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- Africa, Bindings, Books, Geography, Maps and Prints, Ottoman Books, Turkica
AFRICA TRAVELOUGE: افريقا سياحتنامه سى [Afrika Seyahatnâmesi / Africa Book of Travels, i. e. The Heart of Africa / Im Herzen von Afrika]
- 1,500.00€
- 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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- Bindings, Books
ARCHERY / FINE BINDINGS / ROYAL BELGIAN PROVENANCE: Statuts de la Société du Tir-à l’Arc, l’union, installée à Poucques sous le Patronage de Son Altesse Royale Monseigneur Le Duc De Brabant
- 1,600.00€
- A unique manuscript by a Belgian imperial calligrapher François Magnée, commissioned by the Archery Society at the Poeke castle and presented to Prince Leopold Duke of Brabant, future King Leopold II. Folio (37 x 25 cm), [8 pp.] black, red, green, blue, silver and gold ink on vellum (5 pp. manuscript and 3 pp. blank), bound with a…
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- Bindings, 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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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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- Bindings, Books
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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- Bindings, Maps and Prints
BINDING & MAP: Uebersichts-Karte für die Concentrirung des X. Deutschen Bundes-Armee-Corps 1858 [General Map of the Maneuvers of the 10th Corpus of the German Army. 1858].
- 220.00€
- A German military map was bound in a highly decorative red binding with gilt embossed royal coat of arms.
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- Bindings, Books, Ottoman Books
BULAQ IMPRINT / BINDINGS: تذكرة الحكم في طبقات الأمم [Tadhkirat l-Hikam fi Tabaqat al-Umam also Tadhkirat al-Umam]
- 1,400.00€
- [Note on the Judgement in Periods of Nations] 8°, [2 pp.], 318 pp (wrongly printed 813), [4 pp.] errata and blank, original embossed brown calf with a flap, original pasted-down endpapers with blue stenciled patterns, blank loose endpapers, hand-written title on the spine and on the foot edge (slightly age-toned with minor staining, old minor annotations on the…
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- Bindings, Books
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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- Bindings, Books, Design, Ottoman Books, Turkica
Female Emantipation / Erotica Silk Bindings: A collection of 6 Ottoman books on modern Turkish women is bound in original silk bindings with vivid 1920s patterns, which emphasize the presence of a woman as a central motif.
- 2,400.00€
- A collection of 6 Ottoman books on modern Turkish women is bound in original silk bindings with vivid 1920s patterns, which emphasize the presence of a woman as a central motif.
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- Bindings, Books
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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- Bindings, Books, Children's Books
FINE BINDINGS / ROYAL BELGIAN PROVENANCE / PEDAGOGY: La pédagogie des familles, ou: L’éducation et l’enseignement mis à la portée de tous les pères de famille
- 1,800.00€
- The Pedagogy of Families, or Education and Teaching Made Accessible to all Fathers of Families Book on pedagogy for fathers with a stunning binding, from a library of the Belgian king Leopold II. Small 8°, [4 pp.], VIII, 268 pp., contemporary red hard-grained morocco with gilt and blind tooling and lettering, gilt floral turn-ins, gilt edges, white moiré…
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