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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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- Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- BEIRUT / LEBANON
- 220.00€
- 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
- BEIRUT / LEBANON: بيروت ولايتى [Beirut Vilayet]
- 220.00€
- 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
- BEIRUT / LEBANON: بيروت ولايتى [Beirut Vilayeti]
- 220.00€
- Postcard. Lithography in colour (Very Good, slightly age-toned) 10 x 14cm (5.11 x 3.5 inches).
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- Arabic Books, Books, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- BEIRUT IMPRINT / BIBLE / AMERICAN MISSION PRESS: الكتاب المقدس اي كتب العهد القديم والعهد الجديد [The Bible. That is the books of the Old Testament and the New Testament]
- 550.00€
- An early example of a Bible in Arabic language, translated by Eli Smith and Cornelius Van Alen Van Dyck, printed in the elegant “al-Amerikani” font by the American Mission Press in Beirut 8°, 920 pp., [2 pp.] title page, 295 pp., publisher’s dark brown full calf with debossed decoration, gilt lettering in Arabic on the spine (slightly age-toned, stained…
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- Africa, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: December 2020
- BENGHAZI, LIBYA: Mediterranean Sea. Tripioli. Benghazi to Derna. Surveyed… under the direction of Capt.n T.A.B. Spratt, R.N.; C.B.; F.R.S. 1861.
- 250.00€
- An updated 1914 edition of fine sea chart made by the British Admiralty of the northwestern coast of Libya, known as the Jebel Akhdar, the historical region of Cyrenaica. Photozincograph with some navigational details heightened in yellow (Good, noticeable staining in upper and lower margins, some print transference), 102.5 x 68.5 cm (40.5 x 27 inches).
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- Books, Europe, Germany, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: November 2020, Slavica
- BERLIN – 1930s: Berlin i okolice. Dodatek: Rozmówki i słowniczek polsko-niemiecki
- 380.00€
- [Berlin and Surroundings. Appendix: Phrasebook and Polish-German Dictionary] A rare polish guidebook to a Nazi Berlin with a Polish-German dictionary and a map 12°, XVI, 151 pp., folding map, original illustrated wrappers (wrappers with light folds, minor are-toning and staining, repaired tear in the left-hand side of the map, otherwise in a good condition).
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- Books, New Acquisitions: December 2020, Reference Books, Slavica
- BIBLIOGRAHPY – PARTISAN UNDERGROUND PRINTING: Bibliografija izdanja u narodooslobodilačkom ratu. 1941-45.
- 320.00€
- [Bibliography of Publications in the National Liberation War. 1941-45] The groundbreaking bibliography, listing over 9000 titles of underground publications, issued by the Yugoslav Partisans during WWII, including in North Africa, Italy and in the concentrations camps. 4°: [18 pp.] with a full-page portrait…
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- Books, New Acquisitions: December 2020, Slavica
- BIBLIOGRAHPY – PARTISAN UNDERGROUND PRINTING: Партизанске штампарије [Partizanske štamparije / Partisan Press].
- 350.00€
- An important and scarce work on Partisan publications by Vladimir Dedijer, subsequently one of the most internationally esteemed Yugoslav academics, issued in Belgrade shortly after its liberation. Large 8°: 158 pp. (1 image within text), 1 plate, 1 folding plate, [1] (index), original tan wrappers with printed brown and red cover, stapled, on the first blank page a stamp of…
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- Balkans, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- BITOLA -MANASTIR / NORTH MACEDONIA / OTTOMAN CARTOGRAPHY / POSTCARD MAP: مناستر ولآيتى [Vilayet Manastir]
- 120.00€
- Postcard. Lithography in colour (Very Good, slightly age-toned) 10 x 14cm (5.11 x 3.5 inches).
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- Books, New Acquisitions: November 2020, Slavica
- BOSNIAN / MUSLIM ANTI-COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA: Muslimani u Sovjetskoj Rusiji [Muslims in the Soviet Russia]
- 580.00€
- A rare Bosnian pan-Turkic anti-Communist pamphlet was published during WWII by a Muslim intellectual Mustafa Busuladžić, who sided with the Croatian pro-Nazi anti-Communist government. The book was used as an evidence against him at his trial for collaboration only days after the end of WWII. 12°. 70 pp. with a portrait and a map, later 20th century blue cloth…
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- Europe, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: October 2020, Romania
- BUCHAREST, ROMANIA / WORLD WAR II / THIRD REICH CARTOGRAPHY: Bukarest
- 350.00€
- A rare, very large format double-sided sheet of maps of Bucharest (thus 2 maps), showcasing both the city proper and the metropolitan area, made during the early days of World War II by the General Staff of the Nazi German Army, just as Romania was switching sides from the Allies to the Axis cause; predicated upon the best information, the…
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- Books, New Acquisitions: December 2020, Slavica
- BULGARIAN PUBLICATION IN ISTANBUL: История блъгарска [Bulgaian History]
- A rare, important history book in Bulgarian language, written by a prominent Bulgarian diplomat, was printed in Istanbul by a Macedonian Press 8°, [2] title page, XXI, 616 pp., [4 pp.] errata, newer marbled wrappers (uncut example, partly unbound title page with missing upper white corner, some pages lightly stained, old dried moist stains between pages 180-200, otherwise in…
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- Books, New Acquisitions: November 2020, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- CATHERINE THE GREAT / BULAQ IMPRINT: اجمال اوائل دولت روسيه [İcmal-i eva’il-i devlet-i Rusiya [or] Katerina Tarihi]
- 1,600.00€
- 8°. [10 pp], 225 pp., later brown cloth binding with lettering on the spine (sporadic small repaired tears in margins, light staining an foxing, old written price on the inner side of the rear board, otherwise in a good condition).
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- Africa, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: December 2020
- CENTRAL AFRICA: [Congo, Cameroon, Angola, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda]
- 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, Children's Books, New Acquisitions: September 2020, Slavica
- CHILDREN’S LITERATURE / TITO / YUGOSLAVIA: Ciciban čita [Ciciban is Reading].
- 65.00€
- 12°. 32 pp. with black and white illustrations, original wrappers with lettering, stapled (in a good condition).
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- Books, Children's Books, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- CHILDREN’S LITERATURE: Ciciban čita [Ciciban is Reading].
- 35.00€
- 12°. 16 pp. with black and white illustrations, original wrappers with lettering, stapled (light staining and foxing, old annotation in ink on the front cover, overall in a good condition).
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- Books, Children's Books, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- CHILDREN’S BOOKS / POLITICAL PROPAGANDA FOR CHILDREN: Fiori con fiori [Flowers with Flowers]
- 75.00€
- 12°. 60 pp. with black and white illustrations and one colour illustrations, front endpapers with lettering, original illustrated binding (light foxing on edges, old paper label in the upper corner of the cover, binding with light scuffing on the corners, overall in a good condition).
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- Books, Children's Books, New Acquisitions: September 2020, Slavica
- CHILDREN’S BOOKS / POLITICAL PROPAGANDA FOR CHILDREN: Pionirji iz Tihega dola. Pionirska živalska igra v petih dejanjih
- 75.00€
- [Pioneers from the Quiet Valley. A Pioneer Animal Play in Five Acts] 8°. 54 pp. With black and white illustrations, [2 pp.] blank, original illustrated wrappers, staples (old paper label on the cover, old stamp and annotation from a de-accessed archive, otherwise in a good unread condition)
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- Books, New Acquisitions: September 2020, Slavica
- CHILDREN’S BOOKS / POLITICAL PROPAGANDA FOR CHILDREN: Pod zvezdo. Igra za lutke v 5 dejanjih [Under the Star. A Marionette Play in 5 Acts]
- 75.00€
- 8°. 51 pp., original illustrated colour wrappers, stapled, originally pasted label with a date in the lower part of the rear cover (Very Good).
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- Books, Children's Books, New Acquisitions: December 2020, Slavica
- CHILDREN’S BOOKS / YUGOSLAV BOOK DESIGN / BOOK ILLUSTRATION: Pol za šalo pol za res [Half Jokingly, Half Seriously]
- 75.00€
- A charming book with poetry for children was designed and illustrated by a Slovenian architect Ana Nuša Jontez, the wife of one of the most prolific Yugoslav architects of the 20th century, Edo Mihevc. 8°. 81 pp., with black and white colour illustrations, [2 pp.], original illustrated colour wrappers with flaps (wrappers with minor foxing on the inner side, very…
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- Books, New Acquisitions: December 2020, Slavica
- CHILDREN’S LITERATURE / PARTISAN UNDERGROUND WWII PRINTING: Slovenski Pionir [Slovenian Pioneer]
- 360.00€
- This exceedingly rare ephemeral propaganda mimeographed magazine for small children was printed by an underground Slovenian partisan press during WWII. 8°. 16 pp. mimeographed text with the illustrations, original illustrated blue wrappers, stapled (soft vertical fold, wrappers with light staining and a small loss of a corner on the rear cover, the crosswords on the last page filled…
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- Asia, China, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: October 2020
- CHINA – HANKOW / HANKOU (WUHAN) / URBANISM / FOREIGN TREATY PORTS: Foreign Settlement, Hankow, China.
