|
|
|
[Wien].
Vue de Vienne prise du coté du chateau de Schönbrunn. Paris, Guérin, ca. 1830.
Kolorierte Umrissradierung. Unter Glas gerahmt. 630:840 mm. Prachtvolle Gesamtansicht der Stadt Wien, von der Westseite gezeichnet von Högl, gest. von Schwartz. - Ansprechendes, großformatiges Blatt im Originalkolorit der Zeit.
|
|
|
[Hong Kong].
A fine collection of four late 19th century original photographs of scenes in Hong Kong. Hong Kong, [circa 1890].
4 albumen prints, 190 x 725 mm and 205 x 270 mm, all mounted on contemporary paper (285 x 40 mm) with manuscript titles in French. "Hong-Kong / Panorama général": a fine, large-scale panorama embracing all of Victoria, the capital of Hong Kong, from the perspective of the harbour. The scene is centred upon the concentration of major buildings along the grand quayside of the Praya, including the City Hall, the Hongkong & Shanghai Bank Building and the Hong Kong Hotel, the six-story building featured in the centre-right of the panorama. Notably, the hotel seems to still be in a partially-completed state, as construction of the edifice was not completed until 1892, a detail which helps to date the photograph. Numerous boats can be seen plying the harbour in the foreground, evidence that Hong Kong was one of Asia's busiest ports. Victoria Peak rises above the city, and the thin white line shown ascending the mountain, above City Hall, is the famous Peak Tram. This funicular railway was completed in 1888. - "Hong-Kong / La Rade prise de Bowen Road": an engaging view looking down upon Hong Kong harbour from the perspective of Bowen Road. The line of the celebrated Peak Tram, completed in 1888, is shown running up the slope of Victoria Peak, while numerous ships ply the harbour in the background. Bowen Road was named after George Ferguson Bowen, who served as the 9th Governor of Hong Kong from 1883 to 1885. - "Hong - Kong / Anniversaire de la naissance de la Reine": this fascinating view captures the pageantry of the celebration of the birthday of Queen Victoria. Spectators are shown observing vast lines of troops as they fire an armed salute in honour of Her Majesty, while tall ships decorated with banners are moored in the harbor, in the foreground. Queen Victoria (reigned 1837-1901) personified the British Empire, and her birthday (May 24th) was celebrated annually throughout Britain's colonial possessions. Another example of the same photograph, entitled in manuscript, "Queen's Birthday Parade Hong Kong," can be found in the collections of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (accession no. 86.140.310). - "Hong-Kong / Une Rue dans la ville Chinoise": this photograph captures an interesting street scene in Hong Kong's traditional "Chinatown", otherwise known as the Wan Chai District, located to the east of Victoria. While Victoria had a more "anglicized" appearance, befitting the centre of British colonial administration, Chinese modes of building construction, signage and ways of life prevailed in Wan Chai.
|
|
|
[Map of Arabia.] Brion de la Tour, Louis.
Perse, Turquie Asiatique et Arabie. Paris, Louis Charles Desnos, 1799.
Engraved map in original outline colour. Flanked by two mounted columns of French text. Very fine map of Arabia by the “Ingénieur-Geographe du Roy” Louis Brion de la Tour (1756-1823) showing Turkey, Palestine, present-day Iraq and Iran, the Caucasus region as well as the Arabian Peninsula. Cf. National Maritime Museum Cat. I, 264. Not in Al Ankary; Al-Qasimi.
|
|
|
Astronomical instruments.
Sphaera armillaris. Instrumentum artificiale Orrery ab inventore appellatum. Augsburg, Tobias Conrad Lotter, 1774.
Large Folio. Coloured copper engraving.
|
|
|
[Goodacre, William (after)].
Die natürliche Brücke in Virginien: Vereinte Staate. [Austria?, ca. 1840s-1850s].
Pen, black ink and watercolour on paper (590 x 440 mm), framed in a passe-partout (755 x 580 mm). Large, high quality watercolour of the Natural Bridge in Rockbridge County, Virginia. This natural arch spanning 27 meters was, along with Niagara Falls, one of the most popular tourist attractions in the United States in the late 18th and early 19th century. As an old natural wonder in a young country, it played an integral part in the formation of America's national identity and was "certainly a worthwhile side trip for travelers who hoped to experience the sublime quality of the American landscape" (Howat). The sublime aspect is often present when from the 1830s onward artists start depicting the Bridge: as in the present watercolour, where small figures are placed in the foreground to show the massiveness of the 88-meter geological formation. - The view shown in the present watercolour appeared as an engraving in John Howard Hinton's History and topography of the United States (1832) after a drawing made by the American landscape painter William Goodacre (1803-83). The image was widely pirated and imitated and appeared in numerous other publications, including Meyer's Universum in 1837, with a caption identical to the one on the present watercolour. The anonymous artist probably copied the image from the 1837 publication, but made several changes, simplifying most of the foliage but adding the large fern, duplicating the kneeling hunter and adding an extra deer. Interestingly, the engraving shows a tree peering out from behind the bridge, pencilled in outline, but never painted in. - From an Austrian private collection. In very good condition. Howat et al., American Paradise, pp. 272-274. Kastning, Natural Bridge, p. 20. Cf. Sears, Sacred places.
|
|
|
[Palestine].
Situs Terrae Promissionis SS Bibliorum Intelligentiam Exacte Aperiens: Per Christianum Adrichomium Delphum". Cologne, Kramer, 1682.
Engraved map, printed from two plates and assembled. Ca. 1065 x 390 mm (printed area ca. 1005 x 350 mm). Large and decorative map of the Holy Land, printed from two plate, from Christian van Adrichem's "Theatrum terrae sanctae et biblicarum historiarum". Van Adrichem's map is oriented toward the east and shows the twelve tribes of Israel on both sides of the River Jordan. The coastline runs from Sidon in Lebanon to Alexandria in Egypt, also showing part of the Red Sea. In the Mediterranean, off the coast, several ships and sea monsters are visible. On the Dead Sea are four burning cities: Sodom, Gomorrah, Zeboim, and Adama. - Folds smoothed and reinforced in places. A good, strong impression.
|
|
|
Vaugondy, Robert de.
Antiquor[um] Imperiorum Tabula [...]. [Paris], Robert de Vaugondy, 1757.
