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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
- 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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- 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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- Africa, Books, Geography, Maps and Prints
- Africa / Ephemera: آفريقا قطعه سى [The Africa Part]
- 120.00€
- 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, 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€
- 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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- Albania, Balkans, Europe, Greece, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: December 2020
- ALBANIA, CORFU, GREECE: يانينه ولايتى [Janina Vilayet]
- 120.00€
- 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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- Books, New Acquisitions: October 2020, Ottoman Books
- Albanian Scientists / First Ottoman Popular Science Book: تاريخ تكوين [Tarih-i Tekvin yahut Hilkat/ The History of Creation of the World] & اساس علم هيئت [Esas-i ilm-i heyet / The Basis of Astronomy]
- 680.00€
- Two groundbreaking modern Ottoman works by a Sorbonne schooled Albanian scientist Hoxha Tahsin Two titles bound together. 12°. [12 pp.] blank paper, 60 pp., [4 pp.] blank paper, original back cover with advertisements. 109 pp. with illustrations, original photograph mounted on the first page with printed margins, original printed wrappers, [12 pp.] blank paper. Contemporary black boards, brown calf…
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- Books, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- ALEPPO PRINTING – FIRST EDITIONS: بر آووچ صاچمه [Bir Avuç Saçma / A Bunch of Nonsense]
- 180.00€
- 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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- Africa, Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: December 2020
- ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT: Mediterranean Sea – Egypt. Approaches to Alexandria and Abu Qir Bay surveyed by Commanders F.A. Reyne & S.A.G. Hill…1920-22. / Abu Qir Bay (Western Part) surveyed by Commanders F.A. Reyne & S.A.G. Hill…1920-22.
- 150.00€
- This is a large and exceedingly detailed sheet of sea charts of the Alexandria area, Egypt, made during the twilight of Britain’s domination of the country. Photozincograph with some navigational details heightened in purple, pastedown printed correction slip added over Alexandria’s Inner Harbour, manuscript notes regarding a 1958 voyage and contemporary manuscript additions added in red pen (Good, old…
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- Books
- ALPHABET BOOK: Буквар за неписмене [Bukvar za nepismene / Alphabet Book for Illiterate].
- 180.00€
- A scarce alphabet book for illiterate adults from Southern parts of Yugoslavia, published a year after the liberation.
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- Americas, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: October 2020
- AMERICA – OTTOMAN SCHOOL ATLAS: آمريقا [Amerika]
- 380.00€
- 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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- Books
- 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€
- 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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- Books, Slavica
- AMERICAN URBANISM: Wielkie miasto przemysłowo-handlowe [A Large Industrial and Commercial City]
- 140.00€
- 8°. 74 pp., [2 pp.] index, original illustrated wrappers (wrappers slightly stained with tiny tears and chips, otherwise in a good condition).
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- Books
- 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€
- 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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- Books, Children's Books, Slavica
- ANTI-COMMUNIST CHILDREN’S BOOK & JOZE PLECNIK SCHOOL: Prigode malega murencka. [Adventures of a Little Cricket]
- 250.00€
- 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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- New Acquisitions: December 2020, Slavica
- ANTISEMITISM / CROATIA / POLITICAL PROPAGANDA: O židovima [About the Jews]
- 250.00€
- 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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- Books, New Acquisitions: December 2020, Slavica
- ANTISEMITISM / CROATIA: Postoji li židovska opasnost. Moj proces sa Židovima [Is there a Jewish Danger? My Process with the Jews]
- 220.00€
- 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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- Arabic Books, Books
- Arab Patriotism / Cairo Imprint / Arabic Names: كتاب الدر الثمين في اسماء البنات والبنين
- 1,800.00€
- [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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- Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- ARABIAN PENINSULA:جزيرة العرب [Arabian Peninsula]
- 550.00€
- Chromolithograph. 9 x 13,5 cm (3.5 x 5.3 inches). Slightly stained.
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- Books
- 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€
- 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
- Archive True Crime – Hungarian Murders 1947-1949
- 2,800.00€
- 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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- Books, Slavica
- Arebica – Bosnian Language in Perso-Arabic Script: ۉپۉتا ۉ پۉوييه ست ايسلاما [Uputa u povijest Islama / Introduction to the History of Islam]
- 580.00€
- A rare book in Arebica (Arabica), Bosnian language, written in harfovica – an adapted version of Perso-Arabic letters, was published during WWII in the time of Bosnian-Muslim revival of their pre-Yugoslav culture was made under the Independent State of Croatia, a puppet state of Nazi Germany. 8°, 91 pp., original wrappers with lettering (one page with a tear without loss of…
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- Armenian Books, Books
- ARMENIAN ART: Мартирос Сарьян. Martiros Sarian. Մարտիրոս Սարեան
- 95.00€
- 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 Books, Books
- ARMENIAN DIASPORA – TYPOGRAPHY: Համաստեղ 1895 1966 [Hamastegh 1895-1966]
- 280.00€
- 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 Books, Books
- ARMENIAN DIASPORA / ARMENIAN BOOK DESIGN / EDUCATION: ՄԱՆԿԱՎԱՐԺԱԿԱՆ ԴԱՍԱԽՕՍՈՒԹԻՒՆՆԵՐ [Pedagogical Lectures]
- 95.00€
- 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 Books, Books
- ARMENIAN DIASPORA / ARMENIAN BOOK DESIGN: ԺԱՏՐԱԿ ԽԱՂԱՑՈՂԸ [Schachnovelle]
- 85.00€
- Istanbul: Marmara Gazetesi 1970.
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- Armenian Books, Books
- ARMENIAN DIASPORA / CHILDREN’s DIDACTIC BOOKS: Կենդանիներս խաղերով [Kendaniners khagherov / Animal Games]
- 85.00€
- A classic of the Istanbul Armenian diaspora didactic children’s books.
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- Armenian Books, Books
- ARMENIAN DIASPORA: ԲԱՐԻ ՍԱՄԱՐԱՑԻՆ. Iyi samiriyeli adam [Bari samarac’in / The Good Samaritan]
- 65.00€
- 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 Books, Books
- ARMENIAN EARLY COMMUNIST LITERATURE: Չուշարձան [The Monument].
