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  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. 

  Steel engraved playing card, overlaid in coloured stencil, blank on verso (Very Good, minor stainng verso, a small scratch and stain on the front), 97 x 65 mm (3.8 x 2.6 inches).  

  A scarce, historically important and monumental map of Ontario’s Muskoka, Georgian Bay, Nipissing, Algonquin and Upper Ottawa Valley regions, based upon groundbreaking surveys, made as a blueprint for the regional settlement designs of Canada’s Department of Crown Lands, published in Toronto in 1857. 

  A scarce and monumental map of Quebec’s St. Maurice Territory, the northern section of the Montreal-Quebec City Corridor, based upon groundbreaking surveys, created as a blueprint for the settlement of the interior regions beyond the seigneuries along the St. Lawrence, published for Canada’s Department of Crown Lands by George Matthews in Montreal, in 1856. 

  A scarce and monumental map of Quebec’s St. Maurice Territory, the northern section of the Montreal-Quebec City Corridor, based upon groundbreaking surveys, created as a blueprint for the settlement of the interior regions beyond the seigneuries along the St. Lawrence, published for Canada’s Department of Crown Lands by George Matthews in Montreal, in 1856. 

  A very rare cartographic playing card featuring a map of the Canary Islands, being the ‘2 of Clubs’.

Walter Burley GRIFFIN (1876 - 1937) [and Marion Mahony GRIFFIN (1871 - 1961)] / Charles Robert SCRIVENER (1855 - 1923). [Canberra:] Federal Capital Commission, May 1927.   Colour lithograph, mounted upon original linen and folding into original purple cloth covers bearing gilt short title to upper cover, with handstamps to inside front cover and to verso of map: ‘H. Hurry…

  A highly important and attractive work on the Eighth Xhosa War (1850-3), a critical conflict in which the British scored a crushing defeat upon the Xhosa, so securing permanent dominance over the Eastern Frontier regions of the Cape Colony, a victory secured by the ‘scorched earth’ offensive launched by Governor George Cathcart from the spring of 1852 to the…

The first edition of the acclaimed Cape Verdean novel by the esteemed author Baltasar Lopes da Silva.   8º, 298 pp., [2 pp.], original illustrated wrappers, old bookseller’s stamp and a pasted-down book-plate of Alfredo Ribeiro dos Santos on the inner side of the front wrapper (minor foxing, mostly to the wrappers, otherwise in a good condition).

The original proposal for the grand Modernist masterplan to redevelop Caracas, conceived at the hight of the Venezuelan Oil Boom, when the city was one of the fastest growing and most economically vibrant urban areas on earth; illustrated by over a dozen sophisticated thematic maps, this preliminary study of the ‘Plano Regulador’, developed by an all-star international team of urban…

  A rare book of laws for Carinthia, was printed in Graz by a protestant printer Zacharias Bartsch.