Engraved map (73 x 52 cm), hand-coloured in outline. This finely engraved map, published in Vaugondy’s “Atlas Universel”, extends to the Caspian Sea in the north, in the west to show Greece, east to the Indus River, and south to include the Red Sea and the Nile River valley. Almost the whole of Arabia is blank and unexplored, but parts of Oman and the cities and places along the Arabian Gulf are indicated. In good condition. National Maritime Museum Cat. I, 317. Al Ankary 185.
|
|
|
Halit Ziya [Türkkan].
Arap Yarimadasi ve Irak. [Istanbul, ca. 1929].
Ca. 280 x 200 mm. Manuscript map of the Arabian Peninsula and Iraq in original hand colour. Captioned in Turkish (in Latin letters). Unique hand-drawn map of the Arabian Peninsula and Iraq by the Turkish cartographer, scientist and cadastre specialist Halid Ziya Türkkan, who was appointed Head of the Science Committee of Istanbul's new cadastre office in 1925. The map distinguishes Nejd, Yemen, Hadramaut, Oman, Kuwait, and Iraq by different colours, also showing the Bay of Aden, the Umman Sea, and the Red Sea. Featured cities include Aden, Makkah, Medina, Sana'a, and Mascat. - Signed in ink by the cartographer. Very well preserved.
|
|
|
[Yemen].
Manuscript map of Yemen Vilayet. [Probably Istanbul, ca. 1915].
Ca. 230 x 190 mm. Original hand-coloured map on tissue paper. In Ottoman script and Arabic. Hand-drawn map of the Yemen vilayet, distinctly outlining the sanjaks of Sana'a, Ta'izz, Hudeyde, and Asir, bordered by the Arabian Desert, the Hejaz vilayet, the Red Sea, and the Umman Sea. Maps such as this, executed on thin tracing paper, were commonly made as educational tools at elite Ottoman schools and universities during the early 20th century, although few such specimens survive. The manuscript notes suggest that the map was used for military purposes during the last Ottoman imperial period. - At the beginning of the 20th century, the vilayet covered an area of 200,000 square kilometers, its population having reached 2,500,000 by 1885. When World War I broke out, Imam Yahya remained nominally loyal to the Sultan but at the same time strove to negotiate with Britain. Turkish forces withdrew in 1918, and Imam Yahya strengthened his control over northern Yemen, creating the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen. - Very well preserved.
|
|
|
Nihat Bey, Mehmet.
[The Ottoman Empire and the Balkan Wars]. Istanbul, [1924 and] 1928.
Folio (ca. 410 x 570 to 570 x 820 mm). 22 folded original military maps, 8 of which in colour (scales 1:20,000 - 1:420,000). - Includes 56 ff. of Ottoman Turkish manuscript notes on military history, loosely stored. A rare and substantial set of military maps of the Balkan Wars, issued as rear-pocket matter to accompany the three-volume work "1328-29 Balkan Harbi, Trakya Seferi" (1924-28) by the topographer and military historian Nihat Bey. Never seen at auction; merely three copies could be traced in libraries worldwide (Istanbul, Princeton, and Washington). The maps show the Ottoman military campaigns on the Balkan peninsula against Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece, and Montenegro in 1912 and 1913, wars which resulted in the Ottoman Empire losing the bulk of its European territory. - Nihad Bey (1886-1928) of Bursa held the rank of Lieutenant Colonel but is remembered as a scholar rather than a soldier. The first and foremost military historian of the Turkish Republic, he published no fewer than 39 books in which he meticulously evaluated operational mistakes and emphasized lessons to be learned from past wars. - Includes a set of manuscript notes in pencil, presumably taken by one of Nihat Bey's students at the military academy in the course of lectures on early 20th century Ottoman military history. Bey probably incorporated the maps in his lectures, as is suggested by marks and notes found on several map sheets, mostly in blue or red crayon, corresponding to the colours and patterns used in printing eight of the maps. - Small tears and holes to several maps, mostly along the folds. The manuscript notes show traces of stapling. An unusual and important specimen of Turkish military history.
|
|
|
Rothenburg, R. von.
Uebersichts-Karte aller in Deutschland und den angrenzenden Ländern seit dem Jahre 113 n. Ch. bis 1830 vorgefallenen Schlachten, Belagerungen und Gefechte. Berlin, Hampe, 1830.
1020 x 850 mm. Kupferstichkarte in 24 Segmenten, auf Leinen aufgezogen und gefaltet. In Schuber. Zeigt das Gebiet zwischen Amsterdam, Kopenhagen, Königsberg, Warschau, Peterwardein, Triest, Lyon und Paris, jeweils mit der Jahreszahl der militärischen Auseinandersetzung neben dem Ort.
|
|
|
D'Anville, [Jean-Baptiste Bourgignon].
Golfe Persique. Dressé en 1758 et publié en 76 par le Sr. d'Anville, Prém[ier] Géogr[aphe] du Roi. [Paris], 1776.
Engraved map. 282 x 440 mm (image). 311 x 465 mm (sheet). The famous nautical chart by the French geographer and cartographer d'Anville (1697-1782), encompassing the Arabian Gulf from Basra to the Straits of Hormuz. Although the southwestern part of the Gulf is poorly explored, various Gulf cities are identified, including "Julfar" (Ras al-Khaimah), "Mekehoan" (Umm Al Quwain), "Kalba", and "Ras-ol Lima". The city of "Al Katif" is clearly identified. The Qatar Peninsula is entirely absent, but the island of Bahrain is noted (though misaligned), and the coastline between Bahrain and Abu Dhabi is marked as an "entirely unknown coast". - With several contemporary manuscript additions in ink, including "Gatar" (south of Bahrain) and "Kouait" (Kuwait), as well as a few later notes in pencil in the Bahrain area. Old shelfmarks on the reverse. Slightly toned. David Rumsey Map Collection 2603.025. Al-Qasimi (2nd ed.), p. 236.
|
|
|
[Saudi Arabia and Yemen].
Collection of USAF Aeronautical Charts. Washington, DC, Army Map Service, 1942 and 1944.