- 65.00€
- 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 Books, Books
- ARMENIAN HISTORY: Ագաթանգեղայ Պատմութիւն [Agatʻangeghay Patmutʻiwn / The History of Armenians]
- 1,000.00€
- 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 Books, Books
- ARMENIAN HISTORY: ՀԱՅՈՑ ՊԱՏՄՈՒԹԻՒՆ: ՀԻՆ ՀԱՅԵՐ: Ա։ ՀԱՏՈՐ [Armenian History: Old Armenians. Volume I]
- 650.00€
- 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 Books, Books, Children's Books
- ARMENIAN MINORITY IN TURKEY: ՊԱՐՏԵԶ. Bardez. Pedagojik çocuk dergisi [Garden, Pedagogical children’s magazine], Year 1, No. 10.
- 75.00€
- 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 Books, Books
- ARMENIAN POETRY / MEKHITARISTS PRESS: Անեծք [Anetsk’ / The Curse]
- 220.00€
- 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 Books, Books
- ARMENIAN POETRY: Գուսանի սերը [Gusan’s Love].
- 250.00€
- 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 Books, Books
- ARMENIAN PRINTING ABROAD: Կորիզ [The Stone]
- 120.00€
- 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 Books, Books, Geography, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- ARMENIAN WORLD ATLAS / ‘ARMENIAN NATIONAL AWAKENING’: Ատլաս կամ աշխարհացոյց տախտակք Ի պէտս ազգային դպրոցաց / Յօրինեաց եւ ծրագրեաց Հ. Աստուածատուր Վ. Աւագեան ի Մխիթարեան Ուխտէն.
- 9,500.00€
- Extremely rare – one of the great milestones of Armenian language cartography, being the first Armenian school atlas and the second ever Armenian world atlas, created by Astvatsatur Avakian, a monk at the Mekhitarist Monastery in Vienna, a beautifully produced work of 21 maps, importantly including one of the earliest maps to depict a proposed future independent state of ‘Armenia’…
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- Armenian Books, Books
- ARMENO-TURKISH LITERATURE / GRAMMAR / ARMENIAN PUBLISHERS: اس املا ياخود ى طوغر يازمق اصولى ԻՒՍՍԻ ԻՄԼԱ ԵԱԽՕՏ ՏՕՂՐՈՒ ԵԱՋՄԱԳ ՈՒՍՈՒԼԸ [Asi emla yahut doğru yasmak usuli / Index of Spelling or The Method of Correct Writing]
- 380.00€
- A rare, seemingly unrecorded grammar book for Ottoman language with additions in Armeno-Turkish was published in Istanbul in 1891.
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- Books
- ART DECO – GASTRONOMY – BAVARIA: Bayerische Fachausstellung des Gastwirts- und Hotel-Gewerbes. Augsburg. Bayerische Fachausstellung für das Gastwirts- u. Hotelgewerbe. Augsburg.
- 110.00€
- [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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- Slavica
- ART DECO BINDING: Album slovenskih književnikov [Album of Slovenian Authors].
- 380.00€
- 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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- Books
- 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€
- 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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- Books
- ART NOUVEAU: Kralj zlate reke ali crna brata [The King of the Golden River or The Black Brothers].
- 120.00€
- 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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- Books
- ART-DECO BINDING: Prizori iz bodocega zivljenja [Scènes de la vie future].
- 150.00€
- 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€
- 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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- Books
- ASTRONOMY – GIOVANNI RIZZI-ZANNONI – ROGER BOSCOVICH – LATITUDE OF ISTANBUL
- 2,800.00€
- 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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- Books
- ATATÜRK – NUTUK: Die neue Türkei 1919-1927. Die nationale Revolution, 1920-1927 [The New Turkey 1919-1927. The National Revolution, 1920-1927].
- 160.00€
- 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€
- 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: September 2020
- AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND: آوستراليا [Avustralya / Australia]
- 200.00€
- Chromolithograph. 9 x 13,5 cm (3.5 x 5.3 inches). Slightly stained, overall in a good condition.
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- Australia, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: December 2020, New Zealand
- AUSTRALIA AND OCEANIA: يكى اوقيانوسيا [New Oceania]
- 850.00€
- 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€
- Chromolithograph. 9 x 13,5 cm (3.5 x 5.3 inches). Slightly stained, overall in a good condition
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- Books
- AVANT-GARDE, SIGNED COPY: Ватромети и бајка о Актеону [Vatrometi i bajka o Akteonu]
- 700.00€
- 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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- Books
- AVANT-GARDE: Kraljica palčkov v kraljestvu palčkov. Drugi Del [Queen of Dwarfs in the Kingdom of Dwarfs. Second part].
- 950.00€
- 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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- New Acquisitions: December 2020, Slavica
- AVIATION / POLISH MIMEOGRAPHED MAGAZINE BY CADETS: Kadet No. 2. Czasopismo Kadetów Korpusu No. 2 u Modlinie
- 350.00€
- A charming large mimeographed magazine on aviation, published by the Polish cadets in the Modlin Fortress in 1925 [Cadet No. 2. Newspaper of the Cadets of 2nd Corps in Modlin] Small folio. [20 pp.] mimeographed text with illustrations, original illustrated wrappers, inserted thicker sheet with mimeographed text on both sides, unbound, as originally published (sporadic staining and tiny…
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- Books, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- AZERBAIJANI AUTHORS / COMMUNISM: مليت و بولشه ويزم. مقاله لر مجموءسى [Milliyet ve bolşevizm. Makaleler mecmuası / Nationalism and Bolshevism. Magazine Articles]
- 350.00€
- 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€
- [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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- Books, Turkica
- AZERBAIJANI POETRY / AZERBAIJANI CARICATURE: هوپهوپ نامه [Hophopname]
- 1,600.00€
- 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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- Armenian Books, Books
- AZERBAIJANI POETRY IN ARMENIAN LANGUAGE: Հայրենի Եզերբ [The Home Shore]
- 65.00€
- An Armenian translation of poetry by an Azerbaijani author Mehmet Rahim was published in Yerevan, Soviet Armenia.
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- Books
- AZERBAIJANI SATIRICAL POLITICAL MAGAZINE: Molla Nasraddin.
- 1,400.00€
- 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€
- 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€
- 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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- Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- BAGHDAD / IRAQ: بغداد ولايتى [Baghdad Vilayet]
- 180.00€
- Chromolithograph. 9 x 13,5 cm (3.5 x 5.3 inches). Minor staining, overall in a good condition.
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- BAGHDAD: بغداد ولايتى [Baghdad Vilayeti]
- 180.00€
- Postcard. Lithography in colour (Very Good, slightly age-toned, tiny tears and chips in margins ) 10 x 14cm (5.11 x 3.5 inches).
