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  Circa 185 x 130 cm (72 x 50 inches), lithograph in colour, printed from two originally joined plates, originally mounted on linen with wooden rollers. With contemporary annotations in pencil and pen.   A rare gigantic wall map of Fatih in the European Part of Istanbul is the first official survey project of the city, made in the newly…

  An Italian illustrated magazine on the war events on the Balkans in 1897.

  Very Rare and Historically Important – a fine example of the first (and for a generation thereafter only) almanac for Goa and Portuguese India, being perhaps the greatest single published source of quantitative information on Goa during the 1830s; printed in Bombay by the Goan-operated Typographia Portugueza.

  A very rare, large-format separately issued map of the Portuguese Territory of Goa, India; being the finest general map of the colony issued during the second half of the 19th Century, with the present edition being the first major map to depict the entire completed line of the Mormugao Railway, Goa’s first railroad; predicated upon the stellar surveys of…

  A collection of 4 important Portuguese royal decrees announcing sweeping legal reforms in Goa, including the ‘Alvará’ that established the state’s new code for combatting piracy in the Indian Ocean; all part of the Marquis de Pombal’s radical Enlightenment agenda for the Portuguese Empire – all the pamphlets are very rare and in stellar condition.

[İncil-i Şerîf. Matta, Markus, Luka, Yuhanna / Sharif Bible. Matthew, Mark, Luke, John]   A translation of the Gospels in Uzbek from 1913.   8°, title page, 359 pp., later green cloth binding with gilt title on the spine, embossed gilt name of the collector on the cover, original “Printed in Leipzig” rubber stamp on the title page verso (minor…

Lithograph printed on two joined sheets 58 x 69 cm (22.8 x 27.2 inches) (minor staining, tiny tears in the margins, overall in a good condition).

[Edict of Restitution of Trade. Verified by Divine Clemency the remission of the Plague [lit. Contagious Disease] which broke out in Transylvania in October 1737…]   Broadside: 44 x 32 cm (17.3 x 12.6 inches), (soft folds, tiny tears, contemporary annotations in brown ink in the lower margins, overall in a good condition).    

  A detailed meteorological atlas of Greece with 119 coloured maps was printed in 1935 in Greece. This copy was dedicated by the author Elias Mariolopulos to his professor, a British meteorologist Sir William Napier Shaw.

  A rare Greek manual on quick and precise map-making on the field with limited equipment.   8°,77 pp. with black and white illustrations, original illustrated wrappers, stapled(printed on thin paper with traces of printed text on reverse side, small tears in margins, wrappers slightly stained, with tiny loss of paper in margins, but overall in a good condition).  

[New Political Map of Greece under D. Dimitrakos] [Neos politikos khartis tes Ellados ipo D. Dimitraki]   Colour lithograph, 100 x 70 cm (39.4 x 27.6 inches) (soft folds, tiny tears in margins, otherwise in a good condition).  

  [PEOPLE AND ARMY / INSTITUTION OF THE OFFICERS AND FIGHTERS OF S3 / NO. 1. / ATHENS 10 APR. 1944]   A rare ephemeral newspaper in Greek, printed during WWII by the resistance, the so called Mountain Government, was made for the occasion of secret elections. It was the first time in the history of Greece, that women were…

A grand format original manuscript that is one of the finest and most detailed maps of St. George’s, the capital of Grenada, from the slave-plantation era, the result of a collaboration between Captain William Elliott, James Langley and James Young of the Royal Engineers; drafted shortly after the Napoleonic Wars, when the Grenada lived under the spectre of a possible…

  Thomas Jefferys’ scarce plan of Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, published at the height of the Seven Years’ War.

  Etching with roulette, printed in sanguine, marked 2 in the upper right corner, platemark: 20,5 x 29 (8.2 x 11.4 inches), sheet: 28,5 x 37,5 cm (11.2 x 14.6 inches), (slightly stained and with light water-staining in margins).  

Very rare - the finest early general gold mining map of ‘The Guianas’ (British Guiana, Dutch Surinam and French Guiana), depicting numerous gold mining concession in the colonies’ incredibly rugged, jungle-covered interiors, resources which prospectors and government officials hoped would yield a ‘bonanza’ that would reverse the economic decline caused by the abolition of slavery; created from the best and…

An exceedingly detailed, very large masterplan of Georgetown, then the capital of British Guiana (today Guyana), amazingly defining every property lot, outlining and labeling every major building, depicting all parks and recreational facilities, and delineating every street and alleyway, being one of the most ‘panoptic’ of all West Indian city maps of its era; created by the Directorate of Overseas…

An extremely rare early issue of Charles Kennedy Jardine’s directory and almanac for British Guiana, an unusually comprehensive work of its kind, featuring a vast wealth of information available nowhere else, a critical resource for the study of the colony during this critical period, compiled and published in Georgetown by the ‘Daily Chronicle’ newspaper.   8° (16.5 x 10.5 cm):…

  An excellent large-format official map of British Guiana, made under the direction of George D. Bayley, the colony’s Land Commissioner, rich in new information from recent surveys.

