Catalogue: September 2020
Dear Friends, We hope, that this note finds you well!
We are pleased to participate at the second Firsts on-line fair and would like to present our new catalogue with 80 new acquisitions for September, including maps, books and ephemera. Please let us know, if anything catches your eye.
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- ARABIAN PENINSULA:جزيرة العرب [Arabian Peninsula]
- 550.00€
- Chromolithograph. 9 x 13,5 cm (3.5 x 5.3 inches). Slightly stained.
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- Armenian Books, Books, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- ARMENIAN BOOKS / SAN LAZZARO – VENICE IMPRINT: Խորհրդատետր սրբոյ պատարագին ըստ արարողութեան Հայաստանեայց եկեղեցւոյ : Համեմատ օրինակին տպելոյ ի Հռովմ՝ 1677
- 380.00€
- [Guide of the Holy Liturgy According to the Ceremony of the Armenian Church. Compared to a Copy Printed in Rome in 1677] 8°. 80 pp., 4 full page copper engravings, contemporary speckled paper boards with gilt debossed decoration, calf spine with debossed decoration, contemporary marbled endpapers (binding with minor scratches and scuffing on the edges, otherwise in a good…
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- Armenian Books, Books, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- ARMENIAN PRINTING IN ISTANBUL: ՕՐԱՑՈՅՑ [Calendar… for 1800]
- 850.00€
- 12°. [48 pp.] with a printed illustrations and vignettes, contemporary printed wrappers, originally bound with a string (spine lightly scuffed, minor age-toning, sporadic pin-size holes in lower margins, overall in a good clean condition).
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- Armenian Books, Books, Geography, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- ARMENIAN WORLD ATLAS / ‘ARMENIAN NATIONAL AWAKENING’: Ատլաս կամ աշխարհացոյց տախտակք Ի պէտս ազգային դպրոցաց / Յօրինեաց եւ ծրագրեաց Հ. Աստուածատուր Վ. Աւագեան ի Մխիթարեան Ուխտէն.
- 12,500.00€
- Extremely rare – one of the great milestones of Armenian language cartography, being the first Armenian school atlas and the second ever Armenian world atlas, created by Astvatsatur Avakian, a monk at the Mekhitarist Monastery in Vienna, a beautifully produced work of 21 maps, importantly including one of the earliest maps to depict a proposed future independent state of ‘Armenia’…
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- Australia, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND: آوستراليا [Avustralya / Australia]
- 200.00€
- Chromolithograph. 9 x 13,5 cm (3.5 x 5.3 inches). Slightly stained, overall in a good condition.
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- Australia, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: September 2020, New Zealand
- AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND & OCEANIA: اقيانوسيا [Okyanusya / Oceania]
- 160.00€
- Chromolithograph. 9 x 13,5 cm (3.5 x 5.3 inches). Slightly stained, overall in a good condition
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- BAGHDAD / IRAQ: بغداد ولايتى [Baghdad Vilayet]
- 180.00€
- Chromolithograph. 9 x 13,5 cm (3.5 x 5.3 inches). Minor staining, overall in a good condition.
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- BAGHDAD: بغداد ولايتى [Baghdad Vilayeti]
- 180.00€
- Postcard. Lithography in colour (Very Good, slightly age-toned, tiny tears and chips in margins ) 10 x 14cm (5.11 x 3.5 inches).
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- Books, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- Baku Imprint / Archeology: أسكى مدنزت تارزخى [Eski medeniyet tarihi / History of Ancient Civilisations]
- 220.00€
- 8°. 61 pp. with 13 full page black and white illustrations, [3 pp.], 20th century brown cloth binding with lettering on the cover and spine (minor age-toning, light water-staining, handwritten old price on the inner side of back cover, otherwise in a good condition).
