Newly Catalogued Items: August 2022 Archives - Antiquariat Daša Pahor

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- Books, History, Iran, Newly Catalogued Items: August 2022, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- ANGLO-IRANIAN RELATIONS: ايرانده انكليزلر [İran’da İngilizler / Englishmen in Iran]
- 460.00€
- 8°, original cover, [2 pp.], 104 pp., folding map, later brown cloth binding with lettering (minor age-toning, old hand-written price on the inner side of the rear board, but overall in a good condition).
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- Books, History, Newly Catalogued Items: August 2022
- ANTI-FASCIST PROPAGANDA / WORLD WAR II IN GREECE: Πολεμικη Σατυρα [Polemiki Satira / War Satire]
- 650.00€
- A rare satirical illustrated anti-Fascist-Italy pamphlet, printed for the Greek soldiers during World War II. Large 8°. [64 pp.] with black and white illustrations, original illustrated wrappers (Very Good). Evangelos BITSAXIS - Kostantinos STASINOPOULOS, editors; T. MORAITINI, A.G. POP, K. VARNALI, authors of texts - F. DIMITRIADIS, K. BEZOU, N. KASTANAKI, P. PAVLIDIS, S. POLENAKI, E. TERZOPOULOS, KYRIAZI,…
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- Armenian Books, Books, History, Newly Catalogued Items: August 2022
- ARMENIAN HISTORY: A qui la faute? Publications de la revue Dadjar. Aux partis rev. Armeniens (Traduit du texte armenien) [Whose Fault is It? Publications of the Magazine Dadjar… Translated from Armenian]
- 350.00€
- A scarce pamphlet in French language is a translation of an Armenian text with the analysis of the current political situation of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire. It was written during WWI in Istanbul, shortly after the Armenian genocide, where over 1 million Armenians were murdered, as many more were deported or imprisoned. 8°. 70 pp., [2 pp.],…
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- Armenian Books, Books, History, Newly Catalogued Items: August 2022
- ARMENIAN HISTORY: Aspirations et agissements rèvolutionnaires des comitès Armèniens avant et après la proclamation de la constitution Ottomane
- 750.00€
- Small 4°, 416 pp., [2 pp.], 146 pp. with black and white photos, maps and reproductions of documents.
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- Armenian Books, Books, History, Newly Catalogued Items: August 2022
- ARMENIAN HISTORY: L’Empire Ottoman et L’indépendance de l’Eglise Arménienne
- 180.00€
- A rare book in French language, written during World War I, in the time of the Armenian genocide, analyses contemporary situation of the Armenian Church in the Ottoman Empire and in the world. Large 12°. 96 pp., original green wrappers with lettering (good, uncut example, wrappers with minor staining and tiny tears).
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- Armenian Books, Books, History, Newly Catalogued Items: August 2022
- ARMENIAN HISTORY: Les Massacres d’Arménie [The Massacres of Aremania]
- 680.00€
- 8°, 96 pp., original wrappers with lettering (wrappers stained with tiny tears, inside in a good condition with minor staining to the margins).
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- Armenian Books, Books, Newly Catalogued Items: August 2022
- ARMENIAN PRINTING IN ISTANBUL / BIBLE: ԲԱՌԱՐԱՆ. ՍՈՒՐԲ ԳՐՈՑ [Baṛaran Surb Grotsʻ / Dictionary. Holy Bible]
- 480.00€
- Small 8°, 4 full-page black and white maps, double-page black and white map, 635 pp. with black and white illustrations, original blue cloth with debossed lines on the covers and gilt lettering on the spine (minor foxing and light staining in the upper part of the edge, spine slightly age-toned with minor cracks on the side, but overall in…
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- Books, Children's Books, Newly Catalogued Items: August 2022, Slavica
- ASPARAGUS / SLAVICA: Špargelj [Asparagus]
- 120.00€
- A privately published pre-WWII Slovenian manual on asparagus Small 8°, 38 pp. with black and white illustrations, [2 pp.], original green card wrappers with lettering, stapled (small blue lines on the cover, two old school-library stamps, crossed with a book-seller’s stamp).
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- Australia, Maps and Prints, Newly Catalogued Items: August 2022
- AUSTRALIA / NEW GUINEA – WORLD WAR II: 濠州詳細圖附ニユーギニア [Gōshū shōsai zu fu niyūginia / Detailed Map of Australia with New Guinea].
- 950.00€
- A very rare and unusually attractive large format WWII Japanese map of Australia, New Guinea and the Eastern Indonesian Archipelago, made in 1942, the year that the Japanese Air force mounted the shocking ‘Bombing of Darwin’, the largest ever attack upon Australia mounted by a foreign power, and just before the Allies endeavoured to take the offensive in New…
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- Maps and Prints, Newly Catalogued Items: August 2022, World Maps
- AVIATION HISTORY / FIRST JAPANESE TRANS-EURASIAN FLIGHT / SUGOROKU BOARDGAME: 歐訪大飛行記念飛行遊戯 [Ōhō daihikō kinen hikō yūgi / Great European Visit Memorial Flight Game].
