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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€
- 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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- Books, Geography
- SOUTH AFRICA / AFRIKAANS ALMANAC / PRETORIA IMPRINT: Staats-Almanak der Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek 1897.
- 350.00€
- 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€
- 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€
- 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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