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. …
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 large map, lithographed in brown and blue, was printed in Ottoman Language in Istanbul in 1911, in the time of the Italo Turkish War, and has manuscript annotations showing the movement of Ottoman troops during the Second Balkan War of 1913.
The rare map of the Balkans, Austria and Southern Germany from the ‘Rome Ptolemy’, a monument in the early history of engraving and the cartography of Central and Southeastern Europe.
Colour print, 66 x 79 cm (26 x 31.1 inches), with an original brochure with an index: 8°, 21 pp., wrappers with title, stapled. . Housed in an original illustrated wrappers with a flap (a small hand-written monogram of the previous owner, otherwise in a near-mint unused condition with a minimal stains on the spine of the wrappers).
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