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- Armenian Books, Books
ARMENIAN POETRY: Գուսանի սերը [Gusan’s Love].
- 250.00€
- A rare book of poems in Armenian language were written by Gusan Ashot, an author and performer of Armenian lyrics. First edition. From the library of an Armenian author and researcher Levon Mikirtitchian.
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- Armenian Books, Books
ARMENIAN PRINTING ABROAD: Կորիզ [The Stone]
- 120.00€
- A uncommon collection of Armenian poetry by an Aleppo-born Harutiun Berberyan was published in Bairut, Lebanon. Signed by the author and with a collector’s stamp by an Armenian author and researcher Levon Mikirtitchian (Lewon Mkrtchʻean).
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- Armenian Books, Books
Armenian Typography / Photomontage: Ալբոմ հայ նշանագրերու առթիւ 1500-ամեակի հայ տառերու գիւտին եւ 400-ամեակի հայ տպագրութեան
- 850.00€
- [Albom hay nshanagreru : aṛtʻiw 1500-ameaki hay tareru giwtin ew 400-ameaki hay tpagrutʻean / Album on the Armenian Letters on the 1500th Anniversary of the Invention of the Armenian Letters and the 400th Anniversary of the Armenian Printing] A charming ephemeral pamphlet with a series of Armenian letters, composed of portraits and images of monuments and important places…
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- Armenian Books, Books, Design
Armenian Typography: Ոսկետետր ասեղնագործութեան: (Պրօտըրի եւ Քանըվա) : Սկզբնատառեր անուներու, մականուններու անջատ եւ ընդելուզիկ = Cours complet de broderie artistique et de Canevas
- 1,400.00€
- [Complete Course for embroidery... Separate and Initial Letters of Names and Nicknames] Obling folio , [2] portraits and dedications, original guard, 29 pp. patterns, printed in blue, additional interleaved page between pp. 21 and 22 (missing original guards on the first portrait, second guards slightly age-toned, first two pages with light foxing and water-staining, other pages clean, binding…
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- Books
ART DECO – GASTRONOMY – BAVARIA: Bayerische Fachausstellung des Gastwirts- und Hotel-Gewerbes. Augsburg. Bayerische Fachausstellung für das Gastwirts- u. Hotelgewerbe. Augsburg.
- 110.00€
- [Bavarian Professional Exhibition of Restaurant and Hotel Industry. Augsburg June 26 – July 12]. An informative pamphlet with a rich selection of 1920s Bavarian advertisements on gastronomy and with highly decorative art-deco wrappers was published in 1925 in Augsburg.
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- Bindings, Slavica
ART DECO BINDING: Album slovenskih književnikov [Album of Slovenian Authors].
- 380.00€
- A book of portraits of Slovenian male and female authors from 16th to early 20th centuries was privately bound in a highly decorative contemporary art deco binding.
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- Bindings, Books
ART DECO BINDING: La formation de la Yougoslavie (XVe – XXe siècles). Ouvrage couronné par l’Institut d’Etudes slaves de l’Université de Paris
- 380.00€
- A scientific work on the formation on Yugoslavia by a French Slavist Émile Haumant was contemporary bound in a highly decorative art deco binding with tricolour fore-edge colouring and tooling.
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- Books, Design, Slavica
Art Deco Ski Manual: Smučanje [Skiing]
- 220.00€
- A rare Slovenian ski manual with highly decorative art deco drawings in black and blue without text with rare original wrappers. Large 12°: 139 pp. with a full page portrait, and black and blue illustrations, [5 pp.], original linen binding with red lettering, original dustjacket. Appendix 1: large 12°. 11 pp., [5 pp.] stapled. Appendix 2: large 12°.…
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- Books, Slavica
Art Nouveau Book Design / Slavica: Poezije
- 640.00€
- A stunningly well preserved art nouveau luxury edition of poetry by a Slovenian author Dragotin Kette with wonderful illustrations by an academic artis Maksim Gaspari, made in Munich and influenced by contemporary art nouveau. Large 12°. Portrait with a facsimile signature, XXXVI, [1 pp] text with a portrait, protected with original guard, facsimile of a letter protected with original…
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- Books
ART NOUVEAU: Kralj zlate reke ali crna brata [The King of the Golden River or The Black Brothers].