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- Books, New Acquisitions: September 2020, Turkica
- BAKU IMPRINT / COMMUNISM: خلق معلمى [Xalq Muallimi / Public Teacher]
- 450.00€
- A rare Communist Azeri publication with contribution by various authors on the subject of the modern education was published on the Labour day, May 1st, 1924 to commemorate Lenin, who passed away in January of the same year. 4°. 74 pp with a full page portrait of Lenin, original wrappers with lettering, 20th century brown cloth binding with lettering…
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- Broadsides, Europe, Germany, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- BAVARICA / LUDWIG I / EPHEMERA: Nice, le 5 Mars 1868. Le Comte de Castell, Grand Maitre de la Cour, et le Lieutenant-Géneral, Baron de Jeetze, Aide de Camp de sa Majesté le Roi Louis Ier de Bavière, ont l’honneur de vous prier d’assister au SERVICE FUNERE qui sera célébré, demain, Vendredi 6 Mars, à 9 heures, à l’Église Cathédrale pour le repos se âme de S. M. le Roi Louis Ier de Bavière.
- 250.00€
- [Nice, March 5, 1868. The Count of Castell, Grand Master of the Court, and the Lieutenant-General, Baron de Jeetze, Aide-de-Camp to his Majesty King Louis I of Bavaria, have the honour to ask you to attend the FUNERE SERVICE which will be held tomorrow, Friday March 6th, at 9 am, at the Cathedral for the rest of the soul of…
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- Archives and Documents, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- BAVARICA / MUNICH / EPHEMERA: Gasthof zum Oberpollinger. Rechnung. F. Knöpfle
- 100.00€
- Broadside with printed template, manuscript additions in black ink, taxation stamps in the upper left corner, 25 x 16,5 cm (9.9 x 6.5 inches) (soft folds, a tiny hole in the lower corner, overall in a good condition).
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- BEIRUT / LEBANON
- 220.00€
- Chromolithograph. 9 x 13,5 cm (3.5 x 5.3 inches). Minor staining, overall in a good condition.
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- BEIRUT / LEBANON: بيروت ولايتى [Beirut Vilayet]
- 220.00€
- Chromolithograph. 9 x 13,5 cm (3.5 x 5.3 inches). Minor staining, overall in a good condition.
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- BEIRUT / LEBANON: بيروت ولايتى [Beirut Vilayeti]
- 220.00€
- Postcard. Lithography in colour (Very Good, slightly age-toned) 10 x 14cm (5.11 x 3.5 inches).
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- Arabic Books, Books, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- BEIRUT IMPRINT / BIBLE / AMERICAN MISSION PRESS: الكتاب المقدس اي كتب العهد القديم والعهد الجديد [The Bible. That is the books of the Old Testament and the New Testament]
- 550.00€
- An early example of a Bible in Arabic language, translated by Eli Smith and Cornelius Van Alen Van Dyck, printed in the elegant “al-Amerikani” font by the American Mission Press in Beirut 8°, 920 pp., [2 pp.] title page, 295 pp., publisher’s dark brown full calf with debossed decoration, gilt lettering in Arabic on the spine (slightly age-toned, stained…
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- Balkans, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- BITOLA -MANASTIR / NORTH MACEDONIA / OTTOMAN CARTOGRAPHY / POSTCARD MAP: مناستر ولآيتى [Vilayet Manastir]
- 120.00€
- Postcard. Lithography in colour (Very Good, slightly age-toned) 10 x 14cm (5.11 x 3.5 inches).
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- Austria, Europe, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- CARTOGRAPHIC PROPAGANDA / AUSTRIAN ANSCHLUSS / THIRD REICH MAPPING / POLITICAL PROPAGANDA FOR CHILDREN: Der Brautschatz Österreichs [The Bridal Presents of Austria]
- 850.00€
- A morbid pictorial wall map shows the industrial and natural treasures, which Austria is bringing to the Nazi Germany a day after it was annexed to The Third Reich. The ironic title “The Bridal Presents of Austria” represent the country as a bride, bringing the wealth to the her new groom. Offset Lithograph, contemporary holes with metal borders in…
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- Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: September 2020, Russia
- CARTOGRAPHIC PROPAGANDA / COLD WAR / SOVIET UNION – GULAGS: Karte der Sowjet-Union 1951 / Die Sklavenprovinzen der Sowjetunion…
- 250.00€
- A scarce and fascinating work of early American Cold War propaganda, being a map of the Soviet Union depicting its horrific archipelago of gulags, published in Vienna in 1951 by the U.S. Information Service and directed towards the Austrian audience which was supposedly to be technically ‘neutral’ in the Cold War. Colour printed map, folding into paper covers bearing…
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- Books, Children’s Books, New Acquisitions: September 2020, Slavica
- CHILDREN’S LITERATURE / TITO / YUGOSLAVIA: Ciciban čita [Ciciban is Reading].