8 charts. 560 x 735 mm, with key printed on the back. Scale 1:1,000,000. Substantial set of first edition U.S. pilot charts from the Second World War. Includes 2 maps of the Arabian Peninsula (668 and 669), depicting the border region of Saudi Arabia, Yemen and the Aden Protectorate and covering the area between the 42nd and 54th meridian east, and between the 16th and 20th parallel north. Also shows the Frasan Islands as well as large parts of the Rub' al Kahli desert with sections marked "unexplored", the city of Salala constituting the easternmost point. - Further, two maps of Iran (429 and 443) between the 53rd and 60th meridian east, and the 28th and 36th parallel north, identifying Kerman, Yazd and Birjand. - The remaining maps cover western Afghanistan (439), labelling Herat and Farah, central India (559), with cities such as Jabalpur, Bhopal and Achalpur, and the Indian Ocean showing the Chagos archipelago (1037) and Comoro Island (1052). - Chart no. 1037 dampstained with loss to the centre, chart no. 669 lacks approx. 5.5 cm, clipped away at upper margin. Remaining maps with occasional small tears, but overall in good condition.
|
|
|
[Southern Palestine].
Seetzens Entwurf einer Original Charte von Dschebal (Gebalene) und Scharah- (Seir-) Gebirge. Nach mündlichen Nachrichten [...] mit Hinzufügung der alten Namen von Fr. Kruse. [Berlin, G. Reimer, 1859].
Lithographed map, single sheet. 455 x 560 mm (image size), 516 x 645 mm (sheet size). Scarce lithographed map of southern Palestine showing the travel route of the German orientalist Ulrich Jasper Seetzen (1767-1811), designating landmarks like Petra and Saint Catherine's Monastery on the Sinai Peninsula, as well as geological features. The main map shows Seetzen's itinerary from the Be'er Sheva area to its intersection with the Egyptian caravan road from Mecca to Cairo, flanked in the east by Al-Sharah mountains and the Gebalene region. An inset depicts the continuation of the route from there to Mount Sinai, while another contains a detailed plan of the mountain. Features comments on soil fertility as well as labels of notable settlements, mountains, streams, and wall remains encountered along the route. - Prepared by A. Bräunig, the map was issued as plate 3 in the fourth volume of Seetzen's posthumous travelogue series "Reisen durch Syrien, Palästina, Phönicien, die Transjordan-Länder, Arabia Petraea und Unter-Aegypten", published from 1855 to 1859. - Very well preserved. OCLC 5061964.
|
|
|
[Armenia].
Arménie Russe. Rossijskaja Armenija. Venice, [Imprimerie des Méchitaristes de] St. Lazare, 1828.
260 x 380 mm. Engraved map mounted on cloth. Matted. Early map of Russian Armenia, featuring the eight provinces annexed by Russia in 1828, with key in French and Russian. Following Qajar Iran's defeat in the Russo-Persian War (1826-28) and the 1828 Treaty of Turkmenchay, Eastern Armenia was, among other territories, ceded to Russia. It would remain part of the Russian Empire until its collapse in 1917. - Printed at the Mechitarists' press on the island of San Lazzaro, Venice, where the Armenian order had set up their colony in 1717. They began their editorial activities as early as the following year and set up a printing press, famed for its typographic capability in many languages and alphabets, in 1789. - Very rare; catalogues list a single specimen in the British Library. OCLC 556404373.
|
|
|
Dufour, Auguste Henri / Amari, Michele Benedetto Gaetano.
Carte de Sicilie dans son état actuel [...] Avec les réductions de la carte ancienne d'après Ptolémée et de la carte arabe d'après Edrisi. Paris, Lemercier, 1859.
Engraved map. 550 x 690 mm (image), 595 x 760 mm (sheet). Scale 1:519,210. 18 sections mounted on paper. Rare topographical map of Sicily, featuring two inset maps after Ptolemy and Al-Idrisi, allowing an immediate comparison of the depictions of the island in the 2nd, 12th, and 19th centuries. The main map identifies a remarkable number of towns and villages, including Palermo, Catania, Syracuse, Mazara, Caltanissetta, and Nicosia, as well as mountains, roads and paths. Two additional insets show Malta and the Aeolian Islands. Engraved by the German-French engraver and cartographer Erhard Schieble (1821-80). - Slightly foxed. Rarely seen at auction.
|
|
|
[Eastern Mediterranean].
Vostochnoe sredizemnomor'e. Moscow, [Main Directorate of Geodesy and Cartography under the Council of Ministers of the USSR], 1972.
91 x 111 cm. Original colour-printed map. Scale: 1:2,000,000. Rare political map of the Eastern Mediterranean from the Cold War era, showing Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, and large parts of Egypt, Iraq, and northern Saudi Arabia. With Cyrillic titles and captions. - Small marginal flaws. A few annotations in blue ballpoint.
|
|
|
[Mappa Mundi - Africa and Asia].
Hand-drawn map of the Southern Hemisphere. No place, 17th or early 18th c.
Ca. 195 x 293 mm. Ink on vellum primed with gesso, annotated in Latin. An early map of Africa and Asia south of the Equator, Indonesia largely obscured by a defect to the upper right corner. Tristan da Cunha is identified, as well as the Antarctic Circle. The map also shows the hypothetical southern continent Terra Australis Incognita, merging into New Guinea at the very right edge of the vellum sheet. The "unknown land of the south" was first posited in antiquity and appeared on maps between the 15th and 18th centuries before its existence was finally disproven by the voyages of James Cook, which instead established the existence of Australia more or less in its place. - Ink rather faint in places. Surface slightly rubbed; some wrinkling and creasing; loss to upper right corner (ca. 6 x 3 cm).
|
|
|
[Qatar - Bahrain - El Katif].
Hofuf. World 1,000:000. Series 1301. Edition 5-GSGS. Sheet NG39. [London], War Office and Air Ministry, 1963.
Colour-printed map, ca. 750 x 610mm. Scale: 1:1,000,000. Rare 5th GSGS edition of this map of Qatar, Bahrain, and Ras Tanura in Saudi Arabia, as part of the International Map of the World series. Depicts Saudi Arabia from As Saffaniyah in the North over Hofuf, to Hidiba in the South. Shows boundaries, highways and roads, railways, airports, rivers and water features, and other details. - Two small brown spots to the image and a nick to the top edge, some creasing near margins. OCLC 34907145.
|
|
|
[Medina - Al-Ula].
Medina. World (Asia) 1:1,000,000. Series 1301. Edition 4-GSGS. Sheet NG-37 & part NG-36. [London], War Office and Air Ministry, 1960.