- 2,000.00€
- A seemingly unrecorded whiteprint map of the ‘Foreign Settlements’ of Hankow (today part of Wuhan), which was long the industrial and logistics hub of inland China and a major focus of Western investment; created towards the end of the ‘Roaring Twenties’ by the prominent local architect and engineer R.N. Hewitt likely for the private use of a major British commercial…
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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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- Books, Maps and Prints, Other
- CLASSIC AUTOMOBILES / ART DECO DESIGN: [Adler Automotive Company: An Art Deco Portfolio containing 10 Coloured Lithographs of New Car Models].
- 450.00€
- A sumptuous Art Deco portfolio of coloured lithographs of new luxury models of Adler Automobiles, made to celebrate Clärenore Stinnes’ pioneering around-the-world tour, made by the esteemed artist Georg Johann Köhler.
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- Books, New Acquisitions: September 2020, Turkica
- COMMUNISM IN UZBEKISTAN / LENIN: مللييهت مهسئهلهسي [Milliyet Meselesi / национальный вопрос / National Question]
- 550.00€
- A rare translation of Lenin’s texts on the unification and protection of the Muslims in the Soviet Union was published in Tashkent and Samarkand in 1926. Small 4°. 195 pp. with a portrait of Lenin, [5 pp.], 20th century brown cloth binding with lettering on the cover and spine (minor age-toning, handwritten old price on the inner side of…
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- New Acquisitions: September 2020, Photography
- CROATIA – PHOTOGRAPHY / JUDAICA: Šandor 8. IV. 97
- 250.00€
- A seemingly unrecorded portrait of a Croatian philanthropist, industrialist and nobleman Šandor Alexander Sesvetski (1866-1929) from a prominent Zagreb Jewish family. Cabinet card with albumen print and lettering in the lower margin and verso, contemporary signature in black ink in the lower right corner 16,4 x 10,7 cm (6.4 x 4.3 inches) (minor staining, corners slightly bumped, overall in…
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- Books, New Acquisitions: September 2020, Slavica
- CROATIAN BOOK DESIGN / POETRY: Rane [Wounds]
- 160.00€
- 8°. 29 pp., [3 pp.] index, original illustrated wrappers (slightly age-toned and stained, minor chips in margins, overall in a good condition).
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- Books, New Acquisitions: December 2020, Slavica
- CROATIAN PARTISAN UNDERGROUND PRINTING / WWII: Drugo zasjedanja Antifašističkog Vijeća Narodnog Oslobođenja Jugoslavije
- [2nd Congress of the Antifascist Council of the Yugoslav Liberation] A rare Croatian WWII underground partisan pamphlet describes the 2nd Congress of the Antifascist Council of the Yugoslav Liberation (AVNOJ), the most important Partisan event during the war, where Tito was proclaimed Marshall. The date was later celebrated as the Day of the Republic. 8°, 72 pp., original…
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- Books, New Acquisitions: December 2020, Slavica
- CROATIAN PARTISAN UNDERGROUND PRINTING / WWII: Pjesme Partizanke [Partisan Songs]
- 380.00€
- The first edition of a rare and important booklet with poems by a famous Croatian poet Vladimir Nazor was published by an underground partisan press and dedicated to the youth, fighting for the resistance. 12°, 49 pp., [2], original wrappers with lettering, inserted errata (slightly age-toned, wrappers with light foxing, otherwise in a good condition).
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- Americas, Caribbean, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: October 2020
- CUBA – SOVIET CARTOGRAPHY / COLD WAR: Куба [Kuba]
- 380.00€
- Colour print, 51,5 x 86 cm (20.2 x 33.8 inches), accompanied by an original brochure with an index: 8°, 13 pp., [2 pp.], wrappers with title, stapled. Housed in an original illustrated wrappers with a flap (a small hand-written monogram of the previous owner, otherwise in a near-mint unused condition with a minimal stains on the spine of the wrappers).…
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- Americas, Caribbean, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: November 2020
- CUBA – HAVANA HARBOUR – UNRECORDED VIEW: Ansicht der Bucht von Regla.
- 3,400.00€
- A seemingly unrecorded early lithographed view of the town and bay of Regla, on Havana Harbour, after a drawing by the famed naturalist, explorer and artist Paul Wilhelm, Duke of Württemberg, made during his first tour in the Americas, an attractive large format work seemingly printed for private circulation. Lithograph (Fair, several unclosed tears from margins, with a few…
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- Cyprus, Europe, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- CYPRUS / OTTOMAN CARTOGRAPHY: قبريس آطه سى [Kıbrıs Ada-sı / Island Cyprus]
- 350.00€
- Colour lithograph, 19,5 x 26 cm (7.6 x 10.3 inches) (soft fold, otherwise in a good condition).
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- Europe, Germany, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- DRESDEN / COMMUNIST URBAN PLANNING / DESTRUCTION OF HISTORICAL MONUMENTS: Gesamtbebauungsplan Zentrum. Prognostische Entwicklung. Stand 1. Januar 1967
- 320.00€
- [General Development Plan for Center. Prognostic Development. The Situation of January 1st 1967] Colour lithograph, 71,5 x 57 cm (28.1 x 22.4 inches) (soft folds with tiny holes, otherwise in a good condition).
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- Books, New Acquisitions: November 2020, Other
- EARLY AESTHETIC PROSTHETICS / PROSTHODONTICS: C. A. Lorenz. Leipzig. 1, Koenigs-Platz 1. … Dental Katalog 1900.
- 420.00€
- 8°, [10 pp.] title page, colour plate and an introduction, 239 pp. with black and white illustrations, original illustrated wrappers (slightly age-toned and stained, small chips and folds in the corners and margins, old annotations in pencil on the first and last blank paper, wrappers slightly water-stained and tiny loss of paper on the spine, inside overall in a good,…
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- Books, New Acquisitions: September 2020, Slavica
- EARLY KAZAKH-RUSSIAN BILINGUALISM: Памятники киргизскаго народнаго творчества. Пѣсня Алашинца Байтоки на смерть Хана Джангера, записанная и переведенная [Monuments of the Creative Power of the Kirghiz people. Alashian poems on the death of Dzhanger khan. With Russian Translation]
- 450.00€
- One of the pioneering works on the Kazakh-Russian bilingualism and bilingual education. Small 4°. 19 pp., original wrappers with lettering (light staining, two old paper labels on the cover, title page with old Ottoman stamp and light scratches, sporadic old annotations, wrappers with tiny tears in margins and a small hole in the rear cover, otherwise in a good…
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- Africa, Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: December 2020
- EGYPT / ISRAEL / PALESTINE / JORDAN / LEBANON / SYRIA / ARCHAEOLOGY: Carte topographique de l’Egypte et de plusieurs parties des pays limitrophes, levée pendant l’expédition de l’armée française, par les ingénieurs-géographes, les officiers du génie militaire, et les ingénieurs des ponts et chaussées, assujettie aux observations des astronomes, construite par M. Jacotin, colonel, au corps royal des ingénieurs-géographes militaires, gravée au dépôt général de la guerre, à l’échelle de 1 millimètre pour 100 mètres.
- 1,800.00€
- An absolutely stellar example of the first broadly accurate map of Egypt and Palestine, predicated upon advanced trigonometric surveys undertaken by the cartographer Pierre Jacotin on the orders of Napoleon Bonaparte during the French occupation of Egypt, considered to be one of the great achievements of Enlightenment science. Copper engraving, dissected into 32 sections and mounted upon…
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- Africa, Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: December 2020
- EGYPT, HEJAZ.
- 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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- Africa, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: December 2020
- EL ATALEH, SOMALIA: Africa – Costa Est. Ancoraggi di Itala (Ata Eh). Rilievi eseguiti dalle R. Navi Staffetta e Governolo Comandanti: Capitano di Fregata P. Botti – 1898, Capitano di Fregata G. Patris – 1904, Capitano di Fregata A. Riva di Fenile – 1906.
- 150.00€
- This is the extremely rare first edition of the Italian Navy’s sea chart of stretch of the Somali coast around El Ataleh, some ways up from Mogadishu. Zincograph (Good, but with noticeable wear along old folds with some toning in upper area), 63 x 59 cm (25 x 23 inches).