- 65.00€
- 12°. 32 pp. with black and white illustrations, original wrappers with lettering, stapled (in a good condition).
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- Books, Children’s Books, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- CHILDREN’S LITERATURE: Ciciban čita [Ciciban is Reading].
- 35.00€
- 12°. 16 pp. with black and white illustrations, original wrappers with lettering, stapled (light staining and foxing, old annotation in ink on the front cover, overall in a good condition).
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- Books, Children’s Books, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- CHILDREN’S BOOKS / POLITICAL PROPAGANDA FOR CHILDREN: Fiori con fiori [Flowers with Flowers]
- 75.00€
- 12°. 60 pp. with black and white illustrations and one colour illustrations, front endpapers with lettering, original illustrated binding (light foxing on edges, old paper label in the upper corner of the cover, binding with light scuffing on the corners, overall in a good condition).
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- Books, Children’s Books, New Acquisitions: September 2020, Slavica
- CHILDREN’S BOOKS / POLITICAL PROPAGANDA FOR CHILDREN: Pionirji iz Tihega dola. Pionirska živalska igra v petih dejanjih
- 75.00€
- [Pioneers from the Quiet Valley. A Pioneer Animal Play in Five Acts] 8°. 54 pp. With black and white illustrations, [2 pp.] blank, original illustrated wrappers, staples (old paper label on the cover, old stamp and annotation from a de-accessed archive, otherwise in a good unread condition)
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- Books, New Acquisitions: September 2020, Slavica
- CHILDREN’S BOOKS / POLITICAL PROPAGANDA FOR CHILDREN: Pod zvezdo. Igra za lutke v 5 dejanjih [Under the Star. A Marionette Play in 5 Acts]
- 75.00€
- 8°. 51 pp., original illustrated colour wrappers, stapled, originally pasted label with a date in the lower part of the rear cover (Very Good).
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- Books, New Acquisitions: September 2020, Turkica
- COMMUNISM IN UZBEKISTAN / LENIN: مللييهت مهسئهلهسي [Milliyet Meselesi / национальный вопрос / National Question]
- 550.00€
- A rare translation of Lenin’s texts on the unification and protection of the Muslims in the Soviet Union was published in Tashkent and Samarkand in 1926. Small 4°. 195 pp. with a portrait of Lenin, [5 pp.], 20th century brown cloth binding with lettering on the cover and spine (minor age-toning, handwritten old price on the inner side of…
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- New Acquisitions: September 2020, Photography
- CROATIA – PHOTOGRAPHY / JUDAICA: Šandor 8. IV. 97
- 250.00€
- A seemingly unrecorded portrait of a Croatian philanthropist, industrialist and nobleman Šandor Alexander Sesvetski (1866-1929) from a prominent Zagreb Jewish family. Cabinet card with albumen print and lettering in the lower margin and verso, contemporary signature in black ink in the lower right corner 16,4 x 10,7 cm (6.4 x 4.3 inches) (minor staining, corners slightly bumped, overall in…
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- Books, New Acquisitions: September 2020, Slavica
- CROATIAN BOOK DESIGN / POETRY: Rane [Wounds]
- 160.00€
- 8°. 29 pp., [3 pp.] index, original illustrated wrappers (slightly age-toned and stained, minor chips in margins, overall in a good condition).
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- Cyprus, Europe, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- CYPRUS / OTTOMAN CARTOGRAPHY: قبريس آطه سى [Kıbrıs Ada-sı / Island Cyprus]
- 350.00€
- Colour lithograph, 19,5 x 26 cm (7.6 x 10.3 inches) (soft fold, otherwise in a good condition).
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- Books, New Acquisitions: September 2020, Slavica
- DACHAU CONCENTRATION CAMP IMPRINT / ENTERTAINING NEWSLETTER, MADE BY THE PRISONERS: Jež za žico [Hedgehog Behind Barbwire].
