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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€
- 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€
- 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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- 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€
- 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€
- 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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- Books
AERODYNAMICS / PHYSICS / ZEPPELIN / BLIMPS: Aerodynamische Modellversuche an deutschen und ausländischen Luftschiff-Baumustern im Windkanal des Luftschiffbau Zeppelin in Friedrichshafen. [
- 4,200.00€
- 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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- Books, Iran
AESOP’S FABLES / URDU LANGUAGE / MUMBAI IMPRINT: نقليات يوسف [Nakaliyat-i Yusuf]
- 880.00€
- 8°, 198 pp., contemporary marbled paper boards and green cloth spine (pp 111, 158, 191-193 marked twice, pages misnumbered 174-177, but complete according to catch words, small folds in corners, but overall in a good condition with only minor age-toning).
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- Books, History
AFGHAN PRE-ISLAMIC ART: لشکر گاه / : مطالعات تاریخی، ادبی، هنری، باستان شناسی.
- 350.00€
- [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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- Books, Geography, Ottoman Books, Turkica
AFGHANISTAN: افغانستان [Afganistan / Afghanistan]
- 480.00€
- 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€
- 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€
- A rare, richly illustrated book in Ottoman script on Africa, North Pole, Australia and South America.
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