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- Books, New Acquisitions: December 2020, Slavica
- FEMALE EMANCIPATION / ANTI-FASCISM / YUGOSLAV BOOK DESIGN: Žena v sedanji družbi [A Woman in Today’s Society]
- 280.00€
- An unusual early feminist anti-Hitler publication from 1934 was written by a famous Slovenian / Yugoslavian female writer, who later became a partisan fighter, prisoner of the Ravensbrück concentration camp and after the war a victim of the new Yugoslav regime. 8°. 96 pp. with black and white title page, original illustrated wrappers (light foxing, mostly to the wrappers…
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- Books, New Acquisitions: November 2020, Slavica
- FEMALE FIGHTERS OF THE POLISH RESISTANCE: Głos Kobiet Wiejskich [The Voice of Rural Women. Year 1, Nr. 3]
- 350.00€
- Broadside, printed on both sides, 8° (tiny tears in margins, overall in a good condition).
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- Books, German Books, New Acquisitions: December 2020
- FEMINISM: Feminismus. Seine Begründung und Folgen [Feminism. Its Rationale and Consequences].
- 380.00€
- 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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- Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: September 2020, Turkey
- GALLIPOLI / TURKEY: چناق قلعه بوغاز [Çanakkale Boğazı / Dardanelles]
- 120.00€
- Chromolithographs on thick paper. Each sheet: 11 x 15 cm (4.3 x 5.9 inches). Slightly stained, overall in a good condition
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- Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: September 2020, Turkey
- GALLIPOLI CAMPAIGN – BATTLES OF KRITHIA (ALÇITEPE): [Untitled Ottoman Mimeographed WWI Military Map of the Southern Part of the Gallipoli Peninsula].
- 420.00€
- A rare ephemeral artefact from the Gallipoli Campaign of World War I, being a mimeographed map made in the field by Ottoman soldiers, depicting the theatre of the Battles of Krithia (Alçitepe), a series of four major altercations fought between British Imperial-French forces and the Turks between April and August 1915. Mimeograph in purple (Very Good, old vertical centrefold,…
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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, New Acquisitions: October 2020, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- GEOGRAPHY BOOK / CHILDREN’S EDUCATION: جمهوريت چوجوقلرينه يكى جوغرافيا درسلرى [Republic Lesions in the New Geography for Children]
- 150.00€
- 8°, 176 pp. with black and white maps and photographs, original illustrated wrappers (minor staining, tiny tears in margins, tine holes in the inner margins from an old binding, a small stain in the text of pp. 98-101, overall in a good condition).
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- Austria, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- GRAZ: Plan der Provinzial Hauptstadt Graz im Herzogthume Steyermark
- 450.00€
- Lithograph printed on two joined sheets 58 x 69 cm (22.8 x 27.2 inches) (minor staining, tiny tears in the margins, overall in a good condition).
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- Balkans, Books, Bulgaria, Europe, Geography, Greece, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: December 2020, Turkey
- GREECE / BULGARIA / TURKEY – THRACE / WORLD WAR I / HISTORICAL ATLAS / CARTOGRAPHIC PROPAGANDA: La Question de Thrace. Grecs, Bulgares et Turcs.
- 750.00€
- Edward Stanford, 1919. Very rare – the most sophisticated cartographic analysis of the ‘Thrace Question’, concerning the geographic partitioning of the region which was one of the great bones of contention between Greece, Bulgaria and Turkey in the wake of World War I; an atlas of 19 full page colour plates of historical and ethnographic maps collected from the most authoritative…
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- Americas, Central America, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: October 2020
- GUATEMALA / TRANSPORTATION MAP: Mapa oficial de vialidad de la república de Guatemala C.A. / Admon. Gral. Jorge Ubico. / Levantado por la Dirección Gral. de Caminos.
- 550.00€
- A very rare map depicting Guatemala’s transportation network made during the rule of President General Jorge Ubico, ‘Central America’s Napoleon’, a totalitarian dictator who was obsessed with building infrastructure; made by the country’s Dirección General de Caminos, predicated upon the very best sources and published in Guatemala City. Photostatic print, mounted upon linen and folding into plain chestnut-coloured cloth…
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- HEJAZ, LEBANON, SAUDI ARABIA: حجاز و سوريه [Hejaz and Syria]
- 650.00€
- Chromolithograph. 9 x 13,5 cm (3.5 x 5.3 inches). Minor staining, overall in a good condition.
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- Books, New Acquisitions: October 2020, Turkica
- HORSE MEDICINE: Ameli nalbandlik ve ayak hastaliklari [Working Horses and Hoof Diseases]
- 220.00€
- Long small folio, 167 pp. with illustrations and photographs, original black cloth with debossed decoration and lettering (minor water-staining in the lower outer edge, binging lightly scuffed on the corners, otherwise in a good condition).
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- Europe, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: October 2020
- HUNGARIAN PICTORIAL MAP OF WORLD WAR I: A háborús Európa térkép-karikatúrája
- 1,800.00€
- Colour lithograph 41.5 x 51 cm (inches) (tiny tears in margins, overall in a good condition).
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- Books, New Acquisitions: November 2020, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- INCUNABLE OF OTTOMAN LITHOGRAPHY: مذكره ضابطان [Officer’s Notes]
- 5,200.00€
- A rare manual for officers is the fifth and the last book, printed in the first Istanbul lithographic press, run by a Frenchmen Henri Cayol on the premises of the Ministry of War for only five years. It was written by the main patron of this new technique, the statesman and admiral Koca Hüsrev Mehmed Pasha. 8°: [6 pp.]…
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- Arabic Books, Books, New Acquisitions: October 2020, Turkica
- INDEPENDENCE OF THE NORTH CAUCASUS AND IDEL-URAL STATE / ANTI-BOLSHEVIK PROPAGANDA / CAIRO IMPRINT: مذكرة عن حالة المسلمين في الروسيا البلشفيكية
- 680.00€
- مذكرة عن حالة المسلمين في الروسيا البلشفيكية : مقدمة إلى حضرة صاحب الفضيلة الأستاذ الأكبر شيخ الجامع الأزهر وشيخ الإسلام بالديار المصرية [Mud̲akkira aine ḥāla al-Muslimīn fī-r-Rūsiyā al-Bulšifīkīya … / A Note On the Condition of Muslims in Bolshevik Russia: An Introduction to the Honorable Master, the Grand Shaykh of Al-Azhar Mosque and the Shaykh of Islam in the Egyptian…
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- India, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: December 2020, Sri Lanka
- INDIA AND SRI LANKA: هندستان [India]
- 220.00€
- A map from Umûm Vilayât-ı Şâhâneyi Hâvi Küçük Atlas - Umûmî Küçük Atlas (General Small Atlas) 2 Chromolithographs, not joined. Each 9 x 13,5 cm (3.5 x 5.3 inches).
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: October 2020
- IRAQ – SOVIET CARTOGRAPHY: Ирак [Irak]
- 150.00€
- Colour print, 69 x 88 cm (27.2 x 34.6 inches), with an original brochure with an index: 8°, 7 pp, wrappers with title, stapled. Housed in an original illustrated wrappers with a flap (a small hand-written monogram of the previous owner, otherwise in a near-mint unused condition with a minimal stains on the spine of the wrappers).
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- IRAQ – MOSUL / MIDDLE EAST / OTTOMAN CARTOGRAPHY: موصل ولايت [Musul Vilayet / Vilayet Mosul]
- 120.00€
- Chromolithographs on thick paper. Each sheet: 11 x 15 cm (4.3 x 5.9 inches). Slightly stained in margins with light rubbings on edges, manuscript numeration in margins.
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- Books, Geography, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- IRAQ / PETROLEUM-OIL HISTORY / CALCUTTA IMPRINT: Geological Notes on Mesopotamia with Special Reference to Occurrences of Petroleum, Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India, Volume XLVIII.
- 3,500.00€
- A highly important work on early petroleum history, being the official account of the first scientific geological reconnaissance of Northern Iraq, featuring 10 large, colourful maps that are the first detailed, accurate geological maps of the same region, a work that served as the blueprint for the Turkish Petroleum Company to discover the world’s largest oil field near Kirkuk in…
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- Books, New Acquisitions: September 2020, Turkica
- IRAQI TURKMEN PUBLICATION / KIRKUK / BAGHDAD IMPRINT: کرکوگده اِجتماعی حیات. فولکلور [Public Life in Kirkuk. Folklore]
- 250.00€
- 8°. 184 with illustrations, 20th century brown cloth binding with lettering on the cover and spine (minor age-toning and foxing, handwritten old price on the inner side of back cover, two annotations originally pasted over with brown paper, otherwise in a good condition).
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- Books, New Acquisitions: September 2020, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- ISLAM – GENEALOGY: سبحة الأخبار [Sübhet ül-ahbar / The Rosary of the Times]
- 2,500.00€
- A rare lithographed book in Ottoman language represents the genealogy from Adam, Muhammad, Four Caliphs, Abbasid caliphs, Turkish and Mongolian rulers, to Great Seljuk and Anatolian Seljuk sultans. The work finishes with a portrait of the Ottoman sultan Abdulmejid I (1823 –1861). 4°. 42 pp. lithographed with illustrations, later marbled wrappers (upper margin unevenly, last margin cut into the outer bordure,…
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- Africa, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: December 2020
- JUBBA RIVER, SOMALIA: Africa Orientale (Benadir) Foce del Giuba. Rilievi eseguiti dalle R. Navi “Staffetta” Comandante Giavotto, Capitano di Vascello – 1908.
