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- Europe, Maps and Prints, Turkey
- Moltke’s Map of the Bosporus: Karte des nördlichen befestigten Theils des Bosphorus von den Hissaren bis zu den Leuchtthürmen am Schwarzen Meer im Auftrage Sr. Hoheit Sultan Mahmud II. Mit dem Messtisch in 1 : 25,000 aufgennommen 1836-37 durch Freiherrn von Moltke.
- 3,800.00€
- A rare map of the Bosporus commissioned by Ottoman Sultan Mahmud II and created by Prussian military surveyor Helmuth von Moltke. Lithography with original colour in outline, 73,5 x 68 cm (29 x 26,77 inches), dissected in 20 segments and mounted on linen. An advertisement of Artaria, Vienna, on green paper mounted on one of the segments verso. Housed…
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- Europe
- OPERATION BARBAROSSA / WORLD WAR II: 圖要ソ・獨ふ闘 [Soviet Union and Its Sole Fight]
- 850.00€
- An ephemeral Japanese map illustrating Operation Barbarossa in September 1941 highlights the complex relations between Japan, the Soviet Union, and the Axis powers during World War II. Colour lithography, 53 x 75 cm (21 x 29.8 inches) (soft folds).
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- Czech Republic, Europe, Photography
- ORIENATLISM IN PRAGUE: Linguistische Verein in Prag [Linguistic Society in Prague]
- 550.00€
- A photograph of today little known Prague-based Linguistic Society, joining the prominent Austro-Hungarian researchers of Africa, as well as Indian, Arabic and Classical languages. Gelatin silver photo, contemporary mounted on thick card, manuscript numbers recto in margin, black manuscript in black ink and pencil on the back, 12 x 16,5 cm (4.7 x 6.5 inches), (minor foxing verso,…
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- Europe, Greece, Maps and Prints, Turkey
- Ottoman Cartography / Rumelia: روم ايلى شهانه خريطه سى [Rumeli-yi şahane haritası also Rumeli-i şahane haritası / Map of Principality Rumelia]
- 1,400.00€
- A gigantic (over 2 m) wall map of Rumelia (Northern Greece) made by the Ottoman Military Office Colour lithography, composed of 12 plates, originally mounted on linen and varnished, with original wooden rollers, 124 x 210 cm (48.8 x 82.7 inches) (minor staining and water-staining, light scratches, small losses of image in the middle part, rollers with chipping…
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- Europe, Maps and Prints, Turkey
- Ottoman Cartography: استانبول بوغازى و جواري خريطه سى [İstanbul Boğazı ve civarı haritası / Map of the Bosporus and Its Surroundings]
- 1,200.00€
- A large separately published detailed map of Istanbul and the Bosporus, with their contemporary infrastructure and urbanism as developed by 1911, published by the Ottoman state press Colour lithography, 100 x 108 cm (39.4 x 42.5 inches), originally dissected in 24 segments and mounted on linen (good, used example, slightly age-toned, stained and with small ink-staining, linen with…
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- Europe, France, Maps and Prints, Ottoman Books, September 2023: 50 under 1000 EUR, Turkey, Turkica
- OTTOMAN CARTOGRAPHY: بلفور Belfort
- 450.00€
- Photolithography, originally dissected in 8 segments and mounted on linen 74 x 103 cm (29.2 x 40.6 inches), (minor staining, sporadic annotations in pencil in Ottoman in margins, but overall in a good, use condition).
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- Maps and Prints, Turkey
- Ottoman Geological Map: اناطولى علم ارض خريطه سى [Geological Map of Anatolia].
- 1,400.00€
- Rare and Important – the first proper geological map of Turkey; a large, separately published work created by the professors Damat Kenan and Ahmet Malik Sayar, issued by the imperial printer in 1920 during the twilight of the Ottoman Empire, forming the foundation for scientific and commercial discovery during the upcoming Turkish Republican Era; printed in Ottoman Turkish text with…
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- Balkans, Books, Bulgaria, Croatia, Europe, History, Hungary, Maps and Prints
- OTTOMAN MILITARY ATLAS: محاربات مشهوره عثمانه البومى
- 3,500.00€
- [Muharebat-ı meşhure-i osmaniye albümü / Album of Famous Ottoman Battles] A monumental portfolio of the famous Ottoman battles, edited by a famous military leader Ahmed Muhtar Pacha during WWI to commemorate the glorious military past of the Ottoman Empire Folio. Title page, 33 unbound double page maps, partly printed in colours, with text, 5 single page maps,…
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- Balkans, Europe, Maps and Prints
- Ottoman Mss. / Telegraph Map – Greece / North Macedonia / Albania: [No Title – Map of the Telegraph System in the Vilayets of Salonica, Monastir, Janina and Scutