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- Maps and Prints, Ottoman Books
- ‘The Invisible Sultan’ Artistic Curiousity Fine Watermarks Ottoman Court Patronage: [A Stationary Sheet featuring Elaborate Watermarks of the Portrait of the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed V Reshad and the Imperial Coat of Arms].
- 1,780.00€
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- A stationary sheet with extraordinary, elaborate watermarks featuring a portrait of Ottoman Sultan Mehmed V Reshad and the imperial coat of arms, a curious work of court patronage. Stationary sheet bearing elaborate watermarks, original vertical centrefold (Good, a couple light irregular folds and a crease emanating from centrefold into watermarks, stain in lower-left side), 20.5 x 25.5 cm…
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- Armenian Books, Maps and Prints, Posters
- [ISTANBUL OPERA BROADSIDE / ARMENIAN-OTTOMAN PRINTING:] Teatro Naum in Pera in Costantinopoli / Per la sera di Mercoledì 16 Maggio 1855 / Serata Straordinaria Devoluta a totale Beneficio. Del primo Buffo Comico Assoluto. Vincenzo Galli prima rappresentazi
- 7,700.00€
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- An amazing survivor – an early Istanbul opera broadside advertising the 1855 single-show performance of Gaetano Donizetti’s ‘Don Pasquale’ at the famous Naum Theatre in Pera (Beyoğlu), Constantinople, headlined by the legendary basso buffo singer Vincenzo Galli, published locally in Italian, Ottoman Turkish, Greek, Armenian and Armenian printed in the Ottoman Alphabet!
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- 10 H. P. Kronika našeg vremena [10 Л.С. Хроника нашего времени / 0 H.P. A Chronicle of Our Times].
- 320.00€
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- Armenian Books, Maps and Prints
- A rare theatre program was issued in French, Ottoman and Armenian in Istanbul circa 1910 for the matinee and evening performance of the Ottoman operetta Leblebici Horhor Ağa in the Orieantal Theater (Şark Theatre) in the Şehzadebaşı neighborhood in Istanb
- 380.00€
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- A rare ephemeral program written in French, Armenian and Ottoman, was published for a for the matinée and evening performance of the Ottoman operetta Leblebici Horhor Aga, written by an Armenian author Tigran Tchoukhajian.
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- Books, Children's Books, Turkica
- ABC BOOK / TURKISH CHILDREN ON RHODES: Ilk Adim. Resimli Alfabe [First Level. Illustrated Primer]
- 180.00€
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- 8°, 64 with colour and black and white images, original colour wrappers, stapled (small tears and tiny loss of paper in margins, spine renewed, minor staining, but overall in a good condition).
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- ABC BOOK: Početnica za osnovne škole [A Primer for Elementary Schools].
- 150.00€
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- AERODYNAMICS / PHYSICS / ZEPPELIN / BLIMPS: Aerodynamische Modellversuche an deutschen und ausländischen Luftschiff-Baumustern im Windkanal des Luftschiffbau Zeppelin in Friedrichshafen. [
- 4,200.00€
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- An important dissertation on aerodynamics by using a wind channel was made as a result of experiments, expanding over years, by a German engineer Max Schirmer at the blimp factory Zeppelin during WWII.
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- AFGHAN PRE-ISLAMIC ART: لشکر گاه / : مطالعات تاریخی، ادبی، هنری، باستان شناسی.
- 350.00€
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- [Leşkergah / Lashkargāh. Historical, Literary, Artistic, Archeological Studies] A pioneering work on the pre-Islamic history of art and archeology of a southwestern Afghan city Lashkargāh, with attached visiting card of the author 8°, 152 pp., interleaved 7 sheets, printed with photographs from both sides, original illustrated wrappers, author’s visiting card attached with a pin to the title…
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- AFGHANISTAN: افغانستان [Afganistan / Afghanistan]
- 480.00€
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- 8°, 29 pp., later marbled wrappers (slightly stained, otherwise in a good condition).
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- Africa, Books, Geography, History, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: November 2020
- AFRICA (TANZANIA, CAMEROON, NAMIBIA, TOGO, CONGO) – NAZI DESIGNS IN AFRICA / CARTOGRAPHY / TRANSPORTATION: Straßen im tropischen Afrika: Auszüge aus den Mandatsberichten der Jahre 1922-1937 und aus den Abhandlungen des Kgl. Belgischen Kolonialinstituts 1939.
- 1,200.00€
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- An extremely rare Nazi report on the state of roads in Germany's former African colonies and the Belgian Congo, made early in World Wat II in preparation for plans for the Third Reich to regain its African empire either by diplomacy or force, being a printed copy of an original typescript labelled as 'Als Manuskript gedruckt' ('Printed as a manuscript'), issued…
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- Africa, Australia, Books, Geography, Maps and Prints, Ottoman Books, South America, Turkica
- AFRICA / AUSTRALIA / SOUTH AMERICA / SOUTH POLE: سعدى عبدالقادر لر قطعه آفريقا و آستراليا آمريقا، جنوبى اجاه جوغرافيا عمومى [Umumi coğrafya ile Cenubî Amerika, Avustralya ve Afrika Kıtaları / Basic Geography. Continents South America, Australia and Afr
- 480.00€
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- A rare, richly illustrated book in Ottoman script on Africa, North Pole, Australia and South America.
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- Africa, Books, Geography, Maps and Prints
- AFRICA / BERLIN CONFERENCE (1884-5): Atlas von Afrika. 50 colorirte Karten auf 18 Tafeln. Mit einem geographisch-statistischen text.
- 960.00€
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- A scarce, pioneering atlas of Africa with 18 colour plates featuring 50 maps designed by the leading Vienna map house of Freytag & Berndt, including some sophisticated works of thematic cartography and original maps showcasing the level of Western knowledge of the continent, made to capitalize upon the Africa-mania that swept the general public in the wake of the…
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- Africa, Books, Geography, Maps and Prints
- Africa / Ephemera: آفريقا قطعه سى [The Africa Part]
- 120.00€
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- A rare ephemeral Ottoman map of Africa was printed on the back cover of a notebook 8°. [48 pp.] manuscript in pencil on paper with printed stripes, stapled, original pink illustrated wrappers (front cover with light water-staining, tears, loss of image and recently repaired with scotch tape, map with soft folds and tiny tears in the margins, staples…
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- Africa, Archives and Documents, Books, History, Maps and Prints
- AFRICA ARCHIVE – PORTUGUESE COLONIAL WAR (GUERRA DO ULTRAMAR) (1961-74) – ANGOLA / GUINÉ (GUINEA-BISSAU) / COUNTERGUERRILLA WARFARE / CARTOGRAPHY:
- 8,500.00€
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- A highly valuable and voluminous archive relating to the Portuguese Colonial War, or the ‘Guerra do Ultramar’ (1961-74), an epic conflict whereby Portugal fought to maintain its 400-year-old African colonial empire, simultaneously opposing large-scale and well-organized independence movements in Angola, Guiné (Guinea-Bissau), and Mozambique, forming three hot fronts in the Cold War; here being the military papers of Lieutenant-Colonel…
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- Africa, Bindings, Books, Geography, Maps and Prints, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- AFRICA TRAVELOUGE: افريقا سياحتنامه سى [Afrika Seyahatnâmesi / Africa Book of Travels, i. e. The Heart of Africa / Im Herzen von Afrika]
- 1,500.00€
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- A complete set of the contemporary Ottoman translations of Schweinfurth’s influential travelogue to Africa. 8°: 911 pp. with black and white illustrations, folding map, coloured in outline, one toned lithograph with hand coloured details, contemporary Ottoman black calf with gilt and debossed decoration (remboîtage in a contemporary Ottoman binding) (minor age-toning and foxing, holes in the map on the crossings…
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- Books, Slavica
- Afrika. Roman iz zagrebačkoga života. [Africa. A Novel from Zagreb Life]
- 95.00€
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- 8°. 207 pp. with musical scores, signed by the author, bound in a contemporary marbled boards with black linen spine (minor staining, one page with light staining in the upper margin, sporadic sheets slightly loose, binding slightly worn on the edges, old signature on the top of the front endpaper, overall in a good condition).
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- Asia, India, India, Maps and Prints
- AGRA, INDIA: Agra Guide Map.
- 400.00€
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- A very rare ‘Restricted’ map of Agra made during World War II, when the city was feared to be a target of Japanese bombing, such that the dome of the Taj Majal was covered in camouflage, published in Dehra Dun by the Survey of India. Colour print (Good, some wear along old folds, some conspicuous toning to lower…
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- Agriculture Book, Printed in a Post-WWII DP Camp: Poljedelstvo. Travništvo [Fieldwork. Grasses]
- 480.00€
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- A rare pair of mimeographed books on agriculture printed on pink paper in Slovenian language in a DP camp in Austria after WWII Two titles bound in one volume, 4°, mimeographed on pink paper with illustrations. 42 pp., [3 pp.,]. 42 pp., [2 pp.,]. Original black boards and cloth spine (boards slightly rubbed, otherwise in a good condition).
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- ALEPPO PRINTING – FIRST EDITIONS: بر آووچ صاچمه [Bir Avuç Saçma / A Bunch of Nonsense]
- 180.00€
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- 8°, 156 pp., [4] with illustrated vignettes in the text, contemporary brown cloth binding without bound in wrappers (small tears and minor loss of paper in the gutter, minor staining, binding with light wear and ink staining, some sheets slightly stained in the margins, old bookdealer’s stamp on the last page, old signature and date on the title page, altogether…
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- ALMANACH DE GOTHA: Gothaischer genealogischer Hof-Kalender [Hofkalender] auf das Jahr 1826. Drei und Sechszigster Jahrgang.
- 65.00€
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- Americas, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: October 2020
- AMERICA – OTTOMAN SCHOOL ATLAS: آمريقا [Amerika]
- 380.00€
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- 8°. 29-35 pp., facing pages marked with the same number, with colour lithographed plates, printed covers, stapled (tiny loss of paper in the lower corners of the last pages, light staining and foxing, otherwise in a good used condition).
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- AMERICAN MISSION IN PERSIA: Prayer for the children of missionaries. A sermon, preached to the members of the Nestorian Mission, at Ooroomiah, Persia, January 21, 1838
- 480.00€
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- A rare pamphlet on a sermon preached in Nestorian Mission in Urumia, Persia, printed in Boston, and signed by the author, Rev. Justin Perkins, “an apostle to Persia” and the first citizen of the United States to reside in Iran.
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- ANARCHIST SERBIAN PAMPHLET ON MLADA BOSNA MOVEMENT: Коб револуционарне младе Босне и њених јунака [Kob revolucionarne mlade Bosne i njenih junaka / At Revolutionary Young Bosnia and Its Heroes]
- 350.00€
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- A rare richly illustrated book, supporting the anarchist movement Mlada Bosna (Young Bosnia), responsible for the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, was written by a brother of one if its founders Vladimir Gaćinović, and published in Tunis.
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- Anatomy: تشريح [Teşrih / Anatomy] – Complete Set of 3 Pamphlets.
- 850.00€
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- A charming complete set of three rare Turkish medical pamphlets on anatomy, written in the Ottoman language for students of medicine, illustrated with amazing proto-modern colour plates. 3 issues (all published), all 8°, with original printed wrappers: No. 1: 69 pp. with black and white illustrations, with 5 interleaved colour plates; No. 2: 36 pp. interleaved with 3…
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- ANATOMY: خريطه وجود بشر [Harita-i Vücud-i Beşer / Map of the Human Body].
- 450.00€
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- Large 8°: [25 pp.], title page and 12 chromolithographed illustrations, printed on one side only, verso tan paper, original cover, later binding, stapled (internally in good condition with minimal staining in margins, back cover replaced, front cover slightly stained with repaired vertical crack with tiny loss).
