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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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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