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A Concise Introduction to the Study of the Malagasy Language as spoken in Imerina. By W.E. Cousins, missionary of the London Missionary Society. Antananarivo.
- 1,500.00€
- A very rare and important landmark of the study of the Malagasy language and early printing in Madagascar, being a comprehensive grammar of Malagasy made by the Reverend William Edward Cousins, who was one of the leading figures in the 1860s revival of Western and missionary and activity in Madagascar and one of the most prolific authors and connoisseurs of…
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ARMENIA / SOVIET ARMENIA / ATLAS: Հայկական Սովետական Սոցիալիստական Ռեսպուբլիկայի Ատլաս [Atlas of the Armenian Socialist Republic].
- 1,400.00€
- A Armenian language edition of the first thematic atlas of Armenia; one of the most impressive and engaging works of Soviet scientific cartography, featuring 97 full-page, full-colour plates of sophisticated maps plus diagrams covering virtually all aspects of the geography, geology, economy, transport and demographics of the Armenian SSR; predicated upon years of careful research and draughtsmanship by the Armenian…
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Armenian Manual on Sexuality for Men: ՄՏԵՐԻՄ ԶՐՈՒՅՑՆԵՐ ՍԵՌԱԿԱՆ ԿԵԱՆՔԻ ՄԱՍԻՆ.
- 750.00€
- [Confidential Conversations about Sexual Life]. A rare manual on sexuality and impotence, printed in the Armenian Language in Istanbul. 8°: 223 pp., original illustrated wrappers (good, wrappers with minor staining and small tears and tiny loss of paper to spine, minor old annotation in blalck ink on the cover).
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- Bindings, Books, Others
BATAVIA (JAKARTA) / IMPRINT: Verslag over het jaar 1867, zamengesteld door de Kamer van Koophandel en Nijverheid te Batavia.
- 1,500.00€
- A resplendent and unique presentation piece given to Pieter Meijer, the Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia), being the very rare economic yearbook for the colony for 1867, custom bound in sumptuous full red morocco with elaborate gilt neo-rococo designs and bearing a dedication to the His Excellency; published locally by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Batavia,…
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- Europe, Germany, Maps and Prints, Others
BATTLE OF ZORNDORF (1758): Карта положение медь между Город б. ландсберхомъ. [Map of the position between the city of Landsberg…]
- 2,800.00€
- An exquisitely rendered Russian manuscript map of the Battle of Zorndorf (August 25, 1758), a critical showdown of the Seven Years’ War, and one of the most ferocious altercations of the entire conflict, during which Frederick the Great’s forces narrowly prevented the Russians from marching upon Berlin; in beautiful bright hues of watercolour and wash, and with all text in…
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DATA VIZUALIZATION / GEORGIAN BRITAIN: Perspective Chronology of the Reign of George the Third.
- 1,800.00€
- A very rare and sophisticated work of data visualization celebrating the long and eventful reign of King George III, which saw Britain become the foremost global superpower, at the forefront of the Industrial Revolution; composed of series of centric circles that chronologically contextualize a vast amount of information, prepared by the London engraver Nathaniel Rogers Hewitt for the popular publisher…
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- Decorative Prints, Maps and Prints, Old Masters, September 2023: 50 under 1000 EUR
Ex Archetypo P.P. Rubens
- 280.00€
- Copper engraving and etching, 39 x 26 cm (15.3 x 10.2 inches) (minor foxing, but overall in a good condition).
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- Bible, Books, Others, Ottoman Books, Turkica
First Printed Bible in Ottoman Language: Kitab al-Ahd al-Atiq. Kitab al-Ahd al-Jedid. Also: Kitâbü’l-ahde’l-cedide’l-mensub ilâ Rabbina İsa El-Mesih… also: Kitāb al-Ahd al-Atīq ; Kitab ül-ahd ül-cedid also: Kitâb-ı Mukaddes / The Bible [lit. The Holy Book] also: Biblia Turcica
- 2,800.00€
- The first printed translation of the Bible into Ottoman language and the basics for all the later Turkish translations of the text. Printed in Paris with 17th century Arabic types, previously used in Napoleon’s Cairo press and one of the most elegant types made in the West. Two volumes in one. 4°. [4 pp.], 7 pp., 984 pp. [2…
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- Decorative Prints, Maps and Prints
Fox
- 420.00€
- Etching with roulette, printed in sanguine, marked 3 in the upper right corner, platemark: 20,5 x 29 (8.2 x 11.4 inches), sheet: 28,5 x 37,5 cm (11.2 x 14.6 inches), (slightly stained and with light water-staining in margins).
