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- Maps and Prints, Ottoman Books
‘The Invisible Sultan’ Artistic Curiousity Fine Watermarks Ottoman Court Patronage: [A Stationary Sheet featuring Elaborate Watermarks of the Portrait of the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed V Reshad and the Imperial Coat of Arms].
- 1,780.00€
- A stationary sheet with extraordinary, elaborate watermarks featuring a portrait of Ottoman Sultan Mehmed V Reshad and the imperial coat of arms, a curious work of court patronage. Stationary sheet bearing elaborate watermarks, original vertical centrefold (Good, a couple light irregular folds and a crease emanating from centrefold into watermarks, stain in lower-left side), 20.5 x 25.5 cm…
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- Maps and Prints
[BULGARIA – BORDER PATROL MAP:] Карта на България. Мѣрка 1:800,000. (Разположение на Българскитѣ Погранични Постове.) [Map of Bulgaria. Scale 1:800,000. (Location of the Bulgarian Frontier Posts.)].
- 300.00€
- An extremely rare, large-format separately-issued map of Bulgaria that specifically details the nation’s international boundaries and border patrol infrastructure, printed in 1904 in Sofia for official use, during a tense period leading to major warfare in the region.
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- Armenian Books, Maps and Prints, Posters
[ISTANBUL OPERA BROADSIDE / ARMENIAN-OTTOMAN PRINTING:] Teatro Naum in Pera in Costantinopoli / Per la sera di Mercoledì 16 Maggio 1855 / Serata Straordinaria Devoluta a totale Beneficio. Del primo Buffo Comico Assoluto. Vincenzo Galli prima rappresentazi
- 7,700.00€
- An amazing survivor – an early Istanbul opera broadside advertising the 1855 single-show performance of Gaetano Donizetti’s ‘Don Pasquale’ at the famous Naum Theatre in Pera (Beyoğlu), Constantinople, headlined by the legendary basso buffo singer Vincenzo Galli, published locally in Italian, Ottoman Turkish, Greek, Armenian and Armenian printed in the Ottoman Alphabet!
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- India, Maps and Prints
[Srinagar] Kashmīr & Jammu. / 1:63.360. / Kashmir North (Bāramūla), Kashmir South (Anantnāg) / No. 43 J16.
- 550.00€
- Srinagar, Kashmir, India / Indian Urbanism / Calcutta Imprint An extremely rare map of Srinagar and environs, the capital of Kashmir and famed as one of the most beautiful places in the world, the map full of intriguing cultural details, published in Calcutta by the Survey of India. Colour heliozincograph (Very Good, clean and bright with attractive colours,…
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East
2 HAJJ CERTIFICATES: Mecca, Medina
- 880.00€
- 2 sheets, each circa 40 x 55 cm (15.8 x 21.6 inches) (soft folds, minor staining, small tears in margins, overall in a good condition)
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- Europe, Maps and Prints, Russia
28 LUBKI: Russia, Cossacks & Ottomans
- 5,500.00€
- A series of 28 Russian lubki showcases the main protagonists of the Caucasian war, battles with the Ottomans, and Cossacks.
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- Africa, Maps and Prints
A Map of The Gold Coast and Part of Ashanti… 1873.
- 1,800.00€
- A rare, fascinating and historically significant map of what is today Ghana, showing the British Colony of the Gold Coast and the vast inland domains of the Ashanti Empire, a powerful, culturally sophisticated state that was long Britain’s arch-nemesis in West Africa; compiled and issued by the world-leading map house of Edward Stanford Ltd., it showcases the best knowledge…
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- Armenian Books, Maps and Prints
A rare theatre program was issued in French, Ottoman and Armenian in Istanbul circa 1910 for the matinee and evening performance of the Ottoman operetta Leblebici Horhor Ağa in the Orieantal Theater (Şark Theatre) in the Şehzadebaşı neighborhood in Istanb
- 380.00€
- A rare ephemeral program written in French, Armenian and Ottoman, was published for a for the matinée and evening performance of the Ottoman operetta Leblebici Horhor Aga, written by an Armenian author Tigran Tchoukhajian.
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- Maps and Prints
A SET OF 8 MINIATURE EMBOSSED (RAISED RELIEF) PORTRAITS ON CARD OF BRITISH LUMINARIES
- 1,000.00€
- A finely executed set of miniature embossed portraits of British luminaries, contained within an interesting envelope, suggesting that the set was posted from India to London in 1891.
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- Maps and Prints
ABSINJA I WLOCHY [Abyssinia and Italians].
- 180.00€
- A Polish political broadside showcasing the Italian occupation of the Ethiopian Empire, as a warning to the upcoming situation.
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East, Photography
Aden, Yemen
- 1,500.00€
- Four large photographs with German titles depicting Aden in the late 19th century
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- Africa, Maps and Prints
ADEN, YEMEN: Aden in Arabia
- 120.00€
- Copper engraving, 14,5 x 18,5 cm (5.7 x 7.3 inches) (slightly stained in margins, but overall in a good condition).
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- Asia, Maps and Prints
AFGHANISTAN / PAKISTAN: Geological Map of the country between Sibi and Girishk [with] Geological Map of the neighborhood of Kandahar.
- 200.00€
- The first geological map of the critical corridor between Girisk, Afghanistan through Kandahar and Quetta to Sibi, Pakistan, by the Austrian-British adventurer Carl Griesbach.
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- Africa, Maps and Prints
AFRICA – SÃO TOMÉ: África Ocidental – Carta da Ilha de S. Tomé. Escala 1/100000, 1922.
- 350.00€
- The first edition of the first map of the island of São Tomé to be predicated upon systematic triangulated surveys, by Gago Coutinho, who subsequently became a world famous aviator, published in Lisbon in 1922.
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