Books Archives - Daša Pahor

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- Africa, Africa, Books, Madagscar, Maps and Prints
- ‘Madagascar’ [Atlas Factice of Madagascar]
- 2,600.00€
- administrator or military officer to be employed while making a reconnaissance of the island in the tense period leading up to World War I; featuring 26 colour photolithographed maps and 1 legend sheet all published in Antananarivo by the colonial military press, the ‘Service géographique de l’Etat Major du groupe de l’Afrique Orientale’, including 19 provincial maps and 6 large-format, sophisticated…
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- Armenian Books, Maps and Prints, Posters
- [ISTANBUL OPERA BROADSIDE / ARMENIAN-OTTOMAN PRINTING:] Teatro Naum in Pera in Costantinopoli / Per la sera di Mercoledì 16 Maggio 1855 / Serata Straordinaria Devoluta a totale Beneficio. Del primo Buffo Comico Assoluto. Vincenzo Galli prima rappresentazi
- 7,700.00€
- An amazing survivor – an early Istanbul opera broadside advertising the 1855 single-show performance of Gaetano Donizetti’s ‘Don Pasquale’ at the famous Naum Theatre in Pera (Beyoğlu), Constantinople, headlined by the legendary basso buffo singer Vincenzo Galli, published locally in Italian, Ottoman Turkish, Greek, Armenian and Armenian printed in the Ottoman Alphabet!
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- Archives and Documents, Books, Manuscripts
- A DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL DURING WWII IN MUNICH, GERMANY: Erlebnisse aus meinem Aufenthalt im K.L.V. Lager Haus Elise
- 3,500.00€
- Two diaries, written mostly during World War II by Inge Weinbrecht from Munich, depict a life of a teenage girl from the early years of the war, when she was sent to a Nazi children’s summer camp, to her witnessing the fall of the Reich and marching of American soldiers into Munich.
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- Books, German Books
- A Pronouncing Pocket–Dictionary of British Proper Names. Taschenwörterbuch der Aussprache brittischer Eigennamen [Titles on the Cover].Taschen-Wörterbuch der Aussprache der englischen, schottischen und irländischen Eigennamen. A pocket Dictionary of the English, Scotish, Irish and Indish, as well as of the Greck, Latin and Hebrew, proper Names of Countries, Places, Mountains, Rivers and Persons etc. [Title Pages].
- 980.00€
- Johann Christian NOSSEK (1804-1856). A Pronouncing Pocket–Dictionary of British Proper Names. Taschenwörterbuch der Aussprache brittischer Eigennamen [Titles on the Cover]. Taschen-Wörterbuch der Aussprache der englischen, schottischen und irländischen Eigennamen. A pocket Dictionary of the English, Scotish, Irish and Indish, as well as of the Greck, Latin and Hebrew, proper Names of Countries, Places, Mountains, Rivers and Persons etc. [Title Pages].…
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- Armenian Books, Maps and Prints
- A rare theatre program was issued in French, Ottoman and Armenian in Istanbul circa 1910 for the matinee and evening performance of the Ottoman operetta Leblebici Horhor Ağa in the Orieantal Theater (Şark Theatre) in the Şehzadebaşı neighborhood in Istanb
- 380.00€
- A rare ephemeral program written in French, Armenian and Ottoman, was published for a for the matinée and evening performance of the Ottoman operetta Leblebici Horhor Aga, written by an Armenian author Tigran Tchoukhajian.
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- Books, History
- A Short History of Barbados, from its First Discovery and Settlement to the End of the Year 1767.
- 2,200.00€
- A lucidly written overview of the first 140 years of Barbados history, especially valuable for its lively treatment of the internal political undercurrents that buffeted the island in the 18th century; while issued anonymously, the work is known to have been written by Henry Frere, a leading member of the plantocracy and the island’s government; published in the immediate wake…
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- Books, Children's Books, Turkica
- ABC BOOK / TURKISH CHILDREN ON RHODES: Ilk Adim. Resimli Alfabe [First Level. Illustrated Primer]
- 180.00€
- 8°, 64 with colour and black and white images, original colour wrappers, stapled (small tears and tiny loss of paper in margins, spine renewed, minor staining, but overall in a good condition).