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- Andrew Carnegie: Το κρατοσ του πλουτου. Κατα-τό άγγλιχόν τού Ανδρέα Καρνέγη
- 220.00€
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- [The Gospel of Wealth. According to the English Text of Andrew Carnegie] A rare Greek translation of The Gospel of Wealth by an American industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, a text especially important for the history of foundation of public free libraries 8°. 75 pp. with a full page portrait, [4 pp.], original card pink wrappers with illustration…
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- Books, Children's Books, Slavica
- ANTI-COMMUNIST CHILDREN’S BOOK & JOZE PLECNIK SCHOOL: Prigode malega murencka. [Adventures of a Little Cricket]
- 250.00€
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- An attractive children's book was printed during WWII in German occupied Ljubljana, Slovenia, and bears a strong anti Communist propaganda.
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- ANTISEMITISM / CROATIA / POLITICAL PROPAGANDA: O židovima [About the Jews]
- 250.00€
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- A rare, unusual separately issued propaganda publication in Croatian language with an extreme anti-Semitic content, was printed in 1939, on the eve of WWII. It is a reprint of a 1906 article by an influential Croatian politician Stjepan Radić (died 1928), who later became a liberal politician and regrated his early writings. 8°: 16 pp., original green wrappers with…
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- ANTISEMITISM / CROATIA: Postoji li židovska opasnost. Moj proces sa Židovima [Is there a Jewish Danger? My Process with the Jews]
- 220.00€
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- A rare anti-Semitic work in Croatian language was published on the eve of WWII. 8°. X, 221 pp., original wrappers with lettering (old owner's stamp on the first page, tiny tears in the wrappers, otherwise a good, uncut example).
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- Antisemitism in the Ottoman Empire: ملت اسرايليه [Millet-i Israiliye / Nation of Israel]
- 350.00€
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- The first book in Ottoman language to express anti-Semitic tendencies 12°. 78 pp. [2 pp.] blank, original illustrated purple wrappers (minor tears in margins, but overall in a good, uncut condition).
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- Arabic Books, Books
- Arab Book Design / Literature: بنت الشيطان وقصص أخرى
- 160.00€
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- [Devil’s Daughter and Other Stories] Short stories in Arabic language written in Cairo during WWII by an Egyptian writer Mahmud Taymur and ornated with a stunning cover design 8°. 150 pp., [2], original illustrated card wrappers (wrappers rubbed on the corners and stained on the back cover, small old annotation on the title page, in a read…
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- Arab Book Design / Oedipus: أوديب [Oedipus]
- 320.00€
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- Arabic translation of three texts on Oedipus by a prolific Egyptian translator Taha Hussein, accompanied with an overdramatic cover and charming mid-century clip art Small 8°. 194 pp., original illustrated wrappers (wrappers with short tears, folds and rubbed corners, small loss of paper around the spine, inside in a good condition).
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- ARAB FEMALE AUTHORS: مخدرات اسلام
- 820.00€
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- 8°, 443 pp., [4 pp.], contemporary pink boards and brown spine, endpapers made of old stationary paper with printed grids (binding with light staining and recent hand-written title on the spine, old manuscript annotation in pencil on the title page and in black ink on p. 85, endpaper with small loss of material and pieces of mounted paper, minor…
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- Arab Patriotism / Cairo Imprint / Arabic Names: كتاب الدر الثمين في اسماء البنات والبنين
- 1,800.00€
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- [Kitab üd-Dürr üs-Semin fi Esma ül-Benat ve’l-Benin / The Book of Precious Pearls of Boys’ and Girls’ Names] A rare book listing Arabic male and female names was printed by an early all-Arab patriotic press in Cairo 8°, 242 pp., modern brown cloth binding with debossed and gilt decoration and lettering (age-toned, small worm-holes in the lower part of…
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- Arab Revolutionary Poetry: قصائد من المعتقل بلدي و حبيبتي
- 220.00€
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- [Poems from the Prison about my Country and the Things I Love] A collection of poems by an Egyptian revolutionary writer Ahmed Fouad Negm 8°. 118 pp., [2 pp.], original illustrated wrappers (light foxing, tiny wear on the corners, but otherwise in a good condition).
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- Arab–Israeli conflict / Sinai: اتفاق فصل القوات الثاني في سيناء ١٩٧٥ (دراسة تحليلية)
- 320.00€
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- [The Second Separation of Forces Agreement in Sinai 1975 (An Analytical Study)] 8°. 415 pp. with maps in text, original illustrated card wrappers (wrappers lightly rubbed and stained with soft folds, otherwise in a good condition).
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- Arab–Israeli Conflict: واشنطن في تل ابيب او هنا كانت إسرائيل
- 420.00€
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- [Washington in Tel Aviv or There Used to be Israel Here] An Arab nationalistic book against Israel with an antisemitic cover design 8°. 184 pp., [8 pp.] with black and white illustrations, original illustrated card wrappers (wrappers slightly stained, corners with tiny chips and folds, spine with a small loss of material, imprint on the back cover…
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- ARABIAN PENINSULA: Kulturgeschichte des Alten Orients. Dritter Abschnitt, Vierter Unterabschnitt: Arabien.
- 60.00€
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- ARABIAN PENINSULA:جزيرة العرب [Arabian Peninsula]
- 550.00€
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- Chromolithograph. 9 x 13,5 cm (3.5 x 5.3 inches). Slightly stained.
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- ARABIC GRAMMAR & POETRY: Grammatica Arabica cum fabulis Locmanni, etc. Accedunt excerpta anthologiae veterum Arabiae poetarum quae inscribitur Hamasa Abi Temmam. Edita, conversa et notis illustrata ab A. Schultens.
- 1,200.00€
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- A 1748 edition of the first accurate book of Arabic grammar by orientalist Thomas van Erpe includes the first Latin translation of the 9th century Arabic anthology the Hamasah by Abu Tammam.
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- Books, Design, Slavica
- ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN / POLAND: [BAL Młodej Architektury – zaproszenie]. Zaproszenie na doroczny Bal Młodej Architektury zorganizowany 1 II 1931.
- 140.00€
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- Folding card, 15x15 cm, with illustrated cover and printed empty template (Very Good, minor staining in the inner white margins).
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- ARCHITECTURE: Urbanizam. Teorija prostornog planiranja i uredjenja naselja [Urbanism. Theory of Urban Planning and Organizing of Living Space].
- 45.00€
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- Archive True Crime – Hungarian Murders 1947-1949
- 2,800.00€
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- An unusual archive in Hungarian language includes dozens of photographs and original typewritten police reports on true crime scenes from Budapest, made between 1947 and 1949, most of them related to murders.
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- Argentina / French Blockade Of The Río De La Plata (1838-40): Note officielle du consul chargé par interim du Consulat General de France a Buenos Aires…
- 1,400.00€
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- Official Note from the Consul Charged ad Interim of the General Consulate of France in Buenos-Aires, to the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Argentine Confederation, reclaiming on the authority of international law, that the French, who notoriously and publicly have established themselves in the republic with the same enjoyments and civil liberties as the Argentine citizens, be not…
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- ARGENTINE MEDICAL THESES
- 2,500.00€
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- ARMENIA / LITERATURE: Армянские новеллы [Armi︠ a︡ nskie novelly / Armenian Novels]
- 45.00€
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- ARMENIA / POETRY: Ակնաղբյուր [Aknaghbyur]
- 65.00€
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- ARMENIA: 1905 Ընդարձակ օրացոյց Ս. Փրկչեան հիւանդանոցի հայոց [1905 Extensive Calendar of the Armenian Holy Savior Hospital]
- 1,400.00€
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- A rare Armenian almanac, issued in 1905 in Istanbul by the Armenian Hospital, including folding maps and valuable information on the Armenian minority. 8°, 512 pp. with portraits in text and interleaved 6 folding black and white maps, [20 pp.] advertisements on thin yellow paper, original blue cloth blinding with debossed black decoration and gilt lettering (title with…
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- ARMENIAN ART: Мартирос Сарьян. Martiros Sarian. Մարտիրոս Սարեան
- 95.00€
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- An illustrated monography of an Armenian painter Martiros Saryan was published three years after his death by the Academy for science in Yeravan in Soviet Armenia.
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- ARMENIAN COMMUNIST MAGAZINE: Աշկատանկ. ԽՈՐՀՈԻՐԴՆԵՐԻ ՄԻԶՈՑՈՎ ԴԵՊԻ ՍՈՑԻԱԼԻԶՄ. Ашхатанк
- 950.00€
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- ARMENIAN DIASPORA – TYPOGRAPHY: Համաստեղ 1895 1966 [Hamastegh 1895-1966]
- 280.00€
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- A book on the founder of Armenian diaspora poetry in the United States Hamastegh was drafted by an Armenian designer Minas Minasian published in New York a year following the poet’s death.
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- ARMENIAN DIASPORA / ADDRESSBOOK: OVENA. A Directory of the Armenian Diaspora
- 95.00€
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- ARMENIAN DIASPORA / ARMENIAN BOOK DESIGN / EDUCATION: ՄԱՆԿԱՎԱՐԺԱԿԱՆ ԴԱՍԱԽՕՍՈՒԹԻՒՆՆԵՐ [Pedagogical Lectures]
- 95.00€
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- An uncommon Armenian translation of a text on pedagogics by educator, president of Robert Collage in Istanbul and an expert on the Balkans George Washburn was published by the Armenian diaspora in Paris
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- ARMENIAN DIASPORA / ARMENIAN BOOK DESIGN: ԺԱՏՐԱԿ ԽԱՂԱՑՈՂԸ [Schachnovelle]
- 85.00€
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- Istanbul: Marmara Gazetesi 1970.
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- ARMENIAN DIASPORA / CHILDREN’s DIDACTIC BOOKS: Կենդանիներս խաղերով [Kendaniners khagherov / Animal Games]
- 85.00€
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- A classic of the Istanbul Armenian diaspora didactic children’s books.
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- ARMENIAN DIASPORA IN EGYPT – PEDAGOGIC MAGAZINE: ՀԱՅ ԴՊՐՈՑ. Hay Tbrots. Ե-Զ, Է-Ը [Armenian School]
- 85.00€
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- ARMENIAN DIASPORA: ԲԱՐԻ ՍԱՄԱՐԱՑԻՆ. Iyi samiriyeli adam [Bari samarac’in / The Good Samaritan]
- 65.00€
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- A colouring book in Armenian and Turkish language with a story of a good Samaritan, was illustrated by a Dutch artist Kees de Kort, famous for his biblical illustrations for children and people with learning disabilities.
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- ARMENIAN DIASPORA: ՄԽԻԹԱՐԵԱՆ ԵՆՏԱՆԻՔ: Mekitharian Endanik [The Mekhitarists Family]
- 350.00€
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- ARMENIAN EARLY COMMUNIST LITERATURE: Չուշարձան [The Monument].
- 65.00€
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- An uncommon book, printed in Yerevan in 1960 at the 40th anniversary of the Communist Party of Armenia, includes selected texts by six authors and pioneers of the Armenian Communist movement.
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- ARMENIAN HISTORY: Ագաթանգեղայ Պատմութիւն [Agatʻangeghay Patmutʻiwn / The History of Armenians]
- 1,000.00€
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- A rare early edition of Agathangelos’es History of Armenia, one of the most influential texts on the early Christianity in the country.