- 150.00€
- This chart maps the mouth of the Jubba River in southern Somalia, long a vital lifeline for agriculture and trade. The chart was made from surveys conducted by Commander Giovatto of the Italian Navy in 1908. Zincograph (Very Good, some light toning and light wear along old folds), 53 x 61 cm (21 x 24 inches).
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- Books, New Acquisitions: September 2020, Turkica
- KAZAN 1918 IMPRINT / TATAR PRINTING: عاشق غريب شرق حكايه سى [Aşık Kerib. Şark hakayası / Ashik Kerib. The Eastern Tale]
- 650.00€
- A Tatar translation of an Azeri tale by a Russian writer Lermontov was published in Kazan in a turbulent year 1918, when the city founded its independent state of Turkic peoples and Volga Germans, was briefly sieged by the Czechoslovakian Legion and was eventually defeated by the Bolsheviks. 8°. 15 pp., trimmed rear original wrapper with lettering mounted with…
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- Books, New Acquisitions: December 2020, Turkica
- KAZAN IMPRINT / TATAR HISTORY: بلغار خرابه لرى هم برونغى بلغارلر
- 280.00€
- [Bulgar Harabeleri hem Burunegi Bulgarları / The Ruins of Bolghar and the Ancient Bulgars] A rare Tatar publication with an illustrated text on the ruins of the ancient city Bolghar, the capital of Volga Bulgaria from the 8th until 15th century, was printed in Kazan in 1908. 8°. 44 pp. with black…
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- Africa, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: December 2020
- KISMAAYO, SOMALIA: Africa – East Coast. Kisimayu Bay (Refuge Bay). Surveyed by Captain W.J.L. Wharton and the Officers of H.M.S. Fawn, 1877.
- 180.00€
- An Italian map of the natural harbour of Kismaayo, in the far south of Somalia. Photozincograph, with navigational markers heightened in yellow and some details added in manuscript in red pen, with pastedown date stamp in lower left corner (Very Good, some wear along old folds), 55.5 x 70.5 cm (22 x 27.5 inches).
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- Kuwait / Iraq (Basra) / WWI Middle East / Important Ottoman Cartography: بصره [Basrah].
- 3,500.00€
- Very rare and historically important – the most detailed and accurate Ottoman map of the Kuwait and the Basra region of Iraq, issued by the General Staff of the Ottoman Army for strategic and operational planning early in World War I and during the twilight of the reign of Sheikh Mubarak Al Sabah, the ‘Father of Modern Kuwait’; depicting…
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- Europe, New Acquisitions: October 2020
- LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND CITY MAP – PANORAMA: Plan monumental de Lausanne. Légende des principales curiosités, artères , places et promenades. Panorama du signal.
- 220.00€
- Colour lithograph, 70 x 51 cm (27.6 x 20 inches), verso views and advertisements (soft folds with small partly repaired holes on the crossings and tears in margins, minor staining, otherwise in a good condition).
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- Arabic Books, Books, New Acquisitions: December 2020, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- LAW IN ARABIC COUNTRIES AND THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE: حقوق الحقوق [Hukuk / Al-Hukuk – Huquq]
- 1,800.00€
- The complete first year of one of the first newspapers on law, written under the Western influences and parallelly issued in Ottoman and Arabic languages. 8°. 12 parallel issues in Ottoman (203 pp.) and Arabic languages (199 pp.) (all together 24 units with 402 pp.), bound together. Original cloth boards, brown calf spine with gilt decoration and lettering, original…
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: December 2020
- LEBANON: جبل لبنان سنجاغى [Mount Lebanon Sanjak]
- 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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- Africa, Books, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: December 2020
- LIBYA GEOLOGICAL MAP / OIL-PETROLEUM INDUSTRY: Geologic Map of the Kingdom of Libya Compiled by Louis C. Conant and Gus H. Goudarzi under the joint sponsorship of the Kingdom of Libya and the Agency for International Development, U. S. Department of State. / خريطة جيولوجية للمملكة الليبية
- 750.00€
- The first edition of the first comprehensive, scientifically accurate geological map of Libya, a grand, bilingual (English - Arabic) separately issued production primarily made to aid the country’s burgeoning oil industry; the result of a collaboration between Louis Conant and Gus Goudarzi, two of America’s most esteemed geologists, fulfilling a joint project of the U.S. State Department and the pro-Western…
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- Arabic Books, Books, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- LITHOGRAPH IN GOLD / ALAOUITE DYNASTY, MOROCCO: هذه مرثية الشريف مولاى احمد بن المرحوم سلطان المغرب مولاى عبد الرحمن الشريف [This is an Elegy for Sharif Moulay Ahmad, the Son of the Late Sultan of Morocco Moulay Abd al-Rahman Sharif …]
- 4,500.00€
- An elegant pamphlet in Arabic language with an elegy for Ahmad, a son of sultan of Morocco Abd al-Rahman from the Alaouite dynasty, was lithographed in gold in Istanbul. 8°. 12 pp., original wrappers with lettering, all pages lithographed in gold, elegant modern calf with debossed ornaments to contemporary style, bound with old marbled wrappers, modern yellow endpaper…
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- Europe, Italy, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: October 2020, Slovenia
- LJUBLJANA-TRIESTE RAILROAD: Karte der k.k. Staats-Eisenbahn zwischen Laibach und Triest. Sr. Excellenz dem Hochgeborenen Herrn Gustav Grafen Chorinsky, Freiherrn von Ledske…
- 2,200.00€
- [Map of the K. K. State Railway between Ljubljana and Trieste. To His Excellency the Noble Gustav Count Chorinsky, Baron von Ledske…] A rare, charming map of the railroad between Ljubljana and Trieste was lithographed in Ljubljana, possibly at the occasion of the opening of the line. Lithograph, 66 x 41 cm (26 x 16.1 inches), originally dissected in…
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- Books, New Acquisitions: December 2020, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- LOGARITHMIC TABLES / SCIENCE IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE / NAVY MATHEMATICS: لغرتما جداولي [Logaritma Cedâvili / Logarithmic Tables]
- 520.00€
- This is an early Ottoman publication with the logarithmic tables, published by the Imperial Naval Press in Istanbul in the time of the Tanzimat. 8°. [30 pp.] lithographed text, [2 pp.] blank, 26 numbered book sections, with 8 pp. each (i. e.208 pp.) + 1 p. with tables, 45 pairs of tables (i. e. 90 pp.), 45 pairs of…
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- Books, New Acquisitions: November 2020, Turkica
- MARXISM IN BAKU: قارل مارقس ترجمه حالينيك مارقسيزم علاوه سيله مختصر قصه سى
- 650.00€
- [Karl Marx. A Brief Biographical Sketch / Карл Маркс. Kраткий биографический очерк с изложением марксизма] 8°: 25 pp., original illustrated wrappers, stapled (very good, uncut example, wrappers slightly dusty with light chips in the corners).
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- Africa, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: December 2020
- MASSAWA, ERITREA: (Mar Rosso – Africa) Porto di Massaua rilievi eseguiti dai T.ti di V.llo G. Boccardi, C. Marcacci, E. Presbitero, G. Roncagli e sotto T.te S. Bellini sotto la direzione del capitano di Corvetta C. Mirabello, Comandante la R. Connoniera Scilla…1886.
- 450.00€
- This is the first sea chart of the harbour of Massawa predicated upon proper scientific surveys, as well as one of the only detailed early maps of the city of Massawa as remodeled by the new Italian colonial regime. Zincograph, with some navigation markers heightened in yellow, some contemporary manuscript navigational additions in pencil (Good, but with noticeable wear…
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- MECCA, SAUDI ARABIA / YEMEN: يمن ولآيت [Vilayet Yemen]
- 450.00€
- Chromolithograph. 9 x 13,5 cm (3.5 x 5.3 inches). Minor staining, overall in a good condition.
