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- Der Röm: Kay: Mtt: [et]c. Vnsers allergenedigsten Herrn Ordenung vnnd Satzung, wie es auff jetzigem Reichßtag allhier zu Augspurg gehalten werden solle
- 2,200.00€
- This rare pamphlet of the Diet of Augsburg (Reichstagsordnung) from 1582, printed under Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II, codifies essential legal and religious regulations from a pivotal period of European history.
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- DIARY OF A YOUNG WOMAN / PRISON CAMPS MALANG & LAMPERSARI, JAVA / WORLD WAR II
- 3,600.00€
- A diary, composed of autobiographical songs and poems, filled with black humor and irony, was written by a young woman, imprisoned in Japanese camps Malang and Lampersari in Java, during World War II. 8°, notebook with striped paper, 32 pp. manuscript in Dutch in blue ink with illustrations in colour pencils, rest of the pages blank, original blue marbled…
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- Books, History, Newly Catalogued Items: August 2022, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- DIPLOMACY / OTTOMAN EMPIRE: Protocole pour la Réception à la Cour Impériale des Chefs de Mission Étrangers
- 320.00€
- [Protocol for the Reception of Heads of Foreign Mission at the Imperial Court] 8°, [4 pp.], original pink wrappers with lettering (wrappers with tiny folds, but overall in a good condition). The manual in French language describes the diplomatic rules for foreign ambassadors, ministers, hereditary princes and officials at the Ottoman Imperial court.
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- Early Anti-Hitler Publication: Hitler ve Nasyonal Sosyalizm
- 1,200.00€
- [Hitler and the National Socialism] The first separately printed biography of Adolf Hitler in Turkish language, with a critical analysis of the National socialism and a problem of anti-Semitism, published in the year, when Hitler was elected a chancellor. Signed by the author 8°, 147 pp., with interleaved sepia photographs, contemporary green cloth binding with gilt lettering…
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- EARLY ISLAMIC WORLD: تاريخ العرب العسكرى [Arab Military History]
- 380.00€
- A detailed book on the early military history of the Arab World, centered on Mecca 8°, 254 pp., [2 pp.], 3 interleaved folding maps, original illustrated wrappers (wrappers with minor foxing and wear to the edges, one map split in the fold, but overall in a good condition).
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- EARLY OTTOMAN AMERICANA / CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS: روبرتسون نام مورف مشهورك مولفاتندن يكى دنيانلر كشفنه داتر اولان تاريخى اولوب انجمن دانشك اعضاً خارجيه سنده و باب عالى ترجمه اوطه سى خلفاسنده عبدالغفار انيس بنده لرى انكليز لسانزه ترجمه اتمشدر Histoire de la découverte du nouveau monde p. Robertson traduite p. Enis Abdoulgaffar effendi membre de l’académie turqe en 1269 de l’Hegir – cet ouvrage est traduit de l’anglais
- 9,500.00€
- روبرتسون نام مورف مشهورك مولفاتندن يكى دنيانلر كشفنه داتر اولان تاريخى اولوب انجمن دانشك اعضاً خارجيه سنده و باب عالى ترجمه اوطه سى خلفاسنده عبدالغفار انيس بنده لرى انكليز لسانزه ترجمه اتمشدر Histoire de la découverte du nouveau monde p. Robertson traduite p. Enis Abdoulgaffar effendi membre de l’académie turqe en 1269 de l’Hegir – cet ouvrage est traduit de…
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- EARTHQUAKE OF LJUBLJANA: Das Erdbeben von Laibach und seine Ursachen. Vortrag, gehalten in der Versammlung des naturwissenschaftlichen Vereines für Steiermark am 20. April 1895
- 280.00€
- [The Earthquake of Ljubljana and its Causes. A Lecture Held at the Conference of the Association for Natural Science for Styria in April 20th, 1895] A rare speech on the Ljubljana earthquake of 1895, held in Graz by a geologist Rudolf Hoernes 8°. 61 pp., [2 pp.] blank, old blue wrappers (minor staining and foxing, wrappers with tiny…
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- EGYPTOLOGY / DEMOTIC SCRIPT / ROSETTA STONE: Ecriture démotique égyptienne, Lettre de Mr. Champollion-Figeac, à Mr. Ch. Lenormant (7 février 1843
- 2,500.00€
- A rare and important work on Demotic script, the ‘keystone’ that linked ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphics to the medieval world, which permitted the legendary philologist Jean-François Champollion to decipher the Rosetta Stone; the present study written by his brother, the archaeologist Jacques-Joseph Champollion-Figeac, is largely based upon the late Jean-François’s work, and critically emphasized the alphabetical nature of the script and…
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- GALLIPOLI CAMPAIGN: چناق قلعه حقيقتلرى
- 380.00€
- [Çanakkale Hakikatleri / The Truth About the Dardanelles] 8°. 73 pp., later (1970s) brown cloth binding (lightly stained, four pages with traces of text from other pages, sporadic white margins trimmed, old hand-written price on the inner side of the rear board, a tiny piece of paper mounted on the title page).
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- Books, History, September 2023: 50 under 1000 EUR
- GERMAN HISTORY: Als Des Durchlauchtigsten Fürsten und Herrn Herrn Christian des III. Pfaltz-Graffen bey Rhein … Erb-Printz, Der Auch Durchlauchtigste Fürst und Herr Herr Christian Pfaltz-Graff bey Rhein … Den 6. September 1730
- 320.00€
- A poem composed by Georg Friedrich Stauber, a theology student, and Christian Reinhard Steinheil (1708 – 1786), a court official for the occasion of the 8th birthday of Christian IV, the future Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld (1722 - 1775), from a line of the Bavarian imperial family Wittelsbach, at the time still known as Christian III. As he was married morganatically…
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- Books, History, Iran
- GERMAN ORIENTALISTS – KARL SÜSSHEIM: العراضة فى الحكاية السلجوقية
- 960.00€
- [al-`Urāḍa fī l-ḥikāya al-salğūqīya / The Gift from the History of the Seljuks / Das Greschenk aus der Saldschukengeschichte] A rare first printed publication of an important 14th century historical work on the Seljuk Dynasty, written in Farsi, was a groundbreaking work of a German famous orientalist Karl Süssheim, which gained him a professorship at the University of Munich.…
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- Books, Broadsides, History, Maps and Prints, September 2023: 50 under 1000 EUR
- GREAT PLAGUE OF 1738 / MODENA IMPRINT: Editto di restituzione di commercio verificatasi per Divina Clemenza la remissione del Morbo Contaggioso che scoppiato nella Transilvania nell’Ottobre 1737…
- 350.00€
- [Edict of Restitution of Trade. Verified by Divine Clemency the remission of the Plague [lit. Contagious Disease] which broke out in Transylvania in October 1737…] Broadside: 44 x 32 cm (17.3 x 12.6 inches), (soft folds, tiny tears, contemporary annotations in brown ink in the lower margins, overall in a good condition).
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