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A beautifully executed mid-19th century watercolor view of the foothills of Himalayas with snowed mountain range in the background.   Water-colour drawing, 34 x 49 cm (13.4 x 19.3 inches) on J Whatman wove paper, mounted on later paper (little sun-toned and with light staining and foxing, one tiny hole in the center of one of the stains, but overall…

  An uncommon map of the World with marked vulcanic lines was published to accompany a scientific article by a German researcher of antiquity and Egyptologist Friedrich Sickler in 1812.

  [Hikâye-i Hikemiyye-i Mikromega / A Moralizing Story Micromégas]   A rare Ottoman translation of Voltaite’s science fiction short story Micromégas   8°: 31 pp., original tan wrappers, later spine (wrappers with light staining and foxing, inside in a clean, partly uncut condition with hardly noticeable foxing to the last pages).  

A proof state of an exceptionally rare sea chart of Vyborg Harbour, Russia, prepared for Charles-Pierre Fleurieu’s grand atlas of the Baltic Sea.

  [Special Map of Australia in 9 Sheets, after Original and Official Sources by A. Petermann]   A rare, separately issued Petermann’s map of Australia on 9 sheets with old colour, originally mounted on linen and joined together in a wall map, printed by the finest German cartographic office.   Original coloured lithography, 98 x 122 cm (38.6 x 48…

A rare detailed wall-map of the Caucasus, printed in Tiflis and drafted by Military Topographic Department of the Caucasus Military District under the leadership of the prolific surveyor Hieronymus Stebnitsky  

  A small uncommon pocket map of Würzburg in Germany, with a highly decorative Art Nouveau cover, was made for the occasion of a Franconian Singing Festival in 1904. 

  Blatt mit kardinalischem Wappen, allegorischen und heiligen Figuren, gestochen von Pieter de Jode d. Ä. nach einer Zeichnung von Francesco Vanni.

[Report of the Battle, which Took Place on September 20, 1703 at he Plain of Höchstädt Between French and Bavarian Army…]   Large 4°, [4 pp.] letterpress (Very good with uncut edges, margins little age-toned).

  Thoughts on war with examples from the history by a prominent Egyptian military officer and author Ahmad Hamrush.   8°. 78 pp., [2 pp.], illustrated wrappers, later spine (rear wrapper scratched with loss of text, small chips in margins, horizontal tear on the title page, otherwise in an uncut condition).  

[The Ghetto is Fighting. Participation of the Bund in the defense of the Warsaw Ghetto]   Large 12°, 67 pp., original illustrated wrappers (wrappers slightly dusty and stained with small chips and lines in ink and pencil, sporadic annotations in pencil inside).