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- Africa, Books, Geography, History, Maps and Prints
- Cape of Good Hope. Minute of His Excellency the Governor of the State of Frontier Affairs. Presented by the Legislative Council, by command of His Excellency the Governor June 1853.
- 1,800.00€
- A highly important and attractive work on the Eighth Xhosa War (1850-3), a critical conflict in which the British scored a crushing defeat upon the Xhosa, so securing permanent dominance over the Eastern Frontier regions of the Cape Colony, a victory secured by the ‘scorched earth’ offensive launched by Governor George Cathcart from the spring of 1852 to the…
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- Books, History, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- CATHERINE THE GREAT: قترينه تارخى [Katerina Tarihi]
- 650.00€
- 8°, [8 pp.], 308 pp. lithographed text with some pages with larger folded margins with annotations, as originally published, modern green cloth boards with gilt lettering and debossed decoration, brown calf spine with raised bands and gilt lettering (light foxing, old signature and date in Ottoman on the first page, old scribbles on the last blank page, otherwise in…
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- 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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- CHRISTIAN-OTTOMAN WARS: Relacion cierta y verdadera de como el Excelentissimo Duque de Florencia ha alcançado victoria de vna galera y vna naue que el Reyno de Argel embiaua a Constantinopla con mucho dinero y joyas para el gran Turco: cuentase el quando y como fue.
- 1,400.00€
- Extremely rare – 1 of only 2 known surviving examples – an ephemeral ‘Relación’ pamphlet likely containing the earliest published firsthand account of a dramatic naval battle between Tuscan vessels commanded by the Spanish Admiral Don Pedro de Leyva and a pair of Algerian-Ottoman vessels, which occurred in the Greek Aegean on July 1, 1622, upon which after ferocious combat…
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- Books, History, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- Christopher Columbus in Ottoman Literature: بحثه اول ونديك وجنويزلى كميجيلرنيك كشف ايلدكي جزاير و ثانيا قرستوف قولومبك امريقا بولمسى Bahs-i evvel Venedik ve Cenevizli gemicilerin keṣfeylediği Cezayir ve saniyen Kristof Kolombun Amerikayı bulması
- 650.00€
- First Search: Venetians and Genoese Sailors Discover Islands. Second: Christopher Columbus's Discovery of America Also: Amerika kıt'asının hîn-i keşf ü istîlâsında zuhûra gelen vukūât-ı garîbenin târîhi. Bahs-i evvel, Venedik ve Cenevizli gemicilerinin keşf eylediği cezâyir ve sâniyen Kristof Kolomb'un Amerika'yı bulması beyânındadır This is an early, possibly first separately issued publication on Christopher Columbus and the discovery of America…
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- Books, History, Newly Catalogued Items: August 2022, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS: قريستوف قولومب [Kristof Kolomb / Christopher Columbus]
- 420.00€
- An ephemeral biography of Christopher Columbus in Ottoman language was issued in the series Büyük Adamlar Serisi (Series of Important Men) with Ottoman lettering in the last year before the Atatürk’s reformation of the script in the Republic of Turkey. 8°. 15 pp. with illustrations, illustrated cover, stapled (soft folds, minor staiing, overall in a good condition). …
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- Circassians: چركسلر [Çerkesler / Circassians]
- 340.00€
- Large 8°. 48 pp., original wrappers (slightly age-toned and with light foxing, tiny tears in margins, but overall in a good condition).
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- COLOMBIA / BOGOTÁ IMPRINT: Proyecto de codigo de organización judicial presentado a las camaras lejislativas por el secretario de gobierno de la Nueva Granada en 1846.
- 1,200.00€
- Extremely rare – an important legal proposal that advocated major reforms of the archaic Nueva Grenadian (Colombian) judicial system by dramatically expanding the role and authority of juries during criminal trials, principally authored by José Ignacio de Márquez, the former President and the nation’s foremost legal scholar, framing a major debate between the country’s emerging Liberal and Conservative political…
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- CONGRESS OF BERLIN: برلين قونغره سى بك ديپلوماسى تاريخنه بر نظر
- 320.00€
- German-Ottoman / Turkish Relations Congress of Berlin
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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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- CYPRUS – HISTORY / NICOSIA IMPRINT: Excerpta Cypria.
- 2,800.00€
- The very rare first edition of a foundational work of Cypriology, published in Nicosia, it is the first anthology of primary historical sources on the island, featuring 35 accounts, ranging in date from 1196 AD to 1870, collected and translated from 12 different languages into English by Claude Delaval Cobham, who served as the District Commissioner of Larnaca Province…
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