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  A unique example of a very rare chart of South Africa, with a curious Australian connection! Commander John Lamb’s chart showing the 1822 route of his ship ‘Hannah’, fighting the Agulhas Current rounding the Cape of Good Hope; but this example with a manuscript pastedown title regarding the route of the ‘H.M.S. Tamar’, plus manuscript traces of its route,…

  An unusual small early 19th century manuscript map with annotations shows the alleged location of St. Paul’s shipwreck, discussed in Acts of the Saints. 

  A fine and scarce sea chart of St. Augustin’s (Anantson̈o) and Tullea (Toliara) bays, amongst the finest anchorages on the west coast of Madagascar, published by the leading chartmakers of Laurie & Whittle.

  A 1946 reprint of texts and illustrations from an underground Partisan & Communist magazine Ljudska pravica (Right of the Nation).

  Very Rare – the first broadly accurate British sea chart of the southwestern coast of Sumatra, a critical region home to the important British base of Benccoolon-Fort Marlborough (modern Bengkulu), published by William Herbert in 1758.

  The first edition of the first map of the island of São Tomé to be predicated upon systematic triangulated surveys, by Gago Coutinho, who subsequently became a world famous aviator, published in Lisbon in 1922. 

  This folding map of Tyrol was the first reduced edition of a wall map from 1823, based on the new surveys of the early 19th century. 

  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 very rare and excellent treatise on celestial navigation for mariners, anchored by a custom-made chart of the Northern Celestial Hemisphere, by the esteemed Danish astronomer and hydrographer Poul de Løvenørn.

  A unique manuscript map of Pazin, today the administrative centre of Istria in Croatia, was probably made by the new Italian regime in 1920s for reordering the city under Italian lines.

  A rare large version of the Pan Am Systems map - one of the most iconic airline posters of all time, from the golden age of luxury jet travel.

  A large wall map of Montenedro, was published in Montenegro in 1948, in the year of the the schism between Yugoslavia ans Albania, an event which had great consequences for Montenegro and surrounding regions.