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Espanola, Ontario: LD21, (1943). First edition.. Original blue cloth stamped in blind on front cover. Illustrated title page. Printed on pink paper. A very good copy. 90 leaves printed on rectos only. All text in German. A very scarce book of wartime cartoons, created and published by German prisoners at the Canadian POW camp (Camp 21) at Espanola, Ontario (near Sudbury).

cat40a. NY: Warner/Mysterious Press, (1997). First Warner edition, advance reading copy, uncorrected. Pictorial wrappers. Some light wear to fore-edge, one corner scuffed, but a fine copy. Folded promotional leaf laid in. The Africa Novel. Originally published in 1982.

Leipzig: Arkstee und Merkus, 1749.. A copper engraved view on laid paper, uncoloured, from Volume 5 of Schwabe's Allgemeine Historie der Reisen (1747 - 1774). Image size is 25cm x 17cm. Text in German. Verso blank. At upper right: "No. 43.". At lower right: "F. de Bakker fecit, 1749." and "T.V.F.". Original vertical folds, clean, very nice condition. This view, possibly by Bellin, engraved by de Bakker, appeared earlier in Prevost's Histoire Generale des Voyages. An image of the Imperial Audience Hall at Beijing, China. The scrollwork cartouche contains a numbered key to locations in the image. This image is based on the one by Jean Nieuhof, published in his 1665 work: L'Ambassade de la Compagnie Orientale des Provinces Unies vers L'Empereur de la Chine .... ("Le dedans du Palais Imperial 'T KEYSERS HOF van binnen" - pg. 215).

cat40a. Dallas, Texas: Kaleidograph Press, 1942. Volume XIII, Number 9. January, 1942. Original printed wrappers, stapled. 28 pages. A bit of chipping to edges, very good condition. A prize entry blank at the rear is still present. Clark Ashton Smith contributes a poem occupying 3/4 of a page: Madrigal Of Memory.

cat40a. London: Century / Legend, (1990). First edition. Green cloth, lettered in silver. Marbled end papers. A fine copy in a clear glasine jacket, in a matching slipcase, also lettered in silver. This is copy 51 of 300 numbered & signed copies. In Borneo, a psychoactive drug gives access to another dimension.

Copenhagen: Baerentzen & Co, [1856]. . A coloured lithograph by A. Nay from a drawing by A. Juuel. Sheet size is 38cm x 29cm. A scene of lime quarrying in the South Zealand region of Denmark, near Faxo (Faxe, Fakse). Some foxing to margins, a clean very good copy. From the portfolio DANMARK published by Emilius Baerentzen, 1856.

Berlin, 1803.. A copper engraved view on wove paper, coloured, from Volume 2 (Plate V) of Daniel Schaffer's 1803 work: Der Weltumsegler. The image size is 4.5 x 5.5 inches, on a sheet measuring 6.5 x 8 inches. Condition is very good, small chip to upper margin. At the lower right is printed: "M Haas". At lower left is: "Nidlich del.". The image depicts a caravan of camels & people in the Sahara.

Leipzig: Arkstee und Merkus, c.1771. A copper engraved map on laid paper, uncoloured, from Volume 20 of Schwabe's Allgemeine Historie der Reisen (1748 - 1774). Image size is 26cm x 24cm. Text in German. Verso blank. In upper right corner: "XX. Band No. 15.". Original folds, very good condition, yellow tape or glue mark at lower left, on verso, light foxing to margins. A map of the Kuril Islands, from Bellin's French map (Carte des Iles Kouriles....) published in Prevost's L'Histoire Generale des Voyages (Volume 19, 1770). The contentious Kuril Islands lie between Japan and Russia, claimed by Russia after World War 2.

[Leipzig, c.1771]. . A copper engraved map on laid paper, uncoloured. Imprint at lower right: P. Mol Sculps. 1771. Volume indicated at upper left: XX.Band.No. 8. Image size is 29.5cm x 49cm, small margins, trimmed right up to the plate line along part of the left edge. Two small paper tape repairs to folds at verso, some offsetting from adjacent text to verso, original horizontal folds, scattered light foxing, an attractive copy. From Volume 20 of a German edition of Prevost's large work: Histoire Générale des Voyages [German title: Allgemeine Historie der Reisen zu Wasser und Lande.... Leipzig : Bey Arkstee und Merkus, 1747-1774.]. The French edition of this map ("Carte du Kamtchatka") was published [c.1760], in Volume 19 of the French edition of Prevost. A detailed map of the Kamchatka Peninsula, Eastern Russia.

[Leipzig, 1769]. . A copper engraved map on laid paper, uncoloured. At lower right: "T.XIX.M.". At upper right: No.4. Image size is 18 x 11.5 inches. From Volume 19 of the German edition of Prevost's large work: Histoire Générale des Voyages [German title: Allgemeine Historie der Reisen zu Wasser und Lande.... Leipzig : Bey Arkstee und Merkus, 1747-1774.]. The French edition of this map ("Carte de la Siberie Et des Pays Voisins") was published in Volume 18 of the French edition of Prevost (1763).