  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).  

  2 issues of an early Hebrew newspaper Habazeleh were published in Jerusalem in 1898 and 1900.

A portrait of Jean-Baptiste Riché (1780–1847), the president of Haiti between March 1, 1846 and February 27, 1847.   Watercolours on paper, mounted on larger piece of brown paper, 23,5 x 16 cm (9.2 x 6.3 inches), German (wrong) title in black ink on the bottom (light foxing).

  2 Volumes, both 8°, 20th century green cloth binding with lettering on the cover and spine. Vol. 1: [2] frontispiece and title page printed in green and black, 94 pp. mimeographed text with black and white illustrations, [6] with a portrait, original illustrated wrappers. Vol 2: [2], 89 pp., mimeographed text with black and white illustrations, 6 illustrations printed…

An unusual, undated Polish edition of Hamlet, published in Lviv and Zlochiv in today’s Ukraine.   12°, 139 pp., old (publisher’s?) brown wrappers (old signature in ink on the title page, tiny folds and tears in white margins, wrappers slightly stained with small cracks around the spine, but otherwise a good condition as published with uneven margins and sporadic loose…

The first and only illustrated book on birds, published in Cuba, with originally coloured plates.   Small 4°: [4 pp.] blank, 126 pp., [4 pp.], 20 lithographed plates on thick paper (18 with original colouring, nos 13 and 19 uncoloured) and protected by guards, contemporary or slightly later binding and endpapers (minor staining, tiny chips in margins, partly repaired on…

A rare Hebrew – Ottoman Primer, printed in Izmir, Turkey, in 1913 on the eve of WWI.   8°, 32 pp., original wrappers with lettering (wrappers stained and ink-stained, wide margins with small tears and loss of white paper, slightly age-toned, sheets inside in a good clean condition).  

2 postcards. 9 x 14 cm (3.5 x 5.5 inches). Each postcard has Fabricius’s address on the front and a manuscript in black ink on the verso. One postcard is signed H. K., the other without a signature, but a continuation of the same topic in the same handwriting.

  A detailed guide in Turkish language to the Hajj and Hejaz Region includes maps of Mecca and Medina as well as the instructions for the routes, prayers, tariffs and other various useful tips for the pilgrims.   Large 12°. 63 pp. with black and white illustrations, original wrappers with lettering, two maps and a chart inserted in a paper…

An ephemeral broadside, printed in Damascus in Arabic and Ottoman languages, marks the stations along the Hejaz Railway between Damascus and Medina, as well as the availability of water for washing and drinking.   Broadside: 37 x 23,5 cm (14.5 x 9.28 inches), original blind stamp (little age-toned, light staining and tiny tears, but overall good).

  Highly decorative late Renaissance coat of arms of Michael von Herberstein from an Album Amicorum from 1600.

  The very rare first edition of a fascinating and wonderfully eccentric treatise on the philosophical, scientific and political state of the world during the Napoleonic Wars, and the historical journey that led to those times, by the German military scientist Rühle von Lilienstern, illustrated by a large, unique and resplendently coloured World Map on an oblique double-elliptical projection, illustrating…

  A rare Turkish version of an award-winning text on the role of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire.

Raja Śivaprasāda or Shivaprasad (राजा शिवप्रसाद 'सितारेहिन्द,1823 – 1895) Lucknow: Newul Kishore 1889.   8°, [4 pp.] title & index, v, 91 pp., later wrappers (uneven edges with tiny tears, little stained, otherwise in a good condition) (#70612).

  [Patmutʻiwn mardkayin patuastman / History of Human Vaccination].   An exceedingly rare, detailed book on the history and importance of vaccines written by a prominent Ottoman Armenian doctor Dikran Paşa Peştemalciyan, published on the eve of the Sublime Porte’s decree on the mandatory application of the smallpox vaccine.   4°: [2 pp.], portrait, [16pp.], 237 pp., with interleaved plates…

Hitler. Who was He? What did He Do? What Happened to Him?   A Turkish biography of Adolf Hitler, written three days after his death by a prominent writer and journalist Münir Süleyman Çapanoğlu.   8°, 110 pp., [2 pp.] blank, original illustrater front wrapper, contemporary brown patterned boards and brown cloth spine (tear in page 7-8, without loss of…

  A rare, seemingly unrecorded pamphlet gives valuable details on the 1st Swiss organised pilgrimage to the Holy Land, attended by 501 people from Switzerland and South Germany, in 1903, when travel to Ottoman Palestine was still quite dangerous and difficult to arrange.

