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  A rare folding map of Serbia and Belgrade, was printed in Budapest two days after the Austro-Hungarians declared war on Serbia, what marked the beginning of the World War I. - One of the earliest maps showing the theater of the WW I.    

  Very rare – the first edition of Captain William Nichelson’s masterly large-format sea chart of St. Augustin’s Bay, Madagascar, a key harbour on the Mozambique Channel, along the route between Europe and India, first issued in the 1767 edition of William Herbert’s important atlas, ‘A New Directory for the East Indies’.

  A luxury presentation copy of an army training field near Nuremberg, mounted on blue silk - a colour of the Bavarian noble family. 

  Very Rare – the first issue of the first large-format printed sea chart of the South Coast of Hainan, based on a reconnaissance survey conducted by John Haldane of the British East India Company, from Sayer & Bennett’s magnificent ‘The East-India Pilot, or Oriental Navigator’.

  A rare broadside map depicting the Battle of Chesma in Turkey and Lemnos in Greece (1770), fought during the Russo-Turkish War of 1768–1774.

  A gigantic rare map of the World, published by Free French Forces (FFL, Forces françaises libres) led by Charles de Gaulle, was made during the Second World War just before the major battles for control of the French colonies worldwide.  

  An extremely rare separately-issued chart of the important port of Essaouira (formerly Mogador), Morocco, issued when the city was being transformed into the country’s greatest port, by Gerard Hulst van Keulen, masterfully engraved and of an uncommonly beautiful design.

  Map of Munich made for the occassion of the Arts & Crafts Fair of 1908 as an advertisement by a world famous fabrics and clothing factory Lodenfrey, which specialised in Bavarian and early hiking clothing.  

  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.

  Rare smaller Santini's version of the map of Istria.

Extremely rare – a lovely gem that represents the first detailed description of the Balearic Islands in Polish, issued in the wake of the Fall of Minorca (1756), by the Jesuit Press of Warsaw, including a fine sheet of maps engraved by Bartłomiej Strachowski.

Extremely rare – a broadside souvenir commemorating the ascension of King Carlos IV and Queen María Luisa to the Spanish throne, published in Málaga by Francisco de la Torre.

  A fine example the authoritative chart used by the French Government to manage their fishing rights in Newfoundland and the Grand Banks, in part based on the magisterial surveys of Newfoundland by James Cook & Michael Lane and Samuel Holland’s survey of the Island of St. John (Prince Edward Island). 

  A rare and fine pair of sea charts, presented together on a single sheet, of Chennai & Pulicat and the Cuddalore area (Tamil Nadu), from the ‘Secret Atlas’ of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), issued in Amsterdam by Johannes van Keulen II.

A rare and fine pair of sea charts, presented together on a single sheet, of Kayalpatnam and Thoothukudi / Tuticorin (Tamil Nadu), from the ‘Secret Atlas’ of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), issued in Amsterdam by Johannes van Keulen II.

  Extremely rare folding one sheet pamphlet issued at the time of a visit of the emperor Franz Joseph I to Ljubljana on Novemeber 19th 1856.

François Valentijn’s magnificent map of Indonesia’s Spice Islands, the finest map of the region made during the dramatic era of the Dutch East India Company’s hegemony.

  A fine large format sheet of two charts featuring the discoveries in the Caroline Islands (1828) and New Guinea (1827) by Jules Dumont D’Urville’s during his first voyage on the Astrolabe.

  An especially attractive large-format early 19th Century map of Nagasaki, then Japan’s ‘Window to the World,’ printed in Nagasaki by Baikö-dö.  

  An extraordinary woodcut view of the Iberian enclave of Ceuta, on the north coast of Morocco, apparently a proof for Braun & Hogenberg’s famous copper engraved view of the city.

  A rare and historically important map of Honolulu made only months after the coup d’état that toppled Queen Liliuokalani. 

Very Rare - a sheet featuring a pair of charts of Kalpitiya and Batticaloa, Sri Lanka, from Sayer & Bennett’s rare sea atlas ‘The East-India Pilot, or Oriental Navigator’.

  Exquisitely executed painted view of Lipowa landscape, Poland, by acclaimed Polish artist Arthur Blaschnik. One of Blaschnik’s relatively few original artworks relating to his native Polish region.

  An attractive Pre-Revolution Plan of Moscow, printed in Cyrillic text.

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

Highly decorative late Renaissance coat of arms of Georg Chrstoph von Zinzendorf from an Album Amicorum from 1600.

  Highly decorative late Renaissance coat of arms of Michael von Herberstein from an Album Amicorum from 1600.

  An original manuscript of one of the most important official documents relating to the history of art and Protestantism in Styria during the Counterreformation.

  Set of fascinating letter openers by the Eastern Telegraph Company, decorated with maps, calendar, measurements etc. 

  Deatailed early road map of Yemen, made by Carsten Niebuhr based on surveys from a scientific expedition sponsored by Frederick V of Denmark

  The scarce wall map issue of Tomás López’s magnificent map of Portugal, one of the finest national maps of the kingdom from the Enlightenment period.

  The rare map of the Balkans, Austria and Southern Germany from the ‘Rome Ptolemy’, a monument in the early history of engraving and the cartography of Central and Southeastern Europe.

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.

A rare and highly attractive 19th Century sea chart of the coasts of Latvia and Estonia, by the Russian Maritime Ministry, with Toponymy in Cyrillic.