Colour printed map, ca. 810 x 608 mm. Scale: 1:1,000,000. Shows boundaries, highways and roads, railways, rivers and water features, and other details. Rare 4th GSGS edition of this map of Saudi Arabia, as part of the International Map of the World series, showing the western coastline as well as the cities Medina and Ha'il and the oasis of Al-Ula in the interior. - Stamp of ownership of Arizona State University, along with "withdrawn" and "superseded" stamps on top and next to it. - 56 mm piece of adhesive tape on top edge; pencil marks to lower right corner. OCLC 634944590. Cf. OCLC 35899626 (1962 ed.).
|
|
|
[Arabian Peninsula].
Omoumi Mamalik Mahrousi Shahani [General map of the protected countries. Ottoman Empire]. Istanbul, Matbaa-i Amire [Imperial Military Press], [1896 CE =] 1312 H.
150 x 130 cm. Scale: 1:3,000,000. Colour lithograph, dissected into 24 sections and mounted on original linen. Very rare, monumental wall map of the Ottoman Empire, featuring one of the largest and most detailed printed representations of the Arabian Peninsula produced in the Islamic World prior to World War I. Perhaps more than any other map, it reveals the immense logistic challenges faced by Hajj pilgrims just in advance of the construction of the Baghdad and Hejaz Railway systems. Printed for official use, the map appeared at a time when the Sublime Porte was going to great lengths to shore up its authority in the Red Sea region (Hejaz, Asir, and Yemen), while being pressured by Britain to retreat from the domains it claimed in the Arabian Gulf (Kuwait, Al-Qatif/Hofuf, and Qatar). - Indeed, the present map would have been of great value to Ottoman generals and cabinet officials for strategic planning, as Arabia was increasingly a focus of global attention and interference. It served as the ideal strategic aid to chart the future construction of the Hejaz Railway (built 1900-08) and the Baghdad Railway (extended from the Anatolian Railway, from 1903 onwards) and delineates some of the world's most strategically important railway lines before 1900. - The main map encompasses most of the Arabian Peninsula, from Qatar and the Hadramaut westwards (while far eastern Arabia, including Oman and what is today the United Arab Emirates is featured in an inset, lower left). The coastlines and rivers are crisply depicted; mountain ranges are expressed by delicate tan shading; all cities and towns of note are labelled; the names of regions and tribal areas are revealed, while all key roads and Hajj caravan routes are delineated. The map features stellar coverage of the western Gulf region, labelling Qatar (then an autonomous part of the Ottoman Empire), Bahrain (a British protectorate prized for its fine natural harbour), and Kuwait, an autonomous Sheikhdom within the Ottoman Empire that would shortly become a British protectorate. Inland, the map details the Saudi-Wahhabi domain Nejd, with its capital Riyadh, while to the northwest lies the territory of the rival Al-Rashid clan, with its capital Ha’il. - Minor soiling and waterstaining, occasional light edge wear. Tears in linen partly repaired. A rare survival. Osmanli cografya literatürü tarihi [History of geographical literature during the Ottoman period], pp. 756f. David Rumsey Map Collection 13186.000 (the single other copy known in the trade). Not in Al-Qasimi collection (1493-1931).
|
|
|
[Aramco - Map of Saudi Arabia and the Gulf].
Central Area. Scale 1:1,000,000. [Dhahran, Aramco / USGS, 1953 or shortly after].
763 x 763 mm. Scale 1:1,000,000. Key in English. Printed on cloth. Blueprint map of the Gulf, showing Qatar, Bahrain, and Kuwait, as well as parts of Saudi Arabia, Iran and Iraq. It pays particular attention to oil fields, naming them individually and illustrating oil pipelines and facilities, including the 435 kilometre Qatif-Qaisumah pipeline which connects to the Trans-Arabian pipeline, as well as the offshore terminal and refinery at Ras Tanura. The map records some of the problematic borders within the region, showing the Iraq-Saudi Neutral Zone, the Kuwaiti-Saudi Neutral Zone and Buraimi Oasis. Among the more notable oil fields are Greater Burgan, the world's largest sandstone oil field, consisting of the Burgan field itself along with the much smaller Magwa and Ahmadi fields, as well as the Wafra field discovered in 1953 by the American Independent Oil Company and Pacific Western Oil Company. Wafra was unique in being operated jointly under separate concessions from two countries, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, granted to American Independent Oil Company and Getty Oil Company (formerly Pacific Western Oil Company) respectively. - Slightly toned along folding lines and lower left margin.
|
|
|
[Hydrographic Office].
[UK Admiralty Charts: The Arabian Gulf]. Persian Gulf (2858). Approaches to Abu Zabi (3705). London, published at the Admiralty, 1970-1971.
2 nautical charts. Standard issue, 70 x 103 cm approx. with a single fold. Two fine British Admiralty Hydrographic Charts for the Gulf region, covering the entire north-eastern coastline of the Arabian Peninsula. The set comprises the comprehensive map of the entire Arabian Gulf (2858), covering the area from Basra to Ras al-Hadd, as well as the map of Trucial Oman (3705) encompassing plans of Umm Al Qaywayn, Dubai and Abu Dhabi. - First issued in 1955 and 1965 respectively, the present charts are enhanced editions from the early 1970s. The practice was to print an initial edition based on a major hydrographic survey, and then to overprint them with subsequent data as it became available. - Small creases. Very well preserved.
|
|
|
[United Arab Emirates].
United Arab Emirates 1:50,000 [and] 1:100,000. Abu Dhabi, Military Survey, Armed Forces, 1990-1992.
7 colour printed maps. Scale 1:50,000 and 1:1,000,000. In English and Arabic. Folded. First edition. A set of exceedingly rare UAE topographic maps, compiled from 1:30,000 scale aerial photography taken during 1986 and 1987, presumably based on UK versions. The maps show international boundaries, tracks and paths, bridges, historical landmarks, schools, tree and date plantations, mangroves, oil and gas injection wells, mosques and cemeteries, emergency telephones, water pipelines and tanks, cliffs and rocky areas, as well as other details encountered in the vast desert. Occasionally the average relative height of the dunes is given, reaching up to 45 metres at certain points. - The 6 maps of the 1:50,000 series are sheets number NF-40-01-14, NF-40-01-22, NF-40-01-34, and NF-40-02-11, as well as NG-40-13-54, and NG-40-13-63. The maps of this series "were used extensively for UTM [Universal Transverse Mercator projection coordinate system] Zone 39 rectification. These maps have a local UAE national grid which is equivalent to the UTM grid if a bias of 2,150,000 m in the y-dimension and 150,000 m in the x-dimension are added" (Jensen). The single map of the 1:100,000 series, dating from 1992, is sheet number NG-40-136. - Some pencil marks and circles. The 1:50,000 scaled maps have a stamped six-digit number and a round stamp in Arabic type on the reverse; the 1:100,000 scaled map has a square stamp in Arabic type on the reverse. A few small tears and creases; occasional adhesive tape; paper variously pierced. No copies traceable in libraries internationally. Jensen [et al.], Coastal Environmental Sensitivity Mapping for Oil Spills in the United Arab Emirates [...] 8.
|
|
|
Grimm, Maximilian von.
