Geography

A unique pair of an Ottoman manuscript atlas and a map, made by a student of the Military Highschool in Bitola, in 1891, as a project for his final exams.

  An early modern Ottoman geography school book   Small 8°, 54 pp., [2 pp.] blank, 7 colour printed double-page maps, contemporary marbled paper boards and black cloth spine (binding restored with partly repaired loss of paper, tiny holes in the folds and tiny tears in margins, minor staining, but overall in a good condition).    

  [Coğrafya-yı Tabiî İlmine Esas-ı Muhtasar / Physical Goegraphy. The Fundamentals].   A highly sophisticated Ottoman geography education book illustrated with 9 resplendently coloured plates of thematic World Maps, as well as dozens of monochrome diagrams and maps within the text; the work sponsored by American Protestant missionaries for use in their schools throughout Turkey and the Levant, issued in…

A unique Ottoman manuscript atlas created by a geography teacher at the Preparatory School in Bolu to address the lack of modern printed materials for geography classes. 8º. Manuscript. [14 pp.] text, 99 single- and double-page numbered maps, but actually 101 maps with nos. 10 and 11 marked twice, all maps with contemporary coloured details and verso blank, interleaved blank…

  [Memâlik-i Osmaniye Cep Atlası / The Pocket Atlas of the Ottoman Empire]   12°: 6 pp., [2 pp.], 328 pp. text in Ottoman, 64 pp. with single- or double-page maps, lithographed in colour, original dark red cloth binding with black and gold lettering and decoration- (light foxing and staining, last page age-toned, front end-papers replaced, binding slightly rubbed, but…

[Fenn-i Coğrafya İçin Yazısız Harita Defteri. Harita Tersimi Usûlünün Mebâdisi / Blank Map Book for Science of Geography. The Basics of the Map Representation Method] آفريقا [Arika / Africa]   Ottoman filled-in blank atlas of Afrika with unique and exquisite original colour   8°. 22-28 pp. facing pages marked with same numbers [altogether 16 pp.] with hand coloured lithographed maps…

ANON. [Palestine Drawn in Historical-Geographical-Statistical Outlines Based on Older and Modern Travel Descriptions. Along with a Map of the Holy Land] Karlsruhe – Freiburg: Herder 1830. Large 8°. Engraved frontispiece, showcasing the map and interior of the Holy Grave, [4 pp.] title and index, 148 pp., folding lithographed map, coloured in outline, contemporary marbled board and brown goat spine with…

    An unusual illustrated publication on the Polish expedition to Harbin, China, which founded the city in 1898, and the Polish community in the region in the beginning of the 20th century. 8°. X, 222 with interleaved black and white images, original yellow wrappers with illustrated cover (wrappers sightly worn and dusty, but overall in a good condition).  

  Rare – one of the seminal works on early 20th century Macau, being an anthology of articles by Henrique Travassos Valdez, the liberal republican firebrand who was the incumbent Portuguese national senator for Macau, with brilliant yet controversial analyses of Macau’s place within the Portuguese Empire, its heated relations with China, its vital port and economic development, as well…

Book on the geography of Portugal, richly illustrated with de Cantos’s unusually designed maps and drawings.   Small 8°, 138 pp. with colour illustrations, 2 mounted illustrations on brown paper, pink wrappers with flaps and hand-coloured illustration on the cover (three owner’s signatures on the first page and one on the top of the cover, small paper label on the…

  An apparently unrecorded guidebook to Florida, issued around 1902 by the Seaboard Air Line Railway, a critically important driver of the development of Central Florida, including of Tampa Bay and Orlando, written by John W. White, the railway’s General Industrial Agent, the work is copiously illustrated with 25 photographic images and features a custom edition of the large format colour…