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- Arabic Books, Books
- BAHNAME / MEDICO-EROTIC TREATISE / MECCA IMPRINT: كتاب رجوع الشيخ الى صباه في القوة على الباه
- 8,400.00€
- [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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- Books, New Acquisitions: September 2020, Turkica
- BAKU IMPRINT / COMMUNISM: خلق معلمى [Xalq Muallimi / Public Teacher]
- 450.00€
- A rare Communist Azeri publication with contribution by various authors on the subject of the modern education was published on the Labour day, May 1st, 1924 to commemorate Lenin, who passed away in January of the same year. 4°. 74 pp with a full page portrait of Lenin, original wrappers with lettering, 20th century brown cloth binding with lettering…
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- Books, Maps and Prints, Slavica
- BATTLE OF STALINGRAD – PARTISAN CARTOGRAPHY: Velika Bitka pod Stalingradom. [The Great Battle at Stalingrad].
- 250.00€
- A rare Slovenian Partisan publication of Nikolai Talensky’s description of the Battle of Stalingrad, published by the ‘top secret’ Triglav Press, one of the two most important underground Slovenian Partisan printing operations.
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- Broadsides, Europe, Germany, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- BAVARICA / LUDWIG I / EPHEMERA: Nice, le 5 Mars 1868. Le Comte de Castell, Grand Maitre de la Cour, et le Lieutenant-Géneral, Baron de Jeetze, Aide de Camp de sa Majesté le Roi Louis Ier de Bavière, ont l’honneur de vous prier d’assister au SERVICE FUNERE qui sera célébré, demain, Vendredi 6 Mars, à 9 heures, à l’Église Cathédrale pour le repos se âme de S. M. le Roi Louis Ier de Bavière.
- 250.00€
- [Nice, March 5, 1868. The Count of Castell, Grand Master of the Court, and the Lieutenant-General, Baron de Jeetze, Aide-de-Camp to his Majesty King Louis I of Bavaria, have the honour to ask you to attend the FUNERE SERVICE which will be held tomorrow, Friday March 6th, at 9 am, at the Cathedral for the rest of the soul of…
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- Archives and Documents, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- BAVARICA / MUNICH / EPHEMERA: Gasthof zum Oberpollinger. Rechnung. F. Knöpfle
- 100.00€
- Broadside with printed template, manuscript additions in black ink, taxation stamps in the upper left corner, 25 x 16,5 cm (9.9 x 6.5 inches) (soft folds, a tiny hole in the lower corner, overall in a good condition).
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- BEIRUT / LEBANON
- 220.00€
- Chromolithograph. 9 x 13,5 cm (3.5 x 5.3 inches). Minor staining, overall in a good condition.
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- BEIRUT / LEBANON: بيروت ولايتى [Beirut Vilayet]
- 220.00€
- Chromolithograph. 9 x 13,5 cm (3.5 x 5.3 inches). Minor staining, overall in a good condition.
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- BEIRUT / LEBANON: بيروت ولايتى [Beirut Vilayeti]
- 220.00€
- Postcard. Lithography in colour (Very Good, slightly age-toned) 10 x 14cm (5.11 x 3.5 inches).
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- Arabic Books, Books, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- BEIRUT IMPRINT / BIBLE / AMERICAN MISSION PRESS: الكتاب المقدس اي كتب العهد القديم والعهد الجديد [The Bible. That is the books of the Old Testament and the New Testament]
- 550.00€
- An early example of a Bible in Arabic language, translated by Eli Smith and Cornelius Van Alen Van Dyck, printed in the elegant “al-Amerikani” font by the American Mission Press in Beirut 8°, 920 pp., [2 pp.] title page, 295 pp., publisher’s dark brown full calf with debossed decoration, gilt lettering in Arabic on the spine (slightly age-toned, stained…
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- 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€
- A rare Catholic book, printed in Arabic language in Beirut.
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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€
- 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€
- 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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- Africa, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: December 2020
- BENGHAZI, LIBYA: Mediterranean Sea. Tripioli. Benghazi to Derna. Surveyed… under the direction of Capt.n T.A.B. Spratt, R.N.; C.B.; F.R.S. 1861.
- 250.00€
- An updated 1914 edition of fine sea chart made by the British Admiralty of the northwestern coast of Libya, known as the Jebel Akhdar, the historical region of Cyrenaica. Photozincograph with some navigational details heightened in yellow (Good, noticeable staining in upper and lower margins, some print transference), 102.5 x 68.5 cm (40.5 x 27 inches).
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- Books, Europe, Germany, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: November 2020, Slavica
- BERLIN – 1930s: Berlin i okolice. Dodatek: Rozmówki i słowniczek polsko-niemiecki
- 380.00€
- [Berlin and Surroundings. Appendix: Phrasebook and Polish-German Dictionary] A rare polish guidebook to a Nazi Berlin with a Polish-German dictionary and a map 12°, XVI, 151 pp., folding map, original illustrated wrappers (wrappers with light folds, minor are-toning and staining, repaired tear in the left-hand side of the map, otherwise in a good condition).
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- BERLIN, ADDRESS BOOK OF NOBLEMEN: Königliche und übrige Noblesse (Nach alphabetischer Ordnung).
- 1,200.00€
- 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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- 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€
- [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, printed 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€
- [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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- Books, New Acquisitions: December 2020, Slavica
- BIBLIOGRAHPY – PARTISAN UNDERGROUND PRINTING: Партизанске штампарије [Partizanske štamparije / Partisan Press].
- 350.00€
- 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€
- 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€
- 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€
- Ottoman red morocco binding from the circle of sultan Abdul Hamid II.
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- Balkans, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- BITOLA -MANASTIR / NORTH MACEDONIA / OTTOMAN CARTOGRAPHY / POSTCARD MAP: مناستر ولآيتى [Vilayet Manastir]
- 120.00€
- Postcard. Lithography in colour (Very Good, slightly age-toned) 10 x 14cm (5.11 x 3.5 inches).
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- Books, Ottoman Books
- BITOLA IMPRINT: مناستر ولايتنك تاريخچه سى [Manastır Vilayetinin Tarihçesi / History of the Vilayet Manastir / Bitola]
- 960.00€
- 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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- BOLIVIA ALMANAC / LA PAZ IMPRINT: Calendario y guia de forasteros de la Republica Boliviana para el ano de 1835.
- 1,100.00€
- Rare - a stellar example of Bolivian printing from the early independence era; one of the short-lived sequence of Bolivian almanacs published by the Colejio de Arte in La Paz during the 1830s.
