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- Books, Ottoman Books
Socialism in the Ottoman Empire: سوسياليزم [Sosyalizm / Le socialisme, notions élémentaires]
- 820.00€
- The first book on socialism, published in the Ottoman Empire, in the year of the foundation of the Ottoman Socialist Party. 8°, 124 pp., [4 pp.] index and blank, later marbled wrappers (missing front original wrapper, very light staining, otherwise in a good condition).
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- Books, Geography, History
Société des sciences physiques, naturelles et climatologiques d’Alger. 19e réunion des délégués des Société savantes à la Sorbonne. Algérie, Tunisie et Afrique centrale. Création d’un service régulier de caravanes entre Djerba et le Centre de l’Afrique
- 450.00€
- French Colonization of Tunisia Trade with Central Africa Algiers Imprint [Society of Physical, Natural and Climatological Sciences of Algiers. 19th meeting of Members of Scientific Society at the Sorbonne. Algeria, Tunisia and Central Africa. Creation of a Regular Caravan Service Between Djerba and Central Africa]. A rare pamphlet in French language, printed in Algiers and published in…
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- Books, History, Ottoman Books, Turkica
SOKOLLU MEHMED PASHA / OTTOMAN HISTORY: صوقوللو [Sokollu]
- 480.00€
- 8°. 334 pp., [1 p.], 20th century cloth with gilt lettering on the cover and spine (sheets with light foxing and staining, old hand-written price on the inner side of the back cover, overall in a good condition).
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- Books
SOLAR ECLIPSE OF 1851: Die totale Sonnenfinsterniß am 28. Juli 1851 eine der größten dieses Jahrhunderts und die höchst merkwürdigen und räthselhaften Erscheinungen, welche dabei zu beobachten sind. Mit besonderer Rücksicht auf Wien und die österr. Monarc
- 600.00€
- An excellent little treatise on the appearance of the Solar Eclipse of July 28, 1851 over the Austrian Habsburg Empire, illustrated with a custom map - extremely rare – 1 of only 2 known examples.
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- Africa, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: December 2020
SOUTH AFRICA : قاپ [Cape]
- 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, Geography
SOUTH AFRICA / AFRIKAANS ALMANAC / PRETORIA IMPRINT: Staats-Almanak der Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek 1897.
- 350.00€
- Rare – an issue of the Afrikaans-language almanac issued by the government of the South African Republic (ZAR); featuring a vast wealth of information on the Afrikaner society during the greatest gold rush in world history and upon the eve of the Second Anglo-Boer War; evidently a special hardcover example bearing the stamp of the chief state printer.
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- Africa, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: September 2020
SOUTH AFRICA / GOLD MINING / ENGINEERS’ ‘MASTER PLAN’: Kinross Mines Ltd. – Underground Plan – 1:2,500.
- 2,500.00€
- A colossal ‘master plan’ of the Kinross Gold Mine in Transvaal (measuring 1.9 x 1.7 metres!), made by engineers around 1970 to showcase every detail of the immense subterranean world of one of South Africa’s largest and most productive gold operations; the mine since became world famous for the 1986 Kinross Mining Disaster, which highlighted the Apartheid regime’s horrific record…
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- Africa, Books, Geography, Maps and Prints
SOUTH AFRICA / LESOTHO / EARLY ORANGE FREE STATE IMPRINT / ‘INTELLECTUAL PROPAGANDA’: Correspondence between the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope and the President of the Orange Free State, with Annexes thereto relative to the Basuto War and Convention e
- 1,200.00€
- An extremely rare early Bloemfontein imprint featuring seminal primary sources concerning the end of the Orange Free State-Basotho Wars which secured the Anglo-Afrikaner balance of power in the region, as well as the security of what would become Lesotho, commissioned by the Volksraad of the Orange Free State as a work of ‘intellectual propaganda’ advancing its national claims.
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- Australia, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: December 2020, New Zealand
SOUTH AMERICA: يكى جنوبى امريقا [New South America]
- 550.00€
- A very rare, large format, separately issued map of South America, 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 and…
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- Australia, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: September 2020, South Pole
South Pole, Australia and South America
- 180.00€
- Chromolithograph. 8,5 x 13,5 cm (3.3 x 5.3 inches). Slightly stained, overall in a good condition
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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€
- 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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