New Acquisitions: October 2020 - Antiquariat Dasa Pahor

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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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- 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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- 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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- Europe, Germany, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: October 2020
- POST-WWII GERMAN CARTOGRAPHY: Der Wegweiser von und nach der Lutherstadt Wittenberg [The Road Map to and from Lutherstadt Wittenberg]
- 320.00€
- A beautifully designed, optically effective road map to the protestant cultural center Wittenberg in Eastern Germany under the Soviet occupation was made in 1946, immediately after WWII in destroyed Berlin, and printed on the leftovers of an older larger map. Colour lithograph, printed from both sides, original label mounted on the back, 86 x 69 cm (33.9 x 27…
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- Books, History, India, New Acquisitions: October 2020
- PRAYAGRAJ IMPRINT / MUSLIMS IN THE SOVIET UNION: Islam in USSR, Turkey and Europe
- 220.00€
- 8°, viii, [1] illustration (Berlin Mosque), 315 pp., original blue cloth binding with gilt lettering on the back, red edges (publisher’s stamp on the title page, old hand-written price on the inner side of the rear cover, minor staining, binding lightly scuffed on the corners).
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- Czech Republic, Europe, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: October 2020
- RAISED RELIEF MAP – PRAGUE (CZECH REPUBLIC): Die Umgegend von Prag in plastischer Aufnahme von Prof. A.L. Hickmann, k.k. Bezirks-Schulinspector.
- 680.00€
- An extremely rare and intriguing raised relief map of Prague and its environs, created by the innovative professor, Anton Hickmann, whose passion was popularizing geography; published in Reichenberg, in northern Bohemia (today Liberec, Czech Republic). Lithograph in colour, pressed into raised relief on thick card (Good, even toning and some wear to highest points of relief, edges worn and…
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- Books, New Acquisitions: October 2020, Other
- ROMANI LANGUAGE / UKRAINE: The Ukrainian and South Russian Gypsy dialects
- 480.00€
- A book on the Ukrainian language and the language, used by the Roma in Ukraine, was published in English language by the Academy in Saint-Petersburg.
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- Europe, Italy, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: October 2020
- ROUND PANORAMA – MILAN: Panorama orografico e pittoresco della città e contorni di Milano. Preso dalla sommità della cattedrale
- 420.00€
- A round view from the Milan Cathedral from circa 1880 Lithograph (Very Good, overall clean and bright, just some short tears entering from margins closed from verso, old folds), 43.5 x 43.5 (17 x 17 inches)
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- Books, History, New Acquisitions: October 2020
- RUSSIAN REVOLUTION / CENSORSHIP IN THE WESTERN PRESS: The truth about the intervention of the allies in Russia. How the rulers of England are strangling the Russian revolution
- 520.00€
- 8°, 17 pp., later blue cloth binding with gilt lettering (binding lightly stained, old hand-written price in the inner side of the rear cover, otherwise in a good condition).
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- Books, German Books, New Acquisitions: October 2020, Slavica
- RUSSIAN REVOLUTION / RUSSIAN ART: 1917. Russland. 1923/ Russland. Kein Märchen, keine Legende, sondern Wirklichkeit
- 420.00€
- [1917. Russia. 1923. / Russia. No Fairytale, No Legend, But a Reality] Large 4°. 31 pp. with illustrations in black and red, original illustrated wrappers, stapled (paper extremely fragile with tiny chips and tears in margins, wrappers detached, sporadic first and last leaved loose, minor age-toning, otherwise in a good condition).
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- Books, History, New Acquisitions: October 2020
- RUSSIAN REVOLUTION / UKRAINIAN IMMIGRANTS: La Russie de demain [The Russia of Tomorrow]
- 250.00€
- An unusual work by a Ukrainian medical doctor Boris Tschlenoff, based in Switzerland, discusses the future of Russia, with a hope it will develop in a democratic federal republic. 8°, 24 pp., later blue cloth binding with gilt lettering (lacking original wrappers, slightly age-toned, old hand-written numbers on the inner side of the boards, otherwise in a good condition).
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- Books, New Acquisitions: October 2020, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- SCIENCE IN THE OTTOMAN WORLD: علم حيوانات و نباتات [İlm-i Hayvanât ve Nebatât / The Knowledge of Animals and Plants]
- 1,800.00€
- An early illustrated Ottoman zoology and botany book in a magnificent red morocco binding is a translation of a contemporary German book. The translation, made by a medical doctor to sultan Abdulmejid I, Hekimbaşı Salih Efendi, during the time of the Tanzimat, was a major contribution to Ottoman understanding of the Western contemporary biology and terms, which provided the grounds for…
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- Books, New Acquisitions: October 2020, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- SCIENCE IN THE OTTOMAN WORLD: علم حيوانات و نباتات [İlm-i Hayvanât ve Nebatât / The Knowledge of Animals and Plants]
- 650.00€
- An early illustrated Ottoman zoology and botany book is a translation of a contemporary German book. The translation, made by a medical doctor to sultan Abdulmejid I, Hekimbaşı Salih Efendi, during the time of the Tanzimat, was a major contribution to Ottoman understanding of the Western contemporary biology and terms, which provided the grounds for the further developing of science.…
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- Books, New Acquisitions: October 2020, Slavica
- SLOVENIAN / YUGOSLAV BOOK DESIGN – PHOTOMONTAGE: Predmestje. Roman [The Suburbs. The Novel]
- 120.00€
- 8°, 217 pp., [2 pp.] blank, original grey cloth binding with black lettering, original illustrated dustjacket (minor staining and foxing, dust jacked slightly dusty and reinforced in the margins with restored tiny tears and loss of paper, otherwise in a good condition).
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- Americas, Caribbean, New Acquisitions: October 2020
- ST. THOMAS, U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS / CHARLOTTE AMALIA HARBOR / JEWS IN THE WEST INDIES: West Indies – Virgin Islands. Harbour of St. Thomas surveyed by Lieut. G. B. Lawrence, R.N. 1851… Corrections by Captain Nares, H.M.S. Challenger, 1873.
- 620.00€
- An attractive large format sea chart of Charlotte Amalie Harbor, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, predicated upon detailed surveys made by Britain’s Royal Navy in 1851, but here updated to 1912, only five years before the Danish Virgin Islands were sold to the United States, featuring a wealth of details on the town and its environs including major public institutions, Jewish…
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- Books, Madagscar, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: October 2020, Newly Catalogued Items: August 2022, Science
- TROPICAL MEDICINE – THEMATIC CARTOGRAPHY / MADAGASCAR: Essai de géographie médicale de l’Ile Nosi-Bé près la cote nord-ouest de Madagascar (avec cartes). Thèse pour le doctorat en médicine
- 460.00€
- 8°, 300 pp. with charts, interleaved colour folding map, contemporary black calf spine with gilt lettering and decoration with black cloth boards (two pages with tiny loss of paper in white margins, old library stamps on the title page, minor staining and foxing, small holes in the binding).
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- Africa, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: October 2020
- TUNISIA: Carte de la Régence de Tunis dressée d‘après les cartes nautiques de la Marine anglaise, les cartes de l‘Algérie et de la Tunisie publiées par le Depôt de la guerre franc̦ais et les itinéraires des voyageurs européens, surtout de feu M. Wilmanns par Henri Kiepert.
- 350.00€
- A rare map of Tunisia made by Heinrich Kiepert, the great German cartographer who was the world’s foremost authority on the geography of the Arab World, published the year that France colonized the country; the map features a wealth of topographic, infrastructure, ethnographic and archaeological details, some of which were gleaned from the recent expedition of the German historian Gustav…
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