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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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- Albania, Balkans, Europe, Greece, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: December 2020
- ALBANIA, CORFU, GREECE: يانينه ولايتى [Janina Vilayet]
- 120.00€
- A map from Umûm Vilayât-ı Şâhâneyi Hâvi Küçük Atlas - Umûmî Küçük Atlas (General Small Atlas) Chromolithograph. 9 x 13,5 cm (3.5 x 5.3 inches).
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- Books, New Acquisitions: October 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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- Africa, Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: December 2020
- ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT: Mediterranean Sea – Egypt. Approaches to Alexandria and Abu Qir Bay surveyed by Commanders F.A. Reyne & S.A.G. Hill…1920-22. / Abu Qir Bay (Western Part) surveyed by Commanders F.A. Reyne & S.A.G. Hill…1920-22.
- 150.00€
- This is a large and exceedingly detailed sheet of sea charts of the Alexandria area, Egypt, made during the twilight of Britain’s domination of the country. Photozincograph with some navigational details heightened in purple, pastedown printed correction slip added over Alexandria’s Inner Harbour, manuscript notes regarding a 1958 voyage and contemporary manuscript additions added in red pen (Good, old…
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- Americas, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: October 2020
- AMERICA – OTTOMAN SCHOOL ATLAS: آمريقا [Amerika]
- 380.00€
- 8°. 29-35 pp., facing pages marked with the same number, with colour lithographed plates, printed covers, stapled (tiny loss of paper in the lower corners of the last pages, light staining and foxing, otherwise in a good used condition).
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- New Acquisitions: December 2020, Slavica
- ANTISEMITISM / CROATIA / POLITICAL PROPAGANDA: O židovima [About the Jews]
- 250.00€
- A rare, unusual separately issued propaganda publication in Croatian language with an extreme anti-Semitic content, was printed in 1939, on the eve of WWII. It is a reprint of a 1906 article by an influential Croatian politician Stjepan Radić (died 1928), who later became a liberal politician and regrated his early writings. 8°: 16 pp., original green wrappers with…
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- Books, New Acquisitions: December 2020, Slavica
- ANTISEMITISM / CROATIA: Postoji li židovska opasnost. Moj proces sa Židovima [Is there a Jewish Danger? My Process with the Jews]
- 220.00€
- A rare anti-Semitic work in Croatian language was published on the eve of WWII. 8°. X, 221 pp., original wrappers with lettering (old owner's stamp on the first page, tiny tears in the wrappers, otherwise a good, uncut example).
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- ARABIAN PENINSULA:جزيرة العرب [Arabian Peninsula]
- 550.00€
- Chromolithograph. 9 x 13,5 cm (3.5 x 5.3 inches). Slightly stained.
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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€
- 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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- Asia, Central Asia, China, India, Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: October 2020, South-East Asia
- ASIA – OTTOMAN SCHOOL ATLAS: آسيا [Asya]
- 320.00€
- 8°. 15-21 pp., facing pages marked with the same number, with colour lithographed plates, printed covers, stapled (light staining and foxing, otherwise in a good used condition).
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