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- ALBANIA & MONTENEGRO: ِاشقودره ولآيت [İşkodra Vilayet / Scutari Vilayet].
- 250.00€
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- A very rare lithographed postcard map of the Scutari Vilayet in Ottoman script was made in Istanbul during the Young Turks Regime by a Romanian born publisher Tüccarzâde İbrahim Hilmi Çığıraçan.
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- Balkans, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- BITOLA -MANASTIR / NORTH MACEDONIA / OTTOMAN CARTOGRAPHY / POSTCARD MAP: مناستر ولآيتى [Vilayet Manastir]
- 120.00€
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- Postcard. Lithography in colour (Very Good, slightly age-toned) 10 x 14cm (5.11 x 3.5 inches).
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- Balkans, Bulgaria, Greece, Maps and Prints, Turkey
- BULGARIA / GREECE / BALKAN WARS DIPLOMACY IMPORTANT CONTEMPORARY MANUSCRIPT ADDITIONS: Stanford’s Large Scale Map of the Country between Bulgaria & Constantinople.
- 1,200.00€
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- A very rare, large format map of the traditional region Thrace especially commissioned by the British Foreign Office from the leading mapmaker Edward Stanford Ltd. to depict the theatre of the ongoing First Balkan War, a conflict between the Ottoman Empire and the ‘Balkan League’; showcasing a vast wealth of topographical and military information; the present example importantly featuring extensive…
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- Balkans, Books, Bulgaria, Europe, Geography, Maps and Prints, Romania, Serbia
- DANUBE RIVER – BOAT CAPTAIN’S ATLAS: Navigations Karte Der Donau von Semlin an bis zu ihrem Ausfluss ins Schwarze Meer : zur genauesten Kentnis aller in derselben befindlichen Inseln, Sandbänke, Wirbel, Klippen u.s.w. so wie aller an den beiderseitigen Ufern gelegenen Städte, Dörfer und andere Ortschaften, wobei zugleich die verschiedene Breite und Tiefe des Stroms bestimt angegeben ist, zuerst aufgenomm[m]en von dem k.k. Pontonier Hauptmann von Lauterer, da derselbe den k.k. Herrn Internunzius Freyherrn von Herbert bis Ruszug führte, hierauf aber weiter ausgearbeitet und verbessert von dem k.k. Hauptmann Freyherrn von Tauferer bei Gelegenheit, als derselbe das erste Seeschiff aus der Kulpa auf der Donau nach Konstantinopel führete.
- 2,800.00€
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- Very Rare – the first broadly accurate and detailed map of the course of the lower Danube River, that flowed 1,400 km from Belgrade to the Black Sea; a colossal 7-sheet work (bound in atlas form) that would measure a course approximately 420 cm (almost 14 feet!) long if joined, based on the first serious attempt to map this vital…
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- Balkans, Books, Bulgaria, Europe, Geography, Greece, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: December 2020, Turkey
- GREECE / BULGARIA / TURKEY – THRACE / WORLD WAR I / HISTORICAL ATLAS / CARTOGRAPHIC PROPAGANDA: La Question de Thrace. Grecs, Bulgares et Turcs.
- 750.00€
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- Edward Stanford, 1919. Very rare – the most sophisticated cartographic analysis of the ‘Thrace Question’, concerning the geographic partitioning of the region which was one of the great bones of contention between Greece, Bulgaria and Turkey in the wake of World War I; an atlas of 19 full page colour plates of historical and ethnographic maps collected from the most authoritative…
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- Balkans, Bosnia, Croatia, Europe, Hungary, Maps and Prints, Serbia
- HUNGARY, CROATIA, SERBIA & BOSNIA: [Novissima et Accuratissima Hungariae cum circumjacentibus Regnis et Principatibus]
- 450.00€
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- Balkans, Maps and Prints, Montenegro
- Montenegro – Important Ottoman Cartography
- 4,500.00€
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- Extremely rare – the finest printed Ottoman map of Montenegro and the surrounding region ever created, the culmination of forty years of advanced military and boundary surveys, produced by the Ottoman Military Survey Office in Istanbul in 1875, on the eve of the Montenegrin–Ottoman War 1876 to 1878, which marked the Turks’ last stand in the land they called Karadağ…
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- Balkans, Europe, Middle East, Others, Turkey
- Ottoman Empire Telegraph Maps / Thematic Cartography
- 1,100.00€
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- Very Rare - a matching pair of relatively early ‘flow maps’ of the telegraph systems in the both the European and Asian parts of the Ottoman Empire, published entirely in Ottoman Turkish text, fine examples of advanced thematic cartography detailing one of the world’s most important communications systems that was literally the nexus between the East and the West. …
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- Balkans, Books, Croatia, Geography, History, Hungary, Maps and Prints, Ottoman Books, Serbia, Turkey, Turkica
- OTTOMAN MILITARY ATLAS: محاربات مشهوره عثمانه البومى
- 3,500.00€
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- [Muharebat-ı meşhure-i osmaniye albümü / Album of Famous Ottoman Battles] A monumental portfolio of the famous Ottoman battles, edited by a famous military leader Ahmed Muhtar Pacha during WWI to commemorate the glorious military past of the Ottoman Empire Folio. Title page, 33 unbound double page maps, partly printed in colours, with text, 5 single page maps,…
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- Balkans, Europe, Maps and Prints
- Ottoman Mss. / Telegraph Map – Greece / North Macedonia / Albania: [No Title – Map of the Telegraph System in the Vilayets of Salonica, Monastir, Janina and Scutari].
- 1,800.00€
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- A stellar, large format, original manuscript map of the telegraph system in the Ottoman Balkans, specifically in modern Greece, Northern Macedonia and Albania; with text entirely in Ottoman Turkish, it was drafted in 1889 seemingly as working document by the governmental administration that managed the empire’s telegraph network – an extraordinary survivor documenting a critical medium that revolutionized society during…
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- Balkans, Bosnia, Europe, Maps and Prints, Serbia
- PLAYING CARD – CROATIA & BOSNIA: Croatia, Bossena, Sclavoina.
- 380.00€
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- SARAJEVO: Walny’s Plan von Sarajevo und Umgebung [Walny’s Map of Sarajevo and Surroundings]
- 650.00€
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- A detailed map of fin de siècle Sarajevo Colour lithography, 55 x 75 cm (inches) (soft folds with repaired small tears, minor age-toning, but overall in a good condition).
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