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A very rare cartographic playing card featuring a map of the Americas, being the ‘Ace of Spades’.

  A very rare cartographic playing card featuring a map of Tibet, being the ‘3 of Diamonds’.

  A seemingly unrecorded miniature map of India printed on a playing card from a deck of Italian playing cards, made in Jesuit academic circles in Padova at the end of the 18th century.

  This unique set of 13 etched cards is a proof state for reissued late 15th century card deck, printed around 1820 by a British collector, artist and keeper of the print collection in the British Museum William Young Ottley.

  A very rare cartographic playing card featuring a map of Kasakhstan, Uzbekistan & Turkmenistan.

  A very rare cartographic playing card featuring a map of the Prussia.

  A rare advanced aeronautical chart of Central Iraq, including Baghdad, made during the final days of World War II, depicting a troubled, but vital air corridor connecting the Mediterranean with the Persian Gulf and India; predicated upon the latest information supplied by Royal Air Force, published by the War Office in London.

  A rare and exceptionally fine sea chart of Lisbon Harbour and surrounding waters, predicated upon surveys made during the Peninsular War and subsequently updated by the Royal Navy.

  An attractive Turkish pictographic map showing the various options that the Allies had for invading Nazi occupied north-western Europe, from an October 1943 edition of the leading Turkish daily ‘Cumhuryet’, published eight months before D-Day.

  A rare and intriguing contemporary map of the raid on Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby on December 1914, which was a prelude for the Battle of Dogger Bank (1915), one of the most important naval battles of World War I, was printed in Ottoman script.

  Poetry, accompanied with erotic images, by a Turkish artist Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu. 

  A large and highly attractive Art Deco road map of Egypt made during World War II, as the country was fighting off an invasion by the German Afrikakorps; drafted by Alexandre Nicohosoff, an engineer who was for many years the premier commercial mapmaker in Alexandria.

  A rare, well designed Yugoslav statistical atlas for the north-eastern region of the country includes 21 well designed statistic maps, made by one of the leading Slovenian modern surveyors Peter Svetik.

  Highly Important and Rare – a great monument of Enlightenment Era thematic cartography - Vicomte Grenier’s of sea chart showcasing his new, faster sailing routes across the Indian Ocean, discoveries which revolutionized European-Asian transportation and geopolitics.