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- ARMENIAN HISTORY: ՀԱՅՈՑ ՊԱՏՄՈՒԹԻՒՆ: ՀԻՆ ՀԱՅԵՐ: Ա։ ՀԱՏՈՐ [Armenian History: Old Armenians. Volume I]
- 650.00€
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- A book on Armenian history with a folding map, showcasing the historical territory of Armenia, was printed during WWI in Istanbul, on the eve of the Armenian Genocide.
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- ARMENIAN MINORITY IN TURKEY: ՊԱՐՏԵԶ. Bardez. Pedagojik çocuk dergisi [Garden, Pedagogical children’s magazine], Year 1, No. 10.
- 75.00€
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- A very rare children’s magazine was printed in Armenian language in 1946 in Istanbul, Turkey for the Armenian minority.
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- ARMENIAN POETRY / MEKHITARISTS PRESS: Անեծք [Anetsk’ / The Curse]
- 220.00€
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- A rare first edition of Armenian poetry with a beautiful art nouveau cover design, printed in colour, was published by the Mekhitarists’ press in Venice.
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- ARMENIAN POETRY: Գուսանի սերը [Gusan’s Love].
- 250.00€
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- A rare book of poems in Armenian language were written by Gusan Ashot, an author and performer of Armenian lyrics. First edition. From the library of an Armenian author and researcher Levon Mikirtitchian.
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- ARMENIAN PRINTING ABROAD: Կորիզ [The Stone]
- 120.00€
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- A uncommon collection of Armenian poetry by an Aleppo-born Harutiun Berberyan was published in Bairut, Lebanon. Signed by the author and with a collector’s stamp by an Armenian author and researcher Levon Mikirtitchian (Lewon Mkrtchʻean).
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- Armenian Typography: Ոսկետետր ասեղնագործութեան: (Պրօտըրի եւ Քանըվա) : Սկզբնատառեր անուներու, մականուններու անջատ եւ ընդելուզիկ = Cours complet de broderie artistique et de Canevas
- 1,400.00€
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- [Complete Course for embroidery... Separate and Initial Letters of Names and Nicknames] Obling folio , [2] portraits and dedications, original guard, 29 pp. patterns, printed in blue, additional interleaved page between pp. 21 and 22 (missing original guards on the first portrait, second guards slightly age-toned, first two pages with light foxing and water-staining, other pages clean, binding…
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- ART DECO – GASTRONOMY – BAVARIA: Bayerische Fachausstellung des Gastwirts- und Hotel-Gewerbes. Augsburg. Bayerische Fachausstellung für das Gastwirts- u. Hotelgewerbe. Augsburg.
- 110.00€
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- [Bavarian Professional Exhibition of Restaurant and Hotel Industry. Augsburg June 26 – July 12]. An informative pamphlet with a rich selection of 1920s Bavarian advertisements on gastronomy and with highly decorative art-deco wrappers was published in 1925 in Augsburg.
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- ART DECO BINDING: Album slovenskih književnikov [Album of Slovenian Authors].
- 380.00€
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- A book of portraits of Slovenian male and female authors from 16th to early 20th centuries was privately bound in a highly decorative contemporary art deco binding.
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- ART DECO BINDING: La formation de la Yougoslavie (XVe – XXe siècles). Ouvrage couronné par l’Institut d’Etudes slaves de l’Université de Paris
- 380.00€
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- A scientific work on the formation on Yugoslavia by a French Slavist Émile Haumant was contemporary bound in a highly decorative art deco binding with tricolour fore-edge colouring and tooling.
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- Art Deco Ski Manual: Smučanje [Skiing]
- 220.00€
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- A rare Slovenian ski manual with highly decorative art deco drawings in black and blue without text with rare original wrappers. Large 12°: 139 pp. with a full page portrait, and black and blue illustrations, [5 pp.], original linen binding with red lettering, original dustjacket. Appendix 1: large 12°. 11 pp., [5 pp.] stapled. Appendix 2: large 12°.…
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- Art Nouveau Book Design / Slavica: Poezije
- 640.00€
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- A stunningly well preserved art nouveau luxury edition of poetry by a Slovenian author Dragotin Kette with wonderful illustrations by an academic artis Maksim Gaspari, made in Munich and influenced by contemporary art nouveau. Large 12°. Portrait with a facsimile signature, XXXVI, [1 pp] text with a portrait, protected with original guard, facsimile of a letter protected with original…
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- ART NOUVEAU: Kralj zlate reke ali crna brata [The King of the Golden River or The Black Brothers].
- 120.00€
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- A translation of Ruskin’s children’s book with original zincograph engravings by a Yugoslavian academic painter Anton Koželj in Art Nouveau style.
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- ART-DECO BINDING: Prizori iz bodocega zivljenja [Scènes de la vie future].
- 150.00€
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- An Art-Deco binding with printed photomontage on linen was designed by a Slovenian architect Janko Omahen.
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- Asia, Central Asia, China, India, Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: October 2020, South-East Asia
- ASIA – OTTOMAN SCHOOL ATLAS: آسيا [Asya]
- 320.00€
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- 8°. 15-21 pp., facing pages marked with the same number, with colour lithographed plates, printed covers, stapled (light staining and foxing, otherwise in a good used condition).
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- ASTROLOGY AND FORTUNE TELLING: فيرفيرى چلبى نهلر كورييور [What Does Fırfırı Çelebi See]
- 620.00€
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- ASTROLOGY: علم نجوم [Astrology]
- 720.00€
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- ASTRONOMY – GIOVANNI RIZZI-ZANNONI – ROGER BOSCOVICH – LATITUDE OF ISTANBUL
- 2,800.00€
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- A unique, previously unrecorded letter by the Italian cartographer and scientist Giovanni Rizzi-Zannoni with his measurements of the latitude of Istanbul, based on the suggestions personally received from a Dalmatian geographer Roger Boscovich during his stay in Istanbul to observe the Transit of Venus in 1761.
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- Astronomy / American Scientist in Beirut: اكتشاف مسألة جديدة من الجغرافيا الرياضية اي علم هيئة الارض
- 1,500.00€
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- [Observation of the New Problem of Mathematical Geography, i.e. the Science of the Earth's Sphere] An exceedingly rare treatise on the length of the day in various parts of the Earth, written by an Arab / Libyan scholar Muhammad Kamal al-Tarabulsi with an introduction of a Beirut-based American scholar Robert West 8°. 23 pp. with illustrations, printed in yellow…
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- ASTRONOMY / MATHEMATICS / OTTOMAN EMPIRE: ترجمه كدوسى المقنطرات علاوه لى ترجمه كدوسى للجيب
- 250.00€
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- ATATÜRK – NUTUK: Die neue Türkei 1919-1927. Die nationale Revolution, 1920-1927 [The New Turkey 1919-1927. The National Revolution, 1920-1927].
- 160.00€
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- A German translation of the second part of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk’s famous marathon speech in the parliament, which lasted over 36 hours in 6 days, is preserved with an extremely rare dust jacket, decorated by a striking powerful portrait of the Turkish leader.
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- Africa, Books, Geography, Maps and Prints
- ATLAS – MISSIONS IN AFRICA AND CHINA: Karten über das Arbeitsfeld der Berliner Mission.
- 550.00€
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- A very rare atlas made by the Berlin Missionary Society, one of the most important missionary organizations in Africa and China during the 19th and early 20th Centuries, featuring 16 original maps made by missionary cartographers, including important figures such as Alexander Merensky and Bernhard Struck, containing 14 maps of South and East Africa and 2 maps of China;…
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- Australia, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: December 2020, New Zealand
- AUSTRALIA AND OCEANIA: يكى اوقيانوسيا [New Oceania]
- 850.00€
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- A very rare, large format, separately issued map of Australia and Oceania that is perhaps the last great map of the continent to be printed in Ottoman Turkish script, with attractive colours and adorned with the flags of major African states and colonies, published in Istanbul for the Kitabhane-yi Sudi bookshop. Colour off-set print (Good, some light staining, wear…
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- Australia, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: September 2020, New Zealand
- AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND & OCEANIA: اقيانوسيا [Okyanusya / Oceania]
- 160.00€
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- Chromolithograph. 9 x 13,5 cm (3.5 x 5.3 inches). Slightly stained, overall in a good condition
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- AVANT-GARDE & MUSIC, SLOVENIA: Radikalna kura. Pevske točke s spremljevanjem klavirja [Radical treatment. Singing Numbers, Accompanied by Piano]
- 320.00€
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- AVANT-GARDE THEATRE: Hlapec Jernej in njegova pravica [The Bailiff Yerney].
- 380.00€
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- AVANT-GARDE, SIGNED COPY: Ватромети и бајка о Актеону [Vatrometi i bajka o Akteonu]
- 700.00€
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- An uncommon Serbian book with poems by Todor Manojlović with the cover design by an Avant-Garde artist Mihailo S. Petrov, a member of Group Oblik. Signed by the author.
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- AVANT-GARDE: Kraljica palčkov v kraljestvu palčkov. Drugi Del [Queen of Dwarfs in the Kingdom of Dwarfs. Second part].
- 950.00€
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- A stunning theatre and music play with original colour woodcuts by one of the leading Yugoslavian Avant-garde and Constructivist artist August Černigoj, made for Slavic cultural circle on the Fascist occupied territory.
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- AZERBAIJANI AUTHORS / COMMUNISM: مليت و بولشه ويزم. مقاله لر مجموءسى [Milliyet ve bolşevizm. Makaleler mecmuası / Nationalism and Bolshevism. Magazine Articles]
- 350.00€
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- A scarce work on the Communism was written by an Azerbaijani author Resulzade Mehmet Emin during his exile in Istanbul. Emin was an influential pan-Turkist, pan-Islamist and communist, who saved young Joseph Stalin in Baku in 1905 from being arrested, which later helped him for not being prosecuted later in the Soviet Union. 8°. 144 pp., 20th century brown…
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- Books, History, New Acquisitions: October 2020
- AZERBAIJANI INDEPENDENCE / PARIS PEACE CONFERENCE: Aperçu sur l’histoire, la littérature et la politique de l’Azerbeidjan
- 740.00€
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- [Overview of Azerbaijani History, Literature and Politics] A rare, important book with the history and current political situation of the newly founded Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, written by the Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs Adil Khan Ziatkhan, was presented at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, where the independence of the republic was confirmed internationally. 8°, 101 pp., original…
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- AZERBAIJANI POETRY / AZERBAIJANI CARICATURE: هوپهوپ نامه [Hophopname]
- 1,600.00€
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- An exceedingly rare third, enlarged edition of Mirza Akbar Sabir’s poetry, accompanied with superb colour illustrations by Azim Azimzade, was published at the occasion of the erection of the monument to the peat in Baku in 1922.
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- AZERBAIJANI POETRY IN ARMENIAN LANGUAGE: Հայրենի Եզերբ [The Home Shore]
- 65.00€
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- An Armenian translation of poetry by an Azerbaijani author Mehmet Rahim was published in Yerevan, Soviet Armenia.
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- AZERBAIJANI SATIRICAL POLITICAL MAGAZINE: Molla Nasraddin.
- 1,400.00€
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- An edition of a rare legendary eight-page Azerbaijani satirical political illustrated magazine in Azari, Russian and Turkic language, published in Baku, Azerbaijan, in 1930.
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- Books, New Acquisitions: December 2020, Turkica
- AZERI CHILDREN’S LITERATURE: تولكى و چاق چاق بك [Tülkü [Tilki] ve Çakçak Bey]
- 380.00€
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- An attractive book for children in Azeri language, written with Arabic letters, with a humorous story in verses, was published in Baku in 1899. The author was a prominent educator, author and translator Sultan Mecid Ganizade. 8°. Title page, 41 pp., [4 pp.] blank, original pink wrappers with lettering and illustrations, contemporary brown cloth binding with debossed titles in…
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- Books, New Acquisitions: December 2020
- AZERI EARLY MODERN GEOGRAPHY: قافقاز جعرفياوسى [Kafkaz Coğrafyası / Geography of the Caucasus]
- 620.00€
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- The first modern book on geography in Azeri, written by a pioneer of Azeri modern education, Gafur Rashad Alakbar 8°. 117 pp. with black and white illustrations, [1 pp.], later marbled paper wrappers (slightly age-toned, light staining, sporadic old repaired tears in margins, lacking original wrappers, otherwise in a good, clean condition).
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- BAALBEK, Lebanon: Histoire de Baalbek par un de ses habitants
- 55.00€
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- BAGHDAD: بغداد ولايتى [Baghdad Vilayeti]
- 180.00€
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- 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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- BAHNAME / MEDICO-EROTIC TREATISE / MECCA IMPRINT: كتاب رجوع الشيخ الى صباه في القوة على الباه
- 8,400.00€
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- [Kitāb Rujūʻ al-shaykh ilá ṣibāhu fī al-qūwah ʻalá al-bāh / The Book of the Sheikh's Return to His Youth in Power of the Bah [i. e. Sexual Energy] …] 4°, 133 pp. with metal plate impressions, contemporary marbled paper binding with a flap and red calf spines, old paper tag with a title on the cover, contemporary pink endpapers,…
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- BAKU IMPRINT / COMMUNISM: خلق معلمى [Xalq Muallimi / Public Teacher]
- 450.00€
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- 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€
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- [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€
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- 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€
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- Chromolithograph. 9 x 13,5 cm (3.5 x 5.3 inches). Minor staining, overall in a good condition.
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- BEIRUT / LEBANON: بيروت ولايتى [Beirut Vilayet]
- 220.00€
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- Chromolithograph. 9 x 13,5 cm (3.5 x 5.3 inches). Minor staining, overall in a good condition.
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- BEIRUT / LEBANON: بيروت ولايتى [Beirut Vilayeti]
- 220.00€
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- Postcard. Lithography in colour (Very Good, slightly age-toned) 10 x 14cm (5.11 x 3.5 inches).
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- Arabic Books, Bible, 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€
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- 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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- BEIRUT IMPRINT: شهر حزيران الذي قد تخصص لعبادة قلب يسوع الاقدس قد استخرج من الافرنسية الى العربية بقلم الفقير الى رحمة مولاه القدير جرجس زوين الفتوحي اللبناني الماروني
- 120.00€
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- A rare Catholic book, printed in Arabic language in Beirut.
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- BEIRUT IMPRINT: كتاب التحفة اللبنانية في أصول اللغة العثمانية
- 1,200.00€
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- An exceedingly rare book on the Ottoman language for the Lebanese, printed by the Saint George Press in Beirut 8°. 195 pp., contemporary marbled boards and black cloth spine (last two pages with tiny chip in the outer white margin, binding lightly scuffed, otherwise in a good condition).
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- BELARUSSIAN ÉMIGRÉS / MUNICH: Бацькаўщчына Le Journal Bielorussien „La Patrie“. Die Weissruthenische Zeitung „Das Vaterland“. The Whiteruthenian Newspaper „The Fatherland“.
- 520.00€
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- A rare Belorussian folio size newspaper printed by the émigrés in Munich, Germany.
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- BENGALI LANGUAGE – SLOVENIAN POETRY स्लोवेन कबीता [Slovene kabita / Slovene Poems].
- 180.00€
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- An unusual and rare collection of poems by a Slovenian author France Prešeren was translated to Bengali by Sisir K Chattopadhyaya, and published in Calcutta in 1957.
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- BERLIN, ADDRESS BOOK OF NOBLEMEN: Königliche und übrige Noblesse (Nach alphabetischer Ordnung).
- 1,200.00€
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- An extremely rare, seemingly unrecorded pamphlet with private home addresses of the nobleman, foreign diplomats and members of the Prussian court, was printed around 1800, probably for heads of protocol. The first name of the list it the one of the first US minister to Berlin John Quincy Adams.
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- Bible, Books, Iran
- Bible in Persian Language: كتاب مقدس : يعني كتب عهد عتيق و عهد جديد كه از زبانهاى اصلئ عبرانى وكلدانى ويونانى ترجمه شده است
- 1,800.00€
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- [Kitāb-i Muqaddas, yaʻnī kutub-i ʻAhd-i ʻAtīq va ʻAhd-i Jadīd kih ʼaz zabānhā-yi ʼaṣlī-i ʻIbrānī va Kaldānī va Yūnānī tarjumah shudah ʼast] [Bible: The books of the Old and New Testaments, translated from the original Hebrew and Greek languages] A fine example of a rare first edition of the first translation of the Bible to modern Persian, published in London…
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- Books, New Acquisitions: December 2020, Reference Books, Slavica
- BIBLIOGRAHPY – PARTISAN UNDERGROUND PRINTING: Bibliografija izdanja u narodooslobodilačkom ratu. 1941-45.
- 320.00€
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- [Bibliography of Publications in the National Liberation War. 1941-45] The groundbreaking bibliography, listing over 9000 titles of underground publications, issued by the Yugoslav Partisans during WWII, including in North Africa, Italy and in the concentrations camps. 4°: [18 pp.] with a full-page portrait…
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- BIBLIOGRAHPY – PARTISAN UNDERGROUND PRINTING: Партизанске штампарије [Partizanske štamparije / Partisan Press].
- 350.00€
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- An important and scarce work on Partisan publications by Vladimir Dedijer, subsequently one of the most internationally esteemed Yugoslav academics, issued in Belgrade shortly after its liberation. Large 8°: 158 pp. (1 image within text), 1 plate, 1 folding plate, [1] (index), original tan wrappers with printed brown and red cover, stapled, on the first blank page a stamp of…
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- BIBLIOGRAPHY: LJUDSKA PRAVICA. GLASILO KOMUNISTIČNE PARTIJE SLOVENIJE. PONATIS ILEGALNIH IZDAJ IZ LETA 1943 [RIGHT OF THE NATION. NEWS OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF SLOVENIA. REPRINT OF UNDERGROUND EDITIONS FROM 1943].
- 380.00€
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- A 1946 reprint of texts and illustrations from an underground Partisan & Communist magazine Ljudska pravica (Right of the Nation).
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- BILLIARDS: Arte de Aprender y Jugar el Noble Juego del Villar, con las reglas y leyes en toda su estencion.
- 550.00€
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- First Spanish book on billiards, with two large folding plates.
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- BINDING / OTTOMAN EMPIRE: قاتل برنر [Bernard l’assassin / Bernard the Assassin]
- 1,670.00€
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- Ottoman red morocco binding from the circle of sultan Abdul Hamid II.
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- BINDING & MAP: Uebersichts-Karte für die Concentrirung des X. Deutschen Bundes-Armee-Corps 1858 [General Map of the Maneuvers of the 10th Corpus of the German Army. 1858].
- 220.00€
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- A German military map was bound in a highly decorative red binding with gilt embossed royal coat of arms.
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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€
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- Postcard. Lithography in colour (Very Good, slightly age-toned) 10 x 14cm (5.11 x 3.5 inches).
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- BITOLA IMPRINT: مناستر ولايتنك تاريخچه سى [Manastır Vilayetinin Tarihçesi / History of the Vilayet Manastir / Bitola]
- 960.00€
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- 8°. 111 pp., portrait with red printing and lettering in margins, 20th century dark brown cloth binding with lettering on the cover and spine (minor foxing, hand-written old price on the inner side of back cover, one white margin trimmed, an old typed title mounted on the title page, otherwise in a good condition).
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- Blažek in Tomažek.
- 550.00€
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- Bob Dylan [Dylan]
- 95.00€
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- The first Slovenian translation of Anthony Scaduto’s highly influential book Dylan, originally published in 1972, with an attractive cover design. 8°: 437 pp. with black and white illustrations, original red cloth binding, original illustrated dustjacket (slight discoloration of the red cloth in the margins, light traces of red colour on the lower part of the wrappers verso and…
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- BOOK CATALOGUE: Neueste Bücherschau. Weihnachten 1923 [Newest Selection of Books. Christmas 1923].
- 80.00€
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- An ephemeral, seemingly unrecorded Christmas book catalogue, was made for the export book company Blencke from Hamburg in 1923.
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- BOOK CATALOGUES / SERBIA / KINGDOM OF YUGOSLAVIA: Општи каталог књига. 1935. [General Catalogue of Books. 1935]
- 95.00€
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- An ephemeral thick catalogue of obtainable Slavic books in 1935 by a mayor Belgrade-based publisher and book dealer of Jewish origins Geca Kon, who was arrested and executed at an unknown place at the time of the German occupation of Yugoslavia, in 1941.
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- BOOKSELLER’S CATALOGUE / PAKISTAN: Descriptive Catalogue of Islamic Literature Lahore, Kashmiri Bazar: Sh. Muhammad Ashraf 1959.
- 55.00€
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- BOOKSELLER’S CATALOGUE / SLOVENIA – YUGOSLAVIA Seznam knjig Tiskovne zadruge [A List of Books of Tiskovna Zadruga].
- 55.00€
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- BORBA – UNDERGROUND PRINTING: Историјски архив Комунистичке партије Југославије. Istorijski arhiv Komunističke partije Jugoslavije: Borba 1941. Borba 1942-1943. Tom 1. Knjiga 1-2.
- 180.00€
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- A rare set of two books with reprint of texts from the Serbian underground Partisan newspaper "Borba", issued between 1941 and 1943, published by the Archive of the Yugoslavian Communist Party in Belgrade in 1949.
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- BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA: بوسنه و هرسك [Bosna ve Hersek / Bosnia and Herzegovina]
- 550.00€
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- An Ottoman report on Bosnia and Herzegovina, published in the crucial year of 1908, when Austro-Hungary withdrawn from Novi Pazar in exchange for being given permanent sovereignty over Bosnia. 8°, 15 pp., original blue wrappers with lettering (minor water-staining, old annotations on the cover, wrappers with light staining, small tears in margins and old mounted paper label on…
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- BOSNIAN / MUSLIM ANTI-COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA: Muslimani u Sovjetskoj Rusiji [Muslims in the Soviet Russia]
- 580.00€
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- A rare Bosnian pan-Turkic anti-Communist pamphlet was published during WWII by a Muslim intellectual Mustafa Busuladžić, who sided with the Croatian pro-Nazi anti-Communist government. The book was used as an evidence against him at his trial for collaboration only days after the end of WWII. 12°. 70 pp. with a portrait and a map, later 20th century blue cloth…
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- BOSNIAN & OTTOMAN POSTAL HISTORY
- 1,800.00€
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- BOSNIAN NATIONALISM / BANJA LUKA: بنالوقة صحراسى محاربه سى
- 550.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- [Banaluka Sahrası Muharebesi / Battle of Banja Luka Field] Small 8°, original cover with lettering, [2 pp.] title page, 17 pp., new black cloth binding with gilt lettering and debossed decoration (improvised repairs of paper loss in inner margins, light water staining in margins, sporadic old annotations in pencil, minor staining).
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- BOTANY, ESPERANTO: La Vivo de la Plantoj [Life of Plants].
- 350.00€
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- A rare scientific work on plants by a Danish agronomist Paul de Neergaard, with highly decorative illustrations by Mads Stage, was originally written in Esperanto and later translated to other languages.
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- BOŽIDAR JAKAC – Signed copy.
- 450.00€
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- An early monograph on Slovenian artist Božidar Jakac in mint condition, from the artist’s library. Signed copy.
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- BOŽIDAR JAKAC – AUTOGRAPH – PARTISAN ART: Revolucija in umetnost. Izbor slovenske partizanske grafike in risbe [Revolution and Art. A Selection of Slovenian Partisan Prints and Drawings].
- 350.00€
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- An exhibition catalogue of Partisan drawings of the WW II with an autograph of artist Božidar Jakac.
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- BOŽIDAR JAKAC: Sztuka narodów Jugoslawii XIX i XX wieku [Art of the Nations of Yugoslavia in 19th and 20th Centuries].
- 180.00€
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- A scarce catalogue of the first exhibition of Yugoslavian artist in Poland after WWII, made in the month of the Tito-Stalin Split, after which the communication between Yugoslavia and Poland was shut down. From a library of Božidar Jakac.
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- Europe, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: October 2020, Romania
- BUCHAREST, ROMANIA / WORLD WAR II / THIRD REICH CARTOGRAPHY: Bukarest
- 350.00€
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- A rare, very large format double-sided sheet of maps of Bucharest (thus 2 maps), showcasing both the city proper and the metropolitan area, made during the early days of World War II by the General Staff of the Nazi German Army, just as Romania was switching sides from the Allies to the Axis cause; predicated upon the best information, the…
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- BUCHAREST, ROMANIA: 28 images of the Ottoman Army in Bucharest.
- 650.00€
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- A rare book in Ottoman Turkish includes photoreproductions with the locations of the Ottoman army in Bucharest in Romania, during the occupation of Romania’s capital by the Central powers between 1916-1918.
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- BULAQ IMPRINT ISLAMIC LAW MULTAQĀ- ملتقى الأبحر: الموقوفات
- 2,800.00€
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- [Mevkufat also Mülteka tercümesi. Mevkufati or Mevkufati. Mülteka tercümesi] The first printed edition of the most important text on the Islamic law in the Ottoman Empire 2 volumes in 1. Large 4°, 2 pp., 356 pp., 2 pp., 314 pp., original calf binding with a flap and debossed ornaments, modern black spine. Margins of the first pages…
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- BULAQ IMPRINT, TUTINAMA: طوطینامه
- 2,200.00€
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- BULAQ IMPRINT: Tarih-i Vasıf
- 1,800.00€
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- An important Ottoman first-hand account on the political events of the second half of the 18th century and the relations with the Central Europe by a Baghdad-born author, was printed by the Bulaq press in Egypt. 2 volumes, bound in one, 4°. 14 pp. (index), 210 pp., [1] blank, 7 pp. (index), 190 pp., printed on thick paper, contemporary…
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- BULAQ PRESS / OTTOMAN POETRY: ديوان سامى [Divan-i Sami / Diwans by Sami]
- 840.00€
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- BULGARIAN HISTORY / TRABZON IMPRINT: بولعار تاريخى [Bulgar Tarihi / History of Bulgaria]
- 1,200.00€
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- Possibly the first detailed history of Bulgaria made after the proclamation of its independence 8°, 191 pp., modern black cloth with gilt lettering and debossed ornaments (light staining and sporadic water-staining in margins, sporadic tiny holes in white margins (paper deformations- as published), title page with stronger staining and a small hole in the margin, first pages with…
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- BULGARIAN LITERATURE / SERBO-BULGARIAN RELATIONS: Le chauvinisme serbe [The Serbian Chauvinism]
- 120.00€
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- A pamphlet in French language was written by one of the Bulgarian leading literary experts to show the superiority of the Bulgarian over Serbs, through their literature, during WWI, when the neighboring Bulgaria and Serbia were fighting on opposite sides.
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- Bulgarian Primer for Ottomans / Thessaloniki Imprint: رسملى بلغارجه رهبر قرائت
- 420.00€
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- [Resimli Bulgarca Rehber-i Kıraat / Illustrated Guide to Bulgarian] 8°. 52 pp. with illustrations, [2 pp.] errata (later wrappers, old taxation stamp on the title page, small worm holes in the lower part of the text, sporadic old annotations in pencil, otherwise in a good condition).
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- BULGARIAN PRINTING IN ISTANBUL / AMERICAN BIBLE HOUSE: Рѣчникъ на свято-то писанiе [Biblie Encyclopedia]
- 850.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- 8°. [4 pp.], 620 pp. with black and white illustrations in text, 4 full page colour maps and one double-page map, contemporary red boards with black cloth corners and brown calf spine (minor wear to the binding, small cracks in the gutters of the endpapers, minor foxing, old pencil annotations on front endpapers, overall in a good condition).
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- Bulgarian Printing in Istanbul: Приключенията на Телемаха отъ Фенелона
- 380.00€
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- [Les aventures de Télémaque / The Adventures of Telemachus by Fénelon] 8°, XV, 402 pp., [6 pp.], later brown three quarter calf with bown boards, later patterned endpapers (first blank page missing, sporadic underlinings in red pencil in the first pages, otherwise in a good condition with minimal staining).
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- BULGARIAN PUBLICATION IN ISTANBUL: История блъгарска [Bulgaian History]
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- A rare, important history book in Bulgarian language, written by a prominent Bulgarian diplomat, was printed in Istanbul by a Macedonian Press 8°, [2] title page, XXI, 616 pp., [4 pp.] errata, newer marbled wrappers (uncut example, partly unbound title page with missing upper white corner, some pages lightly stained, old dried moist stains between pages 180-200, otherwise in…
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- BURCKHARDT: Kleinasiatische Reise [Travels Through Anatolia].
- 220.00€
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- A book on Anatolia by a historian and diplomat Carl Jacob Burckhardt was printed by a private press in Munich in 1925 and was contemporary bound in an elegant half vellum binding.
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- CAIRO IMPRINT / YOUNG TURKS / PROPAGANDA: Lettre adressée au feu sultan Abdul Aziz par le feu prince Moustapha Fazil Pacha. 1866.
- 160.00€
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- A first separately printed publication of a letter written by the Egyptian prince Mustafa Fazil Pasa to Sultan Abdul Aziz, today considered one of the greatest documents of Turkish liberty, was made in Cairo under the British rule, to support the Young Turks movement in the time of their formation.
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- CAIRO IMPRINT / YOUNG TURKS: پاريس دن يازدكلرم Paris’den Yazdıklarım [My Writings from Paris]
- 420.00€
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- A collection of previously anonymous articles published in Paris, by a Cairo-based Ottoman medical doctor and a supporter of the Young Turks Şerefeddin Mağmûmî 8°. 301 pp., later (1970s) black cloth binding with gilt lettering (minor foxing and staining, imprint from old wrappers mounted on the inner side of endpapers, old price written on the inner side of…
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- CAIRO IMPRINT: حلبى صغير [Halebi-i Sağir]
- 650.00€
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- Cairo Imprint: استبداد [İsdibdad / Della Tirannide / Of Tyranny]
- 550.00€
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- A translation of an Italian work “On Tyranny” was translated into Ottoman as a propaganda piece at the time of the capitulation of Sultan Abdul Hamid II and published in Cairo to avoid the censorship. 8°. 271 pp. with a portrait, original boards with hand splattered paper and black cloth spine (minimal wear to the cover, but overall…
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- CAIRO NEWSPAPER: Arafate. Hebdomadaire islamite عرفات
- 80.00€
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- A rare first number of a rare Muslim newspaper in French language, publishedin Cairo, in 1904, was sent to the Zionist Committee in Switzerland.
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- Asia, India, India, Maps and Prints
- CALCUTTA – FIREFIGHTING: The Town and Suburbs of Calcutta (including Howrah) / Map Illustrating the Annual Report of the Calcutta Fire Brigade showing the Positions of Fires, Fire Stations etc. during the Year ended March 31st 1913.
- 1,600.00€
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- An extremely rare, large format map of Calcutta, depicting the revolutionary fire prevention and control infrastructure devised by its new Fire Chief, Bernard Westbrook, giving the city one of the most advanced fire systems in Asia, saving untold lives and properties. Zincograph in colours by the Vandyke Process, mounted upon original linen and folding into original black cloth…
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- CARINTHIA – LAW: Des Ertzhertzogthumbs Khärndten new aufgerichte Landtßrechtsordnung.
- 2,500.00€
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- A rare book of laws for Carinthia, was printed in Graz by a protestant printer Zacharias Bartsch.
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- Cars / Ottoman Language: شوفور معلمى [Şoför Muallimi / Driving Instructor]
- 350.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- 8°. [4 pp.] illustrated advertisements, 247 pp. with black and white illustrations, 7 pp. on tan paper, [16 pp.] illustrated advertisements, original illustrated wrappers, original black sloth spine (wrappers with soft folds and tiny chips, otherwise in a good condition)
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- CARTHOGRAPHY / BIBLIOGRAPHY: برخورد تواريخ در جنوب قفقاز [Clash of History in the South Caucasus]
- 65.00€
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- CATHERINE THE GREAT / BULAQ IMPRINT: اجمال اوائل دولت روسيه [İcmal-i eva’il-i devlet-i Rusiya [or] Katerina Tarihi]
- 1,600.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- 8°. [10 pp], 225 pp., later brown cloth binding with lettering on the spine (sporadic small repaired tears in margins, light staining an foxing, old written price on the inner side of the rear board, otherwise in a good condition).
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- CATHERINE THE GREAT: قترينه تارخى [Katerina Tarihi]
- 650.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- 8°, [8 pp.], 308 pp. lithographed text with some pages with larger folded margins with annotations, as originally published, modern green cloth boards with gilt lettering and debossed decoration, brown calf spine with raised bands and gilt lettering (light foxing, old signature and date in Ottoman on the first page, old scribbles on the last blank page, otherwise in…
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- CAUCASUS: Aslan der Abrek. Ein Lebensbild aus den Kaukasischen Gebirgen. Von einem Deutschrussen.
- 650.00€
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- [Aslan the Abrek. A Story from the Caucasian Mountains. By a German-Russian] This rare book is the first European, non-Russian, story on a Caucasian abrek (a North Caucasian Christian soldier) and was published in German language in Jeglava, today in Latvia.
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- Africa, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: December 2020
- CENTRAL AFRICA: [Congo, Cameroon, Angola, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda]
- 120.00€
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- A map from Umûm Vilayât-ı Şâhâneyi Hâvi Küçük Atlas - Umûmî Küçük Atlas (General Small Atlas) Chromolithograph. 9 x 13,5 cm (3.5 x 5.3 inches).
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- CHAGATAI DICTIONARY – UZBEK AUTHOR: لغت چغتای وترکی عثمانی [Chagatai-Ottoman Dictionary]
- 960.00€
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- CHARLES II Francis of Habsburg (1540-1590): “Der Maurer und Steinmetz. in Graz und im ganzen Landt Steyr Zunfft Ordnung Confirmation.” (Confirmation of the Guild Orders for the Builders and Stone Carvers in Graz and the Rest of Styria)
- 4,500.00€
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- An original manuscript of one of the most important official documents relating to the history of art and Protestantism in Styria during the Counterreformation.
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- CHICAGO: شيقاغو شهري [Amerika seyahatından Şikago şehri]
- 580.00€
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- [From the Travel through America. The City of Chicago] An Ottoman translation of Baron Edmond de Mandat-Grancey’s description of Chicago, first published in 1898 8°, 37 pp., later marbled wrappers (slightly stained, otherwise in a good condition).
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- CHILDERN’S BOOK: Čudežna skrinja [The Magic Cascet].
- 75.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- 8°. 53 pp. with blue and black illustrations, [1] index, original illustrated colour binding (Very Good, seemingly unread example, binding with minimal wear, very light glue marks on the inner side of the rear cover, a tiny small number on thetop of the back cover)
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- CHILDREN’S BOOK: Najdihojca.
