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- Books, Geography, Ottoman Books, Turkica
AFGHANISTAN: افغانستان [Afganistan / Afghanistan]
- 480.00€
- 8°, 29 pp., later marbled wrappers (slightly stained, otherwise in a good condition).
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- Africa, Books, Geography, History, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: November 2020
AFRICA (TANZANIA, CAMEROON, NAMIBIA, TOGO, CONGO) – NAZI DESIGNS IN AFRICA / CARTOGRAPHY / TRANSPORTATION: Straßen im tropischen Afrika: Auszüge aus den Mandatsberichten der Jahre 1922-1937 und aus den Abhandlungen des Kgl. Belgischen Kolonialinstituts 1939.
- 1,200.00€
- An extremely rare Nazi report on the state of roads in Germany's former African colonies and the Belgian Congo, made early in World Wat II in preparation for plans for the Third Reich to regain its African empire either by diplomacy or force, being a printed copy of an original typescript labelled as 'Als Manuskript gedruckt' ('Printed as a manuscript'), issued…
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- Africa, Australia, Books, Geography, Maps and Prints, Ottoman Books, South America, Turkica
AFRICA / AUSTRALIA / SOUTH AMERICA / SOUTH POLE: سعدى عبدالقادر لر قطعه آفريقا و آستراليا آمريقا، جنوبى اجاه جوغرافيا عمومى [Umumi coğrafya ile Cenubî Amerika, Avustralya ve Afrika Kıtaları / Basic Geography. Continents South America, Australia and Afr
- 480.00€
- A rare, richly illustrated book in Ottoman script on Africa, North Pole, Australia and South America.
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- Africa, Books, Geography, Maps and Prints
AFRICA / BERLIN CONFERENCE (1884-5): Atlas von Afrika. 50 colorirte Karten auf 18 Tafeln. Mit einem geographisch-statistischen text.
- 960.00€
- A scarce, pioneering atlas of Africa with 18 colour plates featuring 50 maps designed by the leading Vienna map house of Freytag & Berndt, including some sophisticated works of thematic cartography and original maps showcasing the level of Western knowledge of the continent, made to capitalize upon the Africa-mania that swept the general public in the wake of the…
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- Africa, Books, Geography, Maps and Prints
Africa / Ephemera: آفريقا قطعه سى [The Africa Part]
- 120.00€
- 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, 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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- Africa, Archives and Documents, Books, Geography
ANGOLA: ‘Colonia de Angola / Relatório do Governador Geral de Angola A. Lopes Mateus / Primeiro Trimestre de 1935 / Luanda Abril de 1935’.
- 4,500.00€
- A foundational document of the establishment of the Estado Novo’s transformative colonial regime in Angola, being the secret typescript report on the state of the Portuguese colony written (and signed in mss.) by the military strongman and political heavyweight António Lopes Mateus, who had just been appointed as the Governor-General of Angola, submitted to the Portuguese dictator António de Oliveira Salazar; in…
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- Books, Geography
Argentina / French Blockade Of The Río De La Plata (1838-40): Note officielle du consul chargé par interim du Consulat General de France a Buenos Aires…
- 1,400.00€
- Official Note from the Consul Charged ad Interim of the General Consulate of France in Buenos-Aires, to the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Argentine Confederation, reclaiming on the authority of international law, that the French, who notoriously and publicly have established themselves in the republic with the same enjoyments and civil liberties as the Argentine citizens, be not…
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- 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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- Americas, Books, Geography, Maps and Prints, South America
BRAZIL SEA ATLAS: Le pilote du Brésil, ou description des côtes de l’Amerique Meridionale, située entre l’ile Santa Catarina et celle su Maranhao; cartes et plans de ces cotres et instructions pour naviguer dans les mers du Brésil, composé sur les documens recueillis dans la campagne hydrograhique entreprise par ordre du Roi et exécutée en 1819 et 1820 sur la Corvette la Batadere et le Breg le Favori, par M. le B.on Roussin, Contre-Amiral, Membre du Conseil d’Amirauté, Commandeur de l’Ordre Royal del la Légion d’Honneur, Chevalier de Saint-Louis et de Saint-Wolodimir de Russie, Commandant de l’Expédition. Publié sous le Ministère de M. le Cte. de Chabrol de Crouzol, Pair de France, Ministre de la Marine et des Colonies.
- 19,500.00€
- An extraordinary example of the first scientific large format sea atlas of Brazil, the result of a mapping-espionage mission led by the esteemed hydrographer and future French Navy Minister Captain Albin Roussin, conducted on the eve of Brazilian independence, and in anticipation of French commercial and political adventurism in the country, the colossal atlas established the new ‘gold standard’ for…
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- Africa, Books, Geography, History, Maps and Prints
Cape of Good Hope. Minute of His Excellency the Governor of the State of Frontier Affairs. Presented by the Legislative Council, by command of His Excellency the Governor June 1853.
- 1,800.00€
- A highly important and attractive work on the Eighth Xhosa War (1850-3), a critical conflict in which the British scored a crushing defeat upon the Xhosa, so securing permanent dominance over the Eastern Frontier regions of the Cape Colony, a victory secured by the ‘scorched earth’ offensive launched by Governor George Cathcart from the spring of 1852 to the…
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- Books, Geography, Ottoman Books, Turkica
CHICAGO: شيقاغو شهري [Amerika seyahatından Şikago şehri]
- 580.00€
- [From the Travel through America. The City of Chicago] An Ottoman translation of Baron Edmond de Mandat-Grancey’s description of Chicago, first published in 1898 8°, 37 pp., later marbled wrappers (slightly stained, otherwise in a good condition).
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