- 120.00€
- A translation of Ruskin’s children’s book with original zincograph engravings by a Yugoslavian academic painter Anton Koželj in Art Nouveau style.
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- Books
ART-DECO BINDING: Prizori iz bodocega zivljenja [Scènes de la vie future].
- 150.00€
- An Art-Deco binding with printed photomontage on linen was designed by a Slovenian architect Janko Omahen.
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- Asia, Central Asia, China, India, Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: October 2020, South-East Asia
ASIA – OTTOMAN SCHOOL ATLAS: آسيا [Asya]
- 320.00€
- 8°. 15-21 pp., facing pages marked with the same number, with colour lithographed plates, printed covers, stapled (light staining and foxing, otherwise in a good used condition).
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- Books
ASTRONOMY – GIOVANNI RIZZI-ZANNONI – ROGER BOSCOVICH – LATITUDE OF ISTANBUL
- 2,800.00€
- A unique, previously unrecorded letter by the Italian cartographer and scientist Giovanni Rizzi-Zannoni with his measurements of the latitude of Istanbul, based on the suggestions personally received from a Dalmatian geographer Roger Boscovich during his stay in Istanbul to observe the Transit of Venus in 1761.
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- Books, Ottoman Books, Science, Turkica
Astronomy / American Scientist in Beirut: اكتشاف مسألة جديدة من الجغرافيا الرياضية اي علم هيئة الارض
- 1,500.00€
- [Observation of the New Problem of Mathematical Geography, i.e. the Science of the Earth's Sphere] An exceedingly rare treatise on the length of the day in various parts of the Earth, written by an Arab / Libyan scholar Muhammad Kamal al-Tarabulsi with an introduction of a Beirut-based American scholar Robert West 8°. 23 pp. with illustrations, printed in yellow…
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- Books, Ottoman Books, Science, Turkica
Astronomy in the Ottoman Empire / Moon: قمر [Kamer / The Moon]
- 550.00€
- 8°, 206 pp. with black and white photos, contemporary red boards and black calf spine with gilt decoration and lettering, old small paper stamp with annotations in Ottoman on the cover (minor age-toning and foxing, old collector’s rubber stamp on the title page, otherwise a very good example in highly decorative original binding, with only slight wear to the…
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- Books
ATATÜRK – NUTUK: Die neue Türkei 1919-1927. Die nationale Revolution, 1920-1927 [The New Turkey 1919-1927. The National Revolution, 1920-1927].
- 160.00€
- A German translation of the second part of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk’s famous marathon speech in the parliament, which lasted over 36 hours in 6 days, is preserved with an extremely rare dust jacket, decorated by a striking powerful portrait of the Turkish leader.
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- Africa, Books, Geography, Maps and Prints
ATLAS – MISSIONS IN AFRICA AND CHINA: Karten über das Arbeitsfeld der Berliner Mission.
- 550.00€
- A very rare atlas made by the Berlin Missionary Society, one of the most important missionary organizations in Africa and China during the 19th and early 20th Centuries, featuring 16 original maps made by missionary cartographers, including important figures such as Alexander Merensky and Bernhard Struck, containing 14 maps of South and East Africa and 2 maps of China;…
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- Australia, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: December 2020, New Zealand
AUSTRALIA AND OCEANIA: يكى اوقيانوسيا [New Oceania]
- 850.00€
- A very rare, large format, separately issued map of Australia and Oceania that is perhaps the last great map of the continent to be printed in Ottoman Turkish script, with attractive colours and adorned with the flags of major African states and colonies, published in Istanbul for the Kitabhane-yi Sudi bookshop. Colour off-set print (Good, some light staining, wear…
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- Avantgarde, Books
AVANT-GARDE, SIGNED COPY: Ватромети и бајка о Актеону [Vatrometi i bajka o Akteonu]
- 700.00€
- An uncommon Serbian book with poems by Todor Manojlović with the cover design by an Avant-Garde artist Mihailo S. Petrov, a member of Group Oblik. Signed by the author.
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