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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: November 2020, Turkica
- TATAR PRINTING IN TOKYO: الاتقان فى ترجمة القران
- 1,200.00€
- [Proficiency in Translating the Quran / Al-Itkan fi tarjimati al-Qur’an] A rare photographical reproduction of instructions for translating the Quran, originally published in Kazan in Tatar language in 1907, was issued by the Tatar community in Tokyo in 1950. The last pages list the names of the people from the Tatar community, who donated money for this publication. …
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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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- Books, New Acquisitions: December 2020, Turkica
- TOKYO TATAR ISLAMIC PRESS: هفتيك شريف [Haftyak Sharif]
- 550.00€
- A collection of most important passages from the Quran, photolithographed by the Tatar Islamic Press in Tokyo and based on the 1894 edition. 12°, [2 pp.] title page, 173 pp. photolithographed text, [2 pp.] imprint in Tatar and Japanese, original black cloth binding with gilt lettering, golden edges (cracks in gutters with sporadic loose sheets, binding lightly scuffed…
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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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