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  Presented here is a set of 20 issues of the Komunikat Informacyjny, a double-sided broadside bulletin that was intended to quickly deliver news to front line soldersduring the Warsaw Uprising.

  A very rare issue of ‘Warszawa Walczy’ [Warsaw Fights], a large illustrated broadside ‘wall newspaper’ issued by the propaganda bureau of the ‘Armia Krajowa’ [Polish Home Army] during the Warsaw Uprising, one of the most popular works published within the barricaded city to inform both resistance fighters and local residents, an especially fine example in very good condition.  

  The first and only edition of a decorative Art Deco map of Warsaw shows post, telegraph and telephone stations in 1936.

  A unique Bidermeier hand painted miniature portrait of young Karl Freiherr von Schrenck, a later famous lawyer and Bavarian minister of Justice, fired for signing a memorandum against Lola Montez.

  An extremely rare, large format work that is the first edition one of the seminal maps of Wellington, depicting the New Zealand capital when it was one of the fastest growing cities in the British Empire, with a wealth of finely executed and intriguing details, granting a peerless record of the city as it was, as well as prefiguring…

  A rare pamphlet written on the eve of the Abolition of Slavery, urging that the uniquely high duties on West Indies Rum be lowered and harmonized with the tariffs placed upon other hard spirits made across the British Empire, written by John Innes, a prominent merchant and lobbyist, addressed to the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

  This anonymous pamphlet mounts a forceful defence of the beleaguered West Indies sugar industry and calls for the imposition of tariffs to protect it from the juggernaut of competition from the East Indies.

  A very rare rhetorical work by Beilby Porteus, the Bishop of London, urging the Crown to provide education to the slaves of the West Indies and to convert them to Christianity.

Extremely rare  - a monumental, brilliantly colour lithographed work that is by far and away the most accurate and detailed map of Hispaniola to date, and one of the great achievements of cartography of the early 20th century in the Americas, the result of a collaboration between Alexandre Poujol, a leading Haitian jurist and stateman, and Henri Thomasset, a Frenchman…

A unique and vital primary source on the history of what is today the United States Virgin Islands during the critical period of the Napoleonic Wars and the twilight of the West Indies sugar-slave economy, being the original manuscript letter book of William Manning, an English MP, tycoon, slave plantation owner and the Governor of the Bank of England, who…

  Seemingly unrecorded - a content-rich Scottish broadside, being on open letter written by Colonel William Fullarton, a prominent liberal statesman, addressed to the Duke of York, the Commander-in-Chief of the British Army; created as part of the former’s legal and propaganda war against General Thomas Picton (later famous for his final act at the Battle of Waterloo), who had…