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- BOOK CATALOGUE: Neueste Bücherschau. Weihnachten 1923 [Newest Selection of Books. Christmas 1923].
- 80.00€
- 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€
- 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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- 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€
- 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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- Books, New Acquisitions: November 2020, Slavica
- BOSNIAN / MUSLIM ANTI-COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA: Muslimani u Sovjetskoj Rusiji [Muslims in the Soviet Russia]
- 580.00€
- 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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- BOTANY, ESPERANTO: La Vivo de la Plantoj [Life of Plants].
- 350.00€
- 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€
- 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€
- 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€
- 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€
- 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€
- 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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- BULGARIAN LITERATURE / SERBO-BULGARIAN RELATIONS: Le chauvinisme serbe [The Serbian Chauvinism]
- 120.00€
- 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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- Books, New Acquisitions: December 2020, Slavica
- BULGARIAN PUBLICATION IN ISTANBUL: История блъгарска [Bulgaian History]
- 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€
- 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€
- 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 NEWSPAPER: Arafate. Hebdomadaire islamite عرفات
- 80.00€
- 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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- CARINTHIA – LAW: Des Ertzhertzogthumbs Khärndten new aufgerichte Landtßrechtsordnung.
- 2,500.00€
- A rare book of laws for Carinthia, was printed in Graz by a protestant printer Zacharias Bartsch.
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- Books, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- Cars / Ottoman Language: شوفور معلمى [Şoför Muallimi / Driving Instructor]
- 350.00€
- 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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- Books, New Acquisitions: November 2020, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- CATHERINE THE GREAT / BULAQ IMPRINT: اجمال اوائل دولت روسيه [İcmal-i eva’il-i devlet-i Rusiya [or] Katerina Tarihi]
- 1,600.00€
- 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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- CAUCASUS: Aslan der Abrek. Ein Lebensbild aus den Kaukasischen Gebirgen. Von einem Deutschrussen.
- 650.00€
- [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€
- 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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- 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€
- 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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- Books, Children's Books, New Acquisitions: September 2020, Slavica
- CHILDREN’S LITERATURE / TITO / YUGOSLAVIA: Ciciban čita [Ciciban is Reading].
- 65.00€
- 12°. 32 pp. with black and white illustrations, original wrappers with lettering, stapled (in a good condition).
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- Books, Children's Books, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- CHILDREN’S LITERATURE: Ciciban čita [Ciciban is Reading].
- 35.00€
- 12°. 16 pp. with black and white illustrations, original wrappers with lettering, stapled (light staining and foxing, old annotation in ink on the front cover, overall in a good condition).
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- Books, Children's Books, Slavica
- CHILDREN’S STORY – YUGOSLAV PRO-PARTISAN PROPAGANDA: Mali Smolček.
- 65.00€
- 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€
- 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€
- 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€
- 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€
- 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 – WWII – BOOK ILLUSTRATION: Pohorske Pravljice [Stories from Pohorje].
- 65.00€
- 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€
- 12°. 60 pp. with black and white illustrations and one colour illustrations, front endpapers with lettering, original illustrated binding (light foxing on edges, old paper label in the upper corner of the cover, binding with light scuffing on the corners, overall in a good condition).
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- Books, Children's Books, New Acquisitions: September 2020, Slavica
- CHILDREN’S BOOKS / POLITICAL PROPAGANDA FOR CHILDREN: Pionirji iz Tihega dola. Pionirska živalska igra v petih dejanjih
- 75.00€
- [Pioneers from the Quiet Valley. A Pioneer Animal Play in Five Acts] 8°. 54 pp. With black and white illustrations, [2 pp.] blank, original illustrated wrappers, staples (old paper label on the cover, old stamp and annotation from a de-accessed archive, otherwise in a good unread condition)
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- Books, New Acquisitions: September 2020, Slavica
- CHILDREN’S BOOKS / POLITICAL PROPAGANDA FOR CHILDREN: Pod zvezdo. Igra za lutke v 5 dejanjih [Under the Star. A Marionette Play in 5 Acts]
- 75.00€
- 8°. 51 pp., original illustrated colour wrappers, stapled, originally pasted label with a date in the lower part of the rear cover (Very Good).
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- Books, Children's Books, New Acquisitions: December 2020, Slavica
- CHILDREN’S BOOKS / YUGOSLAV BOOK DESIGN / BOOK ILLUSTRATION: Pol za šalo pol za res [Half Jokingly, Half Seriously]
- 75.00€
- 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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- Books, New Acquisitions: December 2020, Slavica
- CHILDREN’S LITERATURE / PARTISAN UNDERGROUND WWII PRINTING: Slovenski Pionir [Slovenian Pioneer]
- 360.00€
- 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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- Asia, China, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: October 2020
- CHINA – HANKOW / HANKOU (WUHAN) / URBANISM / FOREIGN TREATY PORTS: Foreign Settlement, Hankow, China.
- 2,000.00€
- A seemingly unrecorded whiteprint map of the ‘Foreign Settlements’ of Hankow (today part of Wuhan), which was long the industrial and logistics hub of inland China and a major focus of Western investment; created towards the end of the ‘Roaring Twenties’ by the prominent local architect and engineer R.N. Hewitt likely for the private use of a major British commercial…
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- China / International Relations: چينه سياحت [Çin’e Seyahat / Travel to China]
- 220.00€
- 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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- CHINESE THEATRE / ESPERANTO: Fulmotondro [雷雨 Léiyǔ / Thunderstorm]
- 85.00€
- 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 – CONSTANTINOPLE: L’Hygiène publique à Constantinople
- 450.00€
- A rare work on the hygiene in Istanbul, was written by a French engineer to prevent cholera and similar diseases, which were spreading in Europe.
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- Books, Other, Slavica
- Cholera / Slavic Printing / Female Printers: Kolera [Cholera]
- 420.00€
- An early Slovenian pamphlet on cholera … it is good for you, if you have a sip of hard liquor, before you leave the house… 8°. 35 pp., old paper spine with a paper label (private collector’s stamp on the title page verso, light staining and small folds, title page age-toned with old pencil annotations, spine with small loss of…
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- CIRCUS & ENTERTAINMENT: Memory Book of a Young Female Member of an Early Bicycle Acrobat Troupe
- 2,500.00€
- 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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- CLASSIC AUTOMOBILES / ART DECO DESIGN: [Adler Automotive Company: An Art Deco Portfolio containing 10 Coloured Lithographs of New Car Models].
