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  Art-Deco map of Manhattan, made for the World Fair in New York in 1939. 

  Art-Deco map of Manhattan, made for the World Fair in New York in 1939. 

  A highly attractive contemporary manuscript copy of the famous map of the key port of Paita, Peru, from George Anson’s account of his Circumnavigation of the globe, during which his men attacked Paita in a dramatic piratical raid in 1741.

  This map of the Panama Canal was issued in 1915, the first year after opening of the canal as a folding map with information for travellers. The detailed large map in the middle shows the canal with its routes.

  A beautifully drafted manuscript map of the Battle of Abukir (1799), a key showdown between French and Ottoman forces during Napoleon’s Egyptian Campaign, drafted in 1833 by the Austrian soldier Jacob Bodendorfer.

  Thomas Jefferys’ scarce plan of Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, published at the height of the Seven Years’ War.

  Extremely rare – the star chart of the Northern Celestial Hemisphere with nomenclature in Russian Cyrillic, from the first Russian celestial atlas, issued in St. Petersburg in 1829 by Kornelius Khristianovich Reissig.

  Extremely rare – a fine star chart depicting Hydra, Felis, Sextens and other constellations with nomenclature in Russian Cyrillic, from the first Russian celestial atlas, issued in St. Petersburg in 1829 by Kornelius Khristianovich Reissig.