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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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- 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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- Maps and Prints, Middle East, Turkey
ALEPPO, SYRIA & TURKEY: حلب ولآيت [HALEP VILAYET / ALEPPO VILAYET].
- 200.00€
- 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.
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- Asia, Europe, Maps and Prints, Middle East, Near East, Turkey
ARABIAN PENINSULA / OTTOMAN EMPIRE: اسياى غرب [West Asia]
- 280.00€
- Lithograph with original colour: 18 x 23 cm (7 x 9 inches) (soft fold, slightly stained in the upper margin).
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: September 2020
ARABIAN PENINSULA:جزيرة العرب [Arabian Peninsula]
- 550.00€
- Chromolithograph. 9 x 13,5 cm (3.5 x 5.3 inches). Slightly stained.
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- Asia, Central Asia, China, India, Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: October 2020, South-East Asia
ASIA – OTTOMAN SCHOOL ATLAS: آسيا [Asya]
- 320.00€
- 8°. 15-21 pp., facing pages marked with the same number, with colour lithographed plates, printed covers, stapled (light staining and foxing, otherwise in a good used condition).
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- Asia, Maps and Prints, Middle East
ASIA: Yeni Asya Haritasi [Map of Modern Asia]
- 220.00€
- Colour lithograph, (Very Good, minor staining and tiny tears in margins, just some light wear along original folds), 58 x 82 cm (22.8 x 32.3 inches).
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East
Baghdad Region, Iraq – World War I / Mesopotamian Campaign / Calcutta Imprint: Bāghdād. Turkey in Asia and Persia. (Rough Provisional Issue, Second Edition) / No. 2C. [Baghdad Region].
- 1,500.00€
- The seminal map of the Baghdad region used by British Imperial forces during World War I’s Mesopotamian Campaign for operational planning during their two attempts to take the Iraqi capital, being the extremely rare ‘Degree Sheet’ survey of the area predicated upon the best available sources, published in 1915 in Calcutta by the Survey of India on the orders of…
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: September 2020
BAGHDAD: بغداد ولايتى [Baghdad Vilayeti]
- 180.00€
- Postcard. Lithography in colour (Very Good, slightly age-toned, tiny tears and chips in margins ) 10 x 14cm (5.11 x 3.5 inches).
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East
BATTLE OF ALEPPO / PURSUIT TO HARITAN / MANUSCRIPT MILITARY FIELD ANNOTATIONS: Karte von Mesopotamien und Syrien / Aleppo.
- 1,500.00€
- A stellar and unique artefact of World War I in the Middle East - an advanced topographical map of north-western Syria and the adjacent parts of Anatolia issued by the German Army in May 1918, with extensive contemporary manuscript additions in coloured crayon added by an Ottoman officer depicting the key military actions during the Battle of Aleppo and the…
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: September 2020
BEIRUT / LEBANON
- 220.00€
- Chromolithograph. 9 x 13,5 cm (3.5 x 5.3 inches). Minor staining, overall in a good condition.
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: September 2020
BEIRUT / LEBANON: بيروت ولايتى [Beirut Vilayet]
- 220.00€
- Chromolithograph. 9 x 13,5 cm (3.5 x 5.3 inches). Minor staining, overall in a good condition.
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: September 2020
BEIRUT / LEBANON: بيروت ولايتى [Beirut Vilayeti]
- 220.00€
- Postcard. Lithography in colour (Very Good, slightly age-toned) 10 x 14cm (5.11 x 3.5 inches).
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East
Beirut, Lebanon / Lebanese Civil War: Beirut, Lebanon Lebanese Civil War
- 650.00€
- A fascinating large format map of greater Beirut made by the U.S. Defense Mapping Agency to aid the CIA and the American military early in the Lebanese Civil War when the city was a hotbed of espionage and major faultline in the Cold War; an extremely accurate and detailed depiction based upon satellite reconnaissance, it labels every major building, street…
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East, Turkey
Carte de la Turquie d’Asie (moins l’Arabie) / Eschelle de 1 / 1 000 000.
