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The most consequential map of Namibia made during the German colonial era, a gigantic 8-sheet work that is the first broadly accurate general map of what was the protectorate of Deutsch-Südwestafrika of a scale sufficient for operational use, compiled in great haste but with considerable skill, at the ‘Kolonial-kartographischen Institut’ in Berlin by the master cartographers Paul Sprigade and Max…

  12°, 63 pp. with colour illustrations, original illustrated wrappers (minor scuffing to the spine, otherwise in a good condirion)  

  A luxury presentation copy of an army training field near Nuremberg, mounted on blue silk - a colour of the Bavarian noble family. 

  An uncommon book on Napoleon Bonaparte in Ottoman language, printed by the Bulaq Press in Cairo

  A broadside, announcing that robbing of the corpses as a crime, was printed amid the Napoleonic wars, two days after the Austrian invading of Bavaria and weeks after Napoleon’s taking over Vienna.

A bespoke example of Captain William Cornwallis Harris’ fascinating and important account of his 1836-7 expedition to the Transvaal, featuring the complete collation of the first edition, published in Bombay in 1838, with 4 plates lithographed by the author, plus, his excellent and important map, plus, extra-illustrated by 24 resplendently hand-colored lithographed plates and the map from the subsequent London…

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.

8°. 61 pp. with a black and white illustration, [3], stapled (Slightly age-toned, paper slightly fragile with small cracks in the white margins, front cover with light foxing, a very light water-staining in the upper inner corners, a tiny hole in the white margin of the page 33-34, a tiny hole in p. 54-55).

  An interesting, ephemeral photoprint map especially made for trekkers depicting the southern approaches to Mount Everest, published in Kathmandu, Nepal.