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- Broadsides, History, Maps and Prints, Portrait, Slavica
TEHRAN CONFERENCE / WWII / YUGOSLAVIA: Naši narodi so složni v vojni in v miru, ki bo vojni sledil. Stalin – Roosevelt – Churchill.
- 450.00€
- [Our nations shall work together in war and in the peace that will follow] A rare, seemingly unrecorded poster with portraits of Joseph Stalin, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill was printed in Slovenian language in Great Britain, probably to be distributed in the Yugoslav Partisan camps on the territory of the liberated territory in Italy. Lithograph, 48 x…
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THE BALKANS: Christen und Türken: Ein Skizzenbuch von der Save bis zum Eisernen Thor [Christians and Turks: A Sketchbook from Sava to the Iron Gates].
- 250.00€
- A first-hand account report, based on the notes of a traveller and medical doctor Isaac Salomon Kapper from Prague, describes Slavic nations and Ottoman Empire on their political border.
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- Books, Design, History, Slavica
The Beatles. Beatli. Avtorizirana biografija v dveh knjigah [The Beatles: The Authorised Biography]
- 120.00€
- The first Slovenian translation of the first and only authorized biography of the Beatles, made by a Slovenian musician Tomaž Domicelj with an attractive cover design 2 volumes, 8°: 310 pp. with black and white illustrations, [2 pp.]; 335 pp. Original tan cloth binding with gilt lettering on the spine, original illustrated wrappers (Good, used condition, wrappers with…
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- Books, India, India, Maps and Prints
The Calcutta Journal, or, Political, Commercial, and Literary Gazette, vol. III, no. 71.
- 1,200.00€
- [Including the Maps:] Sketch of the positions taken up before the Fort of Nowah 1819 and Plan & Sketch of the Fort of Nowah 1819. An important issue of ‘The Calcutta Journal’, one of the highest quality, most influential and controversial newspapers in India of the first third of the 19th century, notably featuring an authoritative and detailed eyewitness…
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- Archives and Documents, Books
THE GABRIEL AUBARET ARCHIVE OF OTTOMAN ECONOMIC AND TRANSPORTATION HISTORY
- 55,000.00€
- Including approximately 1,300 mostly unpublished primary sources: *The Secret Early Archives of the Ottoman Public Debt Administration. *The Archives of the project to link-up the Rumelian Railway, leading to the completion of the line for The Orient Express. *The Papers concerning the French-led bid for the Anatolian Railway (later the Baghdad Railway). *Important Archives concerning the Régie, the Ottoman Tobacco…
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- Books, Ottoman Books, Turkica
THE GREAT GAME / KHIVA, UZBEKISTAN: خيوه فى محرم ١٢٩٠ [Khiva in the Month of Muharram 1873]
- 950.00€
- 12°: [2] blank, 135 pp., folding map, original printed cover, bound in a mid-20th century brown cloth binding with lettering on the cover and spine, old typed annotations on the inner side of the back cover (old hand-written price on the inner side of the back cover, map with minor tears in margins and pin-size holes on the crossings of…
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THE GREAT GAME: A Few Words on Our Relations with Russia: including some Remarks on a Recent Publication by Colonel De Lacy Evans, entitled “Designs of Russia”. By a Non-Alarmist.
- 850.00€
- Rare – the first great counter-argument to Colonel George de Lacy Evans’ ‘Designs of Russia’, widely considered to be the intellectual genesis of ‘The Great Game’, by the esteemed economist Thomas Tooke.
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THE LITTLE PRINCE: La eta princo. Kun akvareloj de la aŭtoro [The Little Prince: With Watercolours by the Author].
- 350.00€
- A rare first translation of The Little Prince to Esperanto was printed in 1961 in Orléans and was accomapnied with black and white illustrations, based on the original drawings.
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- Books, Ottoman Books, Science, Turkica
The Rabies Vaccine: M. Pasteur et ses découvertes et spécialement de la méthode préventive contre le rage. Conférence faite d’abord, à Stamboul, à l’Ecole Impériale de Médicine le 7 mars et ensuite à Péra, au Syllogue Littéraire Grec le 22 mars 1887.