- 2,200.00€
- The colossal, authoritative general map of Anatolia, the Levant, Lower Egypt and western Iraq made for strategic use by the French Army on the eve of World War I; these regions all being scenes of pivotal military action and espionage operations during and in the wake of the conflict, from which France played a critical (and controversial) role in the…
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- Balkans, Europe, Maps and Prints, Middle East, Turkey
DISTANCE-TIME-ROUTE MAP / OTTOMAN EMPIRE: ممالك محروسه شاهانه [Imperial Guarded Domain…]
- 3,500.00€
- The very first distance-time-route map of the Ottoman Empire, one of the great masterpieces of Hamidian Era thematic cartography, it depicts the entire realm of the Sublime Porte from Albania to Yemen, noting the travel times between hundreds of locations, including various routes of the Hajj; devised by the General Staff of the Ottoman Army and published in Istanbul.…
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- Africa, Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: December 2020
EGYPT / ISRAEL / PALESTINE / JORDAN / LEBANON / SYRIA / ARCHAEOLOGY: Carte topographique de l’Egypte et de plusieurs parties des pays limitrophes, levée pendant l’expédition de l’armée française, par les ingénieurs-géographes, les officiers du génie militaire, et les ingénieurs des ponts et chaussées, assujettie aux observations des astronomes, construite par M. Jacotin, colonel, au corps royal des ingénieurs-géographes militaires, gravée au dépôt général de la guerre, à l’échelle de 1 millimètre pour 100 mètres.
- 1,800.00€
- An absolutely stellar example of the first broadly accurate map of Egypt and Palestine, predicated upon advanced trigonometric surveys undertaken by the cartographer Pierre Jacotin on the orders of Napoleon Bonaparte during the French occupation of Egypt, considered to be one of the great achievements of Enlightenment science. Copper engraving, dissected into 32 sections and mounted upon…
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- Africa, Books, Geography, Maps and Prints, Middle East
Egypt Atlas: اطلس ابتدائى للقطر المصرى [Elementary Atlas of Egypt].
- 2,800.00€
- A very rare and important Arabic language school atlas of Egypt, commissioned by the country’s Education Ministry and Ministry of Finance, emblematic of the country’s emerging national awakening whereby Egyptians gradually regained control over their country’s economy and institutions from the British quasi-colonial regime; in this vein, such cartographic works in the Arabic language, made for the use of…
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: October 2020
IRAQ – SOVIET CARTOGRAPHY: Ирак [Irak]
- 150.00€
- Colour print, 69 x 88 cm (27.2 x 34.6 inches), with an original brochure with an index: 8°, 7 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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- Maps and Prints, Middle East
IRAQ / IRAN – PETROLEUM (OIL) HISTORY / DIPLOMATIC HISTORY: [A Complete Collection of the 3 Official Maps (on 4 Sheets) certifying the Ottoman-Persian Boundary Survey by the Shatt Al-Arab Waterway, along today’s Iraq-Iran Frontier, according to the Anglo-Turkish Declaration of July 29, 1913].
- 1,800.00€
- Extremely rare – the complete series of the 3 maps (on 4 sheets) of the Ottoman-Persian Boundary Survey in the vicinity of the Shatt Al-Arab waterway, along today’s Iraq-Iran frontier, above the head of the Persian Gulf, as mandated by the Anglo-Turkish Declaration of July 29, 1913; this boundary settlement was surveyed by Indian Army engineers under the supervision…
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East, Newly Catalogued Items: August 2022
IRAQ / KUWAIT / IRAN / PETROLEUM HISTORY / WORLD WAR I: Lower Mesopotamia between Baghdad and the Persian Gulf.
