New Acquisitions: October 2020 - Antiquariat Dasa Pahor

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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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