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- Avantgarde, Books
- Adagios. Maxims
- 1,400.00€
- An unusual multilingual work by de Cantos with a text collage, made of various languages Square 8°, 190 pp. also printed upside down(first 65 pp. not numbered), [2 pp.], one full page illustration in grey, black and red (same design as on the cover), illustrated covers with flaps (light foxing throughout the book, slightly age-toned in margins, wrappers with foxing…
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- Austria, Books
- ADDRESS BOOK OF VIENNA: Verzeichniß aller in der kaiserl. königl. Haupt- und Residenzstadt Wien mit ihren Vorstädten befindlichen Häuser : mit genauer Angabe der älteren, mittleren und neuesten Nummerirungen, der damahligen Eigenthümer und Schilder, der Straßen und Plätze, der Grund-Obrigkeiten, dann der Polizey- und Pfarr-Bezirke / Verfaßt und herausgegeben von Anton Behsel, Stadt Wiener Bauinspector
- 820.00€
- A rare address book of Vienna Large 8°. [4 pp.] title and introduction, 226 pp., [1 pp.] errate original pink card binding with lettering (Very Good, with minor foxing to the first and last page and very small wear to the cover).
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- AERODYNAMICS / PHYSICS / ZEPPELIN / BLIMPS: Aerodynamische Modellversuche an deutschen und ausländischen Luftschiff-Baumustern im Windkanal des Luftschiffbau Zeppelin in Friedrichshafen. [
- 4,200.00€
- An important dissertation on aerodynamics by using a wind channel was made as a result of experiments, expanding over years, by a German engineer Max Schirmer at the blimp factory Zeppelin during WWII.
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- Books, Iran
- AESOP’S FABLES / URDU LANGUAGE / MUMBAI IMPRINT: نقليات يوسف [Nakaliyat-i Yusuf]
- 880.00€
- 8°, 198 pp., contemporary marbled paper boards and green cloth spine (pp 111, 158, 191-193 marked twice, pages misnumbered 174-177, but complete according to catch words, small folds in corners, but overall in a good condition with only minor age-toning).
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- Books, History
- AFGHAN PRE-ISLAMIC ART: لشکر گاه / : مطالعات تاریخی، ادبی، هنری، باستان شناسی.
- 350.00€
- [Leşkergah / Lashkargāh. Historical, Literary, Artistic, Archeological Studies] A pioneering work on the pre-Islamic history of art and archeology of a southwestern Afghan city Lashkargāh, with attached visiting card of the author 8°, 152 pp., interleaved 7 sheets, printed with photographs from both sides, original illustrated wrappers, author’s visiting card attached with a pin to the title…
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- Books, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- AFGHAN-TURKISH RELATIONS: افغانتان حكمدارننك مملكتمزى زيارتلرى خاطره لرى
- 220.00€
- [Afganistan Hükümdarlarının Memleketimizi Ziyaretleri Hatıraları / Memories of Afghan Rulers' Visit to Our Homeland] Oblong 8°, 48 pp. with black and white images, 2 pages of text and a map, original illustrated wrappers (later spine, tiny tracks in margins, wrappers little rubbed and dusty, but overall in a good condition).
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- AFGHANISTAN: افغانستان [Afganistan / Afghanistan]
- 480.00€
- 8°, 29 pp., later marbled wrappers (slightly stained, otherwise in a good condition).
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- Africa, Books, Geography, History, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: November 2020
- AFRICA (TANZANIA, CAMEROON, NAMIBIA, TOGO, CONGO) – NAZI DESIGNS IN AFRICA / CARTOGRAPHY / TRANSPORTATION: Straßen im tropischen Afrika: Auszüge aus den Mandatsberichten der Jahre 1922-1937 und aus den Abhandlungen des Kgl. Belgischen Kolonialinstituts 1939.
