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- Books, Iran, September 2023: 50 under 1000 EUR
- IRANIAN BOOK DESIGN / TYPOGRAPHY: رؤيا [Le Rêve]
- 380.00€
- 8°. [2] title, 150 pp., [2] blank, original illustrated wrappers (wrappers with minor staining, minor water-staining in the margins in the first part, otherwise a seemingly unread copy).
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- Books, Iran, September 2023: 50 under 1000 EUR
- IRANIAN BOOK DESIGN / IRANIAN PULP: داستانهاى واقعى [True Stories]
- 520.00€
- A pair of rare ephemeral Iranian pulp magazines with stunning design was published by Mostafa Alamouti, who would become an esteemed journalist, politician and after the Revolution a valuable source of the recent history.
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- Books, Iran, September 2023: 50 under 1000 EUR
- IRANIAN BOOK DESIGN: انسان وحشى [La Bête Humaine]
- 340.00€
- 8°. [4] titles, introduction and illustration, 155 pp., [5 pp.] original illustrated wrappers (wrappers with wear mostly to the spine and minor water staining in the lower part of the back cover, rear sheets with minor water-staining in the lower part, first page with minor foxing, otherwise in a good condition).
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East, Newly Catalogued Items: August 2022
- IRAQ / KUWAIT / IRAN / PETROLEUM HISTORY / WORLD WAR I: Lower Mesopotamia between Baghdad and the Persian Gulf.
- 980.00€
- The rare first edition of the first accurate and highly detailed topographical general map of Central and Southern Iraq, Kuwait and Khuzestan (Iran), created by the British War Office, the culmination of three generations of espionage and exploration missions, capped by late breaking discoveries; the authoritative map used by both sides during World War I’s ‘Mesopotamia Campaign’, Britain’s dramatic…
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- Books, Geography, New Acquisitions: September 2020
- IRAQ / PETROLEUM-OIL HISTORY / CALCUTTA IMPRINT: Geological Notes on Mesopotamia with Special Reference to Occurrences of Petroleum, Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India, Volume XLVIII.
- 3,500.00€
- A highly important work on early petroleum history, being the official account of the first scientific geological reconnaissance of Northern Iraq, featuring 10 large, colourful maps that are the first detailed, accurate geological maps of the same region, a work that served as the blueprint for the Turkish Petroleum Company to discover the world’s largest oil field near Kirkuk in…
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- Books, Newly Catalogued Items: August 2022, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- ISLAMIC CALLIGRAPHY / SCHOOL BOOK: ثلث قره لمه دفترى [Sülüs Karalama Defteri / Notebook for Drafting Thulth]
- 120.00€
- 8°, [16 pp.], partly stained with small tears, but without loss of text, sporadic small repairs with modern tape on the wrappers, small worm holes, otherwise partly uncut example)
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- Books, Newly Catalogued Items: August 2022, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- ISLAMIC CALLIGRAPHY / SCHOOL BOOK: رهبر صبيان [Rehber-i Sıbyan Primer]
- 160.00€
- 8°, 16 pp., original orange wrappers with lettering (small script in black ink on one page, otherwise not filled in and in a good, clean condition).
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- Books, History, Newly Catalogued Items: August 2022, Turkica
- ITALIAN INVASION OF ABYSSINIA / HAILE SELASSIE: İtalya Habeş [Italian Abyssinia]
- 380.00€
- A contemporary detailed report on the Fascist Italian invasion on Abyssinia by a prolific Turkish general, politician and author Kâzim Karabekir. 8°. 438 pp., [6 pp.], interleaved illustrations and maps, 2 folding black and white maps, 1 folding colour map, original wrappers with lettering, bound in recent red half-goat with gold decoration and lettering on the spine, grey…
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- Africa, Maps and Prints, New Acquisitions: December 2020
- JUBBA RIVER, SOMALIA: Africa Orientale (Benadir) Foce del Giuba. Rilievi eseguiti dalle R. Navi “Staffetta” Comandante Giavotto, Capitano di Vascello – 1908.
- 150.00€
- This chart maps the mouth of the Jubba River in southern Somalia, long a vital lifeline for agriculture and trade. The chart was made from surveys conducted by Commander Giovatto of the Italian Navy in 1908. Zincograph (Very Good, some light toning and light wear along old folds), 53 x 61 cm (21 x 24 inches).
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- Books, Newly Catalogued Items: August 2022, Other
- JUDAICA, OTTOMAN EMPIRE / “MASONIC PRESS”: L’Or [Gold]
- 850.00€
- An exceedingly rare book of poetry by an Ottoman Zionist activist and author Lucien Sciuto, allegedly published by the Masonic Press in Paris. 8°. 32 pp., later wrappers (slightly age-toned and with minor foxing, narrow outer margin, without loss of text).
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- Books, History, Newly Catalogued Items: August 2022, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- JUDAICA, OTTOMAN EMPIRE / CRYPTO-JUDAISM: دونمه لرك حقيقتى [Dönmelerin Hakikati / The Truth about the Dönme]
- 550.00€
- A rare pamphlet in Ottoman language on the Dönme, a group of Sabbatean crypto-Jews in the Ottoman Empire, centered in Thessaloniki. 8°, 32 pp., original wrappers with lettering, later spine (light staining and small tears in margins, but otherwise in a good condition).
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- Karachi Imprint / Sindhi Language: Kámsen Kámrúp. An Original Poem by Lalú Bhagatú. Prepared for the Press by Moonshee Oodharam Thawardass, Assistant Translator of Government in Sind كامسينء كامروپ
- 1,600.00€
- Three exceedingly rare early lithographed books in Sindhi language, bound together, include educational stories in verses and were sponsored by the British to educate the state officials Three titles bound together in one volume. 8°, [6 pp.] with title pages in English and Sindhi and an introduction, 131 pp. lithographed text in Sindhi, 14 pp. index, 8 pp.…
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