Cartography

  • Stanford’s Library Map of Australasia constructed by A. Keith Johnston F.R.S.E., F.R.G.S. &c.

    # 43594

    JOHNSTON, Keith, 1844-1879

    Stanford’s Library Map of Australasia constructed by A. Keith Johnston F.R.S.E., F.R.G.S. &c.

    Cover title: Stanford’s map of Australasia. London : Edward Stanford, [1859]. First edition. Steel-engraved map with hand colouring, total dimensions 1550 x 1740 mm, dissected into 48 sections, laid onto linen edged with blue silk, folding to 255 x 215 mm, housed within original embossed brown morocco boards with gilt lettering and ornament (rubbed, spine …

  • [GLOBE] The earth.

    # 47150

    KLINGER, J. G. (firm)

    [GLOBE] The earth.

    Published by J. G. Klinger in Nuremberg. Constructed, delineated and etched by J. A. Buhler. Nuremberg : J[ohann]. G[eorg]. Klinger, [between 1841 – 1852]. Wooden and plaster globe (6 inches in diameter), covered with 12 glazed and hand-coloured gores, fitted and spinning with metal polar axis in a circular card box, the lid provided in …

  • The British Colonies; their history, extent, condition, and resources

    # 46524

    MARTIN, Robert Montgomery (1801 - 1868)

    The British Colonies; their history, extent, condition, and resources

    By Montgomery Martin, Esq., late Treasurer to the Queen at Hong-Kong; and member of Her Majesty’s Legislative Council in China. London and New York : The London Printing and Publishing Company [J. & F. Tallis], circa 1851. Six volumes bound in twelve (which are labelled as ‘Divisions’), quarto, publisher’s original gilt-lettered and decorated red cloth …

  • A true and exact history of the Island of Barbadoes.

    # 43061

    LIGON, Richard (1585? - 1682)

    A true and exact history of the Island of Barbadoes.

    Illustrated with a map of the island, as also the principal trees and plants there, set forth in their due proportions and shapes, drawn out by their several and respective scales, together with the ingenio that makes the sugar, with the plots of the several houses, rooms, and other places, that are used in the …

  • A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean (Atlas volume only, with full complement of 87 maps, plates and charts)

    # 46639

    COOK, James (1728-1779); KING, James

    A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean (Atlas volume only, with full complement of 87 maps, plates and charts)

    A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean. Undertaken, by the command of His Majesty, for making discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere … Performed under the direction of Captains Cook, Clerke, and Gore, in his majesty’s ships the Resolution and Discovery; in the years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780. London : Printed by W. and A. …

  • [MAP] How to get about in Cairo

    # 46814

    CASINO FONTANA (Cairo)

    [MAP] How to get about in Cairo

    At head ad foot of title: Fontana … with the compliments of the management. [Cairo : Casino Fontana, Manial al-Roda, c.1960]. Single sheet, 490 x 350 mm, folding to 170 x 125 mm; recto with several b/w photographic illustrations, including a panoramic shot of the Casino Fontana, verso with large colour map of Cairo (indicating the …

  • The art and history of globes

    # 47062

    SUMIRA, Sylvia

    The art and history of globes

    London : The British Library, 2014. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 224, illustrated. ‘This book celebrates the art and history of the globe, focusing on the 400 years when the printed globe – as navigational tool, scientific instrument and powerful status symbol – occupied an important place in the history of European exploration. It ranges …

  • Journal of an overland expedition in Australia from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845.

    # 29462

    LEICHHARDT, Ludwig (1813-1848)

    Journal of an overland expedition in Australia from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845.