- 480.00€
- [M. Pasteur and His Discoveries and Especially Regarding the Preventive Method Against Rabies. Lecture Given First, in Istanbul, at the Imperial School of Medicine on March 7, and then in Péra, at the Greek Literary Sylloge on March 22, 1887]. 8°: 41 pp., original front wrapper, later red cloth binding with gilt lettering (good, minor staining and age-toning,…
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THE SIEGE OF VIENNA (1683) / SPANISH IMPRINT: Salida en publico, a cavallo, del Rey nuestro Señor Don Carlos Segundo, que Dios guarde, à dar gracias al Real Convento de Nuestra Señora de Atocha el Lunes 8 de Noviembre de 1683 por la Gran Vitoria conseg
- 650.00€
- A very rare and authoritative contemporary account of how the Spanish Royal Court publicly greeted the arrival of the news of the Christian victory at the Siege of Vienna (1683), including a detailed description of the elaborate cavalcade of King Carlos II to the Royal Convent of Our Lady of Atocha and the reception of the Austrian ambassador at…
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- Books, Slavica
THEATER – YUGOSLAV BOOK DESIGN: Za vozom boginje Talije. Spomini potujočega igralca
- 95.00€
- [Behind a Chariot of the Goddess Thalia. Memoires of a Travelling Actor] 8°. 111 pp., with a full-size portrait and black and white illustrations within text, original yellow wrappers with illustrated cover (wrappers slightly stained and with minor foxing, internally with minor staining and tiny tears on the inner side of the portrait, otherwise in good condition).
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THEATRE – CABARET – MUNICH – FIN DE SIÈCLE INTIMES THEATER Offizieller Program-Anzeiger des Intimen Theaters. Müncher Künstler-Cabaret [Official Program of the Intimate Theatre. Munich Art Cabinet]
- 95.00€
- An unrecorded program for an Intimate Theatre in Munich, ca 1900.
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THEATRE – WWI POW CAMP BILBEIS, EGYPT: 4 Programs for the Theatre Performances of the British at a POW Camp in Bilbeis, Egypt 1919.
- 550.00€
- This is an ephemeral set of 4 theatre programs, made in 1919, by the British at the POW camp Bilbeis, Egypt.
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THEATRE / FEMALE AUTHORS: Ein Mord in der Kohlenbrenner Gasse [A Murder in the Coal Burners’ Lane]
- 180.00€
- A manuscript in German or Austrian version of a farce, written for the theatre by a female author Marie Gordon.
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- Maps and Prints, Ottoman Books
THEMATIC CARTOGRAPHY / EDUCATION HISTORY / RARE TURKISH PROVINCIAL PRINTING: Cihan İktisat Atlası [Universal Economic Atlas].
- 420.00€
- A rare and highly attractive little Turkish thematic atlas featuring 11 World maps detailing the locations of key agricultural and mineral resources; made by Ömer Lütfi, a secondary school teacher in Adana, in the spirit of President Atatürk’s sweeping educational reforms; published in Mersin, a stellar example of provincial Anatolian printing.
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THEMATIC CARTOGRAPHY / STATISTICAL ATLAS: Haack Atlas Weltverkehr. Weltatlas des Transport- und Nachrichtenwesens [Haack Atlas of Transportation. World Atlas of Transport and Communications]
- 55.00€
- The first edition of the precise German atlas of transportation, made by the Haack Institute in East Germany.
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- Books, Ottoman Books, Science, Turkica
Theory of Relativity in the Ottoman Empire: آينشتايز نظريه سى. مكان، زمان، و كتله مفهوملرينن تبدلى
- 1,200.00€
- A rare book on the theory of relativity was written by one of the first Ottoman electrical engineers Mehmed Refik and contains various experiments, which should be tested in order to confirm Einstein’s theory, published in the final form in 1916. Large 8°. 40 pp. with black and white illustrations, original illustrated wrappers (minor foxing, wrappers slightly scratched…
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TOBACCO CATALOGUE: Oesterreichische Tabak-Regie. Illustrierter Waren-Katalog der Österreichischen Tabakregie.
- 480.00€
- The first edition of an official catalouge of tobacco products, published in 1928, by the Austria Tobacco Direction, was beautifully illustrated by an Austrian artist Franz von Zülow.
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