Middle East Archives - Daša Pahor

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- Maps and Prints, Middle East, Turkey
- ALEPPO, SYRIA & TURKEY: حلب ولآيت [HALEP VILAYET / ALEPPO VILAYET].
- 200.00€
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- 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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- Africa, Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: December 2020
- ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT: Mediterranean Sea – Egypt. Approaches to Alexandria and Abu Qir Bay surveyed by Commanders F.A. Reyne & S.A.G. Hill…1920-22. / Abu Qir Bay (Western Part) surveyed by Commanders F.A. Reyne & S.A.G. Hill…1920-22.
- 150.00€
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- 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…
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- ARABIAN PENINSULA:جزيرة العرب [Arabian Peninsula]
- 550.00€
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- 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€
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- 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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- Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- BAGHDAD / IRAQ: بغداد ولايتى [Baghdad Vilayet]
- 180.00€
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- Chromolithograph. 9 x 13,5 cm (3.5 x 5.3 inches). Minor staining, overall in a good condition.
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- 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€
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- 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€
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- 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€
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- 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€
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- 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€
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- 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€
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- 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€
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- 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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- 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€
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- 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, Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: December 2020
- EGYPT, HEJAZ.
- 120.00€
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- 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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- Maps and Prints, Middle East, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- HEJAZ, LEBANON, SAUDI ARABIA: حجاز و سوريه [Hejaz and Syria]
- 650.00€
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- 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: October 2020
- IRAQ – SOVIET CARTOGRAPHY: Ирак [Irak]
- 150.00€
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- 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, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- IRAQ – MOSUL / MIDDLE EAST / OTTOMAN CARTOGRAPHY: موصل ولايت [Musul Vilayet / Vilayet Mosul]
- 120.00€
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- 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.
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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€
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- 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, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- Kuwait / Iraq (Basra) / WWI Middle East / Important Ottoman Cartography: بصره [Basrah].
- 3,500.00€
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- 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€
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- 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€
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- 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€
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- 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
- NEAR EAST / JESUITS: Provinces de Syrie et de Perse Contenant 8 Résidents et 24 Jésuites.
- 200.00€
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- 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€
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- 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€
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- 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, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- SYRIA – ALEPPO / MIDDLE EAST / OTTOMAN CARTOGRAPHY: حلب ولآيت [Halep Viayet / Vilayet Aleppo]
- 160.00€
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- 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€
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- 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€
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- 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€
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- 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, New Acquisitions: December 2020
- WWI PALESTINE / ISRAEL / BATTLE OF JERUSALEM: Syria / Jerusalem (Kuds-Esh-Sherif).
- 1,200.00€
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- 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€
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- 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€
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- 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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