- 980.00€
- The rare first edition of the first accurate and highly detailed topographical general map of Central and Southern Iraq, Kuwait and Khuzestan (Iran), created by the British War Office, the culmination of three generations of espionage and exploration missions, capped by late breaking discoveries; the authoritative map used by both sides during World War I’s ‘Mesopotamia Campaign’, Britain’s dramatic…
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East
Iraq WWI – Mesopotamia Campaign Siege of Kut Al-Amara Ottoman Military Field Cartography “Captured” Enemy Map: [Iraq WWI – Mesopotamia Campaign. Siege of Kut Al-Amara]
- 3,600.00€
- A fascinating artefact of World War I’s Mesopotamian Campaign – an Ottoman map of the vicinity of the Siege of Kut al-Amara, one of the conflict’s most dramatic events and one of the greatest defeats in British Imperial History; crudely lithographed in theatre by Ottoman engineers, based upon a “captured” British map that was itself based on fresh, detailed…
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East
ISFAHAN / IRAN: Guide Map of Isfahan
- 220.00€
- Colour print, 73 x 60 cm (28.7 x 23.6 inches), verso text, illustrations, photograph and a map (soft folds, otherwise in a good condition).
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: September 2020
Kuwait / Iraq (Basra) / WWI Middle East / Important Ottoman Cartography: بصره [Basrah].
- 3,500.00€
- Very rare and historically important – the most detailed and accurate Ottoman map of the Kuwait and the Basra region of Iraq, issued by the General Staff of the Ottoman Army for strategic and operational planning early in World War I and during the twilight of the reign of Sheikh Mubarak Al Sabah, the ‘Father of Modern Kuwait’; depicting…
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: December 2020
LEBANON: جبل لبنان سنجاغى [Mount Lebanon Sanjak]
- 120.00€
- A map from Umûm Vilayât-ı Şâhâneyi Hâvi Küçük Atlas - Umûmî Küçük Atlas (General Small Atlas) Chromolithograph. 9 x 13,5 cm (3.5 x 5.3 inches).
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- Africa, Maps and Prints, Middle East
MAP PRINTED ON SILK / OBJECT D’ART / ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT / NAPOLEONIC CAMPAIGN IN EGYPT: A Plan of the Operations of the British Forces in Egypt from the Landing in Aboukir Bay on the 8th of March to the Battle of Alexandria March 21st inclusive.
- 3,500.00€
- An exquisite ‘objet d’art’, being a unique example of William Faden’s map of the Battles of Abukir and Alexandria (1801), France’s ‘last stand’ in Egypt, printed on silk with details richly embroidered in coloured silk thread, clearly a prestation piece made for a highly important figure. Copper engraving on silk with details contemporarily heightened in embroidery of coloured silk thread, contemporarily…
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: September 2020
MECCA, SAUDI ARABIA / YEMEN: يمن ولآيت [Vilayet Yemen]
- 450.00€
- Chromolithograph. 9 x 13,5 cm (3.5 x 5.3 inches). Minor staining, overall in a good condition.
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East
MIDDLE EAST / ARABIAN PENINSULA /CAIRO: مصر ايالتى [Misir Eyalet-i / The Eyalet of Egypt]
- 680.00€
- Chromolithograph, 51 x 34 cm (13.4 x 20 inches), (small repaired tears in the fold, sporadic light staining in white margins, but otherwise in a good condition). Istanbul: Matbaa-I Amire [1307-1309 AH [1891-1893 AD] Atlas] – Mahmud Bey Matbaası 1309 AH [1893 AD] [date on the map].
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East
NEAR EAST / JESUITS: Provinces de Syrie et de Perse Contenant 8 Résidents et 24 Jésuites.
- 200.00€
- A very rare miniature map of the ecclesiastical provinces of Syria and Persia, administrative jurisdictions of the Jesuit Order, issued not along after the Order was revived in the wake of the Napoleonic Wars.
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East
OIL-PETROLEUM HISTORY – ANGLO-PERSIAN OIL COMPANY PIPELINE / IRAN – AHWAZ, KHUZISTAN / WWI MIDDLE EAST / CALCUTTA IMPRINT: Persia. / Arabistān Province. No. 10 A. (Rough Provisional Issue 2nd Edition). [Ahwaz].