Seemingly the only known surviving example of the first printing of the first published work by the first Western-trained Chinese medical doctor, being a report on the operations of the Kum-lee Fow Hospital, a missionary medical institution located in the western suburbs of Canton (Guangzhou) that pioneered many advanced Western treatments in China; Wong Fun, a graduate of the University…

  A rare and historically important map of Honolulu made only months after the coup d’état that toppled Queen Liliuokalani. 

8°. [3 pp.], 445 pp. with black and white illustrations, original illustrated cloth binding, old taxation stamp, rubber-stamp owner’s initials on the title page, original illustrated cloth binding, original pink endpapers (light staining, age-toning and foxing, sporadic small tears in margins, overall in a good condition).

Long small folio, 167 pp. with illustrations and photographs, original black cloth with debossed decoration and lettering (minor water-staining in the lower outer edge, binging lightly scuffed on the corners, otherwise in a good condition).

  Large 8°, 314 pp., boards with modern marbled paper, original calf spine with gilt decoration, original marbled paper endpapers (with light foxing and staining, p. 27-28 cracked in the upper part, a tear on p 192 repaired with old transparent paper).  

  [Binicilik Talimnâmesi. Müsvedde Halinde / Equestrian Instructions. In Sketches]   A detailed illustrated Ottoman manual on horses, dressage, military training and other equestrian sports   8°, ح, 314 pp. with black and white illustrations, [2 pp.] blank, last pages (index) printed on turquoise paper, later red cloth binding (index pages partly uncut, last two pages loose, minor staining, a…

  8°, 87 pp., 36 pp. with black and white illustrations in text, original wrapper with lettering (slightly stained, wrappers with tiny tears in margins, old Ottoman annotations on the title page, spine repaired).  

  A detailed statistical report on the first decade of the mental institution on the island San Servolo in Venice was printed by the Armenian press on San Lazzaro.

  A rare, seemingly unrecorded lithographed broadside, made in Freiburg, Germany, showcases the biggest German rail disaster of the late 19th century.

  Colour lithograph, 64 x 94 cm (25. 2 x 37 inches), originally dissected in 16 segments and mounted on linen (minor staining, overall in a good clean condition).  

A very rare and intriguing ethnographic map showcasing ‘Schwäbische Türkei’ (Swabian Turkey), the region of southwestern Hungary that since the late 17th century had been home to a large enclave of German Settlers (‘Donauschwaben’), who were imported to the region by the Austrian Habsburgs to revive the agrarian economy in the wake of the eviction of the Ottomans; the ‘Donauschwaben…

A detailed history of India, Hyderabad, and its rulers in Urdu, authored by historian Muhammad Ghulam Imam Khan, provides valuable insights into the events of the late 18th and mid-19th centuries.   Large 4º, 10 pp., 790 pp. lithographed text, contemporary goat binding with gold tooling (binding scuffed and scratched, joints broken but not detached, first two text pages loose,…

  8°: 98 pp., (some leaves mispaginated, but complete) lithographed text written in Nastaliq, 1 folding lithographed view, 1 folding lithographed map, original green printed boards (boards slightly scuffed, stained and with small loss of paper, small wormholes in the inner margins, otherwise in a good, clean condition).

  A work by a Muslim Ottoman medical doctor on issues of hygiene and health, as seen from a religious point of view.   8°: 72 pp., original blue printed wrappers, stapled (internally in a good, seemingly unread condition, wrappers with tiny tears, spine repaired, minor foxing, staples rusty).    

