(Paris.): (circa 1820). Engraved map with original outline hand-colour, 21.1 x 31.5cm, original folds, a few spots and a little creased but in very good condition. Latin map of the Ancient world encompassing Europe, India, Arabia, the Middle East and North Africa, by the French cartographer Jean Baptiste Poirson (1761-1831)..... More
London. Virtue & Co., [circa 1874]. Printed colour map, 18.4 x 24.1 cm, edge wear, marginal spotting and on the verso, but the map in very good condition. Unusual map showing time differences east and west of Greenwich, before the atomic clock and well before satellites! The explanatory text notes..... More
Tokyo: 大日本雄辯會講談社 [Dainihon Yūbenkai Kōdansha]. Showa 10 [ 1935]. Large colour folded map of the Pacific, Southeast Asia, Australia and North and Central America. A few neat repairs along folds. Sheet measures 78.5 x 109.5cm. A very good copy. A huge map showing an early indication of Japan's sense of..... More