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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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- Books, Decorative Prints, History, Maps and Prints, Ottoman Books, Turkica
ISLAMIC CALLIGRAPHY / TURKISH WAR OF INDEPENDENCE: عصمت [Ismet / Purity also Honor or Honesty]
- 1,800.00€
- An eye catching combination of traditional Islamic calligraphy, modern printing technique and contemporary military and political iconography, made to glorify the Turkish War of Independence. Lithography, 48 x 63 cm (soft folds with tiny holes and tears, small holes mostly in margins of the image, minor staining and foxing, small tears in margins, two red Ottoman stamps in…
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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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- 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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- Balkans, Europe, Middle East, Others, Turkey
Ottoman Empire Telegraph Maps / Thematic Cartography
- 1,100.00€
- Very Rare - a matching pair of relatively early ‘flow maps’ of the telegraph systems in the both the European and Asian parts of the Ottoman Empire, published entirely in Ottoman Turkish text, fine examples of advanced thematic cartography detailing one of the world’s most important communications systems that was literally the nexus between the East and the West. …
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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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