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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, 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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- Bindings, 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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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
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, Other
Ottoman Binding with French Text: Notice biographique sur Claude Montal, facteur de pianos à Paris…
- 380.00€
- 2 French articles on famous blind people in arts and literature, bound in a highly decorative contemporary Ottoman binding 2 titles bound in 1 volume, 8°, contemporary Ottoman red card binding with debosses surface and gilt decoration, contemporary debossed orange endpapers (minor foxing, endpapers with light scratches, binding slightly rubbed on the corners and with small worm…
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- Bindings, Books
OTTOMAN EMPIRE / BOOK BINDING
- 1,340.00€
- A highly decorative Ottoman portfolio with initials from the circle or institution of sultan Abdul Hamid II.
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- Bindings, Books
OTTOMAN EMPIRE / THEMATIC CARTOGRAPHY / STATISTICS: دولت عليى عثمانيى نك بيك اوچيوزاون اوچ سنى سنى مخصوص ايستاتستيق عموميسيدر
- 3,200.00€
- From the library of Sultan Abdul Hamid II – a very rare and highly important work, being the improved second edition of first book of statistics on the Ottoman Empire; illustrated with ground-breaking thematic maps predicated upon fresh, original data; one of the great landmarks in the era’s rapid modernization of Turkey, the Balkans and the Middle East; bound in…
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