- 120.00€
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- CHILDREN’S BOOK: Zvonček na repu [The Little Bell on the Tail].
- 65.00€
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- CHILDREN’S LITERATURE / TITO / YUGOSLAVIA: Ciciban čita [Ciciban is Reading].
- 65.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- 12°. 32 pp. with black and white illustrations, original wrappers with lettering, stapled (in a good condition).
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- CHILDREN’S LITERATURE: Ciciban čita [Ciciban is Reading].
- 35.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- 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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- CHILDREN’S STORY – YUGOSLAV PRO-PARTISAN PROPAGANDA: Mali Smolček.
- 65.00€
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- A children’s story about a young boy helping the partisans and tricking the Nazis, accompanied by high quality illustrations by the artist Stane Kumar, was published in 1956 as a part of the Socialist Yugoslav propaganda for children.
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- CHILDREN‘S BOOKS: Pod goró, pod to gôro zéleno [Under a Mountain, Under a Green Mountain]
- 220.00€
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- A traditional Slovenian didactic children’s poem is accompanied with high quality illustrations by a painter and sculptor Tone Kralj, who is known for his mural paintings with hidden anti-Fascist motifs, made in Slavic churches in Fascist Italy.
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- CHILDREN’S BOOK – BOOK ILLUSTRATIONS: Zgode in nezgode kraljevskega dvora [Stories and Sorries from the Royal Court]
- 65.00€
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- The first edition of a popular Slovenian children’s book with an original, well preserved dust jacket.
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- CHILDREN’S BOOK – SERBIA: У гостима код мајмуна [U gostima kod majmuna / Visiting Monkeys].
- 120.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- An unusual Serbian version of a Soviet children’s book in a form of a series of 40 loose photomontages, depicting a story of a boy who flew to visit a human-like family of monkeys, was made to educate children in personal hygiene.
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- CHILDREN’S BOOK / POLITICAL PROPAGANDA / YUGOSLAV BOOK DESIGN: Prva računica [Math Primer]
- 100.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- A fine example of a Yugoslav mid-century book design and socialist propaganda for children is joined in a 1961 math primer.
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- CHILDREN’S BOOKS – YUGOSLAVIA: Striborov gozd [Šuma Striborova / Stribor’s Forest]
- 45.00€
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- CHILDREN’S BOOKS – WWII – BOOK ILLUSTRATION: Pohorske Pravljice [Stories from Pohorje].
- 65.00€
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- A book with national stories from the mountainous region of Pohorje in Styria was published in Ljubljana under the Fascist occupation during WWII. The illustrations were made by Jože Beranek, known for his WWII Axis-backed propaganda posters, who was executed for treason only days after the war.
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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€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- 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€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- [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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- 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€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- 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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- CHILDREN’S BOOKS / YUGOSLAV BOOK DESIGN / BOOK ILLUSTRATION: Pol za šalo pol za res [Half Jokingly, Half Seriously]
- 75.00€
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- A charming book with poetry for children was designed and illustrated by a Slovenian architect Ana Nuša Jontez, the wife of one of the most prolific Yugoslav architects of the 20th century, Edo Mihevc. 8°. 81 pp., with black and white colour illustrations, [2 pp.], original illustrated colour wrappers with flaps (wrappers with minor foxing on the inner side, very…
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- CHILDREN’S LITERATURE / PARTISAN UNDERGROUND WWII PRINTING: Slovenski Pionir [Slovenian Pioneer]
- 360.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- This exceedingly rare ephemeral propaganda mimeographed magazine for small children was printed by an underground Slovenian partisan press during WWII. 8°. 16 pp. mimeographed text with the illustrations, original illustrated blue wrappers, stapled (soft vertical fold, wrappers with light staining and a small loss of a corner on the rear cover, the crosswords on the last page filled…
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- CHILE – NATIONAL ATLAS: Atlas de Chile Arreglado para la Jeografia Descriptiva de la Republica de Chile por Enrique Espinoza.
- 1,400.00€
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- A fine example of an important and beautifully produced national atlas of chile, featuring 39 maps predicated upon the best scientific sources, made by Enrique Espinoza, who is credited with revolutionizing the study of geography in Chile, published by the venerable Paris firm of Erhard Frères. Small 4° (27 x 20.5 cm): 2 pp., 39 maps (5 folding;…
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- China / International Relations: چينه سياحت [Çin’e Seyahat / Travel to China]
- 220.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- Long 8°, 38 pp., later brown cloth boards with gilt lettering (pp. 28 and 29. bound tightly with tiny glue marks in the text, last pages with trimmed white margins, old hand-written price in the inner side of the rear board, otherwise in a good condition).
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- CHINA / MAO ZEDONG / CHINESE-YUGOSLAV RELATIONS: Pesmi [Poems]
- 95.00€
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- CHINA / ORENBURG IMPRINT / TATAR PRINTING: قطايليلر نشريات كريمى
- 860.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- [Nashryat Kerymi: Kıtaylılar / Kerimi’s Publications: The Chinese] 8°. 24 pp., imprints and advertisements from original wrappers mounted on the first and last page, 20th century brown cloth binding with lettering on the cover and spine (light foxing, hand-written old price on the inner side of back cover, otherwise in a good condition).
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- China / Travelouge / Hitayname: ترجمه تاريخ نوارى جين ماجين
- 1,200.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- [Tercüme-i Tarih-i Nevâdir-i Çin-i Maçin / Translation of the Stories of History of China and the Greater China] 8°, 70 pp. lithograph, first two pages with gilt margins, later blue cloth boards with brown cloth spine, grey printed endpapers (minor staining overall in a good condition).
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- CHINESE THEATRE / ESPERANTO: Fulmotondro [雷雨 Léiyǔ / Thunderstorm]
- 85.00€
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- A rare translation of one of the most popular Chinese plays Thunderstorm to Esperanto, the language promoted in socialist and communist countries to be the only neutral language of the world.
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- Cholera – Hygiene – Istanbul: L’Hygiène publique à Constantinople.
- 450.00€
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- A rare work on hygiene in Istanbul, written by a French engineer to prevent cholera and similar diseases, which were then spreading across Europe. 8°: [1] title, 35 pp., original pink wrappers with printed title, cover signed by the author and dedicated to Leon Sellié (wrappers slightly age-toned and stained with tiny tears to spine).
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- Christian Missions in the Muslim World: عالم اسلام و انكليز ميسيونەری : انکلیز میسیونەری نصل يتشديريليور
- 420.00€
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- [Âlem-i İslâm ve İngiliz Misyoneri, İngiliz Misyoneri Nasıl Yetiştirilir? / The World of Islam and the British Missionaries. How do they train British Missionaries?] A rare insight on the impact of the Christian missionaries on the Muslim world 8°. 112 pp., [2 pp.], interleaved black and white photographs and one map, original cover with lettering, later blue cloth…
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- Circassians: چركسلر [Çerkesler / Circassians]
- 340.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- Large 8°. 48 pp., original wrappers (slightly age-toned and with light foxing, tiny tears in margins, but overall in a good condition).
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- CIRCUS & ENTERTAINMENT: Memory Book of a Young Female Member of an Early Bicycle Acrobat Troupe
- 2,500.00€
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- A memory book of a circus artist Käthe Derrington, active in the early 20th century as one of the first female bicycle circus performers, includes many distinct entries by various famous circus and theatre artists from Europe and Asia.
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- Cocktails de Paris.
- 960.00€
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- A legendary cocktail book, written by a French entertainer Georges Gabriel Thenon – Rip, and illustrated by poster designer Paul Colin. Housed in a highly decorative, hand-made Art-Deco covers, made for a Berlin based fan maker and a Royal warrant of appointment Heinrich Nicolaus van Santen.
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- COMMUNISM – PROPAGANDA – WWII: Крокодил [Krokodil]
- 1,800.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- A complete set of the Krokodil magazine, published in 1945.
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- COMMUNISM / ARMENIA: ԿՈՄՈՒՆԱՅԻՑ ԿՈՄՈՒՆԻԶՄ: ՊԱՏՄԱ-ՔԱՂԱՔԱԿԱՆ ԶԵԿՈՒՑՈՒՄ [From the Commune to the Communism. A Historical-Political Report]
- 480.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- An attractive, seemingly unrecorded typewritten thick work on the Communism in Armenia.
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- COMMUNISM IN TURKEY: Komünistlerin Orta Şark yayilma plani? [Is the Middle East the Spread of the Communists?]
- 35.00€
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- COMMUNISM IN UZBEKISTAN / LENIN: مللييهت مهسئهلهسي [Milliyet Meselesi / национальный вопрос / National Question]
- 550.00€
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- 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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- Communism in Uzbekistan / Tashkent Imprint: لينىنىزىم مه سئه له له رى [Leninizim masjalalari / Foundations of Leninism]
- 350.00€
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- The first Uzbek translation of Stalin’s Foundations of Leninism with an attractive crude cover design, printed in Tashkent in Perso-Arabic letters Large 8°, 373 pp., original illustrated card boards (endpapers cracked in the gutters, old signature and date on the title page, a stamp from a de-accessed library on the inner side of the front cover, binding lightly bumped…
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- COMMUNIST MANIFESTO: Комунистички манифест
- 420.00€
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- [Manifest des Kommunistischen Partei / Communist Manifesto] A Serbian translation of the Communist Manifesto, printed by the Yugoslav partisans days before the end of WWII 8°: 64 pp., [4 pp.] blank, original tan wrappers with lettering (minor traces of use, old signature on the title page, but overall in a good condition).
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- Concentration Camps / First-Hand Account: Morišče Mauthausen [Murderfield Mauthausen]
- 350.00€
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- A first-hand account with a map of the camp., by a concentration camp survivor, published shortly after the liberation 8°, 30 pp., [1] printed map, original green wrappers with illustrated cover (Very Good, spine with a small hand-written number, spine slighty age-toning with a tiny tear).
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- Congo Belge / Service Hydrographique, Section du Haut Congo, Fleuve Congo / Leopoldville – Stanleyville / Travaux effectues sous la direction de J. Lauwers, Hydrographe, Chef de S.H. du H.C. …
- 2,500.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- A stellar moment of African cartography and inland hydrography, being the first atlas, or accurate, complete large-scale map, of the 1,724 km-long navigable route of the Upper Congo River from Léopoldville (Kinshasa) to Stanleyville, the only natural passage into the heart of Africa, made during World War I for the use of steamer captains by the specialist Belgian colonial…
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- Books, History, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- CONGRESS OF BERLIN: برلين قونغره سى بك ديپلوماسى تاريخنه بر نظر
- 320.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- German-Ottoman / Turkish Relations Congress of Berlin
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- CONSTANTINOPLE, LIFESTYLE MAGAZINE: شهبال. Chehbal. Illustrations de Salon [Şehbal / Wings].
- 980.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- A series of a richly illustrated Art Nouveau lifestyle magazine in Ottoman Script and partly French, was printed in Istanbul between 1909 and 1911.
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- CONTEMPORARY ARMENIAN BOOK DESIGN: Letter Writing Paper with Armenian Ornaments
- 35.00€
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- CONTEMPORARY ARMENIAN DESIGN Հայկական նախշեր, փաթեթավորման թուղթ Armenian Patterns, Gift Wrapping Paper Book
- 65.00€
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- Crete Imprint / Botany – Agriculture / Citrus Growing: حديقه [Ḥadiḳa / The Garden]
- 1,200.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- A rare and until now underappreciated work on modern citrus growing, printed in Ottoman language, as a part of the program to modernize the agriculture of Crete 4°. 4 pp. [index], 172 pp. with charts and sporadic illustrations, bound with original brown wrappers, original marbled boards, new black calf spine (light staining and foxing, inner white margins with…
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- CROATIA – BINDING – LITERATURE – THEATRE: Hrvatska revija. Godina IX, MCMXXXVI.
