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- Books, History
AFGHAN PRE-ISLAMIC ART: لشکر گاه / : مطالعات تاریخی، ادبی، هنری، باستان شناسی.
- 350.00€
- [Leşkergah / Lashkargāh. Historical, Literary, Artistic, Archeological Studies] A pioneering work on the pre-Islamic history of art and archeology of a southwestern Afghan city Lashkargāh, with attached visiting card of the author 8°, 152 pp., interleaved 7 sheets, printed with photographs from both sides, original illustrated wrappers, author’s visiting card attached with a pin to the title…
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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, Archives and Documents, Books, History, Maps and Prints
AFRICA ARCHIVE – PORTUGUESE COLONIAL WAR (GUERRA DO ULTRAMAR) (1961-74) – ANGOLA / GUINÉ (GUINEA-BISSAU) / COUNTERGUERRILLA WARFARE / CARTOGRAPHY:
- 8,500.00€
- A highly valuable and voluminous archive relating to the Portuguese Colonial War, or the ‘Guerra do Ultramar’ (1961-74), an epic conflict whereby Portugal fought to maintain its 400-year-old African colonial empire, simultaneously opposing large-scale and well-organized independence movements in Angola, Guiné (Guinea-Bissau), and Mozambique, forming three hot fronts in the Cold War; here being the military papers of Lieutenant-Colonel…
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- Books, History
Andrew Carnegie: Το κρατοσ του πλουτου. Κατα-τό άγγλιχόν τού Ανδρέα Καρνέγη
- 220.00€
- [The Gospel of Wealth. According to the English Text of Andrew Carnegie] A rare Greek translation of The Gospel of Wealth by an American industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, a text especially important for the history of foundation of public free libraries 8°. 75 pp. with a full page portrait, [4 pp.], original card pink wrappers with illustration…
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- Arabic Books, Books, History
Arab–Israeli Conflict: واشنطن في تل ابيب او هنا كانت إسرائيل
- 420.00€
- [Washington in Tel Aviv or There Used to be Israel Here] An Arab nationalistic book against Israel with an antisemitic cover design 8°. 184 pp., [8 pp.] with black and white illustrations, original illustrated card wrappers (wrappers slightly stained, corners with tiny chips and folds, spine with a small loss of material, imprint on the back cover…
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- Books, History, New Acquisitions: October 2020
AZERBAIJANI INDEPENDENCE / PARIS PEACE CONFERENCE: Aperçu sur l’histoire, la littérature et la politique de l’Azerbeidjan
- 740.00€
- [Overview of Azerbaijani History, Literature and Politics] A rare, important book with the history and current political situation of the newly founded Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, written by the Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs Adil Khan Ziatkhan, was presented at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, where the independence of the republic was confirmed internationally. 8°, 101 pp., original…
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- Books, History, Ottoman Books, Slavica, Turkica
BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA: بوسنه و هرسك [Bosna ve Hersek / Bosnia and Herzegovina]
- 550.00€
- An Ottoman report on Bosnia and Herzegovina, published in the crucial year of 1908, when Austro-Hungary withdrawn from Novi Pazar in exchange for being given permanent sovereignty over Bosnia. 8°, 15 pp., original blue wrappers with lettering (minor water-staining, old annotations on the cover, wrappers with light staining, small tears in margins and old mounted paper label on…
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- Books, History, Ottoman Books, Slavica, Turkica
BOSNIAN NATIONALISM / BANJA LUKA: بنالوقة صحراسى محاربه سى
- 550.00€
- [Banaluka Sahrası Muharebesi / Battle of Banja Luka Field] Small 8°, original cover with lettering, [2 pp.] title page, 17 pp., new black cloth binding with gilt lettering and debossed decoration (improvised repairs of paper loss in inner margins, light water staining in margins, sporadic old annotations in pencil, minor staining).
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- Books, History, Ottoman Books, Turkica
CATHERINE THE GREAT: قترينه تارخى [Katerina Tarihi]
- 650.00€
- 8°, [8 pp.], 308 pp. lithographed text with some pages with larger folded margins with annotations, as originally published, modern green cloth boards with gilt lettering and debossed decoration, brown calf spine with raised bands and gilt lettering (light foxing, old signature and date in Ottoman on the first page, old scribbles on the last blank page, otherwise in…
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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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- Books, History, Ottoman Books, Turkica
Circassians: چركسلر [Çerkesler / Circassians]
- 340.00€
- Large 8°. 48 pp., original wrappers (slightly age-toned and with light foxing, tiny tears in margins, but overall in a good condition).
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- Books, History, Ottoman Books, Turkica
CONGRESS OF BERLIN: برلين قونغره سى بك ديپلوماسى تاريخنه بر نظر
- 320.00€
- German-Ottoman / Turkish Relations Congress of Berlin
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- Books, Geography, History, Slavica
Croatian Travelogue to the Holy Land: Uspomene iz Svete Zemlje [Memories of the Holy Land]
- 420.00€
- A travelogue to the Holy Land through Egypt by a Croatian professor Krsto Krile, published on the eve of WWI. 8°, XI, 231 pp., interleaved photographs, two folding plates, and three folding maps (Jerusalem, Croatia, the Holy Land), original boards with decoration and lettering, original cloth spine with lettering (hardly noticeable foxing, very light wear to the corners,…
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- Arabic Books, Books, History
EARLY ISLAMIC WORLD: تاريخ العرب العسكرى [Arab Military History]
- 380.00€
- A detailed book on the early military history of the Arab World, centered on Mecca 8°, 254 pp., [2 pp.], 3 interleaved folding maps, original illustrated wrappers (wrappers with minor foxing and wear to the edges, one map split in the fold, but overall in a good condition).