- 450.00€
- A sumptuous Art Deco portfolio of coloured lithographs of new luxury models of Adler Automobiles, made to celebrate Clärenore Stinnes’ pioneering around-the-world tour, made by the esteemed artist Georg Johann Köhler.
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- Cocktails de Paris.
- 960.00€
- 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€
- A complete set of the Krokodil magazine, published in 1945.
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- Armenian Books, Books
- COMMUNISM / ARMENIA: ԿՈՄՈՒՆԱՅԻՑ ԿՈՄՈՒՆԻԶՄ: ՊԱՏՄԱ-ՔԱՂԱՔԱԿԱՆ ԶԵԿՈՒՑՈՒՄ [From the Commune to the Communism. A Historical-Political Report]
- 480.00€
- An attractive, seemingly unrecorded typewritten thick work on the Communism in Armenia.
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- Books, New Acquisitions: September 2020, Turkica
- COMMUNISM IN UZBEKISTAN / LENIN: مللييهت مهسئهلهسي [Milliyet Meselesi / национальный вопрос / National Question]
- 550.00€
- A rare translation of Lenin’s texts on the unification and protection of the Muslims in the Soviet Union was published in Tashkent and Samarkand in 1926. Small 4°. 195 pp. with a portrait of Lenin, [5 pp.], 20th century brown cloth binding with lettering on the cover and spine (minor age-toning, handwritten old price on the inner side of…
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- Books, Slavica
- Concentration Camps / First-Hand Account: Morišče Mauthausen [Murderfield Mauthausen]
- 350.00€
- 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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- CONSTANTINOPLE, LIFESTYLE MAGAZINE: شهبال. Chehbal. Illustrations de Salon [Şehbal / Wings].
- 980.00€
- 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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- CROATIA – BINDING – LITERATURE – THEATRE: Hrvatska revija. Godina IX, MCMXXXVI.
- 180.00€
- 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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- New Acquisitions: September 2020, Photography
- CROATIA – PHOTOGRAPHY / JUDAICA: Šandor 8. IV. 97
- 250.00€
- A seemingly unrecorded portrait of a Croatian philanthropist, industrialist and nobleman Šandor Alexander Sesvetski (1866-1929) from a prominent Zagreb Jewish family. Cabinet card with albumen print and lettering in the lower margin and verso, contemporary signature in black ink in the lower right corner 16,4 x 10,7 cm (6.4 x 4.3 inches) (minor staining, corners slightly bumped, overall in…
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- CROATIA, 2 VINTAGE EROTIC PAMPHLETS: Bračna noč frajle Mice & [Pred jednu godinu…]
- 380.00€
- 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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- Books, Slavica
- CROATIAN / YUGOSLAV SELF-PUBLISHED LITERATURE: Za vlastiti račun
- 140.00€
- 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€
- 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€
- 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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- Books, New Acquisitions: September 2020, Slavica
- CROATIAN BOOK DESIGN / POETRY: Rane [Wounds]
- 160.00€
- 8°. 29 pp., [3 pp.] index, original illustrated wrappers (slightly age-toned and stained, minor chips in margins, overall in a good condition).
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- CROATIAN EXPRESSIONISM: Tomislav Krizman
- 320.00€
- 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€
- 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€
- 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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- Books, Maps and Prints, Slavica
- CROATIAN FINE ART: Jama.
- 1,800.00€
- 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€
- 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€
- 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€
- 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€
- 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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- Books, New Acquisitions: December 2020, Slavica
- CROATIAN PARTISAN UNDERGROUND PRINTING / WWII: Drugo zasjedanja Antifašističkog Vijeća Narodnog Oslobođenja Jugoslavije
- [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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- Books, New Acquisitions: December 2020, Slavica
- CROATIAN PARTISAN UNDERGROUND PRINTING / WWII: Pjesme Partizanke [Partisan Songs]
- 380.00€
- 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€
- 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€
- 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€
- 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 UNDERGROUND COMMUNISM: Književne sveske [Literary volumes]
- 350.00€
- 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€
- 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€
- 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€
- 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€
- 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€
- 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€
- 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€
- 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€
- 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€
- 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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- Books, Turkica
- Das Kapital: Sermaye [Das Kapital]
- 550.00€
- 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€
- 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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- Der Neue Orient. [The New Orient].
- 450.00€
- 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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- DISINFECTED OTTOMAN MAIL: all Signori Georgi Haggi Zučka Compagn. Wienna
- 1,200.00€
- A transfer docket with an early chisel cut for disinfection, probably against the plague, was sent from Izmir to Vienna in 1789. As the cover letter is opened, the main message, folded in the envelope, is still sealed and has never been read.
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- DON COSSACKS CHOIR ATAMAN GENERAL KALEDIN – MUNICH – WHITE RUSSIAN ÉMIGRÉS
- 450.00€
- 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€
- 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€
- 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 BURMESE PRINTING / JEWISH STUDIES & ICONOGRAPHY: Notes on the Epistle to the Hebrews: In Karen. [Title also given in the Karen Language].
- 2,500.00€
- 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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- Books, New Acquisitions: September 2020, Slavica
- EARLY KAZAKH-RUSSIAN BILINGUALISM: Памятники киргизскаго народнаго творчества. Пѣсня Алашинца Байтоки на смерть Хана Джангера, записанная и переведенная [Monuments of the Creative Power of the Kirghiz people. Alashian poems on the death of Dzhanger khan. With Russian Translation]
- 450.00€
- One of the pioneering works on the Kazakh-Russian bilingualism and bilingual education. Small 4°. 19 pp., original wrappers with lettering (light staining, two old paper labels on the cover, title page with old Ottoman stamp and light scratches, sporadic old annotations, wrappers with tiny tears in margins and a small hole in the rear cover, otherwise in a good…
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- 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€
- 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€
- [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, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- EDEBIYAT-I CEDIDE / NEW LITERATURE: مائى و سياه [Mai ve Siyah / Blue and Black]
- 320.00€
- 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€
- 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, Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: December 2020
- EGYPT, HEJAZ.
- 120.00€
- 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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- 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€
- 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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- ÉMIGRÉ COSSACK PERIODICAL & MAP: Кубанский исторический и литерарный Сборник [Kubanskij istoričeskij i literarnyj Sbornik / Kuban Historical and Literary Digest], No. 6.
