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A rare smaller colourful poster was made for a bicycle race across Slovenia, Croatia, and the Free Territory to Trieste. The race was organised by Yugoslavia in the time of the Tito-Stalin split, as a response to its expel from the popular Peace Race, organised by the Communist countries. 

  A fine example of the first scientific geological map of Bosnia & Herzegovina, published by Austrian Imperial and Royal Geological Institute, shortly after Austria-Hungary conquered the region from the Ottomans.  

  A Polish political broadside showcasing the Italian occupation of the Ethiopian Empire, as a warning to the upcoming situation. 

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

  An excellent little treatise on the appearance of the Solar Eclipse of July 28, 1851 over the Austrian Habsburg Empire, illustrated with a custom map - extremely rare – 1 of only 2 known examples.

  A unique manuscript map by one of the most important Venetian map-makers of the early 19th century Bernardo Combatti, shows the Arsenal, as rebuilt by Napoleon around 1810, to the form known today. The Arsenal today hosts the Venetian Biennale. 

  A rare empty official letterhead on parchment, with arms of the house of Bourbon-Two Sicilies. 

  A highly decorative politically motivated calligraphy darwing in the immediate run-up to the French Revolution, made by the French ‘Master Calligraphers’ during the era, and one of the early images of spectacles, in the form we know today. 

  A talking map.

  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.

A finely executed set of miniature embossed portraits of British luminaries, contained within an interesting envelope, suggesting that the set was posted from India to London in 1891.

An exquisitely rendered large-format watercolor of the Dodo Bird of Mauritius, after an image published in 1835 by the eminent zoologist Henri de Blainville.

  A very rare and decorative folding map of the Russian Empire, providing a fine overview of the growing railway system in European Russia and imperial expansion in the Far East, printed in Russian Cyrillic, and issued by a boutique printer in St. Petersburg.