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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€
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- 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€
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- 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€
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- 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€
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- 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€
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- 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€
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- 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€
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- [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€
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- 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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