- 350.00€
- An émigré Cossack periodical with inserted folding map of the Kuban region of Russia was edited by a former Major-Genera,l White Russian Vyacheslav Naumenko, who escaped the post WWII Repatriation of Cossacks.
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- ÉMIGRÉ RUSSIAN PRINTING: Цвѣты зла [Cvety zla / Les Fleurs du Mal].
- 980.00€
- A Russian translation of Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal, which was considered the best one at the time, was published by a Russian émigré press in Paris.
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- ÉMIGRÉ UKRAINIAN MAGAZINES: Книголюб [Kniholjub, also Knyholiub / Bibliophile]. I, 1931. III-IV, 1931. I-II, 1932.
- 750.00€
- A rare set of 3 magazines on literature was published in Ukrainian language by Ukrainian exiles in Prague in 1931 and 1932. From a library of a Ukrainian exile Ilarion Ohienko, later Metropolitan bishop of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Winnipeg, Canada.
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- ENTERTAINMENT – GERMAN ART DECO: Wie werde ich Bauchredner und Tierstimmenimitator? Das Wesen, die Geschichte und die Erlernung der Bauredekunst
- 95.00€
- A stellar example of a German book on ventriloquizing animal sounds with a stunning 1920s cover design.
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- ESPERANTO – BAUDELAIRE: La floroj de l’malbono [Les fleurs du mal]
- 350.00€
- A first and only translation of Les fleurs du mal to Esperanto was published in La Laguna on Tenerife Island in 1957.
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- ESPERANTO – BOTANY: Atakoj kontraŭ ĝardenplantoj. Kaj kiel prilukti ilin [Attacks on garden plants. And how take care of them].
- 320.00€
- An unusual illustrated work on botany was originally written in Esperanto by a Danish agronomist and Esperantist Paul de Neergaard.
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- ESPERANTO – CHINA: Ĉina antologio, 1949-1979.
- 220.00€
- An uncommon collection of Esperanto literature and poetry by Chinese authors, was published in Beijing in 1989.
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- ESPERANTO – JAPAN: La kapao: kaj aliaj rakontoj [Kappa and Other Stories / 河童].
- 160.00€
- An uncommon translation to Esperanto of the Japanese short story Kappa by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa from 1927 was published in Tokyo in 1954.
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- ESPERANTO – LITHUANIA: Litovaj popolkantoj [Lithuanian Folk Songs].
- 550.00€
- A very rare book of Lithuanian folk songs, translated to Esperanto, was published in Kaunas on the eve of the Soviet occupation of Lithuania, and in the last year of the Lithuanian Esperanto Association before WWII.
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- ESPERANTO – POETRY. Esperanta Antologio: Poemoj
- 380.00€
- This classics of the Esperanto Anthology was published in 1958 by the Esperanto publishing house Stafeto, in La Laguna, Tenerife.
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- ESPERANTO – STINDBERG: Insulo de feličuloj [De lycksaliges ö].
- 180.00€
- An uncommon translation of De lycksaliges ö by August Strindberg in Esperanto was published in Leipzig in 1926.
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- ESPERANTO – HOLOCAUST REPORT: Medalionoj [Medaillons / Medaliony].
- 220.00€
- A first edition of an Esperanto translation of a report on concentration camps in Poland by a Polish autor Zofia Nałkowska.
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- ESPERANTO – RACIAL THORIES: Scienco kaj pseŭdoscienco pri heredo kaj raso: populara skizo [Science and pseudoscience about heritage and race. A popular sketch],
- 450.00€
- An uncommon work by a Danish scientist in Esperanto with scientific explanations on the development racial distinctions, was published on the eve of WWII and was opposing racism.
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- ESPERANTO & ART DECO: La Mondon al ni! [The World to Us!]
- 360.00€
- A rare book with art deco cover by an Austrian author Erich Kilian in Esperanto, was published in Cologne a year before the Nazis forbade publications in Esperanto.
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- ESPERANTO CERVANTES: La malprudenta scivolulo : 33a-34a kaj 35a ĉapitroj de la verko “Don-Kiĥoto” [El Curioso Impertinente / The Curious Impertinent].
- 100.00€
- An uncommon translation of a short story from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes was translated to Esperanto and published by a private press in 1955 in Spain.
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- ESPERANTO POETRY: Eterna bukedo: poemoj el dudek lingvoj [Eternal Bouquet: Poems from Twenty Languages].
- 220.00€
- A collection of early Esperanto translations of poetry from the Antiquity to modern times was made by a Hungarian Esperantist Kálmán Kalocsay.
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- ESPERANTO POETRY: Kontralte [In Contralto].
- 360.00€
- A signed copy of an uncommon poetry book was written and published in Esperanto by a British author Marjorie Boulton.
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- ESPERANTO POETRY: Kvaropo.
- 220.00€
- A collections of poetry by four Esperantists, was the first book in the series of 93 made by the Esperanto publishing house Stafeto, issued in 1952 in La Laguna, Tenerife.
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- ESPERANTO POETRY: Miniaturoj: speciala omaĝo al Zamenhof 1859-1959 [MINIATURES. A Special Tribute to Zamenhof 1859-1959]
- 180.00€
- A rare book of poems by a Brazilian Esperantist Geraldo Mattos was published at the 100th anniversary of birth of Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof.
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- ESPERANTO POETRY: Streĉita kordo [A Taut String].
- 650.00€
- An uncommon first edition of poems, originally written in Esperanto by a Hungarian author Káláman Kalocsay (1891-1976) was published in Budapest in 1931 and is considered one of the finest collections of original Esperanto poetry.
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- ESPERANTO SCIENCE BOOK: Sciencaj studoj bazitaj sur originalaj esploroj kaj observoj [Scientific studies based on original investigations and observations].
- 360.00€
- An uncommon illustrated scientific book, written in Esperanto, includes numerous original articles on biology, chemistry, geology, linguistics and other topics.
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- ESPERANTO THEATRE: Jozefo: drama poemo en kvar aktoj kaj epilogo, bazita sur la Biblioa rakonto. [Joseph].
- 320.00€
- A rare theatre play by Jakob David Applebaum was originally published in Esperanto by Stafato publishing house in La Laguna, Tenerife.
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- ESPERANTO-ESTONIAN POETRY: Elektitaj versajoj [Selected Poems].
- 180.00€
- A very rare copy of selected poems by an Estonian author Marie Under in Esperanto, bound in a decorative art-deco wrappers, was published in Tallinn in 1929.
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- ESPERANTO: Akbar. Orienta Romano [Akbar. Oriental Novel]..
