Books

An unusual multilingual work by de Cantos with a text collage, made of various languages Square 8°, 190 pp. also printed upside down(first 65 pp. not numbered), [2 pp.], one full page illustration in grey, black and red (same design as on the cover), illustrated covers with flaps (light foxing throughout the book, slightly age-toned in margins, wrappers with foxing…

A rare address book of Vienna   Large 8°. [4 pp.] title and introduction, 226 pp., [1 pp.] errate original pink card binding with lettering (Very Good, with minor foxing to the first and last page and very small wear to the cover).

  An important dissertation on aerodynamics by using a wind channel was made as a result of experiments, expanding over years, by a German engineer Max Schirmer at the blimp factory Zeppelin during WWII.

  8°, 198 pp., contemporary marbled paper boards and green cloth spine (pp 111, 158, 191-193 marked twice, pages misnumbered 174-177, but complete according to catch words, small folds in corners, but overall in a good condition with only minor age-toning).  

  [Leşkergah / Lashkargāh. Historical, Literary, Artistic, Archeological Studies]   A pioneering work on the pre-Islamic history of art and archeology of a southwestern Afghan city Lashkargāh, with attached visiting card of the author   8°, 152 pp., interleaved 7 sheets, printed with photographs from both sides, original illustrated wrappers, author’s visiting card attached with a pin to the title…

[Afganistan Hükümdarlarının Memleketimizi Ziyaretleri Hatıraları / Memories of Afghan Rulers' Visit to Our Homeland]   Oblong 8°, 48 pp. with black and white images, 2 pages of text and a map, original illustrated wrappers (later spine, tiny tracks in margins, wrappers little rubbed and dusty, but overall in a good condition).  

  8°, 29 pp., later marbled wrappers (slightly stained, otherwise in a good condition).  

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…

  A rare, richly illustrated book in Ottoman script on Africa, North Pole, Australia and South America.

  A scarce, pioneering atlas of Africa with 18 colour plates featuring 50 maps designed by the leading Vienna map house of Freytag & Berndt, including some sophisticated works of thematic cartography and original maps showcasing the level of Western knowledge of the continent, made to capitalize upon the Africa-mania that swept the general public in the wake of the…

  A rare ephemeral Ottoman map of Africa was printed on the back cover of a notebook   8°. [48 pp.] manuscript in pencil on paper with printed stripes, stapled, original pink illustrated wrappers (front cover with light water-staining, tears, loss of image and recently repaired with scotch tape, map with soft folds and tiny tears in the margins, staples…