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A rare smaller colourful poster was made for a bicycle race across Slovenia, Croatia, and the Free Territory to Trieste. The race was organised by Yugoslavia in the time of the Tito-Stalin split, as a response to its expel from the popular Peace Race, organised by the Communist countries. 

  A fine example of the first scientific geological map of Bosnia & Herzegovina, published by Austrian Imperial and Royal Geological Institute, shortly after Austria-Hungary conquered the region from the Ottomans.  

  A Polish political broadside showcasing the Italian occupation of the Ethiopian Empire, as a warning to the upcoming situation. 

  A highly attractive double-sided tourist map of Jaipur, Rajashathan - the ‘enlightened’ city of Northern India, with verso maps of Udaipur and Chittorgarh.  

  An excellent little treatise on the appearance of the Solar Eclipse of July 28, 1851 over the Austrian Habsburg Empire, illustrated with a custom map - extremely rare – 1 of only 2 known examples.

  A unique manuscript map by one of the most important Venetian map-makers of the early 19th century Bernardo Combatti, shows the Arsenal, as rebuilt by Napoleon around 1810, to the form known today. The Arsenal today hosts the Venetian Biennale. 

  A rare empty official letterhead on parchment, with arms of the house of Bourbon-Two Sicilies. 

  A highly decorative politically motivated calligraphy darwing in the immediate run-up to the French Revolution, made by the French ‘Master Calligraphers’ during the era, and one of the early images of spectacles, in the form we know today. 

  A talking map.