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- Archives and Documents, Books, History, Ottoman Books, Turkica
EARLY OTTOMAN AMERICANA / CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS: روبرتسون نام مورف مشهورك مولفاتندن يكى دنيانلر كشفنه داتر اولان تاريخى اولوب انجمن دانشك اعضاً خارجيه سنده و باب عالى ترجمه اوطه سى خلفاسنده عبدالغفار انيس بنده لرى انكليز لسانزه ترجمه اتمشدر Histoire de la découverte du nouveau monde p. Robertson traduite p. Enis Abdoulgaffar effendi membre de l’académie turqe en 1269 de l’Hegir – cet ouvrage est traduit de l’anglais
- 9,500.00€
- روبرتسون نام مورف مشهورك مولفاتندن يكى دنيانلر كشفنه داتر اولان تاريخى اولوب انجمن دانشك اعضاً خارجيه سنده و باب عالى ترجمه اوطه سى خلفاسنده عبدالغفار انيس بنده لرى انكليز لسانزه ترجمه اتمشدر Histoire de la découverte du nouveau monde p. Robertson traduite p. Enis Abdoulgaffar effendi membre de l’académie turqe en 1269 de l’Hegir – cet ouvrage est traduit de…
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- Books, History, Slavica
EARTHQUAKE OF LJUBLJANA: Das Erdbeben von Laibach und seine Ursachen. Vortrag, gehalten in der Versammlung des naturwissenschaftlichen Vereines für Steiermark am 20. April 1895
- 280.00€
- [The Earthquake of Ljubljana and its Causes. A Lecture Held at the Conference of the Association for Natural Science for Styria in April 20th, 1895] A rare speech on the Ljubljana earthquake of 1895, held in Graz by a geologist Rudolf Hoernes 8°. 61 pp., [2 pp.] blank, old blue wrappers (minor staining and foxing, wrappers with tiny…
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- Books, History, Ottoman Books, Turkica
GALLIPOLI CAMPAIGN: چناق قلعه حقيقتلرى
- 380.00€
- [Çanakkale Hakikatleri / The Truth About the Dardanelles] 8°. 73 pp., later (1970s) brown cloth binding (lightly stained, four pages with traces of text from other pages, sporadic white margins trimmed, old hand-written price on the inner side of the rear board, a tiny piece of paper mounted on the title page).
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- Books, History, New Acquisitions: September 2020, Reference Books, Turkica
GALLIPOLI: Çanakkale, 1915
- 35.00€
- An illustrated work on the battle of Gallipoli in Turkish language. Second edition. 8°. IX, 423 pp., [1 pp.] index, [16 pp.] black and white illustrations, original illustrated wrappers (light traces of wear to the wrappers, minor staining).
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- Books, History, Iran
GERMAN ORIENTALISTS – KARL SÜSSHEIM: العراضة فى الحكاية السلجوقية
- 960.00€
- [al-`Urāḍa fī l-ḥikāya al-salğūqīya / The Gift from the History of the Seljuks / Das Greschenk aus der Saldschukengeschichte] A rare first printed publication of an important 14th century historical work on the Seljuk Dynasty, written in Farsi, was a groundbreaking work of a German famous orientalist Karl Süssheim, which gained him a professorship at the University of Munich.…
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- Books, History, Other
GREEK UNDERGROUND PRINTING / WOMEN’S VOTING RIGHTS IN GREECE: ΛΑΟΣ ΚΑΙ ΣΤΡΑΤΟΣ / ΌΡΓΑΝΟ ΤΩΝ ΑΞΙΩΜΑΤΙΚΏΝ ΚΑΙ ΜΑΧΗΤΏΝ ΤΟΥ Σ3 / ΑΡΙΘ. 1. / ΑΘΉΝΑ 10 ΑΠΡ. 1944
- 750.00€
- [PEOPLE AND ARMY / INSTITUTION OF THE OFFICERS AND FIGHTERS OF S3 / NO. 1. / ATHENS 10 APR. 1944] A rare ephemeral newspaper in Greek, printed during WWII by the resistance, the so called Mountain Government, was made for the occasion of secret elections. It was the first time in the history of Greece, that women were…
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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€
- 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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- Books, History, Iran
IRAN: ايران نامه [Iran Name]
- 650.00€
- A rare, seemingly unrecorded early illustrated pamphlet on the history of Iran in Ottoman language 8°, 79 pp. with black and white illustrations and cover printed in red, later black cloth binding with gilt lettering (tiny old repaired holes in the lower part of the cover, old hand-written price on the inner side of the rear cover, binding with…
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- Arabic Books, Books, History
IRAQ / HISTORY OF BAGHDAD: مباحث عراقية في الجغرافية والتاريخ والآثار وخطط بغداد. القسم الثالث [Iraqi Researches on Geography, History, Archeology and Maps of Baghdad. 3rd Part]
- 95.00€
- Large 8°. 390 pp., [2 pp.], original illustrated wrappers (good used condition, stamp on the title page and sporadic stamps in the margins of the text pages, wrappers slightly stained with a label on the spine).
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