Leipzig: Arkstee und Merkus, 1748.. A copper engraved map on laid paper, uncoloured, from Volume 2 of Schwabe's Allgemeine Historie der Reisen (1747 - 1774). Image size is 28cm x 20cm. Text in German. Verso blank. In upper right corner: "No. 1." Decorative cartouche at top center. Original folds, very good condition. This map by Bellin first appeared in Prevost's Histoire Generale des Voyages.... A map of the Canary Islands.

Leipzig: Arkstee und Merkus, 1750.. A copper engraved map on laid paper, uncoloured, from Volume 6 of Schwabe's Allgemeine Historie der Reisen (1748 - 1774). Cartouche in lower right, with central compass rose. Image size is 31.5cm x 20.5cm. Text in German. Verso blank. In upper right corner: "No. 6". Original folds, very good condition. From Bellin's French map (Carte des Isles qui sont a l'Embouchure de la Riviere de CantonÂ… ) published in Prevost's L'Histoire Generale des Voyages (Volume 7, 1749). China, covering the area from the entry of the Canton River and Isles de s Voleurs, Isle De Macao and Ville De Macao, part of the Quang Tong Province and the islands off the coast.

Leipzig: Arkstee und Merkus, 1747.. A copper engraved map on laid paper, uncoloured, from Volume 1 of Schwabe's Allgemeine Historie der Reisen (1747 - 1774). Image size is 13.5cm x 20cm. Text in German. Verso blank. In upper left corner: "No. 36." Clean, very good condition. This map by Bellin first appeared in Prevost's Histoire Generale des Voyages.... Vietnam, Tonkin.

Leipzig: Arkstee und Merkus, 1748.. A copper engraved map on laid paper, uncoloured, from Volume 2 of Schwabe's Allgemeine Historie der Reisen (1747 - 1774). Image size is 22cm x 15.5cm. Text in German. Verso blank. In upper left: "No. 5." Clean, very good condition. This map by Bellin first appeared in Prevost's Histoire Generale des Voyages. A map of the Islands of Madeira and Porto Santo, in Portugal.

Leipzig: Arkstee und Merkus, 1751. A copper engraved map on laid paper, uncoloured, from Volume 8 of Schwabe's Allgemeine Historie der Reisen (1748 - 1774). Cartouche in lower left. Image size is 29cm x 20cm. Text in German. Verso blank. In upper right corner: "No. 10". At lower right: "Tom. VIII. H." Original folds, very good condition. A map of the Maluku Islands (aka The Mollucas), from Bellin's French map (Carte des Iles Voisines des Moluques) published in Prevost's L'Histoire Generale des Voyages (Volume 8, 1750).

Leipzig: Arkstee und Merkus, 1750. A copper engraved map on laid paper, uncoloured, from Volume 6 of Schwabe's Allgemeine Historie der Reisen (1748 - 1774). Decorative cartouche in lower left. Image size is 21.5cm x 26.5cm. Text in German. Verso blank. In upper right corner: "No. 44". Original folds, very good condition, some paper glued to verso at upper left. From Bellin's French map (Carte du Royaume de Kau-Li ou Coree....) published in Prevost's L'Histoire Generale des Voyages (Volume 6, 1748). The German edition of Bellin's map of Korea, not copied from an English map as stated, but actually adapted by Bellin from a map by D'Anville (pub. 1735).

Leipzig: Arkstee und Merkus, 1747.. A copper engraved map on laid paper, uncoloured, from Volume 1 of Schwabe's Allgemeine Historie der Reisen (1747 - 1774). Image size is 19.5cm x 24cm. Decorative cartouche at left center. Text in German. Verso blank. In upper right corner: "No. 5." Original folds, small repair at lower right, very good condition. This map by Bellin first appeared in Prevost's Histoire Generale des Voyages....

Leipzig: Arkstee und Merkus, 1750.. A copper engraved map on laid paper, uncoloured, from Volume 7 of Schwabe's Allgemeine Historie der Reisen (1748 - 1774). Cartouche in lower left. Image size is 31cm x 21.5cm. Text in German. Verso blank. In upper right corner: "No. 7". Original folds, very good condition. From Bellin's French map (Carte du Grand ThibetÂ… ) published in Prevost's L'Histoire Generale des Voyages (Volume 9, 1750).

Leipzig: Arkstee und Merkus, 1748.. A copper engraved map on laid paper, uncoloured, from Volume 2 of Schwabe's Allgemeine Historie der Reisen (1747 - 1774). Image size is 15.5cm x 21.5cm. Text in German. Verso blank. In upper left: "No. 22." Decorative cartouche at upper right. Clean, very good condition. This map by Bellin first appeared in Prevost's Histoire Generale des Voyages. A map of the area around the Sanaga (Senegal) and Gambra (Gambia) Rivers, in West Africa.

Leipzig: Arkstee und Merkus, 1750.. A copper engraved map on laid paper, uncoloured, from Volume 7 of Schwabe's Allgemeine Historie der Reisen (1748 - 1774). Image size is 31cm x 21.5cm. Text in German. Verso blank. In upper right corner: "No. 6". Original folds, very good condition. From Bellin's French map (lÂ’Empire de Hya et Partie de Tangut.... ) published in Prevost's L'Histoire Generale des Voyages (Volume 9, 1750). A map of the Tangut Empire, Western Xia, Kobi (Gobi) Desert.