- 680.00€
- An attractive cartographic ‘Sugoroku’ gameboard commemorating the 1925 Asahi Shinbun Trans-Eurasian flight, a major landmark of early aviation, whereby two Japanese planes flew from their homeland over 16,500 km to tour various European capitals as part of a patriotic PR tour to showcase Japan’s role as world power, printed by the mission’s sponsor, the ‘Asahi Shinbun’, a leading Japanese…
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- Books, History, Newly Catalogued Items: August 2022, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- BENJAMIN FRANKLIN / SARAJEVO, BOSNIA, IMPRINT: طريق رفاه. فرانقلينك ثروت حقنده كى نصايحى و ترجمه حالى
- 620.00€
- [Tarik-i Refah. Frankli'nin Servet Hakkındaki Nasayihi ve Tercüme-i Hali / The Way to Wealth. Franklin's Commentary on Wealth and ItsTranslation] A rare Ottoman translation of Franklin’s The Way to Wealth, published in Ottoman language in Sarajevo, Bosnia, in 1910 8°, 30 pp., [2 pp.], original orange wrappers with lettering (wrappers with a light stain, otherwise in a…
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- Americas, Maps and Prints, Newly Catalogued Items: August 2022
- CHICAGO: Rand McNally & Co.’s New and Concise Map of Chicago.
- 550.00€
- An authoritative composition featuring two maps of Chicago, one centring upon the inner city and the other showcasing the fast-growing suburban areas of the future ‘Chicagoland’, by Rand, McNally & Company, the nationally important Chicago-based map house. Bi-chrome lithograph (black and green) printed on both sides, folding into original printed tan card wrappers (Very Good, clean, bright and…
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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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- Animals, Books, Newly Catalogued Items: August 2022, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- CYNOLOGY: آو و صالون كوپكلرى [Av ve Salon Köpekleri / Hunting and Salon Dogs]
- 350.00€
- An Ottoman book on dog breeds by a pioneer of the Turkish cynology Cafer Fahri Dikmen (1876 - 1962). 8°, 191 pp. with black and white illustrations, original illustrated wrappers (slightly stained and aga-toned, old hand-written number on the rear cover, otherwise in a goo condition).
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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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- 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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- Asia, Maps and Prints, Newly Catalogued Items: August 2022, South-East Asia
- INDONESIA – JAVA / CIREBON-KROYA RAILWAY: Opname Cheribon-Maos.
- 750.00€
- A seemingly unique engineer’s planning map of the Cirebon-Kroya Railway, a vital link that traversed the midriff of Java, connecting the north coast and south coast rail networks, likely made in 1912-3, just before construction was commenced on the project, which was completed in 1917; the map is printed by an unusual blue-tinted photolithographic technique and features the proposed…
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East, Newly Catalogued Items: August 2022
- IRAQ / KUWAIT / IRAN / PETROLEUM HISTORY / WORLD WAR I: Lower Mesopotamia between Baghdad and the Persian Gulf.
- 980.00€
- The rare first edition of the first accurate and highly detailed topographical general map of Central and Southern Iraq, Kuwait and Khuzestan (Iran), created by the British War Office, the culmination of three generations of espionage and exploration missions, capped by late breaking discoveries; the authoritative map used by both sides during World War I’s ‘Mesopotamia Campaign’, Britain’s dramatic…
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- Books, Newly Catalogued Items: August 2022, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- ISLAMIC CALLIGRAPHY / SCHOOL BOOK: ثلث قره لمه دفترى [Sülüs Karalama Defteri / Notebook for Drafting Thulth]
- 120.00€
- 8°, [16 pp.], partly stained with small tears, but without loss of text, sporadic small repairs with modern tape on the wrappers, small worm holes, otherwise partly uncut example)
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- Books, Newly Catalogued Items: August 2022, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- ISLAMIC CALLIGRAPHY / SCHOOL BOOK: رهبر صبيان [Rehber-i Sıbyan Primer]
- 160.00€
- 8°, 16 pp., original orange wrappers with lettering (small script in black ink on one page, otherwise not filled in and in a good, clean condition).
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- Books, History, Newly Catalogued Items: August 2022, Turkica
- ITALIAN INVASION OF ABYSSINIA / HAILE SELASSIE: İtalya Habeş [Italian Abyssinia]
- 380.00€
- A contemporary detailed report on the Fascist Italian invasion on Abyssinia by a prolific Turkish general, politician and author Kâzim Karabekir. 8°. 438 pp., [6 pp.], interleaved illustrations and maps, 2 folding black and white maps, 1 folding colour map, original wrappers with lettering, bound in recent red half-goat with gold decoration and lettering on the spine, grey…
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- Books, Newly Catalogued Items: August 2022, Other
- JUDAICA, OTTOMAN EMPIRE / “MASONIC PRESS”: L’Or [Gold]
- 850.00€
- An exceedingly rare book of poetry by an Ottoman Zionist activist and author Lucien Sciuto, allegedly published by the Masonic Press in Paris. 8°. 32 pp., later wrappers (slightly age-toned and with minor foxing, narrow outer margin, without loss of text).
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- Books, History, Newly Catalogued Items: August 2022, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- JUDAICA, OTTOMAN EMPIRE / CRYPTO-JUDAISM: دونمه لرك حقيقتى [Dönmelerin Hakikati / The Truth about the Dönme]
- 550.00€
- A rare pamphlet in Ottoman language on the Dönme, a group of Sabbatean crypto-Jews in the Ottoman Empire, centered in Thessaloniki. 8°, 32 pp., original wrappers with lettering, later spine (light staining and small tears in margins, but otherwise in a good condition).
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- Africa, Maps and Prints, Newly Catalogued Items: August 2022
- LIBYA / ITALO-TURKISH WAR / PATRIOTIC PROPAGANDA: Nuova pianta geografica della Tripolitania e Cirenaica con le conquiste italiane.
- 480.00€
- A rare and highly attractive work of patriotic propaganda, being a large map of Libya celebrating Italy’s invasion of the country during the Italo-Turkish War (1911-2), created early in the conflict by the Societá editoriale milanese. Colour print (Very Good, clean and bright, some wear along old folds, some minor marginal staining, far right margin, once bearing additional…
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