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- Archives and Documents, Books, History, Maps and Prints, Photography
An Album of 159 Original World War II Aerial Reconnaissance and Bombing Photographs compiled by the Royal Air Force
- 14,500.00€
- Unique and highly important – by far and away the finest and most comprehensive collection of World War II bombing and reconnaissance photographs we have ever encountered, an expensively custom bound album of 159 photographs, each with detailed pastedown typescript captions, as well as a location map and index, clearly made by the British Royal Air Force (RAF) for…
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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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- Americas, Archives and Documents, Maps and Prints, South America
BUENOS AIRES – BRITISH INVASIONS OF THE RÍO DE LA PLATA (1806-7) – MANUSCRIPT MAP & PORTRAIT COLLECTION: A fine collection relating to the British Invasion of the Río De La Plata (1806-7), highlighted by an original contemporary manuscript map of the Seco
- 4,500.00€
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- Archives and Documents, Books
CONGO (PR & DRC) / CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC / CHAD – EXPLORATION / ETHNOGRAPHY: [Robert Hottot’s Diary of his ‘Mission ethnographique du Kanem-Chari-Logone’, March 1908 to January 1909].
- 12,500.00€
- One of the most significant manuscripts regarding exploration and ethnography in sub-Saharan Africa to appear on the market in many years, being the original diary of the French adventurer Robert Hottot complied during his groundbreaking ‘Mission ethnographique du Kanem-Chari-Logone’ (1908-9), to what is today Congo (both PRC and DRC), the Central African Republic and Chad, where he made meaningful…
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- Archives and Documents, Books, History, Ottoman Books, Turkica
EARLY OTTOMAN AMERICANA / CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS: روبرتسون نام مورف مشهورك مولفاتندن يكى دنيانلر كشفنه داتر اولان تاريخى اولوب انجمن دانشك اعضاً خارجيه سنده و باب عالى ترجمه اوطه سى خلفاسنده عبدالغفار انيس بنده لرى انكليز لسانزه ترجمه اتمشدر Histoire de la découverte du nouveau monde p. Robertson traduite p. Enis Abdoulgaffar effendi membre de l’académie turqe en 1269 de l’Hegir – cet ouvrage est traduit de l’anglais
- 9,500.00€
- روبرتسون نام مورف مشهورك مولفاتندن يكى دنيانلر كشفنه داتر اولان تاريخى اولوب انجمن دانشك اعضاً خارجيه سنده و باب عالى ترجمه اوطه سى خلفاسنده عبدالغفار انيس بنده لرى انكليز لسانزه ترجمه اتمشدر Histoire de la découverte du nouveau monde p. Robertson traduite p. Enis Abdoulgaffar effendi membre de l’académie turqe en 1269 de l’Hegir – cet ouvrage est traduit de…
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- Africa, Archives and Documents, Maps and Prints, Mauritius
MAURITIUS: “Plan De Reduit Scituée entre le Quartier de Moka et célui des Plaines De Wilheme”
- 7,500.00€
- An historically significant and beautifully rendered original manuscript map of Le Chateau de Reduit, the official residence of the Governor of Île de France (Mauritius), today the home of the President of Mauritius, depicting what was then a fortified working indigo plantation, a masterplan capturing the estate at an early stage in its development during the French colonial era,…
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- Archives and Documents
MIMAR KEMALEDDIN: Draft for a Prison
- 1,800.00€
- An original pencil drawing for a modern prison, made by the most famous and prolific late Ottoman architect Mimar Kemaleddin in the time of the change of the Ottoman criminal code Pencil drawing on thick paper, 95 x 114 cm (37.4 x 44.9 inches), (slightly dusty and stained , small tears in margins, a larger repaired tear in the…
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- Africa, Archives and Documents, Books, Geography, Maps and Prints
NILE RIVER EXPLORATION ARCHIVE: An Archive consisting of 1 Original Photograph and 16 Manuscript Documents from the Personal Papers of Gabriel Aubaret, the Chief Scientific Officer of the Comte d’Escayrac’s 1856 Expedition that aimed to discover the Sourc
- 3,500.00€
- 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…
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- Archives and Documents
OTTOMAN ARCHITECTURE: Reçu de Monsieur Aron Nigno, à valoir sur les cinq pour cent d’honoraires d’Architecte, pour les constructions don’t je me suie chargé a Pertef Pacha han depuis le Cenq Octobre 1879…
- 150.00€
- A receipt by an Istanbul-based architect of Italian origins from the late 19th century.
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- Archives and Documents, Books, Ottoman Books, Science, Turkica
Ottoman Imperial Institute of Vaccination: The Guest Book of the Imperial Smallpox Vaccine Laboratory
- 1,200.00€
- A unique, original manuscript guest book of the Ottoman Imperial Vaccine Laboratory, with entries by various prominent local and international guests, praising the innovative techniques and modernity of the institution. 8°: [56 pp.] with 27 pp. in manuscript in black and blue ink and pencil by various hands and 29 pp. blank, original three quarter dark red linen…
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- Archives and Documents, Books, Ottoman Books, Turkica
Ottoman Manuscript on Shipbuilding
- 3,200.00€
- A unique Ottoman manuscript on modern shipbuilding Small 4°, [64 pp.] manuscript in black ink with annotations in pencil, drawings in pancil and water-colours, unbound (minor staining and folds in corners, some pages loose, but otherwise in a good condition).
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