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- Books, New Acquisitions: October 2020, Ottoman Books, Science, Turkica
- MEDICINE / PHARMACOLOGY: Pharmacopoea Castrensis Ottomana. Pharmacopée Militaire Ottomane
- 4,500.00€
- The first printed pharmacopeia in the Ottoman Empire with an original text by an Austrian medical doctor Karl Ambros Bernard, was published by Henri Cayol, the first lithographer in Istanbul. A uncut example with original wrappers. 4°, [4 pp.] titles, IV, 161 pp., [2 pp.] errata, original blue wrappers with lettering, book-seller’s stamp in Ottoman on p. 1 (good, uncut…
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- Books, New Acquisitions: October 2020, Slavica
- MEDICINE / UNDERGROUND PRINTING / YUGOSLAV PARTISANS: Partizanski zdravstveni vestnik. Leto 1, Št. 1. [Partisan Medical News, Year 1, No. 1]
- 420.00€
- A rare medical publication by Slovenian / Yugoslav partisans, printed in an underground press during WWII, includes articles on lice, disinfection and medicine against itch, construction of a basic bathroom, partisan fighter as a nurse, diseases of teeth and dental care, scurvy and burial of the dead in the woods. A folding mimeographed illustration represents a construction of a barrel…
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- Books, New Acquisitions: October 2020, Turkica
- MONGOLIAN LANGUAGE: Grammaire et vocabulaire de la langue mongole (Dialecte des Khalkhas)
- 450.00€
- Small 8°, viii, 68 pp., later blue cloth binding with lettering on the cover and spine (old hand-written number on the inner side of the rear cover, binding with light staining, otherwise in a good condition)
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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€
- 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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- Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: December 2020
- OROGRAPHIC PROFILE OF MOUNTAINS AND OCEANS
- 50.00€
- A map from Umûm Vilayât-ı Şâhâneyi Hâvi Küçük Atlas - Umûmî Küçük Atlas (General Small Atlas) Chromolithographs, 9 x 13,5 cm (3.5 x 5.3 inches).
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- Arabic Books, Books, New Acquisitions: November 2020, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- OTTOMAN ALEFBE / PRIMER FOR THE ARABIC SCRIPT: الفبا حزئى (title on the cover) / الفبا حزوى (title on the title page) [Primer]
- 420.00€
- A rare, beautiful expensively lithographed Ottoman Alefbe or a primer of the Arabic basic script 8°, 36 pp. colour and gilt lithograph, original binding with illustrated boards, red cloth spine (slightly stained, title page and last page slightly age-toned, small folds in the corners, repaired two split gutters in the first and last part of the book, binding lightly…
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- Books, New Acquisitions: December 2020, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- OTTOMAN NEW LITERATURE / EDEBIYAT-I CEDIDE: كابوس [Kabus / Nightmare]
- 180.00€
- The first edition of Halit Ziya’s drama Kabus (Nightmare), published in Ottoman language in 1918 8°. 222 pp., original wrappers with lettering, modern black cloth binding with gilt lettering (minor staining, original wrappers with light age-toning and staining, a tiny piece of paper missing in the rear wrappers).
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- Books, New Acquisitions: September 2020, Turkica
- PAN-TURKISM / JEDDA IMPRINT: حقائق عن التركستان المسلمة [Facts about Muslim Turkestan]
- 350.00€
- A rare work on Turkestan was written in Arabic and published in Jedda. 8°. 42 pp. with double-page map of Asia, original blue front wrapper with lettering, later blank rear wrapper, imprint from the original blue rear blank wrapper pasted under the index on p. 41 (p. 5-6 with trimmed outer white margin and tiny repaired tears, light staining…
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- Books, New Acquisitions: November 2020, Slavica
- PARTISAN PRINTING / UNDERGROUND PRINTING / REPRESENTATION OF A CLANDESTINE PRESS: Leto borb ob Soči: september 1943-1944
- 350.00€
- [A Year of Fights at Soča River: September 1943-1944]. Small 4° : [1], title page in red and black, 87 pp. mimeographed text, [3] pp., original wrappers with mimeographed cover (light staining and foxing, small tears in margins, overall in a good condition); plus inserted, related pamphlet, large 8° : 8 pp., with mimeographed illustrated cover and text. …
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- Books, New Acquisitions: September 2020, Slavica
- POLAND ON THE EVE OF WWII / POLISH BOOK DESIGN: Zachowanie się ludności cywilnej przed napadem, podczas napadu lotniczego i po napadzie
- 120.00€
- [Behavior of Civilians Before, During and After an Air Raid] 8°. 44 pp. with black and white illustrations, [4 pp.] index and three blank pages, original illustrated wrappers (minor folds and chips in margins, overall in a good condition).
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- Books, New Acquisitions: October 2020, Slavica
- POLISH BOOK DESIGN / GEOLOGY: Jak powstały Tatry [How the Tatra Mountains were Created]
- 150.00€
- The first edition of a scientific illustrated geological book on the Tatras was written by a Polish foremost expert on the subject Edward PASSENDORFER (1894-1984). The brilliant cover design was made by a Polish academic artist Konstanty Maria Sopoćko (1903-1992), possibly still as a student, who would later become a prominent designer, printer and lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts…
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- Books, New Acquisitions: December 2020, Slavica
- POLISH BOOK DESIGN / POLISH AVANTGARDE: Autoportret
- 420.00€
- A collection of avantgarde poems with a decorative cover design by Stanisław Ryszard Dobrowolski (1907-1985). With a dedication by the author 8°. 46 pp., [2 pp.] index, original wrappers with illustrated cover, dedication of the author on the first page (wrappers slightly age-toned, otherwise in a good, clean condition).
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- Books, New Acquisitions: December 2020, Slavica
- POLISH BOOK DESIGN / SKIING: Nauka jazdy na nartach (Ze szczególnem uwzględnieniem narciarstwa w szkole). Podręcznik metodyczny dla nauczycieli, uczniów i samouków
- 120.00€
- [Skiing Manual. (With Particular Emphasis on Skiing at School). Methodological Manual for Teachers, Students and Self-Taught Skiers] An attractively designed, illustrated skiing manual in Polish language was published in Warsaw. The cover was lithographed in Vilnius. 8°. XVI, 239 pp. with black and white illustrations, [2 pp.], errata on blue paper, inserted original advertisement on blue paper, original…
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- Europe, Germany, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: October 2020
- POST-WWII GERMAN CARTOGRAPHY: Der Wegweiser von und nach der Lutherstadt Wittenberg [The Road Map to and from Lutherstadt Wittenberg]
- 320.00€
- A beautifully designed, optically effective road map to the protestant cultural center Wittenberg in Eastern Germany under the Soviet occupation was made in 1946, immediately after WWII in destroyed Berlin, and printed on the leftovers of an older larger map. Colour lithograph, printed from both sides, original label mounted on the back, 86 x 69 cm (33.9 x 27…
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- Books, German Books, Other
- POW CAMP TRINIDAD, COLORADO: Gustav Adolfs Page. Feldpostausgabe
- 480.00€
- A German pocket book, printed for the soldiers in WWII, was owned by a German prisoner of war, stationed in the POW camp in Trinidad, Colorado.
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- Books, History, India, New Acquisitions: October 2020
- PRAYAGRAJ IMPRINT / MUSLIMS IN THE SOVIET UNION: Islam in USSR, Turkey and Europe
- 220.00€
- 8°, viii, [1] illustration (Berlin Mosque), 315 pp., original blue cloth binding with gilt lettering on the back, red edges (publisher’s stamp on the title page, old hand-written price on the inner side of the rear cover, minor staining, binding lightly scuffed on the corners).
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- Americas, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: October 2020
- QUEEN CHARLOTTE ISLANDS (HAIDA GWAII), B.C., CANADA: Preliminary Map Queen Charlotte Islands.
- 350.00€
- A rare, separately issued, information-packed map of the Queen Charlotte Islands (today Haida Gwaii) made by the British Columbia Department of Lands; predicated upon the most recent trigonometrical surveys and latest cadastral information, it is an unparalleled record of land use on the archipelago during the 1920s and was issued to promote outside investment in the Charlottes’ timber, fishing and…
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- Czech Republic, Europe, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: October 2020
- RAISED RELIEF MAP – PRAGUE (CZECH REPUBLIC): Die Umgegend von Prag in plastischer Aufnahme von Prof. A.L. Hickmann, k.k. Bezirks-Schulinspector.
- 680.00€
- An extremely rare and intriguing raised relief map of Prague and its environs, created by the innovative professor, Anton Hickmann, whose passion was popularizing geography; published in Reichenberg, in northern Bohemia (today Liberec, Czech Republic). Lithograph in colour, pressed into raised relief on thick card (Good, even toning and some wear to highest points of relief, edges worn and…
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- Books, New Acquisitions: October 2020, Other
- ROMANI LANGUAGE / UKRAINE: The Ukrainian and South Russian Gypsy dialects
- 480.00€
- A book on the Ukrainian language and the language, used by the Roma in Ukraine, was published in English language by the Academy in Saint-Petersburg.
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- Europe, Italy, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: October 2020
- ROUND PANORAMA – MILAN: Panorama orografico e pittoresco della città e contorni di Milano. Preso dalla sommità della cattedrale
- 420.00€
- A round view from the Milan Cathedral from circa 1880 Lithograph (Very Good, overall clean and bright, just some short tears entering from margins closed from verso, old folds), 43.5 x 43.5 (17 x 17 inches)
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- Books, History, New Acquisitions: October 2020
- RUSSIAN REVOLUTION / CENSORSHIP IN THE WESTERN PRESS: The truth about the intervention of the allies in Russia. How the rulers of England are strangling the Russian revolution
- 520.00€
- 8°, 17 pp., later blue cloth binding with gilt lettering (binding lightly stained, old hand-written price in the inner side of the rear cover, otherwise in a good condition).