Grundriss der k. k. Haupt- und Residenzstadt Wien mit ihren Vorstädten nach den neuen Hausnummern. Plan de la Ville de Vienne et de ses Fauxbourgs [...]. Wien, Artaria und Comp., 1797.
1373 x 1388 mm. Kolorierte Kupferstichkarte. 48 Segmente auf Leinen aufgezogen. Mit figürlicher Kartusche von Hieronymus Benedicti nach Grimm. In marmoriertem Schuber der Zeit mit blindgepr. Titelschild ("Plan de la Ville de Vienne et de ses Fauxbourgs") sowie einem handschriftlichen Rückenschildchen ("Plan de Vienne 1797"). Erste Auflage des sog. Grimm-Plans von Wien und Umgebung, mit den Hausnummern der 2. Häusernumerierung 1795, der den veralteten Nagel-Plan von 1780/81 ersetzte. "Ausgezeichnet ausgeführt" (Dörflinger). Grimm verkleinerte Nagels Plan um das anderthalbfache und brachte ihn auf den neuesten Stand; "das abgebildete Gebiet deckt sich fast zur Gänze mit dem der Vorlage, auch die Darstellungsweise ist nahezu identisch - lediglich die Orientierung wurde um 180° gedreht (nordost- statt südwestorientiert [...] Blatt VI enthält in tabellarischer Form ein alphabetisch geordnetes 'Verzeichniss der K. Kön. und Aerarial Gebäude', der fürstlichen, gräflichen und geistlichen Häuser, der 'Kirchen und Pfarren', der 'Academien, Schulen, Spitäler' und der 'Sehenswürdigkeiten für Fremde' sowie ein 'Register der Plätze, Straßen und Gassen'" (ebda.). - Der Schuber an den Ecken etwas berieben; die Karte wohlerhalten. Dörflinger S. 297, Art 24. Austria Picta 108.
|
|
|
Jakubicska, Stephan.
Neuester Grundriss der Haupt und Residenzstadt Wien und der Umliegenden Gegenden [...]. Vienne et ses Environs. Wien, Artaria und Comp., 1803.
635 x 1302 mm. Mehrfarbige Kupferstichkarte, 44 Segmente auf Leinen aufgezogen mit Legende auf der linken Seite. Gefaltet in marmoriertem Umschlag und Schuber der Zeit mit goldgepr. Rückenschildchen "Grundriss von Wien". Der "inhaltlich vorzügliche" (Austria Picta) Grundrissplan von Wien, hier im seltenen Mehrfarben-Kupferstichdruck. Erstmals 1789 erschienen und noch mehrfach wiederaufgelegt. "Unter den Karten, die Artaria und Comp. [...] verlegte, bildet die von Stephan Jakubicska gezeichnete und Sebastian Mansfeld gestochene Umgebungskarte von Wien zweifelsohne den qualitativen Höhepunkt [...] Als Grundlage für die Arbeit dienten zweifelsohne die entsprechenden Sektionen der sog. Josephinischen Landesaufnahme [...] Es handelt sich hiermit um die einzige Karte, die auf Grund der streng geheimgehaltenen Josephinischen Landesaufnahme entworfen und im gleichen Maßstab (1:28.800) und in der gleichen Ausführung (Geländedarstellung) wie diese an die Öffentlichkeit gelangte [...] Jakubicskas Karte stellt jedoch keine bloße Kopie der Josephinischen Landesaufnahme dar: zum einen sind die [...] eingetretenen Veränderungen in der Topographie berücksichtigt [...], zum anderen hat Jakubicska die Karte nach Südosten orientiert, um im üblichen Quer-(Imperialfolio-)Format auch die kaiserliche Sommerresidenz Laxenburg unterzubringen" (Dörflinger, S. 285f.). - Mit den oft fehlenden ergänzenden Kartensegmenten von Baden und Trumau, die die Karte ab der dritten Ausgabe 1799 nach Südwesten erweiterten. Die vorliegende Neuausgabe von 1803 unterscheidet sich "von ihrer Vorgängerin durch einen geringfügig geänderten Titel [...], durch den zusätzlichen französischen Titel [...] und durch die Einzeichnung der 'Cavallerie Lager' und 'Infanterie Lager' bei Münchendorf", die in der Folgeausgabe von 1805 wieder entfernt wurden (Dörflinger, S. 371). - Alte hs. Bibliothekssignatur auf der Karte verso sowie auf dem Umschlag. Der Schuber unbedeutend berieben; die Karte ausgezeichnet erhalten. Dörflinger, Österr. Karten im frühen 19. Jh., S. 371. Vgl. Dörflinger, Österr. Karten des 18. Jhs., Art 11. Austria Picta, 108.
|
|
|
Liechtenstern, Joseph Marx von.
Allgemeine Charte des Kaiserthums Oesterreich, nebst einem grossen Theile Deutschlands, der Schweiz, Italiens, der Türkey, Russlands und Preussens. Wien, Joseph Riedl, 1816.
