London. The Illustrated London News. November 13, 1886. Four engravings on a single newspaper leaf (pp. 535-536), one half page, unrelated text on the verso, marginal browning, in very good condition. Fine wood engravings by the artist William Simpson (1823-1899), famous for his work as an official war artist. The..... More
[New York.]: [Hunt & Eaton]. [circa 1900]. Printed map in colour, railways shown, elevation with hachures, central fold, 28.8 x 23 cm, 32 x 26.8 cm (sheet), Afghanistan and surrounding countries including modern day Iran, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikstan as well as India and China, outer corners creased, slight..... More
Rainer Ottens. 1723. A most attractive map with early outline hand colour, vertical fold, barely visible diagonal crease upper half of map, few very pale small brown spots, otherwise a clean and bright image. Numbering in red pencil, few annotations in pencil and light number stamp on reverse however not..... More
Paris. Gustave Barba Editeur. ( 1856.). Lithographed map with original hand colour, central fold, 24.2 x 31.5 cm, marginal toning, plate number in manuscript, in very good condition. Finely engraved Dufour map of Central Asia prepared for his "Atlas Populaire" showing East Turkestan (Petite Boukharie) and Kalmykia (Dzoungarie) Mongolia and..... More
(London). (The Graphic). September 8,15 and 22, 1888. Eighteen engravings on three separate leaves 40.5 x 30.5 cm, (one trimmed at the margin and slightly narrower), unrelated text and advertisements on the versos (including a two column blurb for Fergus Hume's second novel "Madame Midas" headlined "An Australian novel, of..... More
Gotha: Justus Perthes, ( 1880.). Five maps on one sheet, 35 x 44 cm, printed colour and outline handcolour, central fold, in very good condition. Text in German. Historic maps of Central Asia showing the territorial expansion and change of the Mongol Empire 1204-1405. The main two maps show the..... More
Gotha. Perthes, Justus. 1883. Engraved map, original hand colouring (mostly in outline), 32.8 x 40.9 cm; 38.7 x 47.4 cm (sheet), text in German, central fold, plate mark, marginal toning, the map in very good condition. Highly detailed map of Central Asia in an historic period. Centred on East Turkestan..... More
Paris. Service d'Informations Ukrainiennes. 28 April, 1940. Typescript, [5pp]. Stapled upper-left corner, leaves evenly browned throughout, horizontal creases from having been folded at some time, edges chipped with no loss to text. Text in French. When referring to this item please quote stockid 176767. More