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A seemingly unrecorded variant of an extremely rare, colossal ‘Headquarters Map’ of French Indochina (modern day Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos) that was the blueprint for the imminent French colonial control takeover of Laos; the map was made in the immediate wake of the Third Mission Pavie (1889-91), led by the brilliant eccentric diplomat-explorer August Pavie that secured the pathway for…

A photograph of the Ibex Mine in Leadville, Colorado, by the local photographer G.B. Sanborn, made around 1900   Albumen silver print 16,5 x 21,5 cm (6.5 x 8.5 inches), originally mounted on grey card 25,5 x 30,5 cm (10 x 12 inches), with stamp of the author verso (margins little scuffed and stained, but overall in a good condition).…

A rare miniature Ottoman calendar for women was published in 1916 during World War I by the first Ottoman Muslim feminist press, which also printed a newspaper under the same name, Kadınlar Dünyası (Women’s World). 7 x 5,5 cm (2.8 x 2.2 inches), [64 pp.], calendar with blank pages verso, portraits of contemporary leaders and dignitaries, original illustrated covers mounted…

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 lovely little gem – being an exquisitely rendered original manuscript guide to maritime navigation by the Spanish Navy Pilot (later Captain) José Ignacio de la Sierra, a veteran of the Argentine War of Independence; of the most elegant penmanship with a pictorial watercolour title and richly embellished with geometric diagrams and statistical charts, it outlines the principles of course…

A guestbook from a renowned Munich-based Cognac distillery and liqueur factory, formerly operated by the Jewish families Macholl and Landauer until the rise of the Nazis. Small folio, 63 sheets of thick paper with signatures in various inks and pencil, 87 blank sheets, two mounted black and white photographs, inserted sheets with signatures and data about visits, inserted typed and…

A seemingly unrecorded collection of cards featuring transparent illuminations that depict demons, illusions, and portraits of Napoleon Bonaparte, accompanied by sheets containing macabre tales and other stories, created during the height of gothic novels' popularity.   11 originally coloured engravings, each 7 x 6 cm (2.7 x 2.3 inches), 9 folded green sheets, each with printed title on the front,…

A rare first edition of a children's educational book on Buddhism, authored by Thai Princess Poon Pismai Diskul. Large 8º, title, VIII, 24 pp., original wrappers with illustrated cover, minor staining and foxing, small pencil annotations on the title page, otherwise in good, seemingly unread condition).

A gigantic time chart of the world, based on Sebastian Adams’s legendary map of the history of time, printed in Guadalajara and pertinent to Mexican history.   Colour lithography, originally mounted on linen and varnished, linen stripes on the joints between segments. 70 x 682 cm (27.6 x 268.5 inches), (tiny loss of margins, varnish chipped, one of the joints…

A rare and high quality separately issued map of Hispaniola, including the French colony of Saint-Domingue (today’s Haiti) and the Spanish realm of Santo Domingo (today’s Dominican Republic), issued by William Faden, the leading British commercial cartographer, to satiate the intense public interest in the ongoing British Occupation of parts of Saint-Domingue (1793-8), an epic endeavour that was planned to…

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).

[Greiz, Germany: 1930s - 1940]