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  Extremely Rare – a pair of large-format maps respectively depicting Northern and Southern India, featuring the ecclesiastical divisions of the Roman Catholic on the subcontinent, prepared for the Vatican’s State Secretariat by Girolamo Petri, issued within his monumental atlas, ‘L’Orbe Cattolico ossia Atlante Geografico Storico Ecclesiastico’.

  A rare large format Japanese map of India and Burma, ‘pirated’ from a British map by the venerable bookseller Maruzen, issued during the height of World War II, as Japan conquered Burma and before its (ultimately ill-fated) invasion of India during ‘Operation U-Go’ (1944).   Colour print, folding into original printed paper sleeve (Very Good, some toning along old…

  A fine example of an early edition of a directory of the East India Company’s entire civil, military and commercial establishment, issued during the Second Anglo-Maratha War; a treasure trove of information, illustrated with a map.

  Rare - a highly engaging travel guide and overview of the Indian Subcontinent written by George Aberigh-Mackay, one of India’s most talented popular authors, illustrated with a map and a view of the Times of India publishing house, written in honor of the upcoming visit to India of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (the future King-Emperor Edward VII), and…

  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 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.

  Very Rare - a large format, separately issued work that is the first scientifically accurate, and by far and away the most detailed map to date of the Portuguese colony of Diu, an island strategically located just off the coast of Gujarat, that was long a great mart of trade and cross-cultural exchange, under Lisbon’s control from 1535 to…

      Extremely rare – no other examples traced – the authoritative city plan of Hyderabad created in the twilight days of Mir Osman Ali Khan’s transformative rule when the city was one of India’s leaders in urban planning and industrial modernization, the result of over a generation of ultra-advanced, continuously updated surveys made under the direction of the…

  A sophisticated topographical map, of charmingly crude ‘provincial’ printing style, of the strategically key district of Satara, in today’s southwestern Maharashtra, expressly made for the British colonial regime to depict the recent developments in local administration, but to also satisfy important military and infrastructure mandates; created by J.W. Windsor of the Quarter Master General’s Department (Bombay Army), and printed…

THEMATIC CARTOGRAPHY / CALCUTTA IMPRINT   Rare – the first scientific treatise on mining in the Himalayas, in this case a sophisticated analysis on how to best exploit the iron, copper and gold deposits of the Kumaon and Garhwal Districts of India (today’s Uttarakhand State) in preparation for the arrival of the Industrial Revolution and the Railway Boom on the…

  A fine early, edition of example of James Wyld’s highly important wall map of India, made under the direction of the artist and banker Robert Melville Grindlay, attractively mounted in wall map format with rollers.