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- Books, German Books, New Acquisitions: October 2020, Slavica
- RUSSIAN REVOLUTION / RUSSIAN ART: 1917. Russland. 1923/ Russland. Kein Märchen, keine Legende, sondern Wirklichkeit
- 420.00€
- [1917. Russia. 1923. / Russia. No Fairytale, No Legend, But a Reality] Large 4°. 31 pp. with illustrations in black and red, original illustrated wrappers, stapled (paper extremely fragile with tiny chips and tears in margins, wrappers detached, sporadic first and last leaved loose, minor age-toning, otherwise in a good condition).
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- Books, History, New Acquisitions: October 2020
- RUSSIAN REVOLUTION / UKRAINIAN IMMIGRANTS: La Russie de demain [The Russia of Tomorrow]
- 250.00€
- An unusual work by a Ukrainian medical doctor Boris Tschlenoff, based in Switzerland, discusses the future of Russia, with a hope it will develop in a democratic federal republic. 8°, 24 pp., later blue cloth binding with gilt lettering (lacking original wrappers, slightly age-toned, old hand-written numbers on the inner side of the boards, otherwise in a good condition).
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- Books, India, New Acquisitions: December 2020
- SANSKRIT LANGUAGE / CALCUTTA IMPRINT: Sankhyadarshana or Aphorisms of a Theistic Philosophy by Maharshi Kapila with Commentary of Vijnanavikshu
- 1,200.00€
- A rare edition of Samkhya Darsana, a text related to the Yoga school of Hinduism, was published by the Sanskrit College of Calcutta. 8°. 246 pp., original wrappers with lettering (slightly age-toned and stained, tiny chips and tears in margins, but overall inside in a good clean condition, later stripe on the spine).
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- Books, New Acquisitions: October 2020, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- SCIENCE IN THE OTTOMAN WORLD: علم حيوانات و نباتات [The Knowledge of Animals and Plants]
- 1,800.00€
- An early illustrated Ottoman zoology and botany book in a magnificent red morocco binding is a translation of a contemporary German book. The translation, made by a medical doctor to sultan Abdulmejid I, Hekimbaşı Salih Efendi, during the time of the Tanzimat, was a major contribution to Ottoman understanding of the Western contemporary biology and terms, which provided the grounds for…
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- Books, New Acquisitions: November 2020, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS / MODERN GEOMAGNETISM: رهنماى سفاين [Guide of Vessels / Rehnümayı Sefain or Rehnümâ-yi Sefâin]
- 2,000.00€
- The first Ottoman book on the modern geomagnetism and binnacle, including an almost always missing rotating volvelle Small 4°: 332 pp. with an illustrated title page, charts and one illustrations, 3 double-page illustrations including a colour lithograph, folding chart, a page with mounted volvelle, composed of two parts and a string and instructions on the last page, original errata…
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- Balkans, Europe, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: December 2020, Serbia
- SERBIA
- 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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- Armenian Books, Books, New Acquisitions: December 2020
- SILENT MOVIES / ARMENIAN PRINTING IN ALEXANDRIA: ՃԱԼՄԱ ԼԱ ՏՈՒՊԼԸ (ԶՈՅԳ ՃԱԼՄԱՆԵՐԸ) ԶՈՅԳ ՃԱԼՄԱՆԵՐԸ. ԽՈՐՀՐԴԱՎՈՐ ՊԱՏՄՎԱԾՔՆԵՐ
- 450.00€
- [Chalma la tuplě, kam, Zoyg Chalmanere / Jalma la Double. Mysterious Stories] A rare book in Armenian language, printed in Alexandria, Egypt, is a translation of a French orientalist novel and is accompanied with monochrome photographs from a contemporary popular French silent movie Jalma la Double. 8°. 365 pp. with 16 interleaved colour photographs, [1], newer three-quarter calf…
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- Books, New Acquisitions: December 2020, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- SILENT MOVIES / OTTOMAN EPHEMERAL SERIES
- 1,600.00€
- A charming complete series of 12 pamphlets in Ottoman Language with biographies of contemporary American silent movie actors combined with a presentation of one Russian and two Turkish silent movie stars offers a valuable insight in the modern society of the new Republic of Turkey and its perception of the popular culture of the West. 12 issues (complete). 12°.…
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- New Acquisitions: December 2020, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- SILENT MOVIES / OTTOMAN LANGUAGE / BEN HUR: خارق العاده پر و غرام. … بن هور
- 550.00€
- An exceedingly rare illustrated program for the 1925 silent movie Ben Hur with Ramon Novarro was issued for the movie theatre in Konya, Turkey. Large 4°. 6 pp., [2 pp.] with black and white illustrations, printed on thin paper, unbound, as originally published (leftovers of old mounted and rubber taxation stamp on the cover, tiny holes in the…
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- Asia, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: December 2020, South-East Asia
- SINGAPORE & BORNEO
- 320.00€
- 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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- Asia, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: September 2020, South-East Asia
- SINGAPORE & SUMATRA: صوماطرا اطيه سى [Island Sumatra]
- 230.00€
- Chromolithograph. 10 x 13,5 cm (4 x 5.3 inches). Slightly stained, overall in a good condition.
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- Books, New Acquisitions: October 2020, Slavica
- SLOVENIAN / YUGOSLAV BOOK DESIGN – PHOTOMONTAGE: Predmestje. Roman [The Suburbs. The Novel]
- 120.00€
- 8°, 217 pp., [2 pp.] blank, original grey cloth binding with black lettering, original illustrated dustjacket (minor staining and foxing, dust jacked slightly dusty and reinforced in the margins with restored tiny tears and loss of paper, otherwise in a good condition).
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- Books, New Acquisitions: September 2020, Slavica
- SLOVENIAN DIASPORA IN THE USA: Nekoliko pravopisa [A Bit of Grammar]
- 35.00€
- 12°. 24 p., original wrappers with lettering (old label and some scratches on the spine, a „Duplicate“ and library stamp on the title page, otherwise in a good condition).
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- Books, New Acquisitions: September 2020, Slavica
- SLOVENIAN POETRY IN GERMAN LANGUAGE / WWI: Slovenische Kriegs- und Soldaten- Lieder [Slovenian War and Soldier Poems]
- 620.00€
- A collection of Slovenian national and famous poems was translated into German during WWI, to encourage the Slovenian soldiers, who were fighting for the Austrian emperor against Italians. This is a rare luxury edition, which was issued on hand-made paper in 50 examples only, all of which were signed by the editor and translator Dr. Rudolf von Andrejka and given…
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- Africa, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: December 2020
- SOUTH AFRICA : قاپ [Cape]
- 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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- Africa, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- SOUTH AFRICA / GOLD MINING / ENGINEERS’ ‘MASTER PLAN’: Kinross Mines Ltd. – Underground Plan – 1:2,500.
- 2,500.00€
- A colossal ‘master plan’ of the Kinross Gold Mine in Transvaal (measuring 1.9 x 1.7 metres!), made by engineers around 1970 to showcase every detail of the immense subterranean world of one of South Africa’s largest and most productive gold operations; the mine since became world famous for the 1986 Kinross Mining Disaster, which highlighted the Apartheid regime’s horrific record…
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- Australia, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: December 2020, New Zealand
- SOUTH AMERICA: يكى جنوبى امريقا [New South America]
- 550.00€
- A very rare, large format, separately issued map of South America, 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 and…
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- Australia, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: September 2020, South Pole
- South Pole, Australia and South America
- 180.00€
- Chromolithograph. 8,5 x 13,5 cm (3.3 x 5.3 inches). Slightly stained, overall in a good condition
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- Asia, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: December 2020, South-East Asia
- SOUTHEAST ASIA: جزأير هند [Indian Islands]
- 200.00€
- 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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- Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: September 2020, Sri Lanka
- SRI LANKA: سيلان آطه سى [Seylan Atası]
- 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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- Europe, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: October 2020, Russia
- ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA: Планъ С. Петербурга съ указаниемъ казенныхъ строеній, садовъ, парковъ, сѣти конно-железныхъ дорогъ и проч.
- 850.00€
- [Plan of St. Petersburg with depictions of Government Buildings, Gardens, Parks, Horse-Railroad Networks, etc.]. Rare – one of the great 19th Century maps of St. Petersburg, exactingly detailed and produced through award-winning techniques of colour lithography, issued by Alexey Ilyin’s Cartographic Establishment, Russia’s premier commercial mapmaker. Lithograph in colour, folding into original bluish-grey printed paper wrappers, with the…
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- Americas, Caribbean, New Acquisitions: October 2020
- ST. THOMAS, U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS / CHARLOTTE AMALIA HARBOR / JEWS IN THE WEST INDIES: West Indies – Virgin Islands. Harbour of St. Thomas surveyed by Lieut. G. B. Lawrence, R.N. 1851… Corrections by Captain Nares, H.M.S. Challenger, 1873.