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- 16th and early 17th Century Prints, Maps and Prints
FUGGER – PORTRAIT: Fridericus Fugger Filius II Philippi Eduardi – Graf Friedrich Fugger (1586-1654), Herr zu Weißenhorn, Sohn des Philipp Eduard Freiherr Fugger (1546-1618)
- 750.00€
- An original 17th century hand-drawn portrait of count Friedrich Fugger, a member of the famous banking family from Augsburg.
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- Decorative Prints, Maps and Prints
Guinea Pig
- 420.00€
- Etching with roulette, printed in sanguine, marked 2 in the upper right corner, platemark: 20,5 x 29 (8.2 x 11.4 inches), sheet: 28,5 x 37,5 cm (11.2 x 14.6 inches), (slightly stained and with light water-staining in margins).
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- Americas, Maps and Prints, Others, South America
Guyana – Georgetown Urban Masterplan: DIRECTORATE OF OVERSEAS SURVEYS (GREAT BRITAIN). Greater Georgetown / Guyana. / North Sheet [and] South Sheet.
- 1,200.00€
- An exceedingly detailed, very large masterplan of Georgetown, then the capital of British Guiana (today Guyana), amazingly defining every property lot, outlining and labeling every major building, depicting all parks and recreational facilities, and delineating every street and alleyway, being one of the most ‘panoptic’ of all West Indian city maps of its era; created by the Directorate of Overseas…
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Hydrotherapy: Kaplica Risalesi / Pamphlet on Hot Springs
- 1,400.00€
- 8°: 98 pp., (some leaves mispaginated, but complete) lithographed text written in Nastaliq, 1 folding lithographed view, 1 folding lithographed map, original green printed boards (boards slightly scuffed, stained and with small loss of paper, small wormholes in the inner margins, otherwise in a good, clean condition).
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JAPANESE MEIJI WORLD MAP: 萬國明細全圖 / 改訂新版. [Kaisei shinpan bankoku meisai zenzu / Detailed Map of the World / Revised New Edition].
- 1,200.00€
- A rare and highly decorative Meiji Era World Map, an important landmark in the Japanese adoption of Western cartographic methods, as it one of the first Japanese maps to feature charts showing the comparative heights of the world’s main mountains and the lengths of its longest rivers, clearly used for pedagogic purposes, fulfilling the major Meiji changes to the Japanese…
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Kızıl Pilot [Red Pilot: Memoirs of a Soviet Airman]
- 140.00€
- 12°. 160 pp., contemporary red patterned boards, original cover mounted on the front board (old signature on the title page, otherwise in a good condition).
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- Decorative Prints, Maps and Prints, Turkica
LATE OTTOMAN CALLIGRAPHY / RUSE IMPRINT: [Poster for Tuna Gazetesi and Uhuvvet Gazetesi]
- 940.00€
- A charming advertisement in a shape of a pear, composed of Islamic calligraphy, for the subscription of two Ottoman newspapers in Ruse, Bulgaria. Colour lithography, 47,5 x 36 cm (18.7 x 14.2 inches), (little age-toned and stained, minor loss of white margins, overall in a good condition)
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Map of Victoria, Hong Kong. / 最新香港詳細街道全圖
- 1,800.00€
- A rare and highly detailed bilingual map of Victoria (Central), depicting the governmental and commercial epicentre of Hong Kong as it appeared on the eve of the Roaring ’20s, labeling every street and outlining every key building and institution, published in Shanghai by the Guoguang Shuju printing house. Photolithograph, small contemporary mss. annotation in pink crayon, with printed pastedown…
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- Books, Other, Others
MEXICO CITY IMPRINT: Apelación al buen criterio de los nacionales y estrangeros: informe que el Escmo. Sr. General de división, benemérito de la patria Antonio López de Santa-Ana, dió por acuerdo del gran jurado, sobre las acusaciones presentadas por el señor diputado Ramón Gamboa. / Acompañan á dicho informe diversos documentos de la mayor importancia para la historia, y de los cuales algunos no se habian publicado hasta hoy.
