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- Tripolitania – Libya: La Tripolitania quale risulta dai viaggi di Gherardo Rohlfs [Tripolitania, as it Results from the Travels of Gerhard Rohlfs]
- 450.00€
- A rare Italian report on the travel through the North of Libya by a German explorer Gerhard Rohlfs, written by a lawyer Rizzardo Rizzetto, who in his researches emphasized the importance of Tripolitania for the Italian exploration of Africa, shows an early Italian tendency to colonize the region. 8°. [10 pp.], 125 pp., [3 pp.], original blue wrappers…
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- Tripolitania – Libya: La Tripolitania secondo le più recenti esplorazioni [Tripolitania According to the Recent Explorations]
- 140.00€
- 8°. 60 pp. with a map, [4 pp.], original wrappers with lettering, later spine (minor staining and foxing, but overall in a good condition).
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- TURCICA: Canons ou Règlements de Sultan Sélim II à son retour à Constantinople après une Victoi[re] complette sur les Allemands, concernant les Odgiaks et Casernes des Janissaires. Traduit de l’idiome Turc en idiome Français Par Jean Bapte Adanson
- 5,500.00€
- A unique manuscript French translation of an unpublished Turkish text with valuable information on Janissaries in the 16th century in Turkey, was written by a French Orentalist and translator Jean-Baptiste Adanson.
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- Books, History, Newly Catalogued Items: August 2022, Turkica
- TURKISH POLITICS: Grande Assemblée Nationale de Turquie. Séance du Jeudi, 23 Aout 1923 (1339). Déclarations du Ministre des Affaires Etrangères
- 250.00€
- 8°, 48 pp., original purple wrappers with lettering (minor frying to the first pages, tiny tears on the spine, but otherwise in a good condition).
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- Turkmen Tribes / Fake News / World War I: توركمن عشيرتلرى [Türkmen Aşiretleri / Turkmen Tribes]
- 450.00€
- An Ottoman propaganda text on the Turkmen tribes, published during World War I, with partly invented historical texts and statistics, written by an infamous fraudster Naci Ismail under an assumed names of foreign scientists. 8°. 533 pp., [3 pp.], original wrappers with lettering (wrappers slightly dusty and soiled with small tears, partly repaired spine, title page slightly age-toned,…
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- Ukraine / Polish Press / Vilnius Publishing: O śmilańskim parafijalnym kościele na Ukrainie [About the Parish Church of Smila in Ukraine]
- 980.00€
- A rare Polish book on a Catholic church in Smila, at the time a part of the Russian Empire (today Ukraine), printed in Vilnius. Small 4°, 1 toned lithographic view and 1 colour lithography, later half claf with marbled paper boards and gilt lettering and decoration on the spine, marbled edges (minor age-toning, foxing and staining, old library…
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- Books, History, September 2023: 50 under 1000 EUR
- WAR OF THE SPANISH SUCCESSION (1701–1714) / BAVARICA: Relation de la Battaille qui s’est donnée le 20me de Septembre 1703 sur la plaine de Höchstet entre l’armée françoise & bavaroise…
- 420.00€
- [Report of the Battle, which Took Place on September 20, 1703 at he Plain of Höchstädt Between French and Bavarian Army…] Large 4°, [4 pp.] letterpress (Very good with uncut edges, margins little age-toned).
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- Warsaw Ghetto Uprising / Judaica: Getto walczy. Udział Bundu w obronie getta warszawskiego
- 420.00€
- [The Ghetto is Fighting. Participation of the Bund in the defense of the Warsaw Ghetto] Large 12°, 67 pp., original illustrated wrappers (wrappers slightly dusty and stained with small chips and lines in ink and pencil, sporadic annotations in pencil inside).
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- WEST INDIES – ST. CROIX, DANISH (TODAY U.S.) VIRGIN ISLANDS BRITISH OCCUPATION DURING NAPOLEONIC WARS (1807 – 1815) DIPLOMACY/ TRADE / FINANCE / SLAVERY:
- 7,500.00€
- A unique and vital primary source on the history of what is today the United States Virgin Islands during the critical period of the Napoleonic Wars and the twilight of the West Indies sugar-slave economy, being the original manuscript letter book of William Manning, an English MP, tycoon, slave plantation owner and the Governor of the Bank of England, who…
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- WOMEN BIBLIOPHILES & COLLECTORS: Les Langues mortes et les Langues vivantes dans l’enseignement secondaire
- 680.00€
- [Dead and Living Languages in Secondary Education] A handsome example of a pamphlet on the subject, if dead languages should still be thought at secondary schools, written by Jewish educator Benjamin Levy. From the library of Ernesta Stern with a dedication by the author. 8°, 48 pp. with dedication by the author to Ernesta Stein on the first…
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- WW I – MILITARY HISTORY AND POETRY: Српска Африкијада. Наши у Африци. Srpska Afrikijada. Naši u Africi [Serbian Africana. Our Solders in Africa].
- 380.00€
- An illustrated book, printed in Belgrade, gives a report on Serbian soldiers in Africa during WWI.
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- WWI – OTTOMAN EMPIRE / ANTI-ALLIED PROPAGANDA: آرش ايلرى بر مدر فلاح ايلرى
- 550.00€
- A rare ephemeral anti-British, anti-French, anti-Russian and anti-Cossack poster, made during WWI in Ottoman language by the Navy Society Broadside, 51 x 18 cm (20 x 7 inches) (soft folds, tiny holes, slightly age-toned).
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