- 2,500.00€
- An extremely rare newsletter printed by Slovenian Partisan survivors at Dachau Concentration Camp shortly after the Americans liberated it; with unique and meaningful content, richly illustrated. 4°: 4 pp., mimeographed text with illustrations, stapled in the right upper corner (Very Good, slightly age-toned, tears in margins and partly in the text, tiny loss of paper in margins, staple disconnected).
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- Europe, Germany, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- DRESDEN / COMMUNIST URBAN PLANNING / DESTRUCTION OF HISTORICAL MONUMENTS: Gesamtbebauungsplan Zentrum. Prognostische Entwicklung. Stand 1. Januar 1967
- 320.00€
- [General Development Plan for Center. Prognostic Development. The Situation of January 1st 1967] Colour lithograph, 71,5 x 57 cm (28.1 x 22.4 inches) (soft folds with tiny holes, otherwise in a good condition).
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- Books, New Acquisitions: September 2020, Slavica
- EARLY KAZAKH-RUSSIAN BILINGUALISM: Памятники киргизскаго народнаго творчества. Пѣсня Алашинца Байтоки на смерть Хана Джангера, записанная и переведенная [Monuments of the Creative Power of the Kirghiz people. Alashian poems on the death of Dzhanger khan. With Russian Translation]
- 450.00€
- One of the pioneering works on the Kazakh-Russian bilingualism and bilingual education. Small 4°. 19 pp., original wrappers with lettering (light staining, two old paper labels on the cover, title page with old Ottoman stamp and light scratches, sporadic old annotations, wrappers with tiny tears in margins and a small hole in the rear cover, otherwise in a good…
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- Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: September 2020, Turkey
- GALLIPOLI / TURKEY: چناق قلعه بوغاز [Çanakkale Boğazı / Dardanelles]
- 120.00€
- Chromolithographs on thick paper. Each sheet: 11 x 15 cm (4.3 x 5.9 inches). Slightly stained, overall in a good condition
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- Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: September 2020, Turkey
- GALLIPOLI CAMPAIGN – BATTLES OF KRITHIA (ALÇITEPE): [Untitled Ottoman Mimeographed WWI Military Map of the Southern Part of the Gallipoli Peninsula].
- 420.00€
- A rare ephemeral artefact from the Gallipoli Campaign of World War I, being a mimeographed map made in the field by Ottoman soldiers, depicting the theatre of the Battles of Krithia (Alçitepe), a series of four major altercations fought between British Imperial-French forces and the Turks between April and August 1915. Mimeograph in purple (Very Good, old vertical centrefold,…
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- Books, History, New Acquisitions: September 2020, Reference Books, Turkica
- GALLIPOLI: Çanakkale, 1915
- 35.00€
- An illustrated work on the battle of Gallipoli in Turkish language. Second edition. 8°. IX, 423 pp., [1 pp.] index, [16 pp.] black and white illustrations, original illustrated wrappers (light traces of wear to the wrappers, minor staining).
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- Austria, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- GRAZ: Plan der Provinzial Hauptstadt Graz im Herzogthume Steyermark
- 450.00€
- Lithograph printed on two joined sheets 58 x 69 cm (22.8 x 27.2 inches) (minor staining, tiny tears in the margins, overall in a good condition).
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- Africa, Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- HEJAZ / LEBANON, SAUDI ARABIA / EGYPT, NORTH AFRICA: آفريقاى عثمانى [Afrika-yı Osmanı / Ottoman Afica]
- 450.00€
- Colour lithograph, 20 x 35 cm (7.8 x 13.9 inches) (soft folds, otherwise in a good condition).
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- HEJAZ, LEBANON, SAUDI ARABIA: حجاز و سوريه [Hejaz and Syria]
- 650.00€
- Chromolithograph. 9 x 13,5 cm (3.5 x 5.3 inches). Minor staining, overall in a good condition.
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- IRAQ – MOSUL / MIDDLE EAST / OTTOMAN CARTOGRAPHY: موصل ولايت [Musul Vilayet / Vilayet Mosul]
- 120.00€
- Chromolithographs on thick paper. Each sheet: 11 x 15 cm (4.3 x 5.9 inches). Slightly stained in margins with light rubbings on edges, manuscript numeration in margins.
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- Books, Geography, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- IRAQ / PETROLEUM-OIL HISTORY / CALCUTTA IMPRINT: Geological Notes on Mesopotamia with Special Reference to Occurrences of Petroleum, Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India, Volume XLVIII.
