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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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