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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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- 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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- 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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- Books
- ALPHABET BOOK: Буквар за неписмене [Bukvar za nepismene / Alphabet Book for Illiterate].
- 180.00€
- A scarce alphabet book for illiterate adults from Southern parts of Yugoslavia, published a year after the liberation.
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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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- Books
- 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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- Books, Slavica
- AMERICAN URBANISM: Wielkie miasto przemysłowo-handlowe [A Large Industrial and Commercial City]
- 140.00€
- 8°. 74 pp., [2 pp.] index, original illustrated wrappers (wrappers slightly stained with tiny tears and chips, otherwise in a good condition).
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- Books
- 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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