- 250.00€
- An Esperanto translation of a Dutch novel 1872 Akbar. Oosterse roman in a stunning art deco binding, was translated by Julia Isbrücker and J. R. G. Isbrücker in Cseh method in 1936.
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- ESPERANTO: De paĝo al paĝo. Literaturaj profiloj [From Page to Page. Literary Profiles].
- 650.00€
- This is a first edition of a famous Esperanto book by Lajos Tárkony on contemporary Esperanto authors, published in Budapest in 1932.
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- ESPERANTO: El la maniko [From Up My Sleeve].
- 380.00€
- A rare first edition of an Esperanto book of short stories by a Swiss Esperantist Reto Rossetti, published in Stafeto Esperanto publishing house in La Laguna on Tenerife Island in 1955.
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- ESPERANTO: La kantistino [Die Sängerin].
- 200.00€
- An Esperanto translation of a Wilhelm Hauff's novel Die Sängerin was published in Berlin by Friedrich Ellersiek shortly after WWI, in 1921.
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- ESPIONAGE / WORLD WAR II: Према информацијама овдашњег министарства инострансих послова… [According to the information of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs here…]
- 950.00€
- A fascinating and important intelligence telegram, sent from the Royal Yugoslavian Embassy in Bern, Switzerland to the Yugoslavian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Belgrade, correctly predicting that Germany planned to attack England in September 1940.
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- ESTONIAN BOOK DESIGN / ESPERANTO: Somermeze [In the Heart of the Summer]
- 65.00€
- A scarce Esperanto translation of an Estonian text by a Communist author Paul Kuusberg is accompanied by stunning photomontage illustrations by an Estonian artist and illustrator Jaan Tammsaar.
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- EXPRESSIONISM – SLOVENIA: Kralj Matjaž.
- 450.00€
- A beautifully designed book with expressionistic design of text and drawings in a mint condition was designed by a Slovenian academic artist France Kralj in 1921, who was at the time an active member of contemporary art and political movements.
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- FASCIST INDUSTRY: OPERE PUBBLICHE: 1922-1932 [PUBLIC WORKS: 1922-1932].
- 950.00€
- A beautifully designed large book on the growth of the Fascist industry was published at the 10th anniversary of the rule of the National Fascist Party in Italy.
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- FEMALE ARTISTS: Katalog umetnostne razstave likovnih umetnic iz Beograda, Zagreba, Sušaka in Ljubljane : Ljubljana, 5. XI.-20. XI. 1939
- 100.00€
- A scarce catalogue listing works of 12 Yugoslav female artists, held in Ljubljana in late 1939 in the Jakopič Pavilion.
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- Books, New Acquisitions: December 2020, Slavica
- FEMALE EMANCIPATION / ANTI-FASCISM / YUGOSLAV BOOK DESIGN: Žena v sedanji družbi [A Woman in Today’s Society]
- 280.00€
- An unusual early feminist anti-Hitler publication from 1934 was written by a famous Slovenian / Yugoslavian female writer, who later became a partisan fighter, prisoner of the Ravensbrück concentration camp and after the war a victim of the new Yugoslav regime. 8°. 96 pp. with black and white title page, original illustrated wrappers (light foxing, mostly to the wrappers…
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- Books, New Acquisitions: November 2020, Slavica
- FEMALE FIGHTERS OF THE POLISH RESISTANCE: Głos Kobiet Wiejskich [The Voice of Rural Women. Year 1, Nr. 3]
- 350.00€
- Broadside, printed on both sides, 8° (tiny tears in margins, overall in a good condition).
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- Female Sexual Liberation vs. Traditional Values: Smije li žena lagati? [Is It Allowed for a Woman Lie? / Darf die Frau lügen?]
- 280.00€
- A study, if it is morraly correct for a woman to lie to her new husband about the previous love affairs. – A Croatian 1924 translation of a text by an Austrian author J. C Schlegel, specialized in the literature on progressive sexuality 8°, 27 pp., [4 pp.], original illustrated wrappers, stapled (minor staining, small tears in margins, soft…
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- FEMINISM – OTTOMAN EMPIRE: قادينلر دنياسى Le Monde Feminin. Numbers 124, 124-2, 124-3. [Kadınlar Dünyası / The Female World]
- 750.00€
- 3 issues of a feminist Ottoman magazine, run and owed entirely by women, and printed in Istanbul between 1913 and 1921 with a goal to increase women's rights and freedoms in general, and to ensure women's awareness. A first magazine to publish a photo of a Muslim woman without a veil and with a name and a significant source…
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- Books, German Books, New Acquisitions: December 2020
- FEMINISM: Feminismus. Seine Begründung und Folgen [Feminism. Its Rationale and Consequences].
- 380.00€
- An unusual work in German language by a retired professor of zoology Alexander von Brandt, searching for the explanation for the female liberation, especially sexual liberation, and feminism through the history, evolution, botanical and zoological examples. 8°. VII, 202 pp. with black and white images, [2pp.], 4 black and white plates, original orange wrappers with lettering (sporadic pages cut…
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- FEMINIST MOVEMENT – SOCIALISM: Demokracija. Socialistična revija [Democracy. Socialist Magazine].
- 450.00€
- A complete set of rare Slovenian magazine on social issues, published between 1918 and 1919, was edited by a women's rights activist, educator and politician Alojzija Štebi.
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- FEMINIST MOVEMENT – SOCIALISM: Demokracija. Socialistična revija [Democracy. Socialist Magazine].
- 450.00€
- A complete set of rare Slovenian magazine on social issues, published between 1918 and 1919, was edited by a women's rights activist, educator and politician Alojzija Štebi.
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- FINE BINDING – SICILY – NAPOLEONICA: Mirror: presented to His Sicilian Majesty, Great Britain, and the allied sovereigns reflecting political facts of the utmost importance, calculated to undeceive them; hitherto unpublished.
- 650.00€
- A superb example, handsomely bound in a fine three quarter blue morocco, probably from the library of Napoleon II.
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- FIRM CATALOGUE FOR FLAGS AND BANNERS: FABBRICHE ITALIANE RIUNITE BANDIERE CANEPA & CAMPI. GENOVA
- 80.00€
- An ephemeral, well designed colourful catalogue for a factory producing flags and banners was printed in Fascist Italy in 1934.