- 620.00€
- An attractive large format sea chart of Charlotte Amalie Harbor, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, predicated upon detailed surveys made by Britain’s Royal Navy in 1851, but here updated to 1912, only five years before the Danish Virgin Islands were sold to the United States, featuring a wealth of details on the town and its environs including major public institutions, Jewish…
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- Archives and Documents, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- SUEZ CANAL MANUSCRIPT ARCHIVE – FERDINAND DE LESSEPS AUTOGRAPHS
- 5,500.00€
- This is a valuable manuscript archive relating to the Suez Canal, the project that utterly revolutionized global transportation, commerce and communications. It is highlighted by a detailed letter written by one of the major stakeholders in project, written from Alexandria only a few days after Sa’id Pasha, the Viceroy of Egypt, formally approved Ferdinand de Lesseps’s proposal to build…
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- SYRIA – ALEPPO / MIDDLE EAST / OTTOMAN CARTOGRAPHY: حلب ولآيت [Halep Viayet / Vilayet Aleppo]
- 160.00€
- Postcard. Lithography in colour (Very Good, slightly age-toned, verso small later annotations in the corner, a tiny piece of corner missing) 13 x 9 cm (5.11 x 3.5 inches).
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- SYRIA: سوریه ولايتى [Suriye 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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- Africa, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: November 2020
- TANZANIA / RWANDA / BURUNDI – WORLD WAR I IN EAST AFRICA: German East Africa. Scale 1:2,000,000 or 1.014 Inches = 32 Miles.
- 1,200.00€
- A seemingly unrecorded special ‘emergency’ issue of Max Moisel’s groundbreaking map of Deutsch-Ostafrika (today’s mainland Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi), issued in haste by British War Office immediately following the outbreak of World War I, whereupon East Africa became a surprisingly intense conflict theatre; the present example bearing evidence of field use, featuring contemporary manuscript additions. Photolithographic print, with contemporary…
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- Books, New Acquisitions: September 2020, Turkica
- TATAR PRINTING IN THE NAZI POW CAMPS / ANTI-SOVIET PROPAGANDA / WWII: Tatar Xalьq Çьrlarь [Tatar chalyq čyrlary / Tatar National Poems]
- 650.00€
- An extremely rare pamphlet with Tatar nationalistic anti-Soviet songs was printed in a Nazi POW camp in a program to retrain the Muslim prisoners of war from the Soviet Union to fight on the German side. 12°. 66 pp. with black and white illustrations, [2 pp.] blank, colour illustrated wrappers, stapled (slightly age-toned and stained, otherwise in a good…
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- Books, New Acquisitions: December 2020, Turkica
- TATARS IN BULGARIA: قريمك قورتولوشى آڭـيلماسى
- 220.00€
- A rare newspaper by the Crimean Tatars, printed in Dobrich in Bulgaria, with a contribution from the Tatars from Warsaw [Kırımın Kurtuluşu Anılması / Commemoration of the Liberation of Crimea] 8°. 34 pp., with two illustrations, [2 pp.] index, modern wrappers (slightly age-toned and stained, sporadic old repairs in white margins, small holes, cause from an old binding in the…
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- Africa, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: October 2020
- TUNISIA: Carte de la Régence de Tunis dressée d‘après les cartes nautiques de la Marine anglaise, les cartes de l‘Algérie et de la Tunisie publiées par le Depôt de la guerre franc̦ais et les itinéraires des voyageurs européens, surtout de feu M. Wilmanns par Henri Kiepert.
- 350.00€
- A rare map of Tunisia made by Heinrich Kiepert, the great German cartographer who was the world’s foremost authority on the geography of the Arab World, published the year that France colonized the country; the map features a wealth of topographic, infrastructure, ethnographic and archaeological details, some of which were gleaned from the recent expedition of the German historian Gustav…
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- Books, New Acquisitions: September 2020, Turkica
- TURKESTANI NATIONALISM / PRINTING IN EXILE: 1917نچى ززج خاطره پارچالارى
- 620.00€
- A rare publication by a leader of the extremist nationalist Turkestani movement in Berlin Mustafa Shokay, who eventually sided with the Nazis with a goal to unify Turkestan during the WWII, describes the revolutionary year 1917. 8°. 96 pp with black and white portraits, later black cloth binding with lettering on the cover and spine, pink endpapers (sporadic small…
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- Avantgarde, Books, New Acquisitions: September 2020, Turkica
- TURKISH AVANTGARDE / NÂZIM HIKMET: 835 Satır [835 Lines]
- 520.00€
- The second edition of Nazim Hikmet’s fine avantgarde poetry book from 1929 was republished with a different cover, made by a poster and book designer Ali Suavi (1910 or 1913-1994), who was more known as an award-winning photographer Suavi Sonar. 8°. 48 pp., original illustrated wrappers (a tiny worm-hole in the outer white margin of the first half of…
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- Books, New Acquisitions: September 2020, Turkica
- TURKISH AVANTGARDE / NÂZIM HIKMET: Kafatası. Facia, 3 kısım 15 bap [The Scull: Tragedy, 3 acts]
- 850.00€
- 8°. 103 pp, [9] advertisements, original illustrated wrappers (paper with minimal staining and tiny folds in edges, old signature on the title page, wrappers with minor foxing and wear, especially on the spine).
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- Books, New Acquisitions: October 2020, Slavica, Turkica
- UYGHUR – CHINESE – RUSSIAN DICTIONARY: 维-汉-俄词典 ئويغورچه ـ خه نوچه ـ روسچه لوغات Уйгурско-Китайско-Русскйи Словарь
- 920.00€
- [Uyghur – Chinese – Russian Dictionary] A rare, important Uyghur – Chinese - Russian dictionary was written in prison by a later Chinese politician Burhan Shahidi of Uyghur / Tatar roots, while serving a sentence for supporting Trotsky under the rule of the Chinese warlord Sheng Shicai. 8°. Title page, 9. pp (first 6 pages mispaginated with 2…
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- Books, New Acquisitions: October 2020, Turkica
- UYGHUR / KAZAKH LANGUAGE / LONDON IMPRINT – BIBLE نجات نینگ یولی
- 250.00€
- 12°. [2] title page, 27 pp., [2], original blue wrappers with printed title, stapled (wrappers with minor foxing, dents and staining, otherwise in a good condition).
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- Books, History, New Acquisitions: October 2020, Slavica
- WARSAW GHETTO / ROME IMPRINT / POLISH II CORPS: Życie i śmierć ghetta warszawskiego [Life and Death in the Warsaw Ghetto]
- 350.00€
- The first edition of a report on the life in the Warsaw Ghetto was published in Rome after the liberation in WWII by a member of the Polish 2nd Corps. 8°, 19 pp., [3 pp] blank, original wrappers with lettering, stapled (minor wear to the spine, otherwise in a good, clean condition).
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- Books, New Acquisitions: October 2020, Slavica
- WARSAW UPRISING / UNDERGROUND PRINTING / WWII: Na barykadach Warszawy [On the Baricades of Warsaw]
- 520.00€
- A rare mimeographed newspaper in Polish language with patriotic short literary texts was printed in the first days of the Warsaw Uprising. Large 4°, mimeographed title page, 5 pp., [1 pp.] mimeographed text, stapled, old owner’s stamp on the lower corner of the title page (sightly stained, otherwise in a good condition).
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- Arabic Books, Books, New Acquisitions: October 2020
- WESTERN MEDICAL EDUCATION FOR YOUNG ARAB WOMEN / MEDICAL AND HEALTH CARE FOR BABY: تربية الطفل. تأليف الدكتور سروبيان الاختصاصي بفن التوليد وطب الاولاد وطبيب مستشفى اللادي كرومر وماجاء الاطفال المتروكين بمصر
- 680.00€
- [Child Rearing. Written by Dr. Serobyan, the specialist in obstetrics and pediatrics, the doctor of the Lady Cromer Hospital and the orphanage of abandoned children in Egypt] A rare manual in Arabic language on modern Western medical care for babies was published by the Office of the Public Education and written by a medical doctor of the Lady Cromer…
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- WORLD WAR I MIDDLE EAST / LEBANON / ISRAEL / PALESTINE / SYRIA / JORDAN / EGYPT / SUEZ CANAL: Operationskarte / Beirut.