1410 x 1755 mm. Grenzkolorierte Kupferstichkarte in 9 Blättern, Maßstab ca. 1:900.000. Jedes Blatt in 12 Segmenten auf Leinen aufgezogen. Blatt 9 mit dem Plan "Wien mit seinen Umgebungen". Gefaltet in zeitgenöss. marmoriertem Umschlag und Originalschuber des Verlags mit goldgepr. Rückenschildchen "Kaiserthum Oesterreich". Letzte Auflage dieser ausgezeichneten, erstmals 1809 erschienenen monumentalen Gesamtkarte der Habsburgermonarchie - der "bis dahin weitaus größte[n] gedruckte[n] Karte der Österreichischen Monarchie" (Austria Picta). In dieser Auflage neu dargestellt sind die "im Münchner Vertrag festgelegten Grenzen zwischen Bayern und Österreich" (Dörflinger, S. 607). In ihrem grundlegenden Umfang noch 1805 entworfen, wurde die Karte vom Pressburger Frieden am 26. Dezember 1805 und dann von einem langen Streit zwischen Kartograph und Verlag überholt, sodass die neun Blätter "jenen Raum dar[stellen], der bis Dezember 1805 zur Österreichischen Monarchie gehörte - also auch Tirol und Vorarlberg, Venetien und Dalmatien sowie die Vorlande, wobei sich diese Territorien noch zusätzlich durch ihre dichte Topographie von den angrenzenden nicht-österreichischen Gebieten optisch deutlich abheben [...] Von ganz ausgezeichneter Qualität [ist] der Stich von Joseph Stöber, der die stellenweise Überfüllung mit Einzelheiten weitgehend mildert. Den Großteil von Blatt 9 nimmt die Nebenkarte 'Wien mit seinen Umgebungen' (Maßstab ca. 1:90.000) ein, die das Gebiet zwischen Korneuburg und Vöslau/Ebreichsdorf bzw. zwischen Langenlebarn/Breitenfurt und Fischamend/Ebergassing - also vor allem den südlichen und südöstlichen Teil des Umlandes von Wien - abbildet" (ebda., S. 605f.). - Umschlag und Schuber gering berieben. Vereinzelt kleine Randläsuren an den einzelnen Segmenten. Insgesamt wohlerhalten. Dörflinger 603ff., KIC 31. Vgl. Austria Picta 34.4 (Aufl. von 1811).
|
|
|
[Egypt].
USAF aeronautical chart (447) Suez Canal. Washington, D.C., D. Survey, War Office and Air Ministry, 1958.
Colour printed map, 765 x 565 mm. Scale 1:1,000,000. On verso aeronautical symbols and world aeronautical chart index. Third edition. - Pilot's map of the Suez region with the 1949 Armistice border, the de facto borders of the State of Israel from 1949 until the Six-Day War in 1967. In addition, the chart shows parts of the Mediterranean, the Gulf of Suez and the Gulf of Aqaba, and details major cities including Cairo, Port Said, al-Mansura, al-Fayyum, and Jerusalem, as well as main roads, wadis, and landmarks such as Saint Catherine's Monastery on Mount Sinai. - Very well-preserved.
|
|
|
[Map - Saudi Arabia - Jordan].
USAF aeronautical chart and information service. World aeronautical chart (446) Wadi Sirhan. Washington, D.C., AAF Aeronautical Chart Service, 1945.
Colour-printed map, 730 x 560 mm. Scale 1:1,000,000. On verso: legend, aeronautical information, and index map. First edition. - Pilot's map of Wadi Sirhan in the border region of Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Transjordan. It shows international boundaries populated places, roads and tracks, railways, wireless telegraph stations, forts, wadis, wells, vegetation and terrain features. Shows also parts of Transjordan and Iraq, including the zigzagging border between Saudi Arabia and Transjordan. - In excellent condition.
|
|
|
[Saudi Arabia].
Abl Ghamghimah. Series K 502, Sheet NE 39-4, Edition 1-AMS. Washington, D.C., Army Map Service, 1965.
Folding map. Ca. 755 x 570 mm. Scale 1:250,000. Military geological map of 'Abl Ghamghimah in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia. Prepared by the U.S. Army after aerial photography in December 1954 and January/February 1955. Reprinted for the UK Ministry of Defence with their stamp: "Limited distribution. U.K. officials are not to release the map outside government service". The chart details the average relative heights of sand dunes as well as sabkhas and water wells. - Occasional light browning.
|
|
|
[Saudi Arabia].
Al Jauf H-37. Potsdam, Ministerium für nationale Verteidigung, 1965/1966.
645 x 590 mm. Scale 1:1,000,000. Topographical map covering the northern part of Saudi Arabia around the town of Jawf (Jauf) and Wadi Sirhan. It shows international boundary, populated places, roads and tracks, railways, wireless telegraph stations, forts, wadis, wells, vegetation and terrain features. Shows also parts of Transjordan and Iraq. Relief shown by hachures, spot heights and gradient tints. - A few brown spots near upper left corner. Very well preserved.
|
|
|
Shell.
Road Map of the Gulf. [Middle East], Hunting Surveys Ltd., 1970s.
Laminated folding map. Ca. 910 x 580 mm. Scale 1:1,500,000. Captions in English and Arabic. Road map of the Gulf region with 7 inset plans of Manama, Doha, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait, Dubai, Mutrah and Muscat. Apart from main and secondary roads and railways, the chart details larger and smaller towns, pipelines and oil fields. - Pierced near corners. Otherwise well preserved.
|
|
|
[Asia] - Gaebler, Eduard.
Asien. Leipzig, [1892].
254 x 201 mm. Lithographed map. Scale 1:50,000,000. Gilt wooden frame (290 x 357 mm). Political map of Asia prior to WWI, showing the Arabian Peninsula and the Gulf, the Ottoman Empire, Russia, China, India, Japan, and South East Asia, including the Philppines and Indonesia, as well as large parts of Europe and the westernmost part of Africa. With an inset map of Tokyo and its surroundings (1:500,000). - Early edition of Eduard Gaebler's map of Asia, published in "Neuester Hand-Atlas über alle Teile der Erde" (Leipzig, Gaebler's Geographisches Institut, 1892). The map saw numerous reissues; a slightly revised edition appeared in Gaebler's "Kleiner Handatlas" as late as 1933. - Slightly foxed. Frame with some traces of worming. An appealing map in an attractive wooden frame with a gilt border.
|
|
|
[Middle East] - Gaebler, Eduard.
Vorder-Asien. Leipzig, [1892].
