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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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- Australia, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND: آوستراليا [Avustralya / Australia]
- 200.00€
- Chromolithograph. 9 x 13,5 cm (3.5 x 5.3 inches). Slightly stained, overall in a good condition.
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- Australia, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: December 2020, New Zealand
- AUSTRALIA AND OCEANIA: يكى اوقيانوسيا [New Oceania]
- 850.00€
- A very rare, large format, separately issued map of Australia and Oceania that is perhaps the last great map of the continent to be printed in Ottoman Turkish script, with attractive colours and adorned with the flags of major African states and colonies, published in Istanbul for the Kitabhane-yi Sudi bookshop. Colour off-set print (Good, some light staining, wear…
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- Australia, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: September 2020, New Zealand
- AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND & OCEANIA: اقيانوسيا [Okyanusya / Oceania]
- 160.00€
- Chromolithograph. 9 x 13,5 cm (3.5 x 5.3 inches). Slightly stained, overall in a good condition
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- New Acquisitions: December 2020, Slavica
- AVIATION / POLISH MIMEOGRAPHED MAGAZINE BY CADETS: Kadet No. 2. Czasopismo Kadetów Korpusu No. 2 u Modlinie
- 350.00€
- A charming large mimeographed magazine on aviation, published by the Polish cadets in the Modlin Fortress in 1925 [Cadet No. 2. Newspaper of the Cadets of 2nd Corps in Modlin] Small folio. [20 pp.] mimeographed text with illustrations, original illustrated wrappers, inserted thicker sheet with mimeographed text on both sides, unbound, as originally published (sporadic staining and tiny…
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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, New Acquisitions: December 2020, Turkica
- AZERI CHILDREN’S LITERATURE: تولكى و چاق چاق بك [Tülkü [Tilki] ve Çakçak Bey]
- 380.00€
- An attractive book for children in Azeri language, written with Arabic letters, with a humorous story in verses, was published in Baku in 1899. The author was a prominent educator, author and translator Sultan Mecid Ganizade. 8°. Title page, 41 pp., [4 pp.] blank, original pink wrappers with lettering and illustrations, contemporary brown cloth binding with debossed titles in…
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- Books, New Acquisitions: December 2020
- AZERI EARLY MODERN GEOGRAPHY: قافقاز جعرفياوسى [Kafkaz Coğrafyası / Geography of the Caucasus]
- 620.00€
- The first modern book on geography in Azeri, written by a pioneer of Azeri modern education, Gafur Rashad Alakbar 8°. 117 pp. with black and white illustrations, [1 pp.], later marbled paper wrappers (slightly age-toned, light staining, sporadic old repaired tears in margins, lacking original wrappers, otherwise in a good, clean condition).
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- BAGHDAD / IRAQ: بغداد ولايتى [Baghdad Vilayet]
- 180.00€
- Chromolithograph. 9 x 13,5 cm (3.5 x 5.3 inches). Minor staining, overall in a good condition.
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- BAGHDAD: بغداد ولايتى [Baghdad Vilayeti]
- 180.00€
- Postcard. Lithography in colour (Very Good, slightly age-toned, tiny tears and chips in margins ) 10 x 14cm (5.11 x 3.5 inches).
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- Books, New Acquisitions: September 2020, Turkica
- BAKU IMPRINT / COMMUNISM: خلق معلمى [Xalq Muallimi / Public Teacher]
- 450.00€
- A rare Communist Azeri publication with contribution by various authors on the subject of the modern education was published on the Labour day, May 1st, 1924 to commemorate Lenin, who passed away in January of the same year. 4°. 74 pp with a full page portrait of Lenin, original wrappers with lettering, 20th century brown cloth binding with lettering…
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- Broadsides, Europe, Germany, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- BAVARICA / LUDWIG I / EPHEMERA: Nice, le 5 Mars 1868. Le Comte de Castell, Grand Maitre de la Cour, et le Lieutenant-Géneral, Baron de Jeetze, Aide de Camp de sa Majesté le Roi Louis Ier de Bavière, ont l’honneur de vous prier d’assister au SERVICE FUNERE qui sera célébré, demain, Vendredi 6 Mars, à 9 heures, à l’Église Cathédrale pour le repos se âme de S. M. le Roi Louis Ier de Bavière.
- 250.00€
- [Nice, March 5, 1868. The Count of Castell, Grand Master of the Court, and the Lieutenant-General, Baron de Jeetze, Aide-de-Camp to his Majesty King Louis I of Bavaria, have the honour to ask you to attend the FUNERE SERVICE which will be held tomorrow, Friday March 6th, at 9 am, at the Cathedral for the rest of the soul of…
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- Archives and Documents, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- BAVARICA / MUNICH / EPHEMERA: Gasthof zum Oberpollinger. Rechnung. F. Knöpfle
- 100.00€
- Broadside with printed template, manuscript additions in black ink, taxation stamps in the upper left corner, 25 x 16,5 cm (9.9 x 6.5 inches) (soft folds, a tiny hole in the lower corner, overall in a good condition).
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