- 2,200.00€
- Highly important – the charismatic and controversial former (and future) Mexican President Antonio López de Santa Anna’s official and most detailed defense of his leadership when he oversaw the cession of Texas (1836) and the total defeat of this armies during the Mexican-American War (1846-8); the superficially persuasive but ‘creative with the truth’ narrative was written while Santa Anna was…
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Narrative of an Expedition into Southern Africa, during the years 1836, and 1837, from the Cape of Good Hope, through the Territories of the Chief Moselekatse, to the Tropic of Capricorn, with a Sketch of the Recent Emigration of the Border Colonists, and a Zoological Appendix.
- 3,000.00€
- A bespoke example of Captain William Cornwallis Harris’ fascinating and important account of his 1836-7 expedition to the Transvaal, featuring the complete collation of the first edition, published in Bombay in 1838, with 4 plates lithographed by the author, plus, his excellent and important map, plus, extra-illustrated by 24 resplendently hand-colored lithographed plates and the map from the subsequent London…
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PERU / PERU-ECUADOR BOUDARDY DISPUTE: Novisima Mapa del Perú / J. Boix Ferrer Editor / Joya Literaria / Lima y Arequipa / 1904.
- 2,400.00€
- An extremely rare and highly decorative Art Nouveau era map of Peru that showcases the country’s maximalist (some might say ‘outrageous’) boundary claims with respect to its disputed frontiers with Ecuador, Brazil and Bolivia; designed by J. Boix Ferrer, the proprietor of the ‘Joya Literaria’ bookstore, with branches in Lima and Arequipa, it is predicated upon the best sources, detailing…
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- Books, Geography, History, Others
Por Macau!… Artigos e Discursos.
- 980.00€
- Rare – one of the seminal works on early 20th century Macau, being an anthology of articles by Henrique Travassos Valdez, the liberal republican firebrand who was the incumbent Portuguese national senator for Macau, with brilliant yet controversial analyses of Macau’s place within the Portuguese Empire, its heated relations with China, its vital port and economic development, as well…
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- Decorative Prints, Maps and Prints
QUEEN VICTORIA / ETCHING / AUTOGRAPH: Ada
- 3,800.00€
- One of the first etchings made by Queen Victoria and representing her niece. With original signature of the Queen, possibly given by the author to her step-sister Feodora of Leiningen Etching on India laid paper, platemark: 12,5 x 8 cm (4.9 x 3.1 inches), sheet: 22 x 14 cm (8.7 x 5.5 inches), mounted on a 19th century…
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QUR’AN / OTTOMAN LITHOGRAPHY
- 1,800.00€
- A beautiful Ottoman lithographed Qur’an with hand-coloured details, imitating the appearance of traditional manuscripts. 12°, [608 pp.], margins of opening double pages with fine colouring in polychrome and gold, gold decoration in surah headings, polychrome marginal medallions, sporadic marginal annotations in red ink, original brown goat binding with a flap and gold tooling, accompanied with an original goat leather…
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- 16th and early 17th Century Prints, Decorative Prints, Maps and Prints, Old Masters
S. Jacobus
- 180.00€
- Copper engraving, image: 13,5 x 10 cm; sheet: 22 x 15,5 cm (margins with staining and scratches, light staining in the image).
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- 16th and early 17th Century Prints, Maps and Prints, Old Masters
S. Lucas
- 250.00€
- Copper engraving, 9,5 x 12,2 cm (3.7 x 4.8 inches).
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- 16th and early 17th Century Prints, Decorative Prints, Maps and Prints, Old Masters
S. Paulus
- 180.00€
- Copper engraving, image: 13,5 x 10 cm; sheet: 22 x 15,5 cm (margins with staining and scratches, light staining in the image).
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- 16th and early 17th Century Prints, Decorative Prints, Maps and Prints, Old Masters
S. Petrus
- 180.00€
- Copper engraving, image: 13,5 x 10 cm; sheet: 22 x 15,5 cm (margins with staining and scratches, light staining in the image).
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- 16th and early 17th Century Prints, Decorative Prints, Maps and Prints, Old Masters
S. Philippus
- 180.00€
- Copper engraving, image: 13,5 x 10 cm; sheet: 22 x 15,5 cm (margins with staining and scratches, light staining in the image).
