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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€
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- 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€
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- 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€
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- 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€
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- 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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- 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€
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- 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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- Africa, Books, Geography, Maps and Prints
- ATLAS – MISSIONS IN AFRICA AND CHINA: Karten über das Arbeitsfeld der Berliner Mission.
- 550.00€
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- 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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- Balkans, Books, Bulgaria, Europe, Geography, Greece, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: December 2020, Turkey
- GREECE / BULGARIA / TURKEY – THRACE / WORLD WAR I / HISTORICAL ATLAS / CARTOGRAPHIC PROPAGANDA: La Question de Thrace. Grecs, Bulgares et Turcs.
- 750.00€
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- Edward Stanford, 1919. Very rare – the most sophisticated cartographic analysis of the ‘Thrace Question’, concerning the geographic partitioning of the region which was one of the great bones of contention between Greece, Bulgaria and Turkey in the wake of World War I; an atlas of 19 full page colour plates of historical and ethnographic maps collected from the most authoritative…
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- Books, Geography
- Guyana Colonial Imprint: The British Guiana Directory and Almanack for 1892. Leap Year.
- 550.00€
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- An extremely rare early issue of Charles Kennedy Jardine’s directory and almanac for British Guiana, an unusually comprehensive work of its kind, featuring a vast wealth of information available nowhere else, a critical resource for the study of the colony during this critical period, compiled and published in Georgetown by the ‘Daily Chronicle’ newspaper. 8° (16.5 x 10.5 cm):…
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- Books, Geography, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- IRAQ / PETROLEUM-OIL HISTORY / CALCUTTA IMPRINT: Geological Notes on Mesopotamia with Special Reference to Occurrences of Petroleum, Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India, Volume XLVIII.
- 3,500.00€
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- A highly important work on early petroleum history, being the official account of the first scientific geological reconnaissance of Northern Iraq, featuring 10 large, colourful maps that are the first detailed, accurate geological maps of the same region, a work that served as the blueprint for the Turkish Petroleum Company to discover the world’s largest oil field near Kirkuk in…
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- Books, Geography
- LAGOS, NIGERIA: Historical Notices of Lagos, West Africa.
- 1,400.00€
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- Extremely rare – no other examples recorded – the first edition of Reverend Buckley Wood’s history of Lagos, one of the seminal sources on the city’s precolonial period, printed in Exeter in 1878.
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- Africa, Archives and Documents, Books, Geography, Maps and Prints
- NILE RIVER EXPLORATION ARCHIVE: An Archive consisting of 1 Original Photograph and 16 Manuscript Documents from the Personal Papers of Gabriel Aubaret, the Chief Scientific Officer of the Comte d’Escayrac’s 1856 Expedition that aimed to discover the Sourc
- 3,500.00€
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- An impressive archive consisting of a stellar original photograph and sixteen manuscript documents relating to the Comte d’Escayrac’s 1856 planned expedition to find the source of the White Nile, two years before John Hanning Speke successfully accomplished said objective, from the personal papers of Gabriel Aubaret, the mission’s second-in-command and subsequently a famous diplomat and a leading figure in…
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- Books, Geography, Maps and Prints, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- OTTOMAN CARTOGRAPHY – GEOGRAPHY : سملى خريطه سى جعرافجاى عمومى [General Geographical Maps]
- 960.00€
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- Books, Geography, Slavica
- RED SEA / SAUDI ARABIA / YEMEN / EGYPT / PILOT BOOK / RIJEKA (CROATIA) IMPRINT: Materiali per la geografia fisica e per la navigazione del Mar Rosso con quattro piani di porto e dodici tabelle meteorologiche.
- 1,200.00€
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- A very rare Austro-Hungarian pilot for the Red Sea, illustrated by 4 colour lithographed sea charts, being the first separate printing of Captain Wilhelm Kropp’s observations and mapping of that critical maritime space, created in the wake of the opening of the Suez Canal, published in Fiume (today Rijeka, Croatia) in the Italian language for the benefit of Istrian and…
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- SOUTH AFRICA / AFRIKAANS ALMANAC / PRETORIA IMPRINT: Staats-Almanak der Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek 1897.
- 350.00€
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- Rare – an issue of the Afrikaans-language almanac issued by the government of the South African Republic (ZAR); featuring a vast wealth of information on the Afrikaner society during the greatest gold rush in world history and upon the eve of the Second Anglo-Boer War; evidently a special hardcover example bearing the stamp of the chief state printer.
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- Africa, Books, Geography, Maps and Prints
- SOUTH AFRICA / LESOTHO / EARLY ORANGE FREE STATE IMPRINT / ‘INTELLECTUAL PROPAGANDA’: Correspondence between the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope and the President of the Orange Free State, with Annexes thereto relative to the Basuto War and Convention e
- 1,200.00€
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- An extremely rare early Bloemfontein imprint featuring seminal primary sources concerning the end of the Orange Free State-Basotho Wars which secured the Anglo-Afrikaner balance of power in the region, as well as the security of what would become Lesotho, commissioned by the Volksraad of the Orange Free State as a work of ‘intellectual propaganda’ advancing its national claims.
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- Africa, Books, Geography, Maps and Prints
- WORLD WAR II U-BOAT ATLAS MOROCCO / WEST AFRICA INNOVATIVE SPACE VISUALIZATION: Atlas der Bodenbeschaffenheit des Meeres. 9. Lieferung. Westküste Afrikas zwischen 7° und 34° Nord-Breite. Bearbeitet von der Deutschen Seewarte.
- 2,500.00€
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- A very rare, large-format atlas of the sea floor off the western and northwestern coasts of Africa, from Morocco down to Sierra Leone, made by the German Navy during the height of World War II expressly for the use of U-Boats; with 24 plates of highly sophisticated and brightly coloured sea charts predicated upon novel, recent intelligence, it was…
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