1 / 2
three books are stacked on top of each other on a bedthree books sitting on top of a table next to each other
Daguerre Savoie

56 - (Cartography) – 5 volumes
See original version (French)

Estimate €40 - €60
Sale commission
Description
(Cartography) – 5 volumes - KISH (George). *La Carte, image des civilisations*. Paris, Seuil, 1980. In-4, 287 pp, publisher’s cloth binding with illustrated dust jacket. Pages 67 to 184 reproduce 108 maps, in black and white and in colour, often as full-page and sometimes as double-page spreads. - BAGROW (Leo). *Die Geschichte der Kartographie*. Berlin, Safari Verlag, 1951. Quarto, 383 pp, grey decorated cloth binding by the publisher. A significant contribution to the history of cartography. It is illustrated with 7 colour plates at the end of the volume, including one double-page spread, 112 full-page plates within the text, and numerous figures and maps within the text. - FALL (Yoro K.). Africa at the Dawn of Modern Cartography. The Mallorcan Maps: 14th–15th Centuries. Paris, 1982. In-8, 295 pp, publisher’s paperback binding. The origins of modern cartography, and the depiction of Africa and the Atlantic in the corpus of maps produced in Majorca in the 14th and 15th centuries. Illustrations both within and outside the text. Library stamp, cancelled. - SMITH (David). Victorian maps of the British Isles. London, 1985. In-4, 176 pp, publisher’s cloth binding with illustrated dust jacket. Numerous reproductions in the text, including 8 full-page colour plates, as separate plates. Extensive index. - Exhibition ‘Asia in Western Cartography’. Descriptive catalogue edited by Tullia Gasparrini Leporace. Venice, 1954. Quarto, [3 ff], 95 pp, [1 f], 31 plates, paperback. Exhibition held in Venice to mark the seventh centenary of Marco Polo’s birth.
See original version (French)
Auto-translation. Refer to original language for legal validity.
About the sale In preparation – The Jean-Paul Delon Bookshop Collection, Part I (Bibliography – Scholarship – Bibliophilia)
Auction location
Auction time 10/05/2026 at 2:00 PM
Pictures credits: Contact the Auction House
You may also like