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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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- 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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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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- Books, Geography, Maps and Prints, South America
CHILE – NATIONAL ATLAS: Atlas de Chile Arreglado para la Jeografia Descriptiva de la Republica de Chile por Enrique Espinoza.
- 1,400.00€
- A fine example of an important and beautifully produced national atlas of chile, featuring 39 maps predicated upon the best scientific sources, made by Enrique Espinoza, who is credited with revolutionizing the study of geography in Chile, published by the venerable Paris firm of Erhard Frères. Small 4° (27 x 20.5 cm): 2 pp., 39 maps (5 folding;…
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- Books, Geography, History, Ottoman Books, Turkica
China / Travelouge / Hitayname: ترجمه تاريخ نوارى جين ماجين
- 1,200.00€
- [Tercüme-i Tarih-i Nevâdir-i Çin-i Maçin / Translation of the Stories of History of China and the Greater China] 8°, 70 pp. lithograph, first two pages with gilt margins, later blue cloth boards with brown cloth spine, grey printed endpapers (minor staining overall in a good condition).
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- Africa, Books, Geography, Maps and Prints
Congo Belge / Service Hydrographique, Section du Haut Congo, Fleuve Congo / Leopoldville – Stanleyville / Travaux effectues sous la direction de J. Lauwers, Hydrographe, Chef de S.H. du H.C. …
- 2,500.00€
- A stellar moment of African cartography and inland hydrography, being the first atlas, or accurate, complete large-scale map, of the 1,724 km-long navigable route of the Upper Congo River from Léopoldville (Kinshasa) to Stanleyville, the only natural passage into the heart of Africa, made during World War I for the use of steamer captains by the specialist Belgian colonial…
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