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- Books, Slavica, Turkica
- Soviet proletarian literature / Baku, Azerbaijan: ياشاماق استه يورم [Yaşamak istiyorum / Я хочу жить / I Want to Live]
- 320.00€
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- An Azerbaijani translation of a Russian short novel by Alexander Neverov was published in Baku as a part of the program to introduce the Soviet proletarian literature to Azerbaijan in the 1920s. 8°, 18 pp., later brown cloth binding with gilt lettering (slightly age-toned and stained, old hand-written price in the inner side of the last board, old signature…
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- Books, Ottoman Books
- SPIRITUALISM / SUPERNATURAL: مفتاح الاسرلر. بقاى روح. جلبارواح [Miftah Al-Asarlar / A Key to the Secrets. Surviving Souls – Calling of the Dead]
- 650.00€
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- A rare Ottoman pamphlet on calling the spirits of the dead, featuring a ghost appearing at one of the seances. 8°: 32 pp., original illustrated wrappers, stapled (staples rusty, wrappers loose with tiny chips, light age-toning, paper fragile, inside in a stable condition).
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- Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: September 2020, Sri Lanka
- SRI LANKA: سيلان آطه سى [Seylan Atası]
- 180.00€
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- Chromolithograph. 9 x 13,5 cm (3.5 x 5.3 inches). Minor staining, overall in a good condition.
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- Books, Other
- St. Christopher (St. Kitts) / Basseterre Imprint: Howe’s Almanac, for 1842: Second after Bissextile or Leap-Year. The Astronomical Calculations are adapted, by a Scientific Gentleman of Nevis, to the Meridian of St. Christopher, (Lat. 17. 18. N., Long. 62. 40. W.) and serving, with Little Variation, for all the Leeward Islands.
- 1,400.00€
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- Exceedingly rare – no other examples traced – a St. Christopher (St. Kitts) Almanac published in Basseterre by the Howe family, the island’s oldest dynasty of printers, featuring a wealth of valuable information on St. Kitts and the related islands of Nevis, Tortola and Anguilla - with excellent provenance, having belonged to Francis Spencer Wigley, the Attorney General and…
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- Europe, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: October 2020, Russia
- ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA: Планъ С. Петербурга съ указаниемъ казенныхъ строеній, садовъ, парковъ, сѣти конно-железныхъ дорогъ и проч.
- 850.00€
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- [Plan of St. Petersburg with depictions of Government Buildings, Gardens, Parks, Horse-Railroad Networks, etc.]. Rare – one of the great 19th Century maps of St. Petersburg, exactingly detailed and produced through award-winning techniques of colour lithography, issued by Alexey Ilyin’s Cartographic Establishment, Russia’s premier commercial mapmaker. Lithograph in colour, folding into original bluish-grey printed paper wrappers, with the…
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- Americas, Caribbean, New Acquisitions: October 2020
- ST. THOMAS, U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS / CHARLOTTE AMALIA HARBOR / JEWS IN THE WEST INDIES: West Indies – Virgin Islands. Harbour of St. Thomas surveyed by Lieut. G. B. Lawrence, R.N. 1851… Corrections by Captain Nares, H.M.S. Challenger, 1873.
- 620.00€
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- An attractive large format sea chart of Charlotte Amalie Harbor, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, predicated upon detailed surveys made by Britain’s Royal Navy in 1851, but here updated to 1912, only five years before the Danish Virgin Islands were sold to the United States, featuring a wealth of details on the town and its environs including major public institutions, Jewish…
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- STROZZI: Giovan Battista Strozzi, Brief mit Empfehlungsformel und Unterschrift „Gio: Batta Strozzi“, Rom 24. September 1639.
- 250.00€
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- STYRIA, Austria: Kurzgefaßte Geschichte der Steiermark [A Short History of Styria].
- 150.00€
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- A first edition of Wartinger's History of Styria was bound in a contemporary decorative green binding.
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- Archives and Documents, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- SUEZ CANAL MANUSCRIPT ARCHIVE – FERDINAND DE LESSEPS AUTOGRAPHS
- 5,500.00€
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- This is a valuable manuscript archive relating to the Suez Canal, the project that utterly revolutionized global transportation, commerce and communications. It is highlighted by a detailed letter written by one of the major stakeholders in project, written from Alexandria only a few days after Sa’id Pasha, the Viceroy of Egypt, formally approved Ferdinand de Lesseps’s proposal to build…
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- Books, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- Supplement du Servet-i-Funoun. No 1000. Les Anciens et les Nouveaux Collaborateurs du Sevret-I-Funoun qui vient de célébrer le 1000me numéro hebdomadaire de son existence. 1891-1910.
- 250.00€
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- A rare informative supplement to the 1000 issue of the Ottoman cultural and literary magazine Sevret-i-Funoun contains portraits of the authors of the Ottoman new literature. Folio. [20] with black and white illustrations, unbound as originally published (minor traces of wear and staining, spine of the first sheet and the inner sheet repaired with an old tape, a…
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- SYRIA – ALEPPO / MIDDLE EAST / OTTOMAN CARTOGRAPHY: حلب ولآيت [Halep Viayet / Vilayet Aleppo]
- 160.00€
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- Postcard. Lithography in colour (Very Good, slightly age-toned, verso small later annotations in the corner, a tiny piece of corner missing) 13 x 9 cm (5.11 x 3.5 inches).
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- SYRIA: سوریه ولايتى [Suriye Vilayeti]
- 180.00€
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- Postcard. Lithography in colour (Very Good, slightly age-toned, tiny tears and chips in margins ) 10 x 14cm (5.11 x 3.5 inches).
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