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- Gallipoli / Dardanelles: چناق قلعه بوغازى و جوارى
- 280.00€
- [Çanakkale Boğazı ve civarı / Dardanelles Strait and its Vicinity] 12°. 166 pp., [2 pp.] blank, original wrappers with tile on the cover and decoration on the back cover, recent black cloth binding with gilt lettering on the cover and spine and debossed decoration (slightly age-toned and stained, small cracks in the inner side of the original cover, otherwise…
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- Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: September 2020, Turkey
- GALLIPOLI / TURKEY: چناق قلعه بوغاز [Çanakkale Boğazı / Dardanelles]
- 120.00€
- Chromolithographs on thick paper. Each sheet: 11 x 15 cm (4.3 x 5.9 inches). Slightly stained, overall in a good condition
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- Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: September 2020, Turkey
- GALLIPOLI CAMPAIGN – BATTLES OF KRITHIA (ALÇITEPE): [Untitled Ottoman Mimeographed WWI Military Map of the Southern Part of the Gallipoli Peninsula].
- 420.00€
- A rare ephemeral artefact from the Gallipoli Campaign of World War I, being a mimeographed map made in the field by Ottoman soldiers, depicting the theatre of the Battles of Krithia (Alçitepe), a series of four major altercations fought between British Imperial-French forces and the Turks between April and August 1915. Mimeograph in purple (Very Good, old vertical centrefold,…
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- Gallipoli Campaign / Arabian Peninsula /WWI in The Middle East / Ottoman War Journal: حرب مجموعهسى [Harb Mecmuası]
- 3,200.00€
- A complete set of the richly illustrated Ottoman War Journal, issued during WWI, focusing in the large battles, such as the Gallipoli Campaign and the battles in the Middle East Large 4°. 27 issues bound in one volume (issues 25 and 26 published together), 432 pp., later black linen boards, brown calf spine with gilt Ottoman lettering. Issue 1…
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- Books, History, New Acquisitions: September 2020, Reference Books, Turkica
- GALLIPOLI: Çanakkale, 1915
- 35.00€
- An illustrated work on the battle of Gallipoli in Turkish language. Second edition. 8°. IX, 423 pp., [1 pp.] index, [16 pp.] black and white illustrations, original illustrated wrappers (light traces of wear to the wrappers, minor staining).
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- GAY LITERATURE / GERMANY / CENSORSHIP: Konfisziert! Verlagswechsel! Verein! Der Eigene.
- 180.00€
- A rare ephemeral pamphlet in German was published by the editor of the first gay magazine on the world Der Eigene (The Unique) as a protest on the censorship, which had two issues, published in 1903, removed from the sale.
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- GEOGRAPHY BOOK / CHILDREN’S EDUCATION: جمهوريت چوجوقلرينه يكى جوغرافيا درسلرى [Republic Lesions in the New Geography for Children]
- 150.00€
- 8°, 176 pp. with black and white maps and photographs, original illustrated wrappers (minor staining, tiny tears in margins, tine holes in the inner margins from an old binding, a small stain in the text of pp. 98-101, overall in a good condition).
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- GERMAN IMMIGRATION TO TEXAS: “Liederbuch – von dem Algier’schen Liederschatz”.
- 1,000.00€
- A curious manuscript ‘Liederbuch’ composed in Germany by a young Gustav Frasch, not long before he emigrated to America, subsequently becoming one of San Antonio, Texas’s most prominent citizens; an intellectually adventurous work epitomizing the mentality of the American immigrant experience.
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- GERMAN-OTTOMAN REALTIONS / WWI: المانيا شرقده صوكرا حربندن بالقان [Deutschland im Orient nach dem Balkankrieg / Balkan Harbinden sonra Şarkta Almanya / Germany in the East after the Balkan War]
- 180.00€
- An Ottoman translation of articles on the role of Germany in the Ottoman Empire and on the Balkans by a German author Ernst Jäckh, a promotor of the Young Turks in Germany and later professor at the Columbia University, was published during WWI in Istanbul.
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- GERMAN-OTTOMAN RELATIONS / MARXISM / RUSSIAN REVOLUTION: عمومى حرب نتيجه لرندن: آلمانياغالب كليرسى [Umumi Harp Neticelerinden. Almanya Galip Gelirse… / From the General Warfare Results. Germany Will be the Winner…]
- 380.00€
- A rare first and only edition of a pro-German text in Ottoman language by a Russian revolutionary, Marxist, supporter of the Young Turks and a friend of a controversial ambassador Hans von Wangenheim, Alexander Parvus was written during Parvus’s staying in Istanbul.
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- Gli Avvenimenti d’Oriente. Bulletino Illustrato.
- 120.00€
- An Italian illustrated magazine on the war events on the Balkans in 1897.
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- GOA / PORTUGUESE INDIA / BOMBAY IMPRINT: O Almanak de Goa para o Anno Bissexto de 1840: com varias noticias historicas, ecclesiasticas, civis, politicas, e outras noçoens uteis a todo o genero de pessoas. Por Caetano Joam Peres, Conego da Sé Primacial d
- 1,500.00€
- Very Rare and Historically Important – a fine example of the first (and for a generation thereafter only) almanac for Goa and Portuguese India, being perhaps the greatest single published source of quantitative information on Goa during the 1830s; printed in Bombay by the Goan-operated Typographia Portugueza.
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- GOA, PORTUGUESE INDIA – PIRACY – POMBALINE LEGAL REFORMS – COLLECTION OF 4 ROYAL DECREES
- 1,500.00€
- A collection of 4 important Portuguese royal decrees announcing sweeping legal reforms in Goa, including the ‘Alvará’ that established the state’s new code for combatting piracy in the Indian Ocean; all part of the Marquis de Pombal’s radical Enlightenment agenda for the Portuguese Empire – all the pamphlets are very rare and in stellar condition.
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- Gospels in Uzbek: انجيل شريف. متّى مرقس لوقا يوحنّا Uzbek-Turki Four Gospels – Translation of Ostroumoff & others
- 1,200.00€
- [İncil-i Şerîf. Matta, Markus, Luka, Yuhanna / Sherif Bible. Matthew, Mark, Luke, John] A rare translation of the Gospels in Uzbek from 1913 8°, title page, 359 pp., later green cloth binding with gilt title on the spine and the name of the collection in the lower margin of the cover, original “Printed in Leipzig” rubber stamp on…
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- Austria, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- GRAZ: Plan der Provinzial Hauptstadt Graz im Herzogthume Steyermark
- 450.00€
- Lithograph printed on two joined sheets 58 x 69 cm (22.8 x 27.2 inches) (minor staining, tiny tears in the margins, overall in a good condition).
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