- 180.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- A complete year of a Croatian intellectual and cultural magazine Hrvatska revija, which was later banned under Yugoslavia after WWII, bound in a fine binding by a Zagreb-based bookbinder.
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- CROATIA – PHOTOGRAPHY / JUDAICA: Šandor 8. IV. 97
- 250.00€
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- 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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- CROATIA, 2 VINTAGE EROTIC PAMPHLETS: Bračna noč frajle Mice & [Pred jednu godinu…]
- 380.00€
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- Two privately issued ephemeral pocket books in Croatian language from 1930s include erotic stories in verses accompanied by lewd images, reproduced in the technique of whiteprint.
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- CROATIAN / YUGOSLAV SELF-PUBLISHED LITERATURE: Za vlastiti račun
- 140.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- 8°, [12 pp.] red and black printing on thick folded brown paper, original illustrated wrappers, author’s dedication on the title page, signatures by the author and the artist an hand-number on the last page (tiny tears in margins and around the spine, otherwise in a good condition).
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- CROATIAN ART DECO: Bijedna Mara.
- 200.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- A beautifully designed book with a lyrical story in six acts in Croatian language, was drafted by an architect, composer and a later director of the Zagreb Philharmonic Hall Ivo Tijardović.
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- CROATIAN AVANT-GARDE AND EARLY COMMUNISM: Plamen. Polumjesečnik za sve kulturne probleme [Flame. Bimonthly for all the Cultural Problems].
- 350.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- This is the 7th number of a rare early Croatian left-wing magazine with avant-garde poetry, which was banned in the same year after the number 15 for political reasons.
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- CROATIAN BOOK DESIGN / POETRY: Rane [Wounds]
- 160.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- 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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- CROATIAN BOOK DESIGN: Narodne priče [Folktales]
- 220.00€
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- CROATIAN EXPRESSIONISM: Tomislav Krizman
- 320.00€
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- A rare pioneering work on the Croatian contemporary art, printmaking and theatre scenography glorifying the artist Tomislav Krizman as the leading artist of the South Slavs on the eve of the birth of Yugoslavia. With a beautiful expressionist cover by a Dalmatian artist Jerolim Miše.
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- CROATIAN FASCIST IMMIGRANT LITERATURE: U službi domovine [Serving the Country].
- 380.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- A scarce Croatian anti-Tito and anti-American book with 3 autobiographic articles describing a flight from Croatia, life in Allied DP camps, and exile to Argentina was written by a Croatian nationalistic fascistic politician Vjekoslav Vrančić, who served as a left hand to Ante Pavelić, and was a vice president of the Croatian so-called "government in exile" in Argentina.
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- CROATIAN FASHISM – ANTI-CURSING PROPAGANDA: Upisnica… [Application form…].
- 95.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- An application form with an empty place for a name was printed by a Croatian Catholic church during WWII in cooperation with the Fascist government, to prevent cursing in order to separate the Croatian nation from the vulgar Balkans and to keep the name of God and mother from inappropriate conversation.
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- CROATIAN FINE ART: Jama.
- 1,800.00€
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- A rare monumental series of 41 folding colour lithographs accompanying a Croatian poem Jama (The Pit), one of the most powerful WWII lyrics, written by Ivan-Goran Kovačić. This 1982 version of illustrations was made by Croatian academic artists Edo Murtić and Zlatko Prica, the authors of the first illustrated edition, printed by a Partisan underground press during WWII. Number 82 of…
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- CROATIAN FIRST EDITIONS: Gjerdan
- 95.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- 8°. 216 pp., original wrappers with illustrated cover (wrappers slightly dusty, stained and rubbed on the edges, otherwise in a good condition).
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- CROATIAN FIRST EDITIONS: U registraturi
- 95.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- 8°. 479 pp., original wrappers with illustrated title (good uncut example, wrappers with small cracks in margins and slightly dusty, otherwise in a good condition).
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- CROATIAN LITERATURE – FIRST EDITIONS: Knjiga o kraljevima hrvatskijem [Book on the Kings of Croatia]
- 140.00€
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- The first edition of one of the first published books by a Croatian writer, poet and politician Vladimir Nazor is glorifying 23 Croatian kings and leaders.
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- CROATIAN LITERATURE – PARTISAN LITERATURE: Govori i članci [Speeches and Articles]
- 45.00€
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- The book published immediately after WWII, gathers mostly pro-Tito and pro-Stalin speeches and articles by a popular Croatian author and Head of State Vladimir Nazor.
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- CROATIAN PARTISAN UNDERGROUND PRINTING / WWII: Drugo zasjedanja Antifašističkog Vijeća Narodnog Oslobođenja Jugoslavije
- 300.00€
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- [2nd Congress of the Antifascist Council of the Yugoslav Liberation] A rare Croatian WWII underground partisan pamphlet describes the 2nd Congress of the Antifascist Council of the Yugoslav Liberation (AVNOJ), the most important Partisan event during the war, where Tito was proclaimed Marshall. The date was later celebrated as the Day of the Republic. 8°, 72 pp., original…
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- CROATIAN PARTISAN UNDERGROUND PRINTING / WWII: Pjesme Partizanke [Partisan Songs]
- 380.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- The first edition of a rare and important booklet with poems by a famous Croatian poet Vladimir Nazor was published by an underground partisan press and dedicated to the youth, fighting for the resistance. 12°, 49 pp., [2], original wrappers with lettering, inserted errata (slightly age-toned, wrappers with light foxing, otherwise in a good condition).
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- CROATIAN POETRY / FIRST EDITIONS: Lirika 1932
- 180.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- The scarce first edition of poems by one of the greatest Croatian poets of the 20th century Ivan „Goran“ Kovačić.
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- CROATIAN PRE-WWII JEWISH COMMUNITY: POVIJEST ZAGREBAČKE ŽIDOVSKE OPĆINE OD OSNUTKA DO 50-TIH GODINA 19. VIJEKA [HISTORY OF THE ZAGREB JEWISH COMMUNITY FROM THE BEGINNING UNTIL THE 1850S].
- 320.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- A pioneering work on the history of Jewish community in Zagreb with its analysis and lists of known members, was published on the eve of WWII by a Zagreb Chief Rabbi Gavro Schwarz.
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- CROATIAN PRINTING IN ARGENTINA: Republika Hrvatska. Republica Croata. [Republic Croatia]. No. 44 (1960), No. 104 (1976), No. 109 (1977), No. 130 (1981), No. 145 (1984).
- 550.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- 5 issues of an uncommon Croatian Nationalistic magazine were printed in Croatian and Spanish language in Buenos Aires by post-WWII Croatian immigrants and sold mostly in North America, Australia and Germany.
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- Croatian Travelogue to Istanbul: Put u Carigrad. Sa četrdset slika i tlorisom Carigrada
- 640.00€
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- A rare first edition of the travelogue from Zagreb to Istanbul by a prolific Croatian writer Adolfo Veber Tkalčević 8°, [4 pp.], 239 pp. with black and white illustrations, [5 pp.] index, 2 interleaved double-page views, folding map, contemporary marbled boards and black cloth cpine with lettering, original pink endpapers (old owner’s stamps on the inner sides of…
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- Croatian Travelogue to the Holy Land: Uspomene iz Svete Zemlje [Memories of the Holy Land]
- 420.00€
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- A travelogue to the Holy Land through Egypt by a Croatian professor Krsto Krile, published on the eve of WWI. 8°, XI, 231 pp., interleaved photographs, two folding plates, and three folding maps (Jerusalem, Croatia, the Holy Land), original boards with decoration and lettering, original cloth spine with lettering (hardly noticeable foxing, very light wear to the corners,…
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- CROATIAN UNDERGROUND COMMUNISM: Književne sveske [Literary volumes]
- 350.00€
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- The one and only number of a rare illegal underground pro-Stalinistic magazine in Croatian language includes articles by the Bulgarian author and politician Todor Pavlov, as well as Milovan Đilas and Edvard Kardelj, who signed themselves with their nom de plume, as Communism was at the time forbidden in Yugoslavia.
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- CROATIAN UNDERGROUND PRINTING: Sovjetska Rusija i seljačko pravo [Soviet Russia and Peasant’s Right].
- 250.00€
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- A pro-Russian pamphlet, printed by a Croatian underground press during WWII, includes a text by a popular Croatian politician Stjepan Radić, originally published in 1924.
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- Americas, Caribbean, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: October 2020
- CUBA – SOVIET CARTOGRAPHY / COLD WAR: Куба [Kuba]
- 380.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- Colour print, 51,5 x 86 cm (20.2 x 33.8 inches), accompanied by an original brochure with an index: 8°, 13 pp., [2 pp.], wrappers with title, stapled. Housed in an original illustrated wrappers with a flap (a small hand-written monogram of the previous owner, otherwise in a near-mint unused condition with a minimal stains on the spine of the wrappers).…
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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€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- Colour lithograph, 19,5 x 26 cm (7.6 x 10.3 inches) (soft fold, otherwise in a good condition).
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- Cyprus Imprint / Iranian Literature: Pendnama of Shykh Sadee. Being a Compendium of Ethics, in Verse, by that Celebrated Poet. Translated Into English by W.C. Smyth Esq. Late of the Hon. East India Company’s Bengal Civil Service. Rendered in Turkish Verse by Ali Riza Ibni Emin. Professor of Turkish Language of English School Cyprus. پندنامهء شيخ سعدى
- 450.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- 8°. 26 pp. in English and Ottoman, [1] title page in English, original debossed pink wrappers with lettering in Ottoman and English, stapled (binding with light staining and water staining, staples rusty with the wrappers detached, inside a good clean example).
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- CZECH AVANT-GARDE – COMMUNISM – PROPAGANDA: Anarchistická morálka. Komunism a anarchie. Velká revoluce [Anarchist Morale. Communism and Anarchy. The Great Revolution].
- 380.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- A Czech translation of three short texts by a Russian activist and researcher Pyotr Kropotkin with an original linocut design by a Czech Avant-Garde artist and author Josef Čapek.
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- CZECH PRINTING IN EXILE: Poválečná rekonstrukce: cyklus přednášek přednesených v rámci Hospodařského seminaře ve dnech 10.-13. VII. 1944 v Jerusalémě [Post-war reconstruction: a cycle of lectures delivered during the Economic Seminar on 10-13 May.
- 450.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- A rare publication in Czech language on the post war reconstruction, was published in 1945 in Jerusalem.
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- CZECHOSLOVAK LEGION – IRKUTSK IMPRINT – SIBERIAN RAILWAY: Lví srdce: básně, 1914-1918. Knihovna Československého Denníka, sv. 6. [Lion Hearts: Poems, 1914-1918. Library of the Czechoslovak Daily, vol. 6].
- 280.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- A rare collection of original poetry was printed in Czech language in Irkutsk, Russia, at the time when the Czechoslovakian Legion took control of the Siberian Railway, heading for Vladivostok while escaping the closing clutches of the Red Army.
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- CZECHOSLOVAK LEGION – ITALY – CZECH AVANT-GARDE – WWI. Oběti. Památce Československých legionářů v Italii popravených Rakousko-Uherskem. [Victims. Memorial of Czechoslovak Legionnaires in Italy executed by Austria-Hungary].
- 180.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- A book in Czech language with a modern avant-garde cover, published in 1921, commemorates the victims of the Czechoslovakian Legion, who fought on the side of Italians during WWI to gain the independent Czech and Slovak country.
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- DANCE – SLOVENIA: Sodobni ples na Slovenskem [Contemporary Dance in Slovenia].
