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  A rare Italian translation of Arthur Ransome’s pro-Soviet book was issued by the Italian socialist publishing house Avanti!, whose headquarters were burned down by the Mussolini's Blackshirts a year before. It was banned by the Fascist government in 1926.

A rare manual for practical warfare in Eritrea at the beginning of the Italian invasion in 1887 was written by an anonymous author, well acquainted with local habits, geography, and climate.

  A scarce separately-issued, large-format map of the theatre of the Italo-Turkish War (1911-2), an important precursor to WWI during which Italy conquered Libya and Greece’s Dodecanese Islands from the Ottoman Empire.  

  Lithograph with a pasted down instructions and manuscript annotations in pencil and pink colour, 70 x 102 cm (27.6 x  40.1 inches) (Very Good, soft folds).  

  A highly attractive double-sided tourist map of Jaipur, Rajashathan - the ‘enlightened’ city of Northern India, with verso maps of Udaipur and Chittorgarh.  

  A pair of attractive and richly composed original 19th century watercolour views of two of Batavia’s (Jakarta, Indonesia) most important colonial buildings, being the ‘Willemskerk’ and the Residence of the Commander-in-Chief of the Dutch Army in the East Indies; executed by “D. Colleart” – a rare find, as very few original manuscript views of Batavia from the era survive.#…

  A seemingly unpublished drafts for book covers of Ivan-Goran Kovačić’s Jama, made by a Croatian artist Predrag Purić.

  A pair (2) of historically important original manuscript sepia views, depicting 1) the Great House and windmill of Perrins’s Estate, one of Jamaica’s leading sugar plantations, and 2) the St. Dorothy’s (or the ‘Tamarind Tree’) Church, established in 1681, which is today one of the oldest and most culturally significant churches in Jamaica; executed to an unusually high degree…

  [Commemorative Map of the World War. The Great Footprint of Meiji, the Great Undertaking of Taisho].   An extremely rare and very large format Japanese propaganda map, a grand pageant of imagery celebrating Japan’s military triumphs during the Meiji and Taishō Eras that made her an Asian-Pacific superpower and gave her a great empire, showcasing elements of the just-concluded World…

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

  A unique and historically important artefact, being a highly detailed and beautifully coloured original manuscript map of Sendai, then the largest city in Japan north of Edo (Tokyo), and a major commercial centre of around 50,000 residents, built just across the river form the famous Aoba Castle, labelling all streeta, outlining all major cadastral lots and noting all key…

  [Map of the Fire of Tokyo. Edited by the Relief Information Bureau of the Tokyo Imperial University]   A very large and impressive map chronicling how the Great Kanto Earthquake (1923) and the resulting inferno, that was the greatest urban fire to date, destroyed much of Tokyo, based upon analysis conducted by academics at the Tokyo Imperial University, it…