254 x 201 mm. Lithographed map. Scale 1:25,000,000. Gilt wooden frame (290 x 357 mm). Political map of the Middle East prior to WWI, detailing the Arabian Peninsula, the Gulf, Iran, and the Ottoman Empire, as well as parts of Africa, Russia and China. Among the labelled cities on the Gulf are Sharjah, Al-Wakrah and Manamah. With 4 inset maps showing Palestine (1:2,500,000) and Jerusalem with its surroundings (1:500,000) as well as the southern German states and Lake Constance for scale. - Early edition of Eduard Gaebler's map of western Asia, published published in "Neuester Hand-Atlas über alle Teile der Erde" (Leipzig, Gaebler's Geographisches Institut, 1892). The map saw numerous reissues; a revised edition appeared in Gaebler's "Kleiner Handatlas" as late as 1933. - Slight foxing. Frame shows some traces of worming; tiny piece of wood chipped near left margin. An appealing map in an attractive wooden frame with a gilt border.
|
|
|
Edition Beringer & Pampaluchi, Zurich 27
Lotto di 2 cartoline - Cartes Postales - Chateau de Chillon. Musée + La Chapelle
2 Cartoline postali non viaggiate, senza data. Codice W 8254 + W 4154 - Vedi foto fronte e retro. 2 Unused and undated post cards in good condition, 141 x 90 mm - Worldwide delivery.
|
|
|
AFRICA - JAILLOT, H./ BRION DE LA TOUR.
L'Afrique divisée suivant l'estendüe de ses Principales Parties ou sont distinguès les uns des autres, Les Empires, Monarchies, Royaumes, Estats, et Peuples...Corrigées et augmentée par Mr. Brion.
Paris, chez le Sr Desnos, (ca 1783). 46,5x64,5 cm. Engraved map of Africa with the Mediterranean Sea at north. Contemporary handcoloured. Cartouche uncoloured. A few tears showing in right grade-scale, no loss.
|
|
|
ATLAS - BUUL, A.
Verdens Atlas udarbeidet efter de nyeste og bedste Kilder. Tegnet og graveret af A. Bull. Gjennemseet og revideret af P.C. Friedenreich.
Kjöbenhavn, Chr. Steen & Søn, (1849-61). Titelbladet uden år. Stor folio. Samt. hldrbd. Forperm med orig. bogtrykt omslag påsat. Udvendig noget slidt og med brugsspor. Litograferet titelblad med trykt indholdsfortegnelse over atlassets 20 dobbeltsidede foliokort, alle litograferede og håndkoloreret (hvert målende ca 52x64 cm). Her og der med lidt brunpletter, særligt marginer, men indvendigt iøvrigt i god stand. Kortene er litograferede hos Emil Bærentzen & Co. Lith. Institut og alle daterede mellem 1849 og 1861, opsat på false.
|
|
|
"ORTELIUS, A. - MAP OF FRANCE.
Galliae Regni Potentiss: Nova Descriptio Ioanne Ioliveto Auctore.
(Antwerpen, between 1584 a. 1612). 35x51 cm. Engraved map of France in fine contemporary handcolouring. Framed so that verso is shown. Latin text on verso ""Gallia"" with the initial Q handcoloured.
|
|
|
"ØRESUND - JAILLOT & MORTIER FROM ""NEPTUNE FRANCOIS"".
Carte du Detroits du Sond contenant les Costes de L'Isle de Zélande comprises entre Nicopen et L'Isle de Meun, et celles du Schonen. Depuis la Pointe de Kol., jusqu'a Valsterbon Levée et Gravée Par Ordre du Roy.
A Paris, (but Amsterdam, Pierre Mortier), 1693. 58x88 cm. Kobberstukket søkort over Øresund med den Skånsk/Hallandske kystline og den Sjællandske fra Møn i syd til Hesselø i nord. I pragtfuld fuld håndkolorering. Øverst i midten er indsat Amager og Saltholm i større målestok. Kortet ""ligger ned"", er orienteret øst/vest. Med kompasrose og vindretninger angivet.
|
|
|
"DANMARKSKORT - SENEX, JOHN.
Denmark Corrected From the Newest Observations of the Royal Societies at London and Paris.
London, Printed for T. Bowles & John Bowles, (ca. 1719). 67,8 x 97,5 cm. Senex's generalkort over Danmark i overstørrelse er sammensat af to plader. Kobbertukket og i samtidig konturkolorering. Det er tæt beskåret in til gradskalaen og har enkelte smårifter og brunpletter i disse marginer.
|
|
|
ONE OF THE LARGEST ENGRAVED FUNERAL PROCESSIONS - ERIK DAHLBERG.
Exequiae Serenissimi ac Potentiss: Principis ac Dni. Domini Caroli Gustavi Suecorum Gothorum et Wandalorum Regis d. 3. Nouemb. 1660 Holmiæ Celebratæ. Accuraté delineauit E.I. Dahlbergh. (The funeral procession of King Carl X Gustav of Sweden).
(Nürnberg, 1696). The large engraving of the procession through Stockholm being composed of 13 engraved plates joined together, measuring 30x450 cm. (Plates numb. 1-13). Some mostly marginal dampstains, some marginal tears, some brownspots mainly marginal. Upper margin of plate 3 partly gone. Margins strenghtened at verso with brown paper. Some variation to paperquality, but in general in good strong impressions.
|
|
|
(VAUDONCOURT, GUILLAUME de).
Mémoires pour servir a L'Histoire de la Guerre entre la France et la Russie, en 1812 Avec un Atlas Militaire. Par un Officier de L'État-Major de L'Armée Francaise. 2 vols. (1. Contenant les Mémoires - 2. Contenant L'Atlas Militaire).
Paris, Barrois L'Ainé,1817. 4to. Textvol. in contemp. hcalf with richly gilt spine. A paperlabel pasted on lower part of spine. Atlas-vol. in modest clothbacked boards. Lower part of spine with tears and taped. Stamp on titlepages. IV,358,(1) pp. Atlas: (4) pp. and with 14 mostly large and folded engraved maps.
|
|
|
"CHINA - VAN LOON, (JAN).
Imperii Sinarum Nova Descriptio. Auctore Joh. van Loon.
Amsterdam, Gerardi Valk et Petri Schenk, n.d. (around 1694). 46,5 x 52 cm. Engraved map China in orig. handcolouring. Showing all the Chinese provinces, Korea and the island of Formosa in the south. Ships in the sea and cartouche with Chinese costumes. A small rupture in a border due to etching from the colour used (no loss). Left margin with a small tear, no loss. Right, very broad, margin with a tear, not reaching the image.
|
|
|
"PETERMANN, A. (HRSG.). - A WORLD OF EXPLORATORY EXPEDITIONS.