- 1,200.00€
- An extremely rare Nazi report on the state of roads in Germany's former African colonies and the Belgian Congo, made early in World Wat II in preparation for plans for the Third Reich to regain its African empire either by diplomacy or force, being a printed copy of an original typescript labelled as 'Als Manuskript gedruckt' ('Printed as a manuscript'), issued…
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- Africa, Australia, Books, Geography, Maps and Prints, Ottoman Books, South America, Turkica
- AFRICA / AUSTRALIA / SOUTH AMERICA / SOUTH POLE: سعدى عبدالقادر لر قطعه آفريقا و آستراليا آمريقا، جنوبى اجاه جوغرافيا عمومى [Umumi coğrafya ile Cenubî Amerika, Avustralya ve Afrika Kıtaları / Basic Geography. Continents South America, Australia and Afr
- 480.00€
- A rare, richly illustrated book in Ottoman script on Africa, North Pole, Australia and South America.
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- Africa, Books, Geography, Maps and Prints
- AFRICA / BERLIN CONFERENCE (1884-5): Atlas von Afrika. 50 colorirte Karten auf 18 Tafeln. Mit einem geographisch-statistischen text.
- 960.00€
- A scarce, pioneering atlas of Africa with 18 colour plates featuring 50 maps designed by the leading Vienna map house of Freytag & Berndt, including some sophisticated works of thematic cartography and original maps showcasing the level of Western knowledge of the continent, made to capitalize upon the Africa-mania that swept the general public in the wake of the…
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- Africa, Books, Geography, Maps and Prints
- Africa / Ephemera: آفريقا قطعه سى [The Africa Part]
- 120.00€
- A rare ephemeral Ottoman map of Africa was printed on the back cover of a notebook 8°. [48 pp.] manuscript in pencil on paper with printed stripes, stapled, original pink illustrated wrappers (front cover with light water-staining, tears, loss of image and recently repaired with scotch tape, map with soft folds and tiny tears in the margins, staples…
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- Africa, Bindings, Books, Geography, Maps and Prints, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- AFRICA TRAVELOUGE: افريقا سياحتنامه سى [Afrika Seyahatnâmesi / Africa Book of Travels, i. e. The Heart of Africa / Im Herzen von Afrika]
- 1,500.00€
- A complete set of the contemporary Ottoman translations of Schweinfurth’s influential travelogue to Africa. 8°: 911 pp. with black and white illustrations, folding map, coloured in outline, one toned lithograph with hand coloured details, contemporary Ottoman black calf with gilt and debossed decoration (remboîtage in a contemporary Ottoman binding) (minor age-toning and foxing, holes in the map on the crossings…
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- Africa, Books, Ottoman Books
- AFRICA: يكى آفريقا. آفريقا قطعه سنك احوال جفرافيه و تاريخيه سى حقنده معلومات جديده ايله سياح مشهور استانلى نك صوك آفريقا سياحتنامه سنى و اوچ قطعه بويالى خريطه يى حاويدر
- 650.00€
- Yeni Afrika. Afrika kitʼasinin ahval-i coğrafya ve tarihiyesi hakkında maʼlûmat-ı cedide ile seyyah-i meşhur İstanliʼnin son Afrika seyahatnamesini ve üç kitʼa boyalı haritayı havidir New Africa. Geographical and Historical Situation of African Continent, New Information by a Famous Traveler Stanley and a Map Coloured in three Colours. A rare late 19th century Ottoman book on contemporary Africa 8°,…
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- Books, Slavica
- Agriculture Book, Printed in a Post-WWII DP Camp: Poljedelstvo. Travništvo [Fieldwork. Grasses]
- 480.00€
- A rare pair of mimeographed books on agriculture printed on pink paper in Slovenian language in a DP camp in Austria after WWII Two titles bound in one volume, 4°, mimeographed on pink paper with illustrations. 42 pp., [3 pp.,]. 42 pp., [2 pp.,]. Original black boards and cloth spine (boards slightly rubbed, otherwise in a good condition).
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- Africa, Books
- AGRICULTURE OF ANGOLA AFTER THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY: A cultura das palmeiras. Suscitando varias consideracoes acerca do Estado Geral da Provincia de Angola e da natureza dos remedios que urge applicar-lhe.
- 650.00€
- A critical observation of bad management of palm groves in Angola among the native people after the abolition of slavery in 1869, with a plan how to educate Angolans in modern techniques of agriculture for their own benefits. 12°, 44 pp. [4 pp.] blank, original green wrappers with lettering (wrappers little stained with old paper labels on the cover…
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