably Pakistan or India, 1840]. A large original drawing showcasing the the Siege of Kahun in Balochistan during the First Anglo-Afghan War, probably drafted by an amateur artist and officer Thomas Wingate, later active in Australia. Watercolours on paper 28,5 x 41cm (11.2 x 16.1 inches), mounted with margins under old…