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- 16th and early 17th Century Prints, Decorative Prints, Maps and Prints, Old Masters
S. Simon
- 180.00€
- Copper engraving, image: 13,5 x 10 cm; sheet: 22 x 15,5 cm (margins with staining and scratches, light staining in the image).
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- 16th and early 17th Century Prints, Decorative Prints, Maps and Prints, Old Masters
S. Thomas
- 180.00€
- Copper engraving, image: 13,5 x 10 cm; sheet: 22 x 15,5 cm (margins with staining and scratches, light staining in the image).
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- Archives and Documents, Others
SLAVERY / ABOLITIONISM SÃO TOMÉ E PRÍNCIPE – THE “SLAVE-GROWN COCOA CONTROVERSY”: “Impressos e Noticías etc, etc. da Sociedade Anti-Esclavagista Portugueza”.
- 4,200.00€
- A valuable and unique archive concerning the “Slave-Grown Cocoa Controversy”, a great scandal that made global headlines in the years leading up to WWI, whereupon Portugal was found to be allowing the owners of the famed cocoa plantations of the islands of São Tomé and Príncipe to literally enslave black migrant workers, mainly from Angola; the scandal embroiled the three…
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- Decorative Prints, Maps and Prints
SUPERSTITION: MOLES AND PERSONALITY – OTTOMAN EMPIRE
- 550.00€
- Anon. [S. l., S. d., but Ottoman Empire, probably Istanbul, late 19th century]. Black ink on paper, 31,5 x 21 cm (inches), (tiny tears in folds and margins light foxing).
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- Decorative Prints, Maps and Prints
Textile Design: Archive of Drafts for Textile Patterns
- 1,600.00€
- A collection of 19 large drafts for textile patterns by an Austrian designer Ludmila Hellmann-Kavalla
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TRIESTE: Piano di Geoidrografia della Citta e Porto-Franco di Trieste [Geohydrographic Map of the City and Free Port of Trieste]
- 4,500.00€
- A remarkable manuscript map of Trieste vividly illustrates the city during its pivotal development into one of the world's largest ports. Black ink and water colours on paper, 129 x 195 cm (50.8 x 77 inches), contemporarily dissected into 24 segments and mounted on brown linen (minimal staining, but overall good).
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VIETNAM – TÂN AN, LONG AN PROVINCE: “Poste de Tanan”.
- 1,800.00€
- Intriguing, unique, and historically important – one of only very few surviving original manuscript plans of the archetype army bases established in key towns across French Indochina (today’s Vietnam and Cambodia) that were the foundation of colonial power in the region; the present finely rendered and highly detailed plan showcases the French army base at Tân An, a provincial capital…
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WALL-MAP OF THE CAUCASUS / TIFLIS IMPRINT: Дорожная Карта Кавказскаго Края Составлена и Литографирована въ Военно-Топографическомъ Отдѣлѣ Кавказскаго Военнагоокруга.
- 4,800.00€
- A rare detailed wall-map of the Caucasus, printed in Tiflis and drafted by Military Topographic Department of the Caucasus Military District under the leadership of the prolific surveyor Hieronymus Stebnitsky
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- 16th and early 17th Century Prints, Maps and Prints
WAPPEN / COAT OF ARMS: Kardinal aus der Familie Aldobrandini (?)
- 400.00€
- Blatt mit kardinalischem Wappen, allegorischen und heiligen Figuren, gestochen von Pieter de Jode d. Ä. nach einer Zeichnung von Francesco Vanni.
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- Decorative Prints, Maps and Prints, September 2023: 50 under 1000 EUR
YUGOSLAV GRAPHIC DESIGN: Novice celega sveta prinaša Slovenec, Slovenes, Slovenec,…
- 190.00€
- Lithograph in blue and red, 53 x 33 cm (21 x 13 inches) (soft folds with minor wear and tiny scuffing on the crossings, minor staining, overall in a good condition).
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![ARMENIA / SOVIET ARMENIA / ATLAS: Հայկական Սովետական Սոցիալիստական Ռեսպուբլիկայի Ատլաս [Atlas of the Armenian Socialist Republic].](https://pahor.at/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/IMG_9560-copy-265x331.jpg)
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![JAPANESE MEIJI WORLD MAP: 萬國明細全圖 / 改訂新版. [Kaisei shinpan bankoku meisai zenzu / Detailed Map of the World / Revised New Edition].](https://pahor.at/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Decemscan6-copy-265x331.jpg)
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