New Acquisitions: December 2020 Archives

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- New Acquisitions: December 2020, Slavica
- ANTISEMITISM / CROATIA / POLITICAL PROPAGANDA: O židovima [About the Jews]
- 250.00€
- A rare, unusual separately issued propaganda publication in Croatian language with an extreme anti-Semitic content, was printed in 1939, on the eve of WWII. It is a reprint of a 1906 article by an influential Croatian politician Stjepan Radić (died 1928), who later became a liberal politician and regrated his early writings. 8°: 16 pp., original green wrappers with…
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- Books, New Acquisitions: December 2020, Slavica
- ANTISEMITISM / CROATIA: Postoji li židovska opasnost. Moj proces sa Židovima [Is there a Jewish Danger? My Process with the Jews]
- 220.00€
- A rare anti-Semitic work in Croatian language was published on the eve of WWII. 8°. X, 221 pp., original wrappers with lettering (old owner's stamp on the first page, tiny tears in the wrappers, otherwise a good, uncut example).
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- Australia, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: December 2020, New Zealand
- AUSTRALIA AND OCEANIA: يكى اوقيانوسيا [New Oceania]
- 850.00€
- A very rare, large format, separately issued map of Australia and Oceania that is perhaps the last great map of the continent to be printed in Ottoman Turkish script, with attractive colours and adorned with the flags of major African states and colonies, published in Istanbul for the Kitabhane-yi Sudi bookshop. Colour off-set print (Good, some light staining, wear…
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- Books, New Acquisitions: December 2020, Turkica
- AZERI CHILDREN’S LITERATURE: تولكى و چاق چاق بك [Tülkü [Tilki] ve Çakçak Bey]
- 380.00€
- An attractive book for children in Azeri language, written with Arabic letters, with a humorous story in verses, was published in Baku in 1899. The author was a prominent educator, author and translator Sultan Mecid Ganizade. 8°. Title page, 41 pp., [4 pp.] blank, original pink wrappers with lettering and illustrations, contemporary brown cloth binding with debossed titles in…
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- Books, New Acquisitions: December 2020
- AZERI EARLY MODERN GEOGRAPHY: قافقاز جعرفياوسى [Kafkaz Coğrafyası / Geography of the Caucasus]
- 620.00€
- The first modern book on geography in Azeri, written by a pioneer of Azeri modern education, Gafur Rashad Alakbar 8°. 117 pp. with black and white illustrations, [1 pp.], later marbled paper wrappers (slightly age-toned, light staining, sporadic old repaired tears in margins, lacking original wrappers, otherwise in a good, clean condition).
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- Books, New Acquisitions: December 2020, Reference Books, Slavica
- BIBLIOGRAHPY – PARTISAN UNDERGROUND PRINTING: Bibliografija izdanja u narodooslobodilačkom ratu. 1941-45.
- 320.00€
- [Bibliography of Publications in the National Liberation War. 1941-45] The groundbreaking bibliography, listing over 9000 titles of underground publications, issued by the Yugoslav Partisans during WWII, including in North Africa, Italy and in the concentrations camps. 4°: [18 pp.] with a full-page portrait…
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- Books, New Acquisitions: December 2020, Slavica
- BIBLIOGRAHPY – PARTISAN UNDERGROUND PRINTING: Партизанске штампарије [Partizanske štamparije / Partisan Press].
- 350.00€
- An important and scarce work on Partisan publications by Vladimir Dedijer, subsequently one of the most internationally esteemed Yugoslav academics, issued in Belgrade shortly after its liberation. Large 8°: 158 pp. (1 image within text), 1 plate, 1 folding plate, [1] (index), original tan wrappers with printed brown and red cover, stapled, on the first blank page a stamp of…
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- Books, New Acquisitions: December 2020, Slavica
- BULGARIAN PUBLICATION IN ISTANBUL: История блъгарска [Bulgaian History]
- 850.00€
- A rare, important history book in Bulgarian language, written by a prominent Bulgarian diplomat, was printed in Istanbul by a Macedonian Press 8°, [2] title page, XXI, 616 pp., [4 pp.] errata, newer marbled wrappers (uncut example, partly unbound title page with missing upper white corner, some pages lightly stained, old dried moist stains between pages 180-200, otherwise in…
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- Africa, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: December 2020
- CENTRAL AFRICA: [Congo, Cameroon, Angola, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda]
- 120.00€
- A map from Umûm Vilayât-ı Şâhâneyi Hâvi Küçük Atlas - Umûmî Küçük Atlas (General Small Atlas) Chromolithograph. 9 x 13,5 cm (3.5 x 5.3 inches).
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- Books, New Acquisitions: December 2020, Slavica
- CHILDREN’S LITERATURE / PARTISAN UNDERGROUND WWII PRINTING: Slovenski Pionir [Slovenian Pioneer]
- 360.00€
- This exceedingly rare ephemeral propaganda mimeographed magazine for small children was printed by an underground Slovenian partisan press during WWII. 8°. 16 pp. mimeographed text with the illustrations, original illustrated blue wrappers, stapled (soft vertical fold, wrappers with light staining and a small loss of a corner on the rear cover, the crosswords on the last page filled…
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- Books, New Acquisitions: December 2020, Slavica
- CROATIAN PARTISAN UNDERGROUND PRINTING / WWII: Drugo zasjedanja Antifašističkog Vijeća Narodnog Oslobođenja Jugoslavije
- 300.00€
- [2nd Congress of the Antifascist Council of the Yugoslav Liberation] A rare Croatian WWII underground partisan pamphlet describes the 2nd Congress of the Antifascist Council of the Yugoslav Liberation (AVNOJ), the most important Partisan event during the war, where Tito was proclaimed Marshall. The date was later celebrated as the Day of the Republic. 8°, 72 pp., original…
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- Africa, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: December 2020
- EL ATALEH, SOMALIA: Africa – Costa Est. Ancoraggi di Itala (Ata Eh). Rilievi eseguiti dalle R. Navi Staffetta e Governolo Comandanti: Capitano di Fregata P. Botti – 1898, Capitano di Fregata G. Patris – 1904, Capitano di Fregata A. Riva di Fenile – 1906.
- 150.00€
- This is the extremely rare first edition of the Italian Navy’s sea chart of stretch of the Somali coast around El Ataleh, some ways up from Mogadishu. Zincograph (Good, but with noticeable wear along old folds with some toning in upper area), 63 x 59 cm (25 x 23 inches).
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