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  A book in Czech language with a modern avant-garde cover, published in 1921, commemorates the victims of the Czechoslovakian Legion, who fought on the side of Italians during WWI to gain the independent Czech and Slovak country.   

  A rare, very large format official transportation and communications map of China, issued in the wake of The Great Leap Forward (1958-62), Chairman Mao’s monumental programme to rapidly industrialize the country, a vision that involved massive infrastructure projects; published in Beijing by the China Cartographic Publishing House, the state workshop that specialized in producing such high-quality, original thematic maps.

  An amazing survivor – an early Istanbul opera broadside advertising the 1855 single-show performance of Gaetano Donizetti’s ‘Don Pasquale’ at the famous Naum Theatre in Pera (Beyoğlu), Constantinople, headlined by the legendary basso buffo singer Vincenzo Galli, published locally in Italian, Ottoman Turkish, Greek, Armenian and Armenian printed in the Ottoman Alphabet!

  A rare, very large format official hydrological map of China, issued in the wake of The Great Leap Forward (1958-62), Chairman Mao’s monumental programme to rapidly industrialize the country, a vision that involved massive water management and reallocation projects; published in Beijing by the China Cartographic Publishing House, the state workshop that specialized in producing such high-quality, original thematic…

  An extremely rare – seemingly unrecorded – late 19th Century ephemeral work promoting the Norddeutscher Lloyd Steamship Line, featuring a World Map of all its routes, a map of New York City and lengthy text on the line’s contemporary operations; published in new York likely to aide German travellers and immigrants – plus the World map features an interesting…

  Scarce – the definitive official overview of the Federated Malay States at the beginning of the 20th Century, during the rubber and tin boom; richly illustrated with 5 folding maps and 7 photographic plates, by Sir H. Conway Belfield, the British Resident in Selangor.

  A scarce and detailed map of circa 1960 Baghdad, capturing the city during a period of rapid development due to the on-going oil boom, made by the local public transit authority to show bus routes.

  A very rare atlas made by the Berlin Missionary Society, one of the most important missionary organizations in Africa and China during the 19th and early 20th Centuries, featuring 16 original maps made by missionary cartographers, including important figures such as Alexander Merensky and Bernhard Struck, containing 14 maps of South and East Africa and 2 maps of China;…

  A fine map of the Red Sea depicting Italy’s first major operation to establish an overseas colony, in Eritrea, commissioned by the Società Africana d’Italia, an influential lobbying-research organization, and originally published in an issue of their rare journal.

  A very rare scientific survey of the crucial Bombay-Poona (Mumbai-Pune) corridor, issued by the Survey of India in Dehra Dun just after World War II and in the twilight days of the British Raj; showcasing a wealth of information on urban development in one of India’s fastest growing regions at critical historical juncture.

A rare advanced aeronautical chart of Central and South-western Ethiopia (including Addis Ababa) and Southern Sudan made in the wake of World War II, predicated upon the latest information supplied by Royal Air Force, published by the War Office in London.

  A very rare cartographic playing card featuring a map of Africa.

  A very rare cartographic playing card featuring a map of Africa.

  A very rare cartographic playing card featuring a map of Africa.

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