Other – Daša Pahor

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- Africa, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: July 2020
- 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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- Books, New Acquisitions: July 2020, Ottoman Books
- Albanian Scientists / First Ottoman Popular Science Book: تاريخ تكوين [Tarih-i Tekvin yahut Hilkat/ The History of Creation of the World] & اساس علم هيئت [Esas-i ilm-i heyet / The Basis of Astronomy]
- 680.00€
- Two groundbreaking modern Ottoman works by a Sorbonne schooled Albanian scientist Hoxha Tahsin Two titles bound together. 12°. [12 pp.] blank paper, 60 pp., [4 pp.] blank paper, original back cover with advertisements. 109 pp. with illustrations, original photograph mounted on the first page with printed margins, original printed wrappers, [12 pp.] blank paper. Contemporary black boards, brown calf…
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- Books, Other, Slavica
- Cholera / Slavic Printing / Female Printers: Kolera [Cholera]
- 420.00€
- An early Slovenian pamphlet on cholera … it is good for you, if you have a sip of hard liquor, before you leave the house… 8°. 35 pp., old paper spine with a paper label (private collector’s stamp on the title page verso, light staining and small folds, title page age-toned with old pencil annotations, spine with small loss of…
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- Other
- FASCIST SLOVENIAN-ITALIAN CHILDREN’S MAGAZINE: Gioventù Lubianese. Ljubljanska mladina [Ljubljana’s Youth]
- 600.00€
- The magazine was published by G.I.L.L [Gioventu Italiana del Litorio Lubiana / Italian Fascist Youth of Ljubljana], an athletic league for youth that promoted fascist values and supported the Mussolini regime.
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: July 2020
- Iraq WWI – Mesopotamia Campaign Siege of Kut Al-Amara Ottoman Military Field Cartography “Captured” Enemy Map: [Iraq WWI – Mesopotamia Campaign. Siege of Kut Al-Amara]
- 3,600.00€
- A fascinating artefact of World War I’s Mesopotamian Campaign – an Ottoman map of the vicinity of the Siege of Kut al-Amara, one of the conflict’s most dramatic events and one of the greatest defeats in British Imperial History; crudely lithographed in theatre by Ottoman engineers, based upon a “captured” British map that was itself based on fresh, detailed…
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- Books, New Acquisitions: July 2020
- Muslim Travelogue / The Hajj: Ibn Gubayr (Ibn Giober) Viaggio in Ispagna, Sicilia, Siria e Palestina Mesopotamia, Arabia, Egitto. Prima traduzione fatta sull’originale arabo [Travel to Spain, Sicily, Syria, Mesopotamia, Arabia and Egypt. The First Translation from the Arabic Original]
- 220.00€
- The first translation of a groundbreaking late 12th century travelogue through the Mediterranean, from Spain to Mecca and Jeddah, by a Muslim scholar Ibn Jubair (ابن جبير) from Banu Kinanah (بَنُو كِنَاَنَة‎,). 8°. XXVII, 412, later black boards and cloth spine, original titles mounted on the cover and spine (minor foxing, title with light staining and scratches, otherwise…
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: July 2020
- OIL-PETROLEUM HISTORY – ANGLO-PERSIAN OIL COMPANY PIPELINE / IRAN – AHWAZ, KHUZISTAN / WWI MIDDLE EAST / CALCUTTA IMPRINT: Persia. / Arabistān Province. No. 10 A. (Rough Provisional Issue 2nd Edition). [Ahwaz].
- 950.00€
- Exceedingly rare and classified - one of the first accurate surveys of the Ahwaz area of the Arabistan region of Persia (today Khuzistan Province, Iran), importantly showcasing a great stretch of the first oil pipeline in the Middle East, completed in 1912, which connected the Masjed Soleyman Oilfield with the Anglo-Persian Oil Company’s refinery at Abadan; published in the…
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