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.
This is a large and exceedingly detailed sheet of sea charts of the Alexandria area, Egypt, made during the twilight of Britain’s domination of the country. Photozincograph with some navigational details heightened in purple, pastedown printed correction slip added over Alexandria’s Inner Harbour, manuscript notes regarding a 1958 voyage and contemporary manuscript additions added in red pen (Good, old…
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).
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…
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…
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…
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…
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).
Chromolithographs on thick paper. Each sheet: 11 x 15 cm (4.3 x 5.9 inches). Slightly stained in margins with light rubbings on edges, manuscript numeration in margins.
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
A very rare, large format, separately issued map of Asia, that is perhaps the last great map of the continent to be printed in Ottoman Turkish script, with attractive colours and adorned with the flags of major Asia and Middle Eastern states. Colour lithograph, 61 x 92 cm (soft folds with tiny tears and holes, small tears…
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. …
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).
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).
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).
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.
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…
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…
[“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’…
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…
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…
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…
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).
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).
![ALEPPO, SYRIA & TURKEY: حلب ولآيت [HALEP VILAYET / ALEPPO VILAYET].](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/65983-265x331.jpg)
![ARABIAN PENINSULA:جزيرة العرب [Arabian Peninsula]](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/68977-6-4-265x331.jpg)
![ASIA – OTTOMAN SCHOOL ATLAS: آسيا [Asya]](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/69081-2-265x331.jpg)
![ASIA: Yeni Asya Haritasi [Map of Modern Asia]](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Junemap201-copy-265x331.jpg)
![BAGHDAD / IRAQ: بغداد ولايتى [Baghdad Vilayet]](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/68977-12-265x331.jpg)
![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].](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/mecca_33-265x331.jpg)
![BAGHDAD: بغداد ولايتى [Baghdad Vilayeti]](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/68976-4-265x331.jpg)
![BEIRUT / LEBANON: بيروت ولايتى [Beirut Vilayet]](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/68977-10-1-265x331.jpg)
![BEIRUT / LEBANON: بيروت ولايتى [Beirut Vilayeti]](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/68976-2-265x331.jpg)
![HEJAZ, LEBANON, SAUDI ARABIA: حجاز و سوريه [Hejaz and Syria]](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/68977-9-265x331.jpg)
![IRAQ – SOVIET CARTOGRAPHY: Ирак [Irak]](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/69105_2-265x331.jpg)
![IRAQ – MOSUL / MIDDLE EAST / OTTOMAN CARTOGRAPHY: موصل ولايت [Musul Vilayet / Vilayet Mosul]](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/2020-08-17_151528-265x331.jpg)
![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]](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/kut3ku-265x331.jpg)
![Kuwait / Iraq (Basra) / WWI Middle East / Important Ottoman Cartography: بصره [Basrah].](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/basra-265x331.jpg)
![LEBANON: جبل لبنان سنجاغى [Mount Lebanon Sanjak]](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/69208-3-265x331.jpg)
![MECCA, SAUDI ARABIA / YEMEN: يمن ولآيت [Vilayet Yemen]](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/68977-8-265x331.jpg)
![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].](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/68915-265x331.jpg)
![Ottoman Cartography / Asia: يكى اسيا [Yeni Asya / New Asia]](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/69347-1-265x331.jpg)
![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.](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/69367-265x331.jpg)
![RED SEA NAVIGATION: [EL TOR, EGYPT] Porto di Tur / Pianta originale rilevata dall’I.R. Connoniera “Narenta” Comandante Cap. Di. Corv. W. Kropp.](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/69366-265x331.jpg)
![SYRIA – ALEPPO / MIDDLE EAST / OTTOMAN CARTOGRAPHY: حلب ولآيت [Halep Viayet / Vilayet Aleppo]](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/2020-08-17_150420-265x331.jpg)
![SYRIA: سوریه ولايتى [Suriye Vilayeti]](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/68976-3-265x331.jpg)
![بغداد بصره زور نجد [Baghdad, Basra, Zor, Najd].](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/69477-265x331.jpg)
![سوريه بيروت لبنان [Syria, Beirut, Lebanon]](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/69478-265x331.jpg)
![عمومه ممالك عثمانيه [General Ottoman Empire]](https://pahor.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/69476-265x331.jpg)