A very rare lithographed postcard map of the Aleppo 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…
A rare ephemeral artefact from the Gallipoli Campaign of World War I, being a mimeographed map made in the field by Ottoman soldiers, depicting the theatre of the Battles of Krithia (Alçitepe), a series of four major altercations fought between British Imperial-French forces and the Turks between April and August 1915. Mimeograph in purple (Very Good, old vertical centrefold,…
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…
An exceedingly rare complete set of three detailed gigantic maps of Istanbul is the first official survey project of the city, made in the newly founded Republic of Turkey.
Lithograph with a pasted down instructions and manuscript annotations in pencil and pink colour, 70 x 102 cm (27.6 x 40.1 inches) (Very Good, soft folds).
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 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…
Extremely important - the definitive map of the critical Ari Burnu battle sector, labelling Anzac Cove, used by Allied-Anzac forces during WWI’s Gallipoli Campaign, a foundational event in the history of Australia, New Zealand and the Republic of Turkey; drafted in Cairo under the direction of T.E. Lawrence at the Arab Bureau’s Intelligence Office, predicated upon a recently captured Ottoman…
A unique example of a rare and important map covering most of the Gallipoli Peninsula, issued in 1912 by the Ottoman War Ministry, predicated upon the most recent surveys; one of the seminal maps used by the Ottoman and German forces defending the Dardanelles during the WWI Gallipoli Campaign; an extraordinary example featuring wartime manuscript additions regarding the Entente beachheads…
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![WWI Gallipoli Campaign / Anzac Cove-Ari Burnu-Suvla Bay / Important Ottoman Cartography: قلعا سلطانيا [Kale-i Sultaniye / The Dardanelles]](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/gal33-265x331.jpg)