    London : T. &​ W. Boone, 1847. First edition. Octavo, bound in period style with half-calf over marbled papered boards, spine in compartments with contrasting morocco title labels, pp. xx, 544, 8 (publisher’s advertisements); frontispiece and [6] aquatint plates (1 folding), internally clean; with the rare separately issued, hand-coloured map on three sheets (as issued: …

  • [MAP] Plan de terrains appartenant à la Société Foncière du Paraguay

    # 45874

    KRIESS, Frederico

    [MAP] Plan de terrains appartenant à la Société Foncière du Paraguay

    Paris : Maison Andriveau-Goujon, [c.1906]. Colour map, 1000 x 860 mm, dissected and laid on canvas; the map is in superb condition and folds into its original pebbled cloth chemise, 175 x 260 mm, which in turn is housed in the original cloth slipcase (mild edge and corner wear) with contrasting title piece lettered in …

  • Malaya 1950

    # 46016

    Surveyor General

    Malaya 1950

    [Kuala Lumpur] : Surveyor General, Malaya, 1950. Map, printed in colour, 990 x 720 mm (sheet), laid on linen, in plain card boards, fine. A highly detailed map of the newly formed Federation of Malaya on (established 1 February 1948), including the separate state of Singapore, with an inset map ‘Malaya and adjacent territories’.  

  • Political railway map of China

    # 46762

    FAR EASTERN REVIEW

    Political railway map of China

    [Shanghai] : Far Eastern Review, circa 1914. Map, printed in colour, 520 x 425 mm (sheet), a couple of small chips and edges and small stains lower left, showing the railways of China which are operational, under construction, contracted for, and projected, under French, Belgian, Russian, British, German, Japanese, American and Chinese control. The train …

  • "Globe terrestre" (a box in the form of a pocket globe)

    # 46467

    Z. & B.

    “Globe terrestre” (a box in the form of a pocket globe)

    Paris? : Edit. Z & B. c.1910.  Card box in the form of a pocket globe, 3 1/2 inches in diameter, the box in two halves split along the equator, which fit together to form the whole, some surface rubbing and detachment of the card inserts internally, a good example.

  • A rare cased atlas of eight large folding maps of the world

    # 46577

    BRUÉ, Adrian Hubert

    A rare cased atlas of eight large folding maps of the world

    Paris : Chez J. Goujon et J. Andriveau, 1827. A large book-form box made of stiff card, 250 mm tall, gilt-decorated papered sides, silk draw ribbon, the ‘spine’ made of crushed morocco styled in compartments, with gilt ornamentation and the lettering ‘Atlas par H. Brué’, listing the eight maps contained within: ‘Mappemonde; Europe; Asie; Afrique; …

  • Globe terrestre

    # 46572

    DESNOS, Louis-Charles (1725 - 1805); NOLIN, Jean-Baptiste (1686-1762)

    Globe terrestre

    Dressé sur les Relations les plus nouvelles de Mrs. de l’Académie Royale des Sciences par L. C. Desnos et J. B. Nolin Géographe. Se fait et se vends chez Desnos, rue St. Jacque St. Severin, Quartier de la Place Maubert. Paris, 1760, avec privilége du Roy. Dedié au Roy, par son trés humble trés obéissant …

  • Cosmographia

    # 45823

    APIANUS, Petrus (1495-1552); FRISIUS, Reiner Gemma (1508-1555)

    Cosmographia

    Petri Apiani, per Gemmam Frisium apud Lovanienses Medicum & Mathematicu[m] insignem, … … Antwerp: Aegidius Coppenius Diesthensis for Gregorius Bontius, 1545. Small quarto (230 x 160 mm), contemporary limp vellum envelope binding with (possibly later) calf ties; front and rear endpapers with extensive relevant early notes in Dutch on the astrolabe and calculations of the sun’s …

  • The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay

    # 44863

    PHILLIP, Arthur (1738-1814)

    The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay

    with an account of the establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson & Norfolk Island; compiled from authentic papers, which have been obtained from the several departments, to which are added, the journals of Lieuts. Shortland, Watts, Ball, & Capt. Marshall; with an account of their new discoveries. London : John Stockdale, 1789. Quarto, full …