Newly Catalogued Items: August 2022 Archives - Page 3 of 4

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- Books, Newly Catalogued Items: August 2022, Ottoman Books, Science, Turkica
- MEDICINE IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE: نوسال عافيت [Nusal-i afiyet [also] Nevsâl-i Afiyet.. Third Year]
- 680.00€
- 8°, contemporary brown binding with calf spine with embossed decoration and gold lettering, cloth boards, contemporary endpapers with floral pattern (light staining, mostly to the first and last pages, minor scuffing to the spine, a small loss of paper in the corner of rear lose endpaper, otherwise in a good, used condition).
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- Africa, Maps and Prints, Newly Catalogued Items: August 2022
- MOZAMBIQUE / LIMPOPO / RIVER ESTUARY (XAI-XAI, GAZA PROVINCE): Reconhecimento da barra do Limpopo. Costa Oriental de África. Província de Moçambique.
- 350.00€
- An extremely rare and important sea chart depicting the mouth of the Limpopo River, in southern Mozambique; for centuries the Limpopo was one of the great transport corridors into the interior of southern Africa; the chart is based upon groundbreaking scientific surveys by a team of Portuguese naval officers, led by João António Ludovice, conducted in 1893, when the…
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- Africa, Maps and Prints, Newly Catalogued Items: August 2022
- MOZAMBIQUE / RIO MONIGA, PEBANE, ZAMBEZIA PROVINCE: Reconhecimento hydrographico da Barra do Rio Tejungo. Costa Oriental de África. Província de Moçambique.
- 350.00€
- An extremely rare and attractive late 19th century Portuguese sea chart of the mouth of the Rio Tejungo (today known as the Rio Moniga), a key trading port along the north-central coast of Mozambique, the chart being the first edition of the first scientific, trigonometric survey of estuary, conducted in 1898 by Lieutenant João Carlos da Silva Nogueira of…
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- Americas, Maps and Prints, Newly Catalogued Items: August 2022, South America
- PERU / PERSUASIVE CARTOGRAPHY / PERU-ECUADOR BOUDARDY DISPUTE: Karte von Perú herausgegeben von D.E. Larrabure y Unánue, Minister des Auesseren. R.E. Baluarte Kartenanstalt. / Mappe der Republik Peru: sammt einer kurzen Beschreibung des Landes, seiner geographischen und klimatischen Verhältnisse, der politischen Verfassung…
- 950.00€
- An intriguing, large format propagandist map of Peru, devised by Eduardo Higginson, Peru’s hard-charging Consul General in Southampton, England, published on the orders of the country’s foreign minister, Eugenio Larrabure y Unánue, as a PR piece to showcase Peru’s economic and natural virtues and its maximalist (some might say ‘outrageous’) boundary claims with respect to its disputed frontiers with…
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- Books, Children's Books, Newly Catalogued Items: August 2022, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- PRIMER / ISLAMIC CALLIGRAPHY / TURKISH BOOK DESIGN: ياورومك الفباسى
- 280.00€
- [Yavrumun Elifbası / My Child’s Primer] 8°, 63 pp. zincography with illustrations, original wrappers with colour cover (very good, minor staining, tiny tears in the spine).
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- Books, Newly Catalogued Items: August 2022, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- PSYCHOLOGY IN THE LATE OTTOMAN EMPIRE: پسيقولوژى علم احوال روح
- 280.00€
- [Psikoloji İlm-i Ahvâl-i Ruh / Psychology. The Science of the Psyche] A late Ottoman work on the modern psychology 8°, 203 pp., [5 pp.], later wrappers (slightly age toned, but otherwise in a good condition).
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- Books, History, Newly Catalogued Items: August 2022, Turkica
- SAUDI ARABIA: Suudî Arabistani taniyiniz [Get to Know Saudi Arabia]
- 580.00€
- A rare book in Turkish language on Saudi Arabia, written by a diplomat Saleh Mustafa Islam comes from the library of Kasim Masoud Kasim Zainal Alireza (?-2016), a member of a prominent Saudi family. 8°. [8 pp.] title, 2 portraits and introduction, 223 pp. with portraits and interleaved black and white images, original illustrated wrappers, dedication (by the…
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- Books, Newly Catalogued Items: August 2022, Slavica
- SERBIAN PRINTING IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE: Моjе посланищво у Лондону (1912-1914) [My Mission to London 1912-1914]
- 340.00€
- An uncommon Serbian translation of a controversial pamphlet by a German ambassador to London, describing the events leading to WWI, originally published privately in 1916. Small 8°. VII, 71 pp., [2 pp.] blank, original wrappers with lettering, later spine (old signature on the top of the cover and title page, underlining and old annotations in red colour throughout…
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- Books, Newly Catalogued Items: August 2022, Slavica
- SLAVICA / CROATIAN POETRY: Latice [Petals]
- 120.00€
- 8°, 163 pp., original illustrated card wrappers, dedication by the author in black ink on the title page (wrappers with minor age-toning and tiny tears in margins, otherwise in a good condition).
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- Books, Newly Catalogued Items: August 2022, Slavica
- SLAVICA / LITERATURE: Cankarjev zbornik [Cankar Anthology]
- 320.00€
- 8°, 177 pp., [5 pp.], contemporary red half calf, grey cloth boards, red patterned endpapers, red head, deckled fore-edge and tail, spine with gold lettering and raised bands (Very Good).
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- Books, Newly Catalogued Items: August 2022, Slavica
- SLAVICA / WOMAN EMANCIPATION: Вѣрата и безвѣрието у жената [Faith and Disbelief of Women]
- 250.00€
- An uncommon Bulgarian translation of Jean-Marie Guyau’s work on female emancipation and religion, printed in Varna in 1894 8°, 32 pp., [2 pp.], original pink wrappers with lettering, unbound as originally published (slightly stained, otherwise a good, partly uncut example).
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- Archives and Documents, Newly Catalogued Items: August 2022, Slavica
- SLAVICA / WWI IN TURKEY / DRINKING: [A copy from the report of the 2nd district of Kars, Commandant Lieutenant Ignatiev of Dec. 15th 1916, no 29 to the Commandant of the town of Kars. Court trial on Dec. 17th…]
- 320.00€
- A curious document on a drunken incident from 1916 offers an ephemeral insight into the life of soldiers of the Russian Caucasus Army during WWI. Typescript with manuscript additions and a stamp on both sides, 20 x 18 cm (7,8 x 7 inches) (folds and hardly noticeable worm holes, but otherwise in a good condition).
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