- 3,500.00€
- A highly important work on early petroleum history, being the official account of the first scientific geological reconnaissance of Northern Iraq, featuring 10 large, colourful maps that are the first detailed, accurate geological maps of the same region, a work that served as the blueprint for the Turkish Petroleum Company to discover the world’s largest oil field near Kirkuk in…
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- Books, New Acquisitions: September 2020, Turkica
- IRAQI TURKMEN PUBLICATION / KIRKUK / BAGHDAD IMPRINT: کرکوگده اِجتماعی حیات. فولکلور [Public Life in Kirkuk. Folklore]
- 250.00€
- 8°. 184 with illustrations, 20th century brown cloth binding with lettering on the cover and spine (minor age-toning and foxing, handwritten old price on the inner side of back cover, two annotations originally pasted over with brown paper, otherwise in a good condition).
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- Books, New Acquisitions: September 2020, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- ISLAM – GENEALOGY: سبحة الأخبار [Sübhet ül-ahbar / The Rosary of the Times]
- 2,500.00€
- A rare lithographed book in Ottoman language represents the genealogy from Adam, Muhammad, Four Caliphs, Abbasid caliphs, Turkish and Mongolian rulers, to Great Seljuk and Anatolian Seljuk sultans. The work finishes with a portrait of the Ottoman sultan Abdulmejid I (1823 –1861). 4°. 42 pp. lithographed with illustrations, later marbled wrappers (upper margin unevenly, last margin cut into the outer bordure,…
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- Books, New Acquisitions: September 2020, Turkica
- KAZAN 1918 IMPRINT / TATAR PRINTING: عاشق غريب شرق حكايه سى [Aşık Kerib. Şark hakayası / Ashik Kerib. The Eastern Tale]
- 650.00€
- A Tatar translation of an Azeri tale by a Russian writer Lermontov was published in Kazan in a turbulent year 1918, when the city founded its independent state of Turkic peoples and Volga Germans, was briefly sieged by the Czechoslovakian Legion and was eventually defeated by the Bolsheviks. 8°. 15 pp., trimmed rear original wrapper with lettering mounted with…
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- Kuwait / Iraq (Basra) / WWI Middle East / Important Ottoman Cartography: بصره [Basrah].
- 3,500.00€
- Very rare and historically important – the most detailed and accurate Ottoman map of the Kuwait and the Basra region of Iraq, issued by the General Staff of the Ottoman Army for strategic and operational planning early in World War I and during the twilight of the reign of Sheikh Mubarak Al Sabah, the ‘Father of Modern Kuwait’; depicting…
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- KUWAIT, SAUDI ARABIA, IRAQ: بصره ولآيت [Vilayet Basra]
- 550.00€
- Chromolithograph. 9 x 13,5 cm (3.5 x 5.3 inches). Minor staining, overall in a good condition.
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- Arabic Books, Books, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- LITHOGRAPH IN GOLD / ALAOUITE DYNASTY, MOROCCO: هذه مرثية الشريف مولاى احمد بن المرحوم سلطان المغرب مولاى عبد الرحمن الشريف [This is an Elegy for Sharif Moulay Ahmad, the Son of the Late Sultan of Morocco Moulay Abd al-Rahman Sharif …]
- 4,500.00€
- An elegant pamphlet in Arabic language with an elegy for Ahmad, a son of sultan of Morocco Abd al-Rahman from the Alaouite dynasty, was lithographed in gold in Istanbul. 8°. 12 pp., original wrappers with lettering, all pages lithographed in gold, elegant modern calf with debossed ornaments to contemporary style, bound with old marbled wrappers, modern yellow endpaper…
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- Books, Children’s Books, New Acquisitions: September 2020, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- MALTA IMPRINT / EARLY OTTOMAN CHILDREN’S LITERATURE / SCIENCE BOOKS: مدخل علوم ومبداءفنون
- 1,600.00€
- [Medhal-i Ulûm ve Mebde-i Fünûn / An Introduction to the Sciences and Initiation in the Arts, or the Fourth Volume in the Elucidation, Usefully and Concisely, of Various Sciences as Elegant Reading Material for Schoolchildren]. The first children’s textbook on geography, astronomy and physics published in Ottoman Turkish, compiled by the Swedish missionary Peter Fjellstedt and edited by the…
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- MECCA, SAUDI ARABIA / YEMEN: يمن ولآيت [Vilayet Yemen]
- 450.00€
- Chromolithograph. 9 x 13,5 cm (3.5 x 5.3 inches). Minor staining, overall in a good condition.
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- Albania, Balkans, Bulgaria, Europe, Greece, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: September 2020, Romania, Turkey
- OTTOMAN WWI CARTOGRAPHIC PROPAGANDA / ‘PERSUASIVE CARTOGRAPHY’ / THE ‘YOUNG TURKS’ / BALKAN WARS – ALBANIA / GREECE / NORTH MACEDONIA / BULGARIA / TURKEY: انتقام [İntikam / Revenge].
- 2,800.00€
- Exceedingly rare – the original large format issue of one of the most iconic Ottoman works of visual propaganda; entitled ‘Revenge’, the map laments the loss of almost all of the Ottoman territories in Europe during the Balkan Wars, with the forfeited lands dramatically bathed in black; the loss of these lands was a “psycho-traumatic” event for the Turkish people…
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- Books, New Acquisitions: September 2020, Turkica
- PAN-TURKISM / JEDDA IMPRINT: حقائق عن التركستان المسلمة [Facts about Muslim Turkestan]
- 350.00€
- A rare work on Turkestan was written in Arabic and published in Jedda. 8°. 42 pp. with double-page map of Asia, original blue front wrapper with lettering, later blank rear wrapper, imprint from the original blue rear blank wrapper pasted under the index on p. 41 (p. 5-6 with trimmed outer white margin and tiny repaired tears, light staining…
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- Books, New Acquisitions: September 2020, Slavica
- POLAND ON THE EVE OF WWII / POLISH BOOK DESIGN: Zachowanie się ludności cywilnej przed napadem, podczas napadu lotniczego i po napadzie
- 120.00€
- [Behavior of Civilians Before, During and After an Air Raid] 8°. 44 pp. with black and white illustrations, [4 pp.] index and three blank pages, original illustrated wrappers (minor folds and chips in margins, overall in a good condition).
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- Books, New Acquisitions: September 2020, Slavica
- SCI-FI / POLISH BOOK DESIGN / FEMALE AUTHORS: Planetoida 2100 [Asteroid 2100]
- 220.00€
- The first and only edition of a short science fiction novel by a female Polish author Józefa Maria Burdecka with attractive cover design by Hanna Przezdziecka Kędzierska Small 8°. 31 pp., original illustrated wrappers (old numeration in blue ink on the title page, tiny tears on the lower part of the spine, otherwise in a clean, seemingly unread condition). …
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- Books, New Acquisitions: September 2020, Slavica
- SCI-FI / SLOVENIAN BOOK DESIGN: Dan nič [Der Tag Null / The Day Zero]
- 65.00€
- 8°. 141 pp. [3 pp.] advertisements, original illustrated boards, linen spine with lettering, original illustrated dust jacket (tiny tears in the dustjacket, otherwise in a good, clean and unread condition).
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- Asia, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: September 2020, South-East Asia
- SINGAPORE / INDONESIA / MALAYSIA / WW2 SOUTHEAST ASIA – THE ‘MONSOON GROUP’ U-BOATS / THIRD REICH MILITARY MAPPING: Ostindischer Archipel. Singapore bis Banka Strasze. Maszstab, 1:500 000. 1911.
- 2,500.00€
- An exceedingly rare World War II sea chart of the Singapore and Banka Straits, amongst the world’s most strategically vital sea passages, made by the high Command of the Nazi German Navy on the eve of the Japanese Invasion of Southeast Asia, one of the seminal maps that would have been given to the commanders of the ‘Monsoon Group’ of…
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- Asia, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: September 2020, South-East Asia
- SINGAPORE & SUMATRA: صوماطرا اطيه سى [Island Sumatra]
- 230.00€
- Chromolithograph. 10 x 13,5 cm (4 x 5.3 inches). Slightly stained, overall in a good condition.
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- Books, New Acquisitions: September 2020, Slavica
- SLOVENIAN DIASPORA IN ARGENTINA: Zedinjena Slovenija. Slovenska osnovna šola v Argentini
- 250.00€
- [United Slovenia. Slovenian Primary School in Argentina] A pair of rare ABC books with exercises for 1st and 2nd grade were published for a Slovenian school in Buenos Aires 2 volumes, 8°. 42 pp., 35 pp. printed in black and red, both with original blank colour wrappers, stapled (Very Good, minor discoloration to the edges of the wrappers).
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- Books, New Acquisitions: September 2020, Slavica
- SLOVENIAN DIASPORA IN THE USA: Nekoliko pravopisa [A Bit of Grammar]
- 35.00€
- 12°. 24 p., original wrappers with lettering (old label and some scratches on the spine, a „Duplicate“ and library stamp on the title page, otherwise in a good condition).
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- Books, New Acquisitions: September 2020, Slavica
- SLOVENIAN POETRY IN GERMAN LANGUAGE / WWI: Slovenische Kriegs- und Soldaten- Lieder [Slovenian War and Soldier Poems]
- 620.00€
- A collection of Slovenian national and famous poems was translated into German during WWI, to encourage the Slovenian soldiers, who were fighting for the Austrian emperor against Italians. This is a rare luxury edition, which was issued on hand-made paper in 50 examples only, all of which were signed by the editor and translator Dr. Rudolf von Andrejka and given…
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- Africa, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- SOUTH AFRICA / GOLD MINING / ENGINEERS’ ‘MASTER PLAN’: Kinross Mines Ltd. – Underground Plan – 1:2,500.
- 2,500.00€
- A colossal ‘master plan’ of the Kinross Gold Mine in Transvaal (measuring 1.9 x 1.7 metres!), made by engineers around 1970 to showcase every detail of the immense subterranean world of one of South Africa’s largest and most productive gold operations; the mine since became world famous for the 1986 Kinross Mining Disaster, which highlighted the Apartheid regime’s horrific record…
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- Australia, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: September 2020, South Pole
- South Pole, Australia and South America
- 180.00€
- Chromolithograph. 8,5 x 13,5 cm (3.3 x 5.3 inches). Slightly stained, overall in a good condition
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- Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: September 2020, Sri Lanka
- SRI LANKA: سيلان آطه سى [Seylan Atası]
- 180.00€
- Chromolithograph. 9 x 13,5 cm (3.5 x 5.3 inches). Minor staining, overall in a good condition.
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- Archives and Documents, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- SUEZ CANAL MANUSCRIPT ARCHIVE – FERDINAND DE LESSEPS AUTOGRAPHS
- 5,500.00€
- This is a valuable manuscript archive relating to the Suez Canal, the project that utterly revolutionized global transportation, commerce and communications. It is highlighted by a detailed letter written by one of the major stakeholders in project, written from Alexandria only a few days after Sa’id Pasha, the Viceroy of Egypt, formally approved Ferdinand de Lesseps’s proposal to build…
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- SYRIA – ALEPPO / MIDDLE EAST / OTTOMAN CARTOGRAPHY: حلب ولآيت [Halep Viayet / Vilayet Aleppo]
- 160.00€
- Postcard. Lithography in colour (Very Good, slightly age-toned, verso small later annotations in the corner, a tiny piece of corner missing) 13 x 9 cm (5.11 x 3.5 inches).
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- SYRIA: سوریه ولايتى [Suriye Vilayeti]
- 180.00€
- Postcard. Lithography in colour (Very Good, slightly age-toned, tiny tears and chips in margins ) 10 x 14cm (5.11 x 3.5 inches).
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- Books, New Acquisitions: September 2020, Turkica
- TATAR PRINTING IN THE NAZI POW CAMPS / ANTI-SOVIET PROPAGANDA / WWII: Tatar Xalьq Çьrlarь [Tatar chalyq čyrlary / Tatar National Poems]
- 650.00€
- An extremely rare pamphlet with Tatar nationalistic anti-Soviet songs was printed in a Nazi POW camp in a program to retrain the Muslim prisoners of war from the Soviet Union to fight on the German side. 12°. 66 pp. with black and white illustrations, [2 pp.] blank, colour illustrated wrappers, stapled (slightly age-toned and stained, otherwise in a good…
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- Books, New Acquisitions: September 2020, Turkica
- TURKESTANI NATIONALISM / PRINTING IN EXILE: 1917نچى ززج خاطره پارچالارى
- 620.00€
- A rare publication by a leader of the extremist nationalist Turkestani movement in Berlin Mustafa Shokay, who eventually sided with the Nazis with a goal to unify Turkestan during the WWII, describes the revolutionary year 1917. 8°. 96 pp with black and white portraits, later black cloth binding with lettering on the cover and spine, pink endpapers (sporadic small…
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- Avantgarde, Books, New Acquisitions: September 2020, Turkica
- TURKISH AVANTGARDE / NÂZIM HIKMET: 835 Satır [835 Lines]
- 520.00€
- The second edition of Nazim Hikmet’s fine avantgarde poetry book from 1929 was republished with a different cover, made by a poster and book designer Ali Suavi (1910 or 1913-1994), who was more known as an award-winning photographer Suavi Sonar. 8°. 48 pp., original illustrated wrappers (a tiny worm-hole in the outer white margin of the first half of…
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- Books, New Acquisitions: September 2020, Turkica
- TURKISH AVANTGARDE / NÂZIM HIKMET: Alman faşizmi ve irkçiliǧi [German Fascism and Racism]
- 950.00€
- Hikmet’s fierce attack on the Nazi Germany N.B. The image of the book provided here censors out the Nazi symbol of the Swastika from the title page; this has been done pursuant to German laws on the representation of Third Reich symbols; however, such details are clearly present and uncensored on the actual book itself. 8°. 96 pp., inserted…
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- Books, New Acquisitions: September 2020, Turkica
- TURKISH AVANTGARDE / NÂZIM HIKMET: Kafatası. Facia, 3 kısım 15 bap [The Scull: Tragedy, 3 acts]
- 850.00€
- 8°. 103 pp, [9] advertisements, original illustrated wrappers (paper with minimal staining and tiny folds in edges, old signature on the title page, wrappers with minor foxing and wear, especially on the spine).
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- New Acquisitions: September 2020, Turkica
- UYGHUR PRINTING / KASHGAR IMPRINT: ا ب کتسبى نينک تدريچى ايكنجى جز [a-b kita:bïnïղ tεdri:ʤi ikinʤi ʤůzε / A Sequel to the ABC Books. Second Part].
- 840.00€
- A rare schoolbook in Kashgari dialect was printed in China by the Printing Office of the Swedish Mission for Uyghurs. 8°. 111 pp., contemporary blank wrappers (wrappers and first 18 and last 3 pages with trimmed corners, slightly age-toned and stained, small partly repaired tears in white margins, later owner’s annotation in Turkish pasted on the front wrapper, otherwise…
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- WORLD WAR I MIDDLE EAST / LEBANON / ISRAEL / PALESTINE / SYRIA / JORDAN / EGYPT / SUEZ CANAL: Operationskarte / Beirut.
- 650.00€
- Rare – a seminal map used for strategic planning by German commanders during the Sinai and Levant theatre of World War I, a classified work created under the supervision of the orientalist Franz Gustav Taeschner for the German General Staff, it depicts all details necessary to inform broad military movement during one of the most dramatic and surprising campaigns of…
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- Archives and Documents, Asia, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- WORLD WAR II MIMEOGRAPHED ARCHIVE / U.S. ARMED FORCES INDIA-CHINA DIVISION / NEWSLETTER PRINTED ABOARD SHIP
- 1,200.00€
- A fascinating original mimeographed archive concerning the return of U.S. servicemen from the India-China theatre in the immediate wake of World War II, in this case a group of army officers travelling aboard the ‘USS Anderson’ from Karachi to New York; including a custom guide and map of Karachi; a description of the Suez Canal with a World map; special…
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- Books, New Acquisitions: September 2020, Slavica
- YUGOSLAV BOOK DESIGN / YUGOSLAV LITERATURE: Danas [Today]
- 220.00€
- Belgrade 1932. 8°. 77 pp., [3 pp.], original wrappers with lettering, original illustrated dustjacket mounted on wrappers on the spine, as issued (very good clean uncut example, minor scuffing on the corners of the dustjacket).
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