An exceptionally rare book containing the Austrian national anthem, written in ten languages of the Austrian Empire and published in Lemberg, now known as Lviv in Ukraine.   16º. Mispaginated and wrongly bound, but complete: original front wrapper, [1-2] title page, [7]-8, [3]-4, [5]-6, [17]-18, [9]-10, [11]-12, [13]-14, [15]-16, but wrongly numbered as 15, [19]-20, [23]-24, portraits, original rear wrapper.…

Jasper NANTIAT (d. 1817), Cartographer; William FADEN (1749 – 1836), Publisher. London: William Faden, January 1, 1810. Copper engraving with full original hand colour, dissected and mounted on 4 parts of original linen, all housed in an exquisite custom-made full brown calf box (measuring 23 x 16.5 x 4.5 cm), dating from 1811-5, with elegant gilt tooling and a black…

  A historically important catalogue of 721 books on science, religion and other subjects, published in English and Arabic languages by the American Mission Press in Beirut.   8°, 38 pp. in English, [3 pp.] blank, 51 pp. in Arabic, with illustrations in text, original wrappers with lettering (somehow brittle, with loss of paper in the corners, but without loss…

  A rare book with a collection of songs was printed during WWII in Cleveland, Ohio, in Slovenian language by the Slovenian Women’s Union of America, as a part of the women's liberation movement.

  Au Boulet Bleu. Coueille Dégraisseur de Paris, a l’honneur de prévenir la haute Noblesse et l’estimable Public de Constantinople qu’il a ouvert un magasin a Dégraissage en face du Palais de Galata-Sérail. Il enlève toutes sortes de taches de n’importe quelle étoffe que ce soit, sans altérer les couleurs; il rêmet les effets a neuf et leur donne leur…

A rare manual for officers is the fifth and the last book, printed in the first Istanbul lithographic press, run by a Frenchmen Henri Cayol on the premises of the Ministry of War for only five years. It was written by the main patron of this new technique, the statesman and admiral Koca Hüsrev Mehmed Pasha.   8°: [6 pp.]…

  A rare and fine pair of sea charts, presented together on a single sheet, of Chennai & Pulicat and the Cuddalore area (Tamil Nadu), from the ‘Secret Atlas’ of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), issued in Amsterdam by Johannes van Keulen II.

An attractive late 19th Century original watercolour view of Kumbhalgarh Fort, one of the most impressive of the Rajasthan ‘Hill Forts’, probably drafted by a British soldier.

  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.

  An Ottoman work on indigenous peoples of the world   8°. 408 pp. with black and white illustrations, original illustrated wrappers (wrappers with minor staining and cracks on the spine, otherwise in a clean, unbound condition).

An amazing artifact of Indonesian Independence, being an original draft of the first constitution of an independent Indonesia, as ratified at the famous ‘Round Table Conference’ (August 23 to November 2, 1949) in The Hague that set the final arrangements for the county’s sovereignty which was achieved on December 27, 1949; the present crudely-made mimeograph of a typescript is one…

  A seemingly unique engineer’s planning map of the Cirebon-Kroya Railway, a vital link that traversed the midriff of Java, connecting the north coast and south coast rail networks, likely made in 1912-3, just before construction was commenced on the project, which was completed in 1917; the map is printed by an unusual blue-tinted photolithographic technique and features the proposed…

  Very Rare – the first broadly accurate British sea chart of the southwestern coast of Sumatra, a critical region home to the important British base of Benccoolon-Fort Marlborough (modern Bengkulu), published by William Herbert in 1758.

François Valentijn’s magnificent map of Indonesia’s Spice Islands, the finest map of the region made during the dramatic era of the Dutch East India Company’s hegemony.

  Very Rare - the first broadly accurate British sea chart of the Straits of Sunda, but also extending to include West Java (including Jakarta) and southeastern Sumatra, published by William Herbert in 1758.

An unique and extraordinary artifact of the successful Dutch endeavours to gain colonial dominion over West Sumatra during the 1830s, in the wake of the Padri War (concluded 1837) and the 1832 intervention against the Aceh Sultanate, being an impressively detailed original manuscript itinerary map of West Sumatra, including it rugged Minangkabau Highlands, depicting a dense archipelago of villages and…

  A very large and beautifully produced separately issued map of the Empire of Persia (Iran), issued during the early days of the Pahlavi Dynasty; employing Persian script, it showcases the entire country in resplendent detail, predicated upon the best official sources; published in Tabriz’s glorious bazaar by the Saadat Central Library.

  A large map of highways in Iran, printed by the Ministry of Roads, was printed in English recto and Farsi verso in 1970, in the time of the rapid development of the country under Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in the time of the White Revolution. 

A rare, seemingly unrecorded early illustrated pamphlet on the history of Iran in Ottoman language   8°, 79 pp. with black and white illustrations and cover printed in red, later black cloth binding with gilt lettering (tiny old repaired holes in the lower part of the cover, old hand-written price on the inner side of the rear cover, binding with…

  A detailed road map of Iran, with a chart of distances between the major Persian cities and an inset relief map, was made in 1960 by an Iranian cartographer Abbas Sahab.