STILL, William. The Underground Rail Road. Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1872. First edition, first printing. Contemporary rebinding with black boards and attractive gold gilt title on spine. 9.25" x 6.5" in. 780 pages. A foundational text on freeing slaves in America written by one of the most active African American.....
CESAR, Julius. C. Cesar's Commentaries, 1534. One of the earliest and rarest printed editions of the Caesaris Commentarii. Published by Sebastian Gryphius, Lyon, 1534. Octavo (6" x 4" inches), 592 pages. This edition includes 5 beautiful full-page woodcuts of Roman war machines; a double-page woodcut map showing Gaul, Germania, and.....
Bell, William. First Edition. Two volumes, pp lxv, 236; vii, 322, complete with 20 colored lithograph plates, 3 botanical plates, woodcuts in the text, a colored folding map and a colored plate with three small maps. An attractive set, recased, with new endpapers but original cloth binding retained. Vol. I......
Ptolemaic engraved map of the Arabian Peninsula titled "Arabia Felice Nuova Tavola." The mapmaker is Girolamo Ruscelli who created an original version based on the 1548 map designed by famed Italian cartographer, Giacomo Gastaldi (Al Ankary). The map serves as the first modern illustration of the Arabian Peninsula, which, for.....
Richard F[rancis] Burton. First Footsteps in East Africa. Or, an Exploration of Harar. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1856. First edition. Octavo. [4], [vii]-xk, [2], 648 pages. Four chromolithographic plates, two maps. Half calf over marbled paper-covered boards; front and back decoratively ruled in blind; spine ruled in gilt.....
Antique map "Persicum Regnum" by Hondius, London, circa 1625. This bold, simple map gives us the representation of Persia but unlike most maps of the last 500 years the Gulf region is not named "Sinus Persicus" but is titled "Sinus Arabicus," or Arabian Channel. This makes this map a scarce.....
"Great Ocean Yacht Race" -Original Currier and Ives color Litho: Caption below the image states: "The Yacht "Fleetwing" of N.Y. 212 Tons. Competitor in the Great Ocean Yacht Race, from new York to Cowes, Dec. 1866. Making the run in 14 days 6 hours mean-time." Published by the Currier and.....
Unpublished original sepia toned photograph of pilgrims journeying to Mecca, circa 1921. Measures 3.5x5". The original photograph depicts the rugged and mountainous landscape outside of Mecca, where thousands of white tents form an encampment of pilgrims making their religious journey. The photo comes from the album of a British naval.....
ORTELIUS, Abraham. Turcici Imperii Descriptio. Double-page engraved map, 18x22", wide margins, Latin text on verso; hand-colored with oxidation of verdigris pigment. Map of Arabia and Turkey and Greece Circa 1609. With many details, notably, this map labels the Gulf as "Mare Elcatif" in the northern sector and "Sinus Persicus" to.....
Two Antique Currier & Ives lithographs of Ocean Yachts. One is Litho is of the 1854 Clipper Ship “Dreadnought” and the other is the 1867 The Great Ocean Yacht Race between the Henrieta, Fleetwing and Vesta. New York: Currier & Ives. These lithograph prints were published by the Currier and.....
This scrapbook and Photo Album follows the travels of Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Langwill, likely Americans, living in Cape Town and Paarl, South Africa. Hardcover Scrapbook includes 55 b&w photos that measure 2 ¼ x 2 ¼ (some are from pre-printed souvenir sets); 13 b&w photos that measure 2.....
Francis Grose. Antiquities of England and Wales is a compendium of historical monuments, richly illustrated with many engravings. Hardcover. Folio size. 4 large volumes. Publisher: S. Hooper. Publication Date: 1773. This work is considered one of the most important antiquarian publications of the 18th century. It was published in an.....
Photo album and scrapbook depicting Frederick Pilcher Jr. ’s life at the University of Virginia Medical School and his travels to Alaska during the 1920s. Album includes 159 B&W photos with the majority measuring 5” x 3” (97) , 5 ¾” x 3 ½” (29) , or 4 ½” x......
Photo album of travels in the American West circa 1920, including photos of a Native American braves in full headdress. The photo album has 174 black and white silver gelatin photos ranging from 3.5" x 2.5" to 5.75" x 3.5" inches. 44 leaves of black album paper, some blank pages.....
Collection of 10 German-made WWII-era maps. All printed in German, sometimes with foreign translations. Includes arial bombing maps of Chesterfield Tube Works, Great Britain (Dec. 1942), showing a geographical arial photograph of the factory area, and an overlay of roads, bridges and potential targets. The German forces tried to bomb.....
A set of Original Vintage Albumen Prints of a Bedouin Camp, circa 19th century. Size: 8" x 10." In the first photo we can see a large meeting of Bedouin men congregated under a tent in a dry grassy plain of the desert. The second photo captures 5 saddled horsemen.....
Very early 1606 hand colored map of Iran during the Safavid dynasty. 1606. Measures 21.5 x 18 inches. Map shows Iran and its borders as they existed in 1606 with the Caspian Sea drawn horizontally, not yet conceived of as vertical in shape. Text is in Latin. Map shows what.....
"Nouveau Continent Avec Plusiers Isles et Mers" original copper engraving, Figure 86 taken from "Description de L'Univers" [1685] by Allain Maneson Mallet. Later hand coloring. Attractive map of North and South America, showing California as an island 4.5"x6.5" inches matted to 8.5"x11" inches. Among the features noted are "Amerique" "N.....
Original Engraved Map of Arabia, Syria, and Mesopotamia by Sebastian Münster published in Cosmographia, in 1598. 16" x 13." A bold engraved map depicting Syria, Mesoptamia, and Arabia as they appeared in the late 16th century to cartographers. In the bottom center of the map appears Arabia, Arabia Deserta, and.....
Sousa, João de. Vestigios da lingoa arabica em Portugal, ou lexicon etymologico das palavras, e nomes portuguezes, que tem origem Arabica. Lisbon, Published by Na Officina da Academia Real das Sciencias, 1789. 4to. XX, 160 pp. Woodcut device of the Academia Real das Sciencias on title page. Mid-nineteenth century quarter.....
A beautiful copper engraved, hand-colored map of the Arabian Peninsula, Persia, Iran, Turkey, and India from 1705 by famous Dutch publisher Pieter Van Der AA (1659-1733). Map size 6.5" x 9.5" with wide blank margins. Next to the cartouche, in th left hand corner is an ornate illustration of a......
WARING, Edward Scott. A Tour to Sheeraz, by the Route of Kazroon and Feerozabad; with various remarks on the manners, customs, laws, language, and literature of the Persians. London, W. Bulmer for T. Cadell & W. Davies 1807. Folio. 329 pages. 1/4 leather bound , Original binding. Second edition, revised.....
[World War II] Original war time U.S. War and Navy Departments first edition Pocket Guide books for 18 countries. These guidebooks were prepared by the U.S. War and Navy Departments to educate American soldiers stationed overseas during the conflict. It includes points on culture, language (including slang), local history, and.....
Archive of 9 large World War II Maps, these maps were used by US troops during the liberation of Europe. RARE ORIGINAL WORLD WAR TWO VINTAGE ALLIED FORCES EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS Maps of German cities and one of Paris France. Comes from a WW2 US Army Soldier. These 69.....
Dutch Van Kirk was the navigator on the "Enola Gay", the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb. Real W.W.II Japan silk invasion map of Nagasaki, these maps were used by 20th AAF during World war II. In 1940, the British military intelligence unit, known as MI 9, started issuing.....