Cartography
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# 34604
VUILLEMIN, A.
Planisphère illustré
présentant la description géographique des parties connues de la terre : indiquant les découvertes maritimes et continentales, les colonies des diverses nations ainsi que le parcours des bateaux à vapeur, l’époque des départs, la durée du trajet &c. Paris : A. Logerot, circa 1850. Inset illustrations of peoples of the world, mountains, rivers etc. A highly …
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# 34562
TARIDE, A.
Planisphère : comprenant toutes les possessions coloniales, chemins der fer, lignes de navigation
Paris : Cartes Taride, circa 1920. World map, printed offset in colour, dissected and laid on linen, 96 x 128 cms, inset maps of the North and South Poles, as well as the telegraphic cable lines, colonial possessions of France, England, Denmark, Spain, Holland, Italy, Portugal, Russia, the United States and Japan highlighted in differed …
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# 34602
MONIN, Charles V.
Mappe-monde 1833
Paris : Charles V. Monin, 1833. Engraved map, 204 x 275 mm, with hand colouring, laid on wood and dissected to form a jigsaw puzzle, original backing card and paper wrapper with title in manuscript copperplate, some scattered foxing, complete. A charming puzzle map of the world. The maps were usually unbound sheets from an atlas.
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# 34603
Anon.
Carte planisphere de la guerre mondiale “1942”
Lille : Imprimerie Industrielle, 1942. Map of the world on Mercator’s projection, printed in colour, old folds as issued, 645 x 990 mm, inset maps of North Africa and South Asia, very good condition. Map of the world showing colonies, possessions and occupied territories during the Second World War.
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# 34049
British New Guinea. Administrator.
Annual Report on British New Guinea from 1st July 1889 to 30th June 1890; with appendices.
At head of title: 1890. Queensland. Brisbane : James C. Beal, Government Printer, 1890. Foolscap folio (330 mm), string bound, pp 168, with 3 lithographed plates (including profile of the Victor Emanuel Range and tribal designs) and 6 large folding maps at rear; Appendix X, Native Dialects (117-168) contains several important vocabularies of indigenous languages; …
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# 32580
HERISSON, Eustache ; BONNE, Rigobert
Carte générale de l’Europe, ou l’on voit le départ et le retour du Capne. Cook, dans ses differéns voyages.
Dressée par Hérisson, Eleve de Mr. Bonne, ancien Ingénieur Hydrographe de la Marine. A Paris : chez Basset Md d’Estampes Rue Jacques au coin de celle des Mathurins, no. 670, 1802. Copperplate engraving, original outline hand colour, 525 x 755 mm (image), old folds as issued, a fine example. Map of Europe showing the departures …
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# 27985
Dépôt de la guerre
Carte topographique des environs d’Alger
d’Aprés les levés et les reconnaissances des Officiers d’Etat-major et autres documents. Paris : Publiée par le Depôt de la Guerre; Imprimerie chez Kaeppelin, 1856. Engraved by Erhard Schieble. Engraved map, dissected and laid on linen, 680 x 1010 mm, printed label. French colonial map of Algeria, invaded by the French in 1830 and occupied with much …
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![[CHINA] Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and Monthly Record of Geography. Vol. II, no. 3, New Monthly Series. March, 1880.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2021/03/19102440/2021_DSFB_1622-300x300.jpg)
# 28578
MORRISON, Gabriel James (1840-1905); HOLUB, Emil (1847-1902)
[CHINA] Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and Monthly Record of Geography. Vol. II, no. 3, New Monthly Series. March, 1880.
London : Printed by William Clowes & Sons, [1880]. Tall octavo (245 mm), original printed blue wrappers (lightly marked, small paper loss at spine ends), pp 1-8 (advertisements), 145-208; folding colour plate at the rear with two Maps to Accompany Papers on Journeys in Eastern China by G. J. Morrison, M. I. C. E., 1878, which …
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# 28334
PETELIN, Stanko (author); BRESKVAR, Silvo (illustrator)
[MISSIONS; JAPAN] Japonska
Domžale [Ljubljana] : “Unio Cleri” Misijonska tiskarna [Missionary Press], 1936. Series: “Unio Cleri” Miss. pro Jugoslavia, IX. Octavo (180 mm), original printed wrappers (sunned and lightly foxed), staple bound; 56 pp, 3 maps (one double-page); clean throughout, a good copy; with an inserted original mimeographed advertisement for the Missionary Press (toning and pale foxing). A …
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# 29256
STUART, J. McDouall (1815-1866)
J. M’Douall Stuart’s explorations across the continent of Australia. With charts. 1861 – 62.
Melbourne : F. F. Bailliere, 1863. First edition. Octavo, lettered pink papered cards (lightly discoloured), cloth spine, pp. [vi, advertisements], folding map (short tear at gutter), title page, 97; [3]; occasional foxing. Account of Stuart’s fifth and sixth expeditions from Adelaide to the north of Australia in search of new grazing land and a passage …
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# 27600
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENCE
Meredith (Victoria). Military survey of Australia
Melbourne : Department of Defence, 1936 (revised). Lithographed map, 578 x 805 mm (sheet), printed in colour, card covers. Rare military survey of the Victorian district of Meredith.
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# 28945
Victoria. Department of Crown Lands and Survey.
Gippsland Lakes and Buchan Caves, Victoria
Melbourne Albert J. Mullett, Government Printer, [1912]. “Published by the authority of the Hon. Minister of Lands. For issue to tourists”. Single sheet, 500 x 635 mm, folding to 250 x 125 mm; one side with map printed in colour, scale 1:253 440; reverse with tourist information about local landmarks and destinations accompanied by vignette photographic illustrations; …
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# 26110
CHAMBERS, W. & R.
Chambers’s atlas for the people, accompanied by a descriptive introduction.
Edinburgh : W. and R. Chambers, 1846. Quarto, half red morocco over marbled boards (edges a little rubbed), gilt-tooling to spine, gilt-lettered title label to upper panel, pink endpapers, engraved title page, pp. 48, text in columns plus pp. 24 (index); one double page map and 32 full page engraved maps of the world, outline …
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# 26065
NIVEN, F. W.
Map of South Australia – as divided into counties and hundreds, showing post towns, telegraph stations, main roads & railways.
Compiled from official documents in the Office of the Surveyor General. Ballarat : F. W. Niven, [circa 1876]. Lithographed map, printed in colour, linen backed, folded into a cloth case (worn) with printed title label, 750 x 520 mm, occasional light foxing. Scarce separately issued map of South Australia. While a couple of examples are …
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# 27385
Great Britain. War Office. General Staff. Australian Section
Ballan, Victoria
Prepared by Australian Section, Imperial General Staff. Melbourne : By authority, H.J. Green, Government Printer, 1936. Folding map, printed in colour, laid on linen (worn along folds), a couple of annotations. Sheet measures 565 x 750 mm. ‘Topographic map of Ballan region, Victoria, showing bridges, culverts, waterholes, swamps or marshes, creeks, watercourses, water channels, railways, embankments, …
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# 28009
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENCE
Kiama (New South Wales). Military survey of Australia
Melbourne : Department of Defence, 1932. Lithographed map, 430 x 720 mm (sheet), printed in colour, laid on linen, some splits along the folds, card covers. Rare military survey of the coastal region of Kiama.