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- Animals, Books, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- RACING HORSES: ياريث آتلرىو ادمانى [Yarış atları ve ıdmanı / Racing Horses and Training]
- 550.00€
- 8°. Original front wrappers with lettering, [4 pp.] introduction, 186 pp., [2 pp.], contemporary purple cloth, contemporary stencilled endpapers (minor staining, age-toning and foxing, light scratches on the front wrappers, binding slightly bumped and scratched, traces of old paper label on the spine, overall in a good used condition).
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- Czech Republic, Europe, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: October 2020
- RAISED RELIEF MAP – PRAGUE (CZECH REPUBLIC): Die Umgegend von Prag in plastischer Aufnahme von Prof. A.L. Hickmann, k.k. Bezirks-Schulinspector.
- 680.00€
- An extremely rare and intriguing raised relief map of Prague and its environs, created by the innovative professor, Anton Hickmann, whose passion was popularizing geography; published in Reichenberg, in northern Bohemia (today Liberec, Czech Republic). Lithograph in colour, pressed into raised relief on thick card (Good, even toning and some wear to highest points of relief, edges worn and…
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- Books, Geography, Slavica
- RED SEA / SAUDI ARABIA / YEMEN / EGYPT / PILOT BOOK / RIJEKA (CROATIA) IMPRINT: Materiali per la geografia fisica e per la navigazione del Mar Rosso con quattro piani di porto e dodici tabelle meteorologiche.
- 1,200.00€
- A very rare Austro-Hungarian pilot for the Red Sea, illustrated by 4 colour lithographed sea charts, being the first separate printing of Captain Wilhelm Kropp’s observations and mapping of that critical maritime space, created in the wake of the opening of the Suez Canal, published in Fiume (today Rijeka, Croatia) in the Italian language for the benefit of Istrian and…
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- Africa, Books, Maps and Prints, Réunion
- RÉUNION: Neue Charte von der Insel Bourbon od Reunion nach der Zeichnung von Bory de St. Vincent
- 140.00€
- Copper engraving, 21.5 x 16 cm (8,5 x 6.3 inches) (in a good condition).
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- Books
- ROBINSONADE: Nil Hammelmanns, als tapfern Nachfolgers des weitberuhmten See-Landers Nil Stairs, fortgesetzte merckwurdige Reisen…
- 750.00€
- A first edition of popular German Robisonade, which was reprinted in the following years, in a decorative binding.
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- Books, Children's Books, German Books
- ROBINSONADE: Robinsons Reise um die Welt. Ein unterhaltendes u. belehrendes Lesebuch f. d. Jugend. Amerika. [Robinson’s Travel Around the Worls. An Entertaining and Educational Reading Book for Young People. America].
- 950.00€
- An extremely rare illustrated volume of Robinson’s travels through America, from Mississippi, to Canada, Greenland, the Caribbean to South America, was published in German language in 1816.
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- Books, New Acquisitions: October 2020, Other
- ROMANI LANGUAGE / UKRAINE: The Ukrainian and South Russian Gypsy dialects
- 480.00€
- A book on the Ukrainian language and the language, used by the Roma in Ukraine, was published in English language by the Academy in Saint-Petersburg.
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- Books, Maps and Prints
- ROMANIA – CONSTANȚA: Planul Orasului Constanta După ultimele date oficiale, cu cele din urmă parcelări, ȋn care s’a indicat loturile și careurile. Intocmit de: Conductor-Inginer I. Dobrescu / Desenat N. Ionescu / 1915 / Scara 1:5000.
- 650.00€
- An exceedingly rare – seemingly unrecorded – large format official city plan of Constanța, Romania’s primary seaport and a bustling centre of great cultural diversity, after recent surveys by the city’s chief engineer Ioan Dobrescu, published on the eve of Constanța’s capture by the Central Powers during World War I.
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