- 950.00€
- Exceedingly rare and classified - one of the first accurate surveys of the Ahwaz area of the Arabistan region of Persia (today Khuzistan Province, Iran), importantly showcasing a great stretch of the first oil pipeline in the Middle East, completed in 1912, which connected the Masjed Soleyman Oilfield with the Anglo-Persian Oil Company’s refinery at Abadan; published in the…
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- Balkans, Europe, Middle East, Others, Turkey
Ottoman Empire Telegraph Maps / Thematic Cartography
- 1,100.00€
- 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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- Maps and Prints, Middle East
RED SEA NAVIGATION: [AL WADJ, SAUDI ARABIA]. Porto di El Wish (Wedgee) / Pianta originale rilevata dall’I.R. Connoniera “Narenta” Comandante Cap. Di. Corv. W. Kropp.
- 350.00€
- An exceedingly rare map of a port in the Red Sea, printed on thin paper in Italian language, was sold separately for navigational uses. Lithograph on thin paper, each 31 x 23 cm (12.2 x 9 inches).
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East
RED SEA NAVIGATION: [EL TOR, EGYPT] Porto di Tur / Pianta originale rilevata dall’I.R. Connoniera “Narenta” Comandante Cap. Di. Corv. W. Kropp.
- 350.00€
- An exceedingly rare map of a port in the Red Sea, printed on thin paper in Italian language, was sold separately for navigational uses. Lithograph on thin paper, each 31 x 23 cm (12.2 x 9 inches).
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East, Newly Catalogued Items: August 2022
SAUDI ARABIA – JEDDAH / MIDDLE EASTERN URBANISM: خريطة مدينة جدّه / City Map of Jeddah 1982.
- 350.00€
- A large format map of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia’s main port city and the gateway to the holy city of Mecca, provided in both Arabic and English versions (2 maps on 1 sheet, printed back-to-back), created by the Saudi geographer Professor Hussein Hamza Bindagji in conjunction the Oxford University Press, capturing the city during a critical stage in its development,…
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: September 2020
SYRIA – ALEPPO / MIDDLE EAST / OTTOMAN CARTOGRAPHY: حلب ولآيت [Halep Viayet / Vilayet Aleppo]
- 160.00€
- Postcard. Lithography in colour (Very Good, slightly age-toned, verso small later annotations in the corner, a tiny piece of corner missing) 13 x 9 cm (5.11 x 3.5 inches).
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: September 2020
SYRIA: سوریه ولايتى [Suriye Vilayeti]
- 180.00€
- Postcard. Lithography in colour (Very Good, slightly age-toned, tiny tears and chips in margins ) 10 x 14cm (5.11 x 3.5 inches).
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East
THE HAJJ / MECCA, SAUDI ARABIA: A Guide Book for Safety and Security Measures during Hajj.
- 280.00€
- A fascinating, information-packed booklet produced by the Saudi Interior Ministry in the 1980s to advise Hajj Pilgrims on the customs, transportation and security details for visiting Mecca and its holy sites during the World’s greatest annual pilgrimage; published in Riyadh entirely in the English language – illustrated with 5 maps.
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: September 2020
WORLD WAR I MIDDLE EAST / LEBANON / ISRAEL / PALESTINE / SYRIA / JORDAN / EGYPT / SUEZ CANAL: Operationskarte / Beirut.
- 650.00€
- Rare - a seminal map used for strategic planning by German commanders during the Sinai and Levant theatre of World War I, a classified work created under the supervision of the orientalist Franz Gustav Taeschner for the German General Staff, it depicts all details necessary to inform broad military movement during one of the most dramatic and surprising campaigns of…
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East
WWI MIDDLE EAST – BATTLE OF MEGIDDO: Karte von Mittelpalastina. / Ostjordanland südl. Teil. / ““Geheim!” Lage vom: 15.8.18”.
- 2,200.00€
- An incredibly important survivor – a top-secret ‘General Headquarters Map’ made for the use of German General Liman von Sanders and his senior staff to oversee the ill-fated Ottoman-German ‘last stand’ in World War I’s Palestine Campaign at the ‘Battle of Megiddo’; composed of two joined exceedingly rare topographical maps of Central Palestine and Eastern Jordan, drafted and printed…
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East
WWI Middle East: ييلديرم اردولر عروبو منزل موٰسستيله موٰسساته صٰحيه انسانيه و حيوانيهسنى
- 2,200.00€
- [“Yıldırım ordular grubu menzil muessesatıyla muessesat-ı sıhhiye-i insaniye ve hayvaniyesini...” / “The Yıldırım Army Group Bases showing Health Stations for People and Animals…”]. An extraordinary, unique map of the Levant made for the high command of the Yıldırım (‘Thunderbolt’) Army Group, a recently formed elite Ottoman-German force, made during the Spring-Summer 1918, just before the Ottomans’ ‘last stand’…
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: December 2020
WWI PALESTINE / ISRAEL / BATTLE OF JERUSALEM: Syria / Jerusalem (Kuds-Esh-Sherif).
- 1,200.00€
- Rare – one of the most important of the maps made by the Egyptian Expeditionary Force during World War I, depicting Southern Palestine with the Ottoman-German Gaza-Beersheba defensive line, as well as the vicinity of the Battle of Jerusalem (1917), one the great British triumphs of the war in the Middle East, published in Cairo by the Survey of Egypt…
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: October 2020
YEMEN (NORTH) GEOLOGICAL MAP / SATELLITE PHOTOGRAPHIC CARTOGRAPHY / PETROLEUM INDUSTRY
- 1,200.00€
- An impressive paring of colossal related maps, being 1) a map of North Yemen (a country that existed from 1967 and 1990, until Yemen was unified) constructed from NASA Landsat imagery, leading to the creation of 2) the first edition of the first scientific geological map of North Yemen; highly sophisticated works created by the geologists Maurice J. Grolier and…
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East
Yemen (North) Geological Map Printed On 4 Separately Issued Sheets
- 1,200.00€
- The first edition of the first scientific geological map of North Yemen, officially the Yemen Arab Republic (centred on its capital Sana’a), a country that existed between 1967 and 1990, until Yemen was unified; a highly sophisticated work published on 4 large, brightly coloured sheets in Hannover by West Germany’s Federal Institute of Geosciences and Natural Resources, predicated upon…
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- Books, Geography, Maps and Prints, Middle East, Ottoman Books, Turkica
YEMEN, SAUDI ARABIA, MECCA: يمن لايحه سى [Yemen Lâyıhası. Yemen ahvalinin ıslahı hakkında Siverek meb’usı Nureddin Bey tarafından Meclis-i Mebusan-i Osmaniye takdım kılınan layihadır]
- 1,600.00€
- [Report on Yemen. A Statement about the Improvement of the Situation in Yemen, Presented to the Ottoman Parliament by deputy Nureddin Bey from Siverek] 8°, 48 pp., folding colour map, later brown cloth binding with mounted original wrappers (wrappers slightly age-toned and stained with tiny pieces of paper missing, inside in overall good condition).
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East
بغداد بصره زور نجد [Baghdad, Basra, Zor, Najd].
- 220.00€
- The map showcases the region between the Sanjak of Zor to Basra, with an inset map representing the area of today’s Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Bahrain with marked Kuwait, Qatif, Manama, Najd and Al-Ahsa. Colour lithography, 19 x 27 cm (7.5 x 10.6 inches), (slightly age-toned and stained in the margins, otherwise in a good condition).
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East
سوريه بيروت لبنان [Syria, Beirut, Lebanon]
- 180.00€
- Colour lithography, 27 x 19 cm (10.6 x 7.5 inches), (slightly age-toned and stained in the margins, otherwise in a good condition).
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- Africa, Balkans, Europe, Greece, Maps and Prints, Middle East, Turkey
عمومه ممالك عثمانيه [General Ottoman Empire]
- 220.00€
- Map of the Ottoman Empire with the Arabian Peninsula in the middle. Marked are the most important cities and the Hejaz Railway. Colour lithography, 26 x 38 cm (10.2 x 14.9 inches), (soft fold in the middle slightly stained with tiny repaired holes and tears).
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