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.
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…
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…
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…
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. …
[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,…
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…
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).
![ALBANIA & MONTENEGRO: ِاشقودره ولآيت [İşkodra Vilayet / Scutari Vilayet].](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/65982-265x331.jpg)
![ALBANIA, CORFU, GREECE: يانينه ولايتى [Janina Vilayet]](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/69208-2-265x331.jpg)
![BITOLA -MANASTIR / NORTH MACEDONIA / OTTOMAN CARTOGRAPHY / POSTCARD MAP: مناستر ولآيتى [Vilayet Manastir]](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/68976-1-265x331.jpg)
![HUNGARY, CROATIA, SERBIA & BOSNIA: [Novissima et Accuratissima Hungariae cum circumjacentibus Regnis et Principatibus]](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/63089-265x331.jpg)
![Ottoman Mss. / Telegraph Map – Greece / North Macedonia / Albania: [No Title – Map of the Telegraph System in the Vilayets of Salonica, Monastir, Janina and Scutari].](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/alb-265x331.jpg)
![SARAJEVO: Walny’s Plan von Sarajevo und Umgebung [Walny’s Map of Sarajevo and Surroundings]](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/69383-265x331.jpg)