Mittheilugen aus Justus Perthe's Geographischer Anstalt über wichtige neue Erforschungen auf dem Gebiete der Geographie. (1.-) 20. Bd. (Lacking vol. 14 (1868) & 1870).
Gotha, Julius Perthes, 1855-1874. 4to. Bound in 18 contemp. hcalf, some wear to the first 10 vols., some a bit rubbed. Some scattered brownspots to the first volumes. Gilt spines. Wear to top of spines. With a huge amount of original maps, plates, profiles etc., lithographed and engraved, large and folded and mainly in colour. This set does not include the ""Ergänzungsbände"".
|
|
|
"BLAEU, WILLEM JANSZOON - SØKORT OVER DANSKE OG SVENSKE FARVANDE.
Pascaarte van't Schager rack, vertoonende va Schaghen wn Maesterlandt af door de Sondt tot om Valsterboen toe, alle de gelegentheijt der Zeecusten van't Lant van Noor d'oosten, Halant, Schoonen, en Zeelant.....
(Amsterdam, 1608-30. 25x56 cm. Kobberstukket søkort over Kattegat og Øresund med den svenske vestkyst fra Marstrand i nord til Falsterbo i syd, Skagen ses samt Læsø og Anholt og nordøstsjælland med Roskilde Fjord. Skibe i søen. Kompasroser og barokkartouche. Kortet er trimmet indtil stregrammen.
|
|
|
"KATTEGAT - KEULEN, JOHANNES VAN.
Paskaert vant' Schager-Rak. Soo't by de Oost-vaerende Zee- Luyden gemeenlyk bezylt wort, door Voogt- Geometra.
Amsterda, Ioannis Van Keulen, ca. 1680. 51,5x60 cm. Kobberstukket søkort over Kattegat med gengivelse af Østjylland fra Skagen til Horsens Fjord, Anholt, Læsø og Samsø, den svenske vestkyst fra Maesterland i nord til Landskrona i syd. Nordsjælland med Øresund fra Helsingør i nord til lidt syd for Hven. Kortet "" ligger ned"" med nord til venstre.
|
|
|
"PORCACCHI DA CASTIGLIONE, THOMASO.
L'isole piu famose del Mondo. Arettino e intagliate da Girolamo Porro Padovano. Con l'aggiunta di molte isole all' ill.re s. conte Georgio Trivltio. - [THE CULMINATION OF THE ""BOOK OF ISLANDS""]
Venetia [Venice], apresso gli heredi di S. Gagliani, 1590. [Colophon: In Vintia, appresso Giorgio Angelieri, a instantia de gli heredi di Simon Gagliani de Karera, 1590]. Small folio. 18th century (ab. 1780-90) half vellum with gilt leather title label to spine. Corners a bit bumped and title label a bit worn, otherwise nice and tight. A very nice copy, on thick, crisp paper. A few quires browned and brownspotted, and some occasional lighter browning. Four leaves with a marginal worm-tract, far from affecting text. Beautiful engraved title-page, consisting of a wide architectural border illustrated with large figures, putti, globes, and various symbols. Beautiful large woodcut initials and head- and tail-pieces. 47 half-page engraved maps in the text (by Porro, of islands and continents), excellent, crisp impressions. Large woodcut device to colophon. (12) ff., 201, (1) pp.
|
|
|
"HOMANN, JOHANN BAPTIST.
Atlas Minor L. Selectorum Tabularum Homanni. Kleiner Atlas von Fünffzig Auserlesenen Homanns=Land=Karten, Nach Anleitung der neuesten Erd=Beschreibere, verbessert und eingerichtet...(= Printed title) - (Engraved title:) Atlas Novus Terrarum Orbis Impe... - [AN EARLY COMPLETE HOMANN-ATLAS]
Nürnberg, Homannischen Officin, n.date (maps ca 1720-39). Large folio. 54,5x32 cm. Contemporary, probably original, limp full calf with flap (""portmanteau""). (Only 4 maps with dating: 2 with 1732, 1728 and 1739).Cover with blind-tooled frames inside which a crowned monogram and the number 50 (= number of plates). Binding worn at edges, covers and back somewhat rubbed. Flap torn and partly with an old repair. Fine allegorical engraved hand-coloured title, printed title with Index (these 2 leaves strengthened in lower margin, no loss of image), and all 49 engraved maps, all in fine original hand-colouring and in double-folio. In excellent condition, with large cartouches (cartouches uncoloured). A few maps with insignificant small tears in folding. The title-page engraved by Michael Rössler, pointing to an early issue of the atlas, and before the publishing house had its name changed to Homann Erben (from 1730).
|
|
|
RINGGOLD, CADWALADER.
A Series of Charts with Sailing Directions, Embracing Surveys of the Farallones, entrance to the bay of San Francisco, bays of San Francisco and San Pablo, straits of Carquines and Suisun Bay, confluence and deltic branches of the Sacramento and San J... - [THE MOST ACCURATE CHARTS UP UNTIL THAT TIME OF THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA]
Washington, Jno. T. Towers, 1851. 4to. In publishers original full pictoral green cloth. Front and back board with embossed title and ornamentation, showing an eagle holding a banner and anchor beneath whom Columbia sits holding the shield of California with a bear asleep at her feet. Front board in gold. Lower front board with gilt stamp. Stamp to front free end-paper and title-page. Light wear to extremities and internally with light occassional miscolouring. 44. pp. + 11 lithographic plates including frontispiece and 6 folding maps.
|
|
|
VINCENDON-DUMOULIN, C.A. (CLÉMENT ADRIEN).
Portulan Général contenant les Plans des Ports et Mouillages du Globe. Océan Atlantique. 2 Vols. (1. Iles Éparses. 2. Côtes D'Afrique).
Paris, Dépôt-Général de la Marine, 1852. Folio. (34,5 x 27 cm.). 2 uniform contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines with gilt lettering. Light wear to edges. Stamp on title-pages. Volume 1: Engraved title-page. (2) pp. and 24 engraved maps of islands of which 18 are double-page, numbered 1317-1340. - Volume II: Engraved title-page. 83 engraved maps, mostly double-page, numbered 1341-1423 and 1-83. Clean and fine.
|
|
|
Per e-mail erhalten
Als pdf-Dokument herunterladen
RSS feed
Permanenter link
