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- Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: September 2020
WORLD WAR I MIDDLE EAST / LEBANON / ISRAEL / PALESTINE / SYRIA / JORDAN / EGYPT / SUEZ CANAL: Operationskarte / Beirut.
- 650.00€
- Rare - a seminal map used for strategic planning by German commanders during the Sinai and Levant theatre of World War I, a classified work created under the supervision of the orientalist Franz Gustav Taeschner for the German General Staff, it depicts all details necessary to inform broad military movement during one of the most dramatic and surprising campaigns of…
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- Africa, Books, Geography, Maps and Prints
WORLD WAR II U-BOAT ATLAS MOROCCO / WEST AFRICA INNOVATIVE SPACE VISUALIZATION: Atlas der Bodenbeschaffenheit des Meeres. 9. Lieferung. Westküste Afrikas zwischen 7° und 34° Nord-Breite. Bearbeitet von der Deutschen Seewarte.
- 2,500.00€
- A very rare, large-format atlas of the sea floor off the western and northwestern coasts of Africa, from Morocco down to Sierra Leone, made by the German Navy during the height of World War II expressly for the use of U-Boats; with 24 plates of highly sophisticated and brightly coloured sea charts predicated upon novel, recent intelligence, it was…
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- Europe, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: October 2020, Ukraine
WORLD WAR II UKRAINE / OPERATION BARBAROSSA / TANK WARFARE / THIRD REICH CARTOGRAPHY: Ukraine: Straßenkarte.
- 650.00€
- A very rare, large format map of Ukraine made by the General Staff of the German Army on the eve of Operation Barbarossa, the Nazi ‘blitzkrieg’ invasion of the Soviet Union, featuring advanced intelligence on the condition of highways and roads for the use of officers commanding tanks and armoured vehicles; the present example being a unique artefacts hailing from…
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- Books, History, Slavica
WW I – MILITARY HISTORY AND POETRY: Српска Африкијада. Наши у Африци. Srpska Afrikijada. Naši u Africi [Serbian Africana. Our Solders in Africa].
- 380.00€
- An illustrated book, printed in Belgrade, gives a report on Serbian soldiers in Africa during WWI.
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- Books, History, History, Maps and Prints, Ottoman Books, Posters, Turkica
WWI – OTTOMAN EMPIRE / ANTI-ALLIED PROPAGANDA: آرش ايلرى بر مدر فلاح ايلرى
- 550.00€
- A rare ephemeral anti-British, anti-French, anti-Russian and anti-Cossack poster, made during WWI in Ottoman language by the Navy Society Broadside, 51 x 18 cm (20 x 7 inches) (soft folds, tiny holes, slightly age-toned).
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- Books, Maps and Prints, Turkey
WWI / GALLIPOLI CAMPAIGN / CAPE HELLES SECTOR / ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT / FIELD ANNOTATIONS / LAWRENCE OF ARABIA: Map of Southern Gallipoli from a Captured Turkish Map.
- 4,500.00€
- A spectacular artefact of the Gallipoli Campaign, being an extremely rare ultra large map of the Cape Hellas-Krithia battle sector issued by T.E. Lawrence’s (later ‘Lawrence of Arabia’) map department at the Intelligence Office in Cairo, predicated upon a recently “captured” Ottoman map that was the first proper survey of this critical military zone; greatly augmented by extensive and…
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- Books
WWI GALLIPOLI CAMPAIGN THE TIMES (Newspaper):The Times, Friday, January 7, 1916. – ‘Anzac and Sulva. Full Text of Sir Ian Hamilton’s Dispatch…The Story of a Splendid Failure…’
- 150.00€
- A special supplement to the ‘Times’ of London featuring the ‘Epitaph’ of WWI’s Gallipoli Campaign, being a gripping and detailed account of one of the most brutal military altercations in world history and one of the greatest ever defeats for the British Empire, written by Sir Ian Hamilton, the supreme commander of the Allied operation, just as it was…
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- Books, Geography, History, Ottoman Books, Slavica, Turkica
WWI in Ukraine: اوقراينا، روسيا و توركيه : (مقالهلر مجموعهسى)
- 480.00€
- [Ukrayna, Rusya ve Türkiye. Makaleler Mecmuası / Russia, Ukraine and Turkey. A Discussion] A pamphlet on cultural and demographic connections between Ukraine and Turkey, printed in Ottoman, in Istanbul, during World War I 8°. 71 pp., folding map, later brown cloth binding with gilt lettering (light staining and foxing, small tears in the inner margin of the…
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: December 2020
WWI PALESTINE / ISRAEL / BATTLE OF JERUSALEM: Syria / Jerusalem (Kuds-Esh-Sherif).
- 1,200.00€
- Rare – one of the most important of the maps made by the Egyptian Expeditionary Force during World War I, depicting Southern Palestine with the Ottoman-German Gaza-Beersheba defensive line, as well as the vicinity of the Battle of Jerusalem (1917), one the great British triumphs of the war in the Middle East, published in Cairo by the Survey of Egypt…
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- Books, New Acquisitions: October 2020, Slavica
WWII FEMALE POLITICAL PRISONERS / SLOVENIAN THEATRE PLAY PRINTED IN TRIESTE: Svet brez sovraštva
- 85.00€
- [World without Hate] 8°, 61 pp., [3 pp.] blank, original illustrated wrappers, stapled (wrappers with light foxing and tiny folds in margins, otherwise in a good condition).
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- Books
WWII GERMAN ALPHABET BOOK FOR SLAVIC AND AUSTRIAN CHILDREN: Lesefibel. Kinderwelt.
- 950.00€
- A rare German alphabet book was printed in the first year of WWII in Styria, Austria, a partially Slavic region, that the Nazis wanted to Germanise. Laden with political propaganda, but very high quality illustrations by the Austrian painter Norbertine von Bresslern-Roth.
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