- 180.00€
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- A book on contemporary Slovenian dance was written and designed in 1975 by a dancer and architect Marija Vogelnik, a student of Jože Plečnik. Signed by the author.
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- DANCE CARDS – ZAGREB, CROATIA: Militär Wissenschaftlicher und Casiono-Verein in Agram. Tanz Kränzchen. 15. 16. Jänner 1892
- 140.00€
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- Balkans, Books, Bulgaria, Europe, Geography, Maps and Prints, Romania, Serbia
- DANUBE RIVER – BOAT CAPTAIN’S ATLAS: Navigations Karte Der Donau von Semlin an bis zu ihrem Ausfluss ins Schwarze Meer : zur genauesten Kentnis aller in derselben befindlichen Inseln, Sandbänke, Wirbel, Klippen u.s.w. so wie aller an den beiderseitigen Ufern gelegenen Städte, Dörfer und andere Ortschaften, wobei zugleich die verschiedene Breite und Tiefe des Stroms bestimt angegeben ist, zuerst aufgenomm[m]en von dem k.k. Pontonier Hauptmann von Lauterer, da derselbe den k.k. Herrn Internunzius Freyherrn von Herbert bis Ruszug führte, hierauf aber weiter ausgearbeitet und verbessert von dem k.k. Hauptmann Freyherrn von Tauferer bei Gelegenheit, als derselbe das erste Seeschiff aus der Kulpa auf der Donau nach Konstantinopel führete.
- 2,800.00€
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- Very Rare – the first broadly accurate and detailed map of the course of the lower Danube River, that flowed 1,400 km from Belgrade to the Black Sea; a colossal 7-sheet work (bound in atlas form) that would measure a course approximately 420 cm (almost 14 feet!) long if joined, based on the first serious attempt to map this vital…
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- Books, Turkica
- Das Kapital: Sermaye [Das Kapital]
- 550.00€
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- First Turkish translation of Das Kapital 8°. 6 pp. 205 pp. [as always falsely starting with unnumbered p. 5], [2 pp.] contemporary black boards with mounted original cover (minor staining, binding slightly scuffed and cracked, front cover slightly stained and scratched with a missing corner, inside in a good condition).
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- DEDIJER: The Universal Validity of Human Rights. An Interdisciplinary Analysis. The Case of Russell Tribunals
- 320.00€
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- An uncommon book on a Yugoslav politician in exile Vladimir Dedier and the Bernard Russell Piece Foundation with articles in different languages was published for a a World Congress on Human Rights in Tension in Rio de Janero in 182. The copy was signed by Vladimir Dedijer.
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- Books, Design, Other
- Demonic Typography / Satans & Demons: Satanas
- 2,600.00€
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- An unusual series of drawings in different styles, depicting Satan and demons in various forms from the traditional 666 and the pentagon through monograms to Hitler and Stalin 8°: [68 pp.] with 35 drawings in colour, recto only, art nouveau black calf with debossed decoration and a clasp, later gilt decoration and manuscript title, art nouveau patterned end…
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- Der Neue Orient. [The New Orient].
- 450.00€
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- A very rare magazine, published by young Christian German men in Aleppo, Syria, on the eve of WWI. Probably the first and only number.
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- DON COSSACKS CHOIR ATAMAN GENERAL KALEDIN – MUNICH – WHITE RUSSIAN ÉMIGRÉS
- 450.00€
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- A small collection of rare ephemera gives an insight of a short- lived Don Cossacks Choir “Ataman General Kaledin”, founded in Munich under the influence of the Serge Jaroff’s Choir by a White Russian émigré Nicolas Nikolaïevitch von Leuchtenberg.
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- DP CAMP PRINTING – SCHOOL BOOK – SLAVIC PRINTING: Zemljepis Slovenije in Jugoslavije za 8. gim. raz. [Geography of Slovenia and Yugoslavia for the 8th Class of Gymnasiums].
- 220.00€
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- A rare school book of geography, printed in Slovenian language, in a DP camp in Spittal, Austria, by the refugees from Slovenia two years after WWII.
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- Books, New Acquisitions: November 2020, Other
- EARLY AESTHETIC PROSTHETICS / PROSTHODONTICS: C. A. Lorenz. Leipzig. 1, Koenigs-Platz 1. … Dental Katalog 1900.
- 420.00€
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- 8°, [10 pp.] title page, colour plate and an introduction, 239 pp. with black and white illustrations, original illustrated wrappers (slightly age-toned and stained, small chips and folds in the corners and margins, old annotations in pencil on the first and last blank paper, wrappers slightly water-stained and tiny loss of paper on the spine, inside overall in a good,…
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- EARLY AMERICAN-CZECH CORRESPONDENCE: Comenius and the Indians of New England.
- 130.00€
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- EARLY BURMESE PRINTING / JEWISH STUDIES & ICONOGRAPHY: Notes on the Epistle to the Hebrews: In Karen. [Title also given in the Karen Language].
- 2,500.00€
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- Extremely rare - an extraordinary work of early Burmese printing by the prominent American missionary Elisha Abbott, ‘The Apostle of the Karens’, being a curious thesis likening the contemporary plight of the oppressed Karen people with that of the Jewish Christian Converts in the New Testament, with intriguing illustrations of Jewish iconography, written in the Karen language, published by…
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- Arabic Books, Books, History
- EARLY ISLAMIC WORLD: تاريخ العرب العسكرى [Arab Military History]
- 380.00€
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- A detailed book on the early military history of the Arab World, centered on Mecca 8°, 254 pp., [2 pp.], 3 interleaved folding maps, original illustrated wrappers (wrappers with minor foxing and wear to the edges, one map split in the fold, but overall 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€
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- 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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- 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€
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- 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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- Books, Maps and Prints, Ottoman Books, Turkica, World Maps
- Early Ottoman Lithographed Map of the World: مجموعهء معارف [Mecmua-i maarif]
- 550.00€
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- A first issue of an exceedingly rare ephemeral Ottoman magazine, with possibly largest lithographed map of the world before the appearance of the late Ottoman chromolithographed atlases. 8°, 40 pp. with lithographed black and white plates, coloured folding lithographed map, 25 x 39 cm, original green wrappers with lettering on the inner sides (repaired tear in the folding…
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- EARLY RUSSIAN COMMUNIST NEWSPAPER, PRINTED IN EXILE: Дискуссіонный листокъ. Приложеніе къ центральному органу Соціальдемократъ [Diskussіonnyĭ listok. Priloženіe k centralnomu organu Socіaldemokrat / Discussion Leaflet. Appendix of a central organ Social
- 980.00€
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- A rare complete set of three Communist newspapers, published in Paris in 1910 and 1911, by the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party in exile, includes articles by Lenin, who lived in there at the time.
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- Books, History, Slavica
- EARTHQUAKE OF LJUBLJANA: Das Erdbeben von Laibach und seine Ursachen. Vortrag, gehalten in der Versammlung des naturwissenschaftlichen Vereines für Steiermark am 20. April 1895
- 280.00€
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- [The Earthquake of Ljubljana and its Causes. A Lecture Held at the Conference of the Association for Natural Science for Styria in April 20th, 1895] A rare speech on the Ljubljana earthquake of 1895, held in Graz by a geologist Rudolf Hoernes 8°. 61 pp., [2 pp.] blank, old blue wrappers (minor staining and foxing, wrappers with tiny…
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- Books, Design, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- EBRU – LATE OTTOMAN MARBLED PAPER: تاريخ استقبال. مسائل سياسيه
- 320.00€
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- [Tarih-i İstikbâl. Mesaif-i Siyasiye / Reception History. Political Issues] A charming late Ottoman binding made of Ebru – or Islamic marbled paper 8°. 208 pp., contemporary marbled paper boards with envelope flaps and brown calf spines (last 15 pages slightly age-toned and water stained, binding with minor wear, otherwise in a good condition).
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- Economie Rurale. اقتصاد زراعى [İktisad-ı Ziraai / Agricultural Economy]
- 1,200.00€
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- An exceedingly rare mimeographed illustrated book on the economy in agriculture, made for an Ottoman school with a stunning multicolour title page showcasing a well-managed farm 8°: 422 pp., [2 pp.] index, mimeographed text with illustrations, charts and vignettes, illustrated title page, old corrections and annotations in pencil and blue ink, original blue cloth with debossed ornaments (minor…
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- EDEBIYAT-I CEDIDE / NEW LITERATURE: مائى و سياه [Mai ve Siyah / Blue and Black]
- 320.00€
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- One of the first Ottoman novels, written in its contemporary European form 8°, original front wrapper printed in blue black and gold, tile page, 231 pp. with black and white illustrations, contemporary brown cloth with debossed decoration, brown calf spine with gilt debossed decoration, contemporary marbled endpapers (old annotations in pencil, binding slightly rubbed, overall in a good condition).
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- Africa, Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: December 2020
- EGYPT / ISRAEL / PALESTINE / JORDAN / LEBANON / SYRIA / ARCHAEOLOGY: Carte topographique de l’Egypte et de plusieurs parties des pays limitrophes, levée pendant l’expédition de l’armée française, par les ingénieurs-géographes, les officiers du génie militaire, et les ingénieurs des ponts et chaussées, assujettie aux observations des astronomes, construite par M. Jacotin, colonel, au corps royal des ingénieurs-géographes militaires, gravée au dépôt général de la guerre, à l’échelle de 1 millimètre pour 100 mètres.
- 1,800.00€
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- An absolutely stellar example of the first broadly accurate map of Egypt and Palestine, predicated upon advanced trigonometric surveys undertaken by the cartographer Pierre Jacotin on the orders of Napoleon Bonaparte during the French occupation of Egypt, considered to be one of the great achievements of Enlightenment science. Copper engraving, dissected into 32 sections and mounted upon…
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- Africa, Books, Geography, Maps and Prints, Middle East
- Egypt Atlas: اطلس ابتدائى للقطر المصرى [Elementary Atlas of Egypt].
- 2,800.00€
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- A very rare and important Arabic language school atlas of Egypt, commissioned by the country’s Education Ministry and Ministry of Finance, emblematic of the country’s emerging national awakening whereby Egyptians gradually regained control over their country’s economy and institutions from the British quasi-colonial regime; in this vein, such cartographic works in the Arabic language, made for the use of…
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- Africa, Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: December 2020
- EGYPT, HEJAZ.
- 120.00€
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- A map from Umûm Vilayât-ı Şâhâneyi Hâvi Küçük Atlas - Umûmî Küçük Atlas (General Small Atlas) Chromolithograph. 9 x 13,5 cm (3.5 x 5.3 inches).
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- Arabic Books, Books
- EGYPTIAN BOOK DESIGN / EGYPTIAN LITERATURE: جزيرة الجيب و مشاهد أخرى
- 220.00€
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- [The Pocket Island and Other Stories] Signed by the author 8°, 194 pp., [2 pp.], original illustrated wrappers (wrappers with a tiny chip and repairs on the spine, inside a good, uncut examples, author’s dedication and signature on the title page).
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- Africa, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: December 2020
- EL ATALEH, SOMALIA: Africa – Costa Est. Ancoraggi di Itala (Ata Eh). Rilievi eseguiti dalle R. Navi Staffetta e Governolo Comandanti: Capitano di Fregata P. Botti – 1898, Capitano di Fregata G. Patris – 1904, Capitano di Fregata A. Riva di Fenile – 1906.
- 150.00€
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- This is the extremely rare first edition of the Italian Navy’s sea chart of stretch of the Somali coast around El Ataleh, some ways up from Mogadishu. Zincograph (Good, but with noticeable wear along old folds with some toning in upper area), 63 x 59 cm (25 x 23 inches).
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