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).
An impressive archive consisting of a stellar original photograph and sixteen manuscript documents relating to the Comte d’Escayrac’s 1856 planned expedition to find the source of the White Nile, two years before John Hanning Speke successfully accomplished said objective, from the personal papers of Gabriel Aubaret, the mission’s second-in-command and subsequently a famous diplomat and a leading figure in…
An important governmental article in French language was printed in early 1842 in Istanbul to introduce new discoveries on the spreading of plague and start a survey in the ports, connected to the Ottoman Empire.
A set of original, exquisitely executed manuscript plans of the blockhouse of the Prince of Wales Battery, one of the key components of the elaborate new defensive system that the British constructed around Cape Town (South Africa) during their first occupation of the colony from 1795 to 1803; drafted by Captain (later Major-General) George Bridges, the commanding Royal Engineer…
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…
Including approximately 1,300 mostly unpublished primary sources: *The Secret Early Archives of the Ottoman Public Debt Administration. *The Archives of the project to link-up the Rumelian Railway, leading to the completion of the line for The Orient Express. *The Papers concerning the French-led bid for the Anatolian Railway (later the Baghdad Railway). *Important Archives concerning the Régie, the Ottoman Tobacco…
A unique manuscript French translation of an unpublished Turkish text with valuable information on Janissaries in the 16th century in Turkey, was written by a French Orentalist and translator Jean-Baptiste Adanson.
A stellar archive of apparently unrecorded ephemeral publications and original photographs contemporarily made by members of the Turkish Brigade, the special force that bravely fought alongside the U.S. Army during the Korean War.
A fascinating archive relating to the World War II Allied Bombing of Germany, featuring 7 maps of German cities especially designed to be read in the cockpit by Allied pilots during their final approach towards striking their targets, here featuring maps of Berlin, Munich, Frankfurt, Nuremberg, Pölitz (now a part of Szczecin, Poland) and Hanau (Hessen), plus a blank ‘Bomber…
![TURCICA: Canons ou Règlements de Sultan Sélim II à son retour à Constantinople après une Victoi[re] complette sur les Allemands, concernant les Odgiaks et Casernes des Janissaires. Traduit de l’idiome Turc en idiome Français Par Jean Bapte Adanson](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/65893b-265x331.jpg)
