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- Africa, Books, Geography, Maps and Prints
AFRICA / BERLIN CONFERENCE (1884-5): Atlas von Afrika. 50 colorirte Karten auf 18 Tafeln. Mit einem geographisch-statistischen text.
- 960.00€
- A scarce, pioneering atlas of Africa with 18 colour plates featuring 50 maps designed by the leading Vienna map house of Freytag & Berndt, including some sophisticated works of thematic cartography and original maps showcasing the level of Western knowledge of the continent, made to capitalize upon the Africa-mania that swept the general public in the wake of the…
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- Africa, Books, Geography, Maps and Prints
Africa / Ephemera: آفريقا قطعه سى [The Africa Part]
- 120.00€
- A rare ephemeral Ottoman map of Africa was printed on the back cover of a notebook 8°. [48 pp.] manuscript in pencil on paper with printed stripes, stapled, original pink illustrated wrappers (front cover with light water-staining, tears, loss of image and recently repaired with scotch tape, map with soft folds and tiny tears in the margins, staples…
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- Africa, Bindings, Books, Geography, Maps and Prints, Ottoman Books, Turkica
AFRICA TRAVELOUGE: افريقا سياحتنامه سى [Afrika Seyahatnâmesi / Africa Book of Travels, i. e. The Heart of Africa / Im Herzen von Afrika]
- 1,500.00€
- A complete set of the contemporary Ottoman translations of Schweinfurth’s influential travelogue to Africa. 8°: 911 pp. with black and white illustrations, folding map, coloured in outline, one toned lithograph with hand coloured details, contemporary Ottoman black calf with gilt and debossed decoration (remboîtage in a contemporary Ottoman binding) (minor age-toning and foxing, holes in the map on the crossings…
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- Books, Slavica
Afrika. Roman iz zagrebačkoga života. [Africa. A Novel from Zagreb Life]
- 95.00€
- 8°. 207 pp. with musical scores, signed by the author, bound in a contemporary marbled boards with black linen spine (minor staining, one page with light staining in the upper margin, sporadic sheets slightly loose, binding slightly worn on the edges, old signature on the top of the front endpaper, overall in a good condition).
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- Asia, India, India, Maps and Prints
AGRA, INDIA: Agra Guide Map.
- 400.00€
- A very rare ‘Restricted’ map of Agra made during World War II, when the city was feared to be a target of Japanese bombing, such that the dome of the Taj Majal was covered in camouflage, published in Dehra Dun by the Survey of India. Colour print (Good, some wear along old folds, some conspicuous toning to lower…
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- Books, Slavica
Agriculture Book, Printed in a Post-WWII DP Camp: Poljedelstvo. Travništvo [Fieldwork. Grasses]
- 480.00€
- A rare pair of mimeographed books on agriculture printed on pink paper in Slovenian language in a DP camp in Austria after WWII Two titles bound in one volume, 4°, mimeographed on pink paper with illustrations. 42 pp., [3 pp.,]. 42 pp., [2 pp.,]. Original black boards and cloth spine (boards slightly rubbed, otherwise in a good condition).
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- Books, Ottoman Books, Turkica
ALEPPO PRINTING – FIRST EDITIONS: بر آووچ صاچمه [Bir Avuç Saçma / A Bunch of Nonsense]
- 180.00€
- 8°, 156 pp., [4] with illustrated vignettes in the text, contemporary brown cloth binding without bound in wrappers (small tears and minor loss of paper in the gutter, minor staining, binding with light wear and ink staining, some sheets slightly stained in the margins, old bookdealer’s stamp on the last page, old signature and date on the title page, altogether…
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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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AMERICAN MISSION IN PERSIA: Prayer for the children of missionaries. A sermon, preached to the members of the Nestorian Mission, at Ooroomiah, Persia, January 21, 1838
- 480.00€
- A rare pamphlet on a sermon preached in Nestorian Mission in Urumia, Persia, printed in Boston, and signed by the author, Rev. Justin Perkins, “an apostle to Persia” and the first citizen of the United States to reside in Iran.
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ANARCHIST SERBIAN PAMPHLET ON MLADA BOSNA MOVEMENT: Коб револуционарне младе Босне и њених јунака [Kob revolucionarne mlade Bosne i njenih junaka / At Revolutionary Young Bosnia and Its Heroes]
- 350.00€
- A rare richly illustrated book, supporting the anarchist movement Mlada Bosna (Young Bosnia), responsible for the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, was written by a brother of one if its founders Vladimir Gaćinović, and published in Tunis.
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