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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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ARCHERY / FINE BINDINGS / ROYAL BELGIAN PROVENANCE: Statuts de la Société du Tir-à l’Arc, l’union, installée à Poucques sous le Patronage de Son Altesse Royale Monseigneur Le Duc De Brabant
- 1,600.00€
- A unique manuscript by a Belgian imperial calligrapher François Magnée, commissioned by the Archery Society at the Poeke castle and presented to Prince Leopold Duke of Brabant, future King Leopold II. Folio (37 x 25 cm), [8 pp.] black, red, green, blue, silver and gold ink on vellum (5 pp. manuscript and 3 pp. blank), bound with a…
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- Bindings, Slavica
ART DECO BINDING: Album slovenskih književnikov [Album of Slovenian Authors].
- 380.00€
- A book of portraits of Slovenian male and female authors from 16th to early 20th centuries was privately bound in a highly decorative contemporary art deco binding.
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ART DECO BINDING: La formation de la Yougoslavie (XVe – XXe siècles). Ouvrage couronné par l’Institut d’Etudes slaves de l’Université de Paris
- 380.00€
- A scientific work on the formation on Yugoslavia by a French Slavist Émile Haumant was contemporary bound in a highly decorative art deco binding with tricolour fore-edge colouring and tooling.
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BINDING / OTTOMAN EMPIRE: قاتل برنر [Bernard l’assassin / Bernard the Assassin]
- 1,670.00€
- Ottoman red morocco binding from the circle of sultan Abdul Hamid II.
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- Bindings, Maps and Prints
BINDING & MAP: Uebersichts-Karte für die Concentrirung des X. Deutschen Bundes-Armee-Corps 1858 [General Map of the Maneuvers of the 10th Corpus of the German Army. 1858].
- 220.00€
- A German military map was bound in a highly decorative red binding with gilt embossed royal coat of arms.
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- Bindings, Books, Ottoman Books, Turkica
BINDINGS / HISTORY: عمومى تاريخ [Umumi Tarih. Tarih Kadime, Kurûn-ı Vusta]
- 680.00€
- Ahmet Refik Altınay (1881-1937). [General History. Ancient History – Medieval Centuries] Istanbul: Millî Matbaa 1926. Large 8°, 627 pp. with interleaved black and white illustrations, contemporary black Morocco binding with gold tooling on covers and lettering on the spine, contemporary patterned endpapers (a tiny chip in white edges of pages 361-362 and 575-576, latter with a tiny loss of lettering,…
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- Bindings, Books, Ottoman Books
BULAQ IMPRINT / BINDINGS: تذكرة الحكم في طبقات الأمم [Tadhkirat l-Hikam fi Tabaqat al-Umam also Tadhkirat al-Umam]
- 1,400.00€
- [Note on the Judgement in Periods of Nations] 8°, [2 pp.], 318 pp (wrongly printed 813), [4 pp.] errata and blank, original embossed brown calf with a flap, original pasted-down endpapers with blue stenciled patterns, blank loose endpapers, hand-written title on the spine and on the foot edge (slightly age-toned with minor staining, old minor annotations on the…
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CROATIA – BINDING – LITERATURE – THEATRE: Hrvatska revija. Godina IX, MCMXXXVI.
- 180.00€
- A complete year of a Croatian intellectual and cultural magazine Hrvatska revija, which was later banned under Yugoslavia after WWII, bound in a fine binding by a Zagreb-based bookbinder.
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- Bindings, Books, Design, Ottoman Books, Turkica
Female Emantipation / Erotica Silk Bindings: A collection of 6 Ottoman books on modern Turkish women is bound in original silk bindings with vivid 1920s patterns, which emphasize the presence of a woman as a central motif.
- 2,400.00€
- A collection of 6 Ottoman books on modern Turkish women is bound in original silk bindings with vivid 1920s patterns, which emphasize the presence of a woman as a central motif.
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- Bindings, Books
FINE BINDING – SICILY – NAPOLEONICA: Mirror: presented to His Sicilian Majesty, Great Britain, and the allied sovereigns reflecting political facts of the utmost importance, calculated to undeceive them; hitherto unpublished.
- 650.00€
- A superb example, handsomely bound in a fine three quarter blue morocco, probably from the library of Napoleon II.
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