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- Americas, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: October 2020
AMERICA – OTTOMAN SCHOOL ATLAS: آمريقا [Amerika]
- 380.00€
- 8°. 29-35 pp., facing pages marked with the same number, with colour lithographed plates, printed covers, stapled (tiny loss of paper in the lower corners of the last pages, light staining and foxing, otherwise in a good used condition).
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- Books, History, New Acquisitions: October 2020
AZERBAIJANI INDEPENDENCE / PARIS PEACE CONFERENCE: Aperçu sur l’histoire, la littérature et la politique de l’Azerbeidjan
- 740.00€
- [Overview of Azerbaijani History, Literature and Politics] A rare, important book with the history and current political situation of the newly founded Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, written by the Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs Adil Khan Ziatkhan, was presented at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, where the independence of the republic was confirmed internationally. 8°, 101 pp., original…
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- Americas, Caribbean, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: October 2020
CUBA – SOVIET CARTOGRAPHY / COLD WAR: Куба [Kuba]
- 380.00€
- Colour print, 51,5 x 86 cm (20.2 x 33.8 inches), accompanied by an original brochure with an index: 8°, 13 pp., [2 pp.], wrappers with title, stapled. Housed in an original illustrated wrappers with a flap (a small hand-written monogram of the previous owner, otherwise in a near-mint unused condition with a minimal stains on the spine of the wrappers).…
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- Books, New Acquisitions: October 2020, Ottoman Books, Turkica
GEOGRAPHY BOOK / CHILDREN’S EDUCATION: جمهوريت چوجوقلرينه يكى جوغرافيا درسلرى [Republic Lesions in the New Geography for Children]
- 150.00€
- 8°, 176 pp. with black and white maps and photographs, original illustrated wrappers (minor staining, tiny tears in margins, tine holes in the inner margins from an old binding, a small stain in the text of pp. 98-101, overall in a good condition).
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- Books, New Acquisitions: October 2020, Turkica
HORSE MEDICINE: Ameli nalbandlik ve ayak hastaliklari [Working Horses and Hoof Diseases]
- 220.00€
- Long small folio, 167 pp. with illustrations and photographs, original black cloth with debossed decoration and lettering (minor water-staining in the lower outer edge, binging lightly scuffed on the corners, otherwise in a good condition).
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- Arabic Books, Books, New Acquisitions: October 2020, Turkica
INDEPENDENCE OF THE NORTH CAUCASUS AND IDEL-URAL STATE / ANTI-BOLSHEVIK PROPAGANDA / CAIRO IMPRINT: مذكرة عن حالة المسلمين في الروسيا البلشفيكية
- 680.00€
- مذكرة عن حالة المسلمين في الروسيا البلشفيكية : مقدمة إلى حضرة صاحب الفضيلة الأستاذ الأكبر شيخ الجامع الأزهر وشيخ الإسلام بالديار المصرية [Mud̲akkira aine ḥāla al-Muslimīn fī-r-Rūsiyā al-Bulšifīkīya … / A Note On the Condition of Muslims in Bolshevik Russia: An Introduction to the Honorable Master, the Grand Shaykh of Al-Azhar Mosque and the Shaykh of Islam in the Egyptian…
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- India, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: October 2020
INDIA – HYDERABAD: Hyderabad Municipal Survey Map.
- 2,000.00€
- Extremely rare – no other examples traced – the authoritative city plan of Hyderabad created in the twilight days of Mir Osman Ali Khan’s transformative rule when the city was one of India’s leaders in urban planning and industrial modernization, the result of over a generation of ultra-advanced, continuously updated surveys made under the direction of the…
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- Europe, New Acquisitions: October 2020
LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND CITY MAP – PANORAMA: Plan monumental de Lausanne. Légende des principales curiosités, artères , places et promenades. Panorama du signal.
- 220.00€
- Colour lithograph, 70 x 51 cm (27.6 x 20 inches), verso views and advertisements (soft folds with small partly repaired holes on the crossings and tears in margins, minor staining, otherwise in a good condition).
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- Europe, Italy, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: October 2020, Slovenia
LJUBLJANA-TRIESTE RAILROAD: Karte der k.k. Staats-Eisenbahn zwischen Laibach und Triest. Sr. Excellenz dem Hochgeborenen Herrn Gustav Grafen Chorinsky, Freiherrn von Ledske…
- 2,200.00€
- [Map of the K. K. State Railway between Ljubljana and Trieste. To His Excellency the Noble Gustav Count Chorinsky, Baron von Ledske…] A rare, charming map of the railroad between Ljubljana and Trieste was lithographed in Ljubljana, possibly at the occasion of the opening of the line. Lithograph, 66 x 41 cm (26 x 16.1 inches), originally dissected in…
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- Books, New Acquisitions: October 2020, Ottoman Books, Science, Turkica
MEDICINE / PHARMACOLOGY: Pharmacopoea Castrensis Ottomana. Pharmacopée Militaire Ottomane
- 3,800.00€
- The first printed pharmacopeia in the Ottoman Empire with an original text by an Austrian medical doctor Karl Ambros Bernard, was published by Henri Cayol, the first lithographer in Istanbul. A uncut example with original wrappers. 4°, [4 pp.] titles, IV, 161 pp., [2 pp.] errata, original blue wrappers with lettering, book-seller’s stamp in Ottoman on p. 1 (good, uncut…
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- Books, New Acquisitions: October 2020, Slavica
MEDICINE / UNDERGROUND PRINTING / YUGOSLAV PARTISANS: Partizanski zdravstveni vestnik. Leto 1, Št. 1. Primorska izdaja [Partisan Medical News, Year 1, No. 1]
- 420.00€
- A rare medical publication by Slovenian / Yugoslav partisans, printed in an underground press during WWII, includes articles on lice, disinfection and medicine against itch, construction of a basic bathroom, partisan fighter as a nurse, diseases of teeth and dental care, scurvy and burial of the dead in the woods. A folding mimeographed illustration represents a construction of a barrel…
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- Books, New Acquisitions: October 2020, Slavica
POLISH BOOK DESIGN / GEOLOGY: Jak powstały Tatry [How the Tatra Mountains were Created]
- 150.00€
- The first edition of a scientific illustrated geological book on the Tatras was written by a Polish foremost expert on the subject Edward PASSENDORFER (1894-1984). The brilliant cover design was made by a Polish academic artist Konstanty Maria Sopoćko (1903-1992), possibly still as a student, who would later become a prominent designer, printer and lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts…
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