New Acquisitions: November 2020 Archives

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- Africa, Books, Geography, History, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: November 2020
- AFRICA (TANZANIA, CAMEROON, NAMIBIA, TOGO, CONGO) – NAZI DESIGNS IN AFRICA / CARTOGRAPHY / TRANSPORTATION: Straßen im tropischen Afrika: Auszüge aus den Mandatsberichten der Jahre 1922-1937 und aus den Abhandlungen des Kgl. Belgischen Kolonialinstituts 1939.
- 1,200.00€
- An extremely rare Nazi report on the state of roads in Germany's former African colonies and the Belgian Congo, made early in World Wat II in preparation for plans for the Third Reich to regain its African empire either by diplomacy or force, being a printed copy of an original typescript labelled as 'Als Manuskript gedruckt' ('Printed as a manuscript'), issued…
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- Books, New Acquisitions: November 2020, Slavica
- BOSNIAN / MUSLIM ANTI-COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA: Muslimani u Sovjetskoj Rusiji [Muslims in the Soviet Russia]
- 580.00€
- A rare Bosnian pan-Turkic anti-Communist pamphlet was published during WWII by a Muslim intellectual Mustafa Busuladžić, who sided with the Croatian pro-Nazi anti-Communist government. The book was used as an evidence against him at his trial for collaboration only days after the end of WWII. 12°. 70 pp. with a portrait and a map, later 20th century blue cloth…
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- Books, New Acquisitions: November 2020, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- CATHERINE THE GREAT / BULAQ IMPRINT: اجمال اوائل دولت روسيه [İcmal-i eva’il-i devlet-i Rusiya [or] Katerina Tarihi]
- 1,600.00€
- 8°. [10 pp], 225 pp., later brown cloth binding with lettering on the spine (sporadic small repaired tears in margins, light staining an foxing, old written price on the inner side of the rear board, otherwise in a good condition).
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- Books, New Acquisitions: November 2020, Other
- EARLY AESTHETIC PROSTHETICS / PROSTHODONTICS: C. A. Lorenz. Leipzig. 1, Koenigs-Platz 1. … Dental Katalog 1900.
- 420.00€
- 8°, [10 pp.] title page, colour plate and an introduction, 239 pp. with black and white illustrations, original illustrated wrappers (slightly age-toned and stained, small chips and folds in the corners and margins, old annotations in pencil on the first and last blank paper, wrappers slightly water-stained and tiny loss of paper on the spine, inside overall in a good,…
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- Books, New Acquisitions: November 2020, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- INCUNABLE OF OTTOMAN LITHOGRAPHY: مذكره ضابطان [Officer’s Notes]
- 5,200.00€
- A rare manual for officers is the fifth and the last book, printed in the first Istanbul lithographic press, run by a Frenchmen Henri Cayol on the premises of the Ministry of War for only five years. It was written by the main patron of this new technique, the statesman and admiral Koca Hüsrev Mehmed Pasha. 8°: [6 pp.]…
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- Books, New Acquisitions: November 2020, Turkica
- MARXISM IN BAKU: قارل مارقس ترجمه حالينيك مارقسيزم علاوه سيله مختصر قصه سى
- 650.00€
- [Karl Marx. A Brief Biographical Sketch / Карл Маркс. Kраткий биографический очерк с изложением марксизма] 8°: 25 pp., original illustrated wrappers, stapled (very good, uncut example, wrappers slightly dusty with light chips in the corners).
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- Books, German Books, New Acquisitions: November 2020, Ottoman Books, Slavica
- ORIENTALISM IN AUSTRO-HUNGARY / TURANISM: Das neue Turán. Ein Gruss an das erwachende Morgenland!
- 650.00€
- An unusual pan-Turanian work in German language, representing the contemporary movement in the Ottoman Empire, was written and self-published in Ljubljana by a Slovenian author and orientalist Arthur von Wurzbach, who appears to be overlooked in the historical books, possibly for his monarchist and pro-Ottoman sentiments in his homeland, which would soon become Yugoslavia. Small 4°, 32 pp. letterpress…
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- Books, New Acquisitions: November 2020, Slavica
- PARTISAN PRINTING / UNDERGROUND PRINTING / REPRESENTATION OF A CLANDESTINE PRESS: Leto borb ob Soči: september 1943-1944
- 350.00€
- [A Year of Fights at Soča River: September 1943-1944]. Small 4° : [1], title page in red and black, 87 pp. mimeographed text, [3] pp., original wrappers with mimeographed cover (light staining and foxing, small tears in margins, overall in a good condition); plus inserted, related pamphlet, large 8° : 8 pp., with mimeographed illustrated cover and text. …
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- Books, New Acquisitions: November 2020, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS / MODERN GEOMAGNETISM: رهنماى سفاين [Guide of Vessels / Rehnümayı Sefain or Rehnümâ-yi Sefâin]
- 2,000.00€
- The first Ottoman book on the modern geomagnetism and binnacle, including an almost always missing rotating volvelle Small 4°: 332 pp. with an illustrated title page, charts and one illustrations, 3 double-page illustrations including a colour lithograph, folding chart, a page with mounted volvelle, composed of two parts and a string and instructions on the last page, original errata…
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- Africa, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: November 2020
- TANZANIA / RWANDA / BURUNDI – WORLD WAR I IN EAST AFRICA: German East Africa. Scale 1:2,000,000 or 1.014 Inches = 32 Miles.
- 1,200.00€
- A seemingly unrecorded special ‘emergency’ issue of Max Moisel’s groundbreaking map of Deutsch-Ostafrika (today’s mainland Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi), issued in haste by British War Office immediately following the outbreak of World War I, whereupon East Africa became a surprisingly intense conflict theatre; the present example bearing evidence of field use, featuring contemporary manuscript additions. Photolithographic print, with contemporary…
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- Africa, Europe, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: November 2020
- WWII IN NORTH AFRICA / SICILY / D-DAY / FRANCE / GERMANY / SOLDIERS’ ITINERARY CARTOGRAPHY: The Route of The Ninth Division Thru the Natousa & Etousa Nov. 8, 1942 – June 1945.
- 650.00€
- A fascinating itinerary map of the route of the U.S. Army’s Ninth Infantry Division during their World War II active combat tours, featuring their routes in North Africa, Sicily, England, France (including the D-Day Landings) and Germany; published in Germany only 2 months after the end of the war as a memento for the troops – notably, one of only…
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