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- Books, Geography, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- CHICAGO: شيقاغو شهري [Amerika seyahatından Şikago şehri]
- 580.00€
- [From the Travel through America. The City of Chicago] An Ottoman translation of Baron Edmond de Mandat-Grancey’s description of Chicago, first published in 1898 8°, 37 pp., later marbled wrappers (slightly stained, otherwise in a good condition).
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- Books, Geography, Maps and Prints, South America
- CHILE – NATIONAL ATLAS: Atlas de Chile Arreglado para la Jeografia Descriptiva de la Republica de Chile por Enrique Espinoza.
- 1,400.00€
- A fine example of an important and beautifully produced national atlas of chile, featuring 39 maps predicated upon the best scientific sources, made by Enrique Espinoza, who is credited with revolutionizing the study of geography in Chile, published by the venerable Paris firm of Erhard Frères. Small 4° (27 x 20.5 cm): 2 pp., 39 maps (5 folding;…
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- Asia, Books, China, Geography, Maps and Prints
- CHINA – QINGDAO (TSINGTAO / TSINGTAU): Guide Book on Tsingtao and its Vicinity by Adolf Haupt. With two Maps and many illustrations.
- 1,800.00€
- Adolf HAUPT (fl. 1900 – 1933). Tsingdao [Qingdao]: Printed at the Catholic Mission Press, 1927. 8° (19 x 11.5 cm): [13 pp. advertisements, title, preliminaries], 1-48 pp., [16 pp. advertisements on coloured paper], 49-156 pp. (with 82 photographic images imbedded within text), [2 pp.], plus 2 large folding colour lithographed maps on thick paper, bound in original printed boards with…
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- Books, Geography, History, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- China / Travelouge / Hitayname: ترجمه تاريخ نوارى جين ماجين
- 1,200.00€
- [Tercüme-i Tarih-i Nevâdir-i Çin-i Maçin / Translation of the Stories of History of China and the Greater China] 8°, 70 pp. lithograph, first two pages with gilt margins, later blue cloth boards with brown cloth spine, grey printed endpapers (minor staining overall in a good condition).
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- Africa, Books, Geography, Maps and Prints
- Congo Belge / Service Hydrographique, Section du Haut Congo, Fleuve Congo / Leopoldville – Stanleyville / Travaux effectues sous la direction de J. Lauwers, Hydrographe, Chef de S.H. du H.C. …
- 2,500.00€
- A stellar moment of African cartography and inland hydrography, being the first atlas, or accurate, complete large-scale map, of the 1,724 km-long navigable route of the Upper Congo River from Léopoldville (Kinshasa) to Stanleyville, the only natural passage into the heart of Africa, made during World War I for the use of steamer captains by the specialist Belgian colonial…
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- Crete: كريد. مضيسى حالى استقبالى [Girit. Mâzisi, Hâli, İstikbâli /Crete. Past, Present, Future]
- 280.00€
- 8°, 96 pp., advertisement, original illustrated wrappers (slightly stained, a tiny loss of image on the rear wrappers, but otherwise in a good condition).
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- Books, Geography, History, Slavica
- Croatian Travelogue to the Holy Land: Uspomene iz Svete Zemlje [Memories of the Holy Land]
- 420.00€
- A travelogue to the Holy Land through Egypt by a Croatian professor Krsto Krile, published on the eve of WWI. 8°, XI, 231 pp., interleaved photographs, two folding plates, and three folding maps (Jerusalem, Croatia, the Holy Land), original boards with decoration and lettering, original cloth spine with lettering (hardly noticeable foxing, very light wear to the corners,…
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- Balkans, Books, Bulgaria, Europe, Geography, Maps and Prints, Romania, Serbia
- DANUBE RIVER – BOAT CAPTAIN’S ATLAS: Navigations Karte Der Donau von Semlin an bis zu ihrem Ausfluss ins Schwarze Meer : zur genauesten Kentnis aller in derselben befindlichen Inseln, Sandbänke, Wirbel, Klippen u.s.w. so wie aller an den beiderseitigen Ufern gelegenen Städte, Dörfer und andere Ortschaften, wobei zugleich die verschiedene Breite und Tiefe des Stroms bestimt angegeben ist, zuerst aufgenomm[m]en von dem k.k. Pontonier Hauptmann von Lauterer, da derselbe den k.k. Herrn Internunzius Freyherrn von Herbert bis Ruszug führte, hierauf aber weiter ausgearbeitet und verbessert von dem k.k. Hauptmann Freyherrn von Tauferer bei Gelegenheit, als derselbe das erste Seeschiff aus der Kulpa auf der Donau nach Konstantinopel führete.
- 2,800.00€
- Very Rare – the first broadly accurate and detailed map of the course of the lower Danube River, that flowed 1,400 km from Belgrade to the Black Sea; a colossal 7-sheet work (bound in atlas form) that would measure a course approximately 420 cm (almost 14 feet!) long if joined, based on the first serious attempt to map this vital…
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- Books, Geography, Newly Catalogued Items: August 2022, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- EGYPT / TRAVELOGUE: مصور مصر خاطراتی [Musavver Mısır Hâtırâtı / Illustrated Egypt Diaries]
- 250.00€
- 8°, 184 pp. with black and white illustrations, original illustrated wrappers, later spine (small tears in margins, small patches with loss of text due to glue on three pages replaced with manuscript in pencil, otherwise in a good condition).
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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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- FEMALE AUTHORS / TRAVELOGUE: Recollections of May June July 1868
- 2,800.00€
- A manuscript travelogue of Europe with stunning illustrations, made by a female author Oblong 8°. [5 pp.] blank, [16 pp.] manuscript in black ink with illustrations in gouache, pencil and pencil, accompanied with yellow highlights and toning, illustrated titles and initials, yellow endpapers, [15 pp.] blank, dark green washed silk binding with gold tooling and lettering, gilt edges…
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- Arabic Books, Books, Geography, Maps and Prints
- FIRST MODERN EGYPTIAN ATLAS OF THE WOLRD: اطلس ابتدائي للدنيا : لاستعماله في المدارس المصرية
- 2,200.00€
- [Primary Atlas of the World. For use in Egyptian Schools. First Edition] First Egyptian modern school atlas of the world, published in the year of the country’s independence, in 1922. Square 4°. Title page, 35 pp. with full page colour lithographed maps, bound in original blue card covers with title printed on front cover (title page little…
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