- 650.00€
- Rare - a seminal map used for strategic planning by German commanders during the Sinai and Levant theatre of World War I, a classified work created under the supervision of the orientalist Franz Gustav Taeschner for the German General Staff, it depicts all details necessary to inform broad military movement during one of the most dramatic and surprising campaigns of…
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- Archives and Documents, Europe, Germany, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: October 2020
- WORLD WAR II – ALLIED BOMBING OF GERMAN CITIES MAP ARCHIVE
- 3,500.00€
- A fascinating archive relating to the World War II Allied Bombing of Germany, featuring 7 maps of German cities especially designed to be read in the cockpit by Allied pilots during their final approach towards striking their targets, here featuring maps of Berlin, Munich, Frankfurt, Nuremberg, Pölitz (now a part of Szczecin, Poland) and Hanau (Hessen), plus a blank ‘Bomber…
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- Archives and Documents, Asia, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- WORLD WAR II MIMEOGRAPHED ARCHIVE / U.S. ARMED FORCES INDIA-CHINA DIVISION / NEWSLETTER PRINTED ABOARD SHIP
- 1,200.00€
- A fascinating original mimeographed archive concerning the return of U.S. servicemen from the India-China theatre in the immediate wake of World War II, in this case a group of army officers travelling aboard the ‘USS Anderson’ from Karachi to New York; including a custom guide and map of Karachi; a description of the Suez Canal with a World map; special…
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- Europe, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: October 2020, Ukraine
- WORLD WAR II UKRAINE / OPERATION BARBAROSSA / TANK WARFARE / THIRD REICH CARTOGRAPHY: Ukraine: Straßenkarte.
- 650.00€
- A very rare, large format map of Ukraine made by the General Staff of the German Army on the eve of Operation Barbarossa, the Nazi ‘blitzkrieg’ invasion of the Soviet Union, featuring advanced intelligence on the condition of highways and roads for the use of officers commanding tanks and armoured vehicles; the present example being a unique artefacts hailing from…
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: December 2020
- WWI PALESTINE / ISRAEL / BATTLE OF JERUSALEM: Syria / Jerusalem (Kuds-Esh-Sherif).
- 1,200.00€
- Rare – one of the most important of the maps made by the Egyptian Expeditionary Force during World War I, depicting Southern Palestine with the Ottoman-German Gaza-Beersheba defensive line, as well as the vicinity of the Battle of Jerusalem (1917), one the great British triumphs of the war in the Middle East, published in Cairo by the Survey of Egypt…
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- Europe, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: October 2020
- WWI PICTORIAL MAP: Europa 1914
- 1,200.00€
- Halftone and colour printing on newsprint, 38.5 x 51 cm (15.1 x 20 inches) (soft fold, tiny chips in margins, otherwise in a good condition).
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- Europe, History, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: October 2020
- WWI PICTORIAL MAP: Europäische Treibjagd [European Hunting Party]
- 1,200.00€
- Colour lithograph 39 x 44.5 cm (15.3 x 17.5 inches), contemporary stamp in the lower white margin (in a good condition).
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- Africa, Americas, Europe, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: December 2020, WWII Maps
- WWII ‘BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC’ / U-BOATS / THIRD REICH CARTOGRAPHY: Nord-Atlantischer Ozean maszstab auf 32° Breite 1: 12 000 000 Linien gliecher magnetischer Maẞweisung für 1940 höhen und tiefen in metern Abkürzungen und Zeichen siehe Karte Nr. 1 1911.
- 850.00€
- An exceedingly rare sea chart of the North Atlantic Ocean printed for the ‘Oberkommando der Marine’ (Nazi German Navy High Command) early in World War II, depicting the entire theatre of the ‘Battle of the Atlantic’, the terrifying 5-year long contest between the German U-boats and the navies of Britain, Canada and the Unites States, described as the “longest, largest,…
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- Books, New Acquisitions: October 2020, Slavica
- WWII FEMALE POLITICAL PRISONERS / SLOVENIAN THEATRE PLAY PRINTED IN TRIESTE: Svet brez sovraštva
- 85.00€
- [World without Hate] 8°, 61 pp., [3 pp.] blank, original illustrated wrappers, stapled (wrappers with light foxing and tiny folds in margins, otherwise in a good condition).
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- Africa, Europe, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: November 2020
- WWII IN NORTH AFRICA / SICILY / D-DAY / FRANCE / GERMANY / SOLDIERS’ ITINERARY CARTOGRAPHY: The Route of The Ninth Division Thru the Natousa & Etousa Nov. 8, 1942 – June 1945.
- 650.00€
- A fascinating itinerary map of the route of the U.S. Army’s Ninth Infantry Division during their World War II active combat tours, featuring their routes in North Africa, Sicily, England, France (including the D-Day Landings) and Germany; published in Germany only 2 months after the end of the war as a memento for the troops – notably, one of only…
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- Africa, Madagscar, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: October 2020
- WWII MADAGASCAR / BRITISH INVASION OF MADAGASCAR – OPERATIONS ‘IRONCLAD’ AND ‘STREAM LINE JANE’: Madagascar et dépendances. Carte routière.
- 1,200.00€
- An extraordinary artefact from the World War II British Invasion of Madagascar, being a very rare large format early automotive map of the island printed by the French colonial mapping service in Tananarive (Antananarivo), but here used by a British army officer as a strategic aid, bearing extensive manuscript additions marking the progress of Operations ‘Ironclad’ (the capture of Diego-Suarez)…
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- Europe, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: October 2020, Portugal
- WWII POLAND – ŁÓDŹ / HOLOCAUST: Plan der Stadt Lodsch.
- 850.00€
- A deeply disturbing but historically important map depicting Łódź, Poland shortly after it was conquered by the Nazis in early World War II; all the of place and street names have been changed from Polish to German nomenclature and all signs of the city’s Polish population and Jewish community (which numbered over 30% of the city’s residents) has been erased;…
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- Europe, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: October 2020
- WWII THIRD REICH CARTOGRAPHIC PROPAGANDA: Unser Vormarsch im Osten / Tatsaschen gegen Lügen. [Our Advance in the East / Facts against Lies].
- 420.00€
- A rare and well-designed work of WWII Third Reich cartographic propaganda proclaiming the success of the ‘Operation Barbarossa’, the ongoing German ‘blitzkreig’ invasion of the Soviet Union, made by the Nazi Propaganda Directorare. Colour off-set print (Very Good, some light wear along old folds, a few tiny marginal tears with no loss), 84 x 59 cm (33 x 23…
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: October 2020
- YEMEN (NORTH) GEOLOGICAL MAP / SATELLITE PHOTOGRAPHIC CARTOGRAPHY / PETROLEUM INDUSTRY
- 1,200.00€
- An impressive paring of colossal related maps, being 1) a map of North Yemen (a country that existed from 1967 and 1990, until Yemen was unified) constructed from NASA Landsat imagery, leading to the creation of 2) the first edition of the first scientific geological map of North Yemen; highly sophisticated works created by the geologists Maurice J. Grolier and…
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- Books, New Acquisitions: October 2020, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- YEMEN / OTTOMAN-ZAIDI CONFLICT: يمنه استجالب نظر دقت [Yemen‘e İsticlab-ı Nazar-ı Dikkat].
- 1,200.00€
- A seminal source on the history of Yemen written at the critical juncture towards the end of the rebellion of the Zaidi Imam Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din and before World War I, written by the pro-Ottoman popular author İbnü’l-Hatib Cemaleddin. Tall 8°. 386 pp., [2 pp.], original wrappers with printed lettering and ornaments on the front cover, original green cloth…
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- New Acquisitions: December 2020, Slavica
- YUGOSLAV 1980s ART: Neue Slowenische Kunst. Problemi-6
- 220.00€
- An early publication on the art collective Neue Slowenische Kunst 4°. 64 pp. printed and xeroxed text with illustrations in black, purple and green, [24 pp.] text in purple and black and white with illustrations, [32 pp.] interleaved colour plates on thicker paper with illustrations on both sides, original silver wrappers with black lettering and illustrations (small dents, folds…
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- Books, New Acquisitions: December 2020, Slavica
- YUGOSLAV BOOK DESIGN / MID-CENTURY WINDOW DRESSING: Temeljni nauki o aranžiranju in dekoriranju
- 75.00€
- [The Basics of Window Dressing] A Slovenian / Yugoslav pioneering work on the mid-century window dressing 8°. 116 pp. with black and white illustrations and interleaved colour plate, printed from both sides, [4 pp.], original illustrated boards, linen spine (slightly bumped on the corners, otherwise in a good condition).
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- Books, New Acquisitions: November 2020, Slavica
- YUGOSLAV BOOK DESIGN: Na Drini most. [Na Drini ćuprija / The Bridge on the Drina].
- 95.00€
- One of the best novels of the 20th century with one of the most photogenic dust jackets we have ever encountered 8°. 339 pp., [4], original brown cloth binding with illustrated title and lettering to spine, original illustrated dustjacket (dustjacket with tiny tears and small scuff marks to corners, otherwise in good condition).
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