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  Rare smaller Santini's version of the map of Istria.

Extremely rare – a lovely gem that represents the first detailed description of the Balearic Islands in Polish, issued in the wake of the Fall of Minorca (1756), by the Jesuit Press of Warsaw, including a fine sheet of maps engraved by Bartłomiej Strachowski.

Extremely rare – a broadside souvenir commemorating the ascension of King Carlos IV and Queen María Luisa to the Spanish throne, published in Málaga by Francisco de la Torre.

  A fine example the authoritative chart used by the French Government to manage their fishing rights in Newfoundland and the Grand Banks, in part based on the magisterial surveys of Newfoundland by James Cook & Michael Lane and Samuel Holland’s survey of the Island of St. John (Prince Edward Island). 

  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.

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.

  Extremely rare folding one sheet pamphlet issued at the time of a visit of the emperor Franz Joseph I to Ljubljana on Novemeber 19th 1856.

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.

  A fine large format sheet of two charts featuring the discoveries in the Caroline Islands (1828) and New Guinea (1827) by Jules Dumont D’Urville’s during his first voyage on the Astrolabe.

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