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- BANDO POW CAMP, JAPAN / ADDRESS BOOK: Heimat-Adressen der Kriegsgefangenen im Lager Bando, Japan
- 4,500.00€
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- Small 4°. 49 pp., inserted printed explanation, original illustrated wrappers (very good with hardly noticeably scuffing to the edges).
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- BANDO POW CAMP, JAPAN: Die Baracke. Zeitung für das Kriegsgefangenenlager. Bando, Japan [The Barracks. Newspaper for Prisoners of War. Bando, Japan].
- 8,500.00€
- Rated 0 out of 5
- 59 issues of 85, with missing first 26 numbers. Please see below for collations and details). A stunning set of 59 issues of ‘Die Baracke’, a magazine printed by German internees at the Bando POW Camp, Japan, lavishly illustrated with original maps, theatre sets, a moon chart, music scores, and a ‘how to’ guide on the unique and sophisticated…
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- BANDO POW CAMP, JAPAN: 相撲圖說. Sumo. Der japanische Ringkampf [Sumo Wrestling. Sumo. The Japanese Wrestling Match]
- 6,800.00€
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- A handsomely illustrated book on the Sumo wrestling in German language, printed at the Bando POW camp
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- BANDO, JAPAN: Die Ausweisung der Deutschen aus China. Eine Darstellung der Ereignisse auf Grund englischer Shanghaier Zeitungen vom Oktober 1918 bis April 1919
- 350.00€
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- [The Expulsion of the Germans from China. An Account of the Events Based on English Shanghai Newspapers from October 1918 to April 1919] Small 4°. Illustrated frontispiece, XI, 402 pp., bound in publisher’s green linen binding with lettering on the cover and spine (Very Good, minor age-toning to the spine).
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- BANDO, JAPAN: Plaudereien aus dem Kriegsgefangenenlager Bando in Japan, Gedruckt und gebunden in der Lagerdruckerei Bando 1919.
- 380.00€
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- [Gossips from the POW Camp Bando in Japan] Large 8°. Title page, 181 pp. with black and white illustrationsin text, [2 pp.] index, original tan linen binding with illustrated cover (Very Good, minor age-toning to the spine).
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- Exploration of Africa: Reise auf dem weissen Flusse. Aus den Original-Maniscripen des General-Vicars von Central-Africa Dr. Ignaz Knoblecher
- 680.00€
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- [Travel on the White River. Based on the Original Manuscripts of the General-Vicar for Central Africa Dr. Ignaz Knoblecher] A rare first edition of the description of the exploration of the White Nile by a Slovenian missionary Ignacij Knoblehar, also known as Abuna Soliman 8°, VIII, 39 pp., contemporary marbled spine (Very Good, old pencil annotation on…
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- Books, German Books, New Acquisitions: December 2020
- FEMINISM: Feminismus. Seine Begründung und Folgen [Feminism. Its Rationale and Consequences].
- 380.00€
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- An unusual work in German language by a retired professor of zoology Alexander von Brandt, searching for the explanation for the female liberation, especially sexual liberation, and feminism through the history, evolution, botanical and zoological examples. 8°. VII, 202 pp. with black and white images, [2pp.], 4 black and white plates, original orange wrappers with lettering (sporadic pages cut…
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- Books, German Books, History, Maps and Prints, World Maps
- Hieroglyphen oder Blicke aus dem Gebiete der Wissenschaft in die Geschichte des Tages.
- 1,800.00€
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- The very rare first edition of a fascinating and wonderfully eccentric treatise on the philosophical, scientific and political state of the world during the Napoleonic Wars, and the historical journey that led to those times, by the German military scientist Rühle von Lilienstern, illustrated by a large, unique and resplendently coloured World Map on an oblique double-elliptical projection, illustrating…
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- MUSIC / BANDO POW CAMP, JAPAN: Das Engel-Orchester. Seine Entstehung und Entwicklung 1914-1919
- 7,500.00€
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- [The Engel Orchestra. Its Foundation and Development 1914-1919] An exceedingly rare book, illustrated with original photographs and printed in the Bando POW camp, describes in details the activity of the Engel Orchestra, a highly influential musical ensemble, founded at the camp, who among others introduced Symphony No. 9 by Ludwig van Beethoven to Japan and Asia, and educated…
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- Books, German Books, New Acquisitions: November 2020, Ottoman Books, Slavica
- ORIENTALISM IN AUSTRO-HUNGARY / TURANISM: Das neue Turán. Ein Gruss an das erwachende Morgenland!
- 650.00€
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- An unusual pan-Turanian work in German language, representing the contemporary movement in the Ottoman Empire, was written and self-published in Ljubljana by a Slovenian author and orientalist Arthur von Wurzbach, who appears to be overlooked in the historical books, possibly for his monarchist and pro-Ottoman sentiments in his homeland, which would soon become Yugoslavia. Small 4°, 32 pp. letterpress…
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- PERGAMON MUSEUM, BERLIN: برعمه. رهبر خرابه برعمه
- 480.00€
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- [Bergama. Rehber-i Harabe-i Bergama (Nüsha-i Türkiye) / Pergamon. Guide to the Ruins of Pergamon. Turkish Edition] A rare pamphlet on the archeological excavations of Pergamon in Ottoman Turkish was printed by Berlin Royal Museum (now Altes Museum) at the time the artefacts were transported from the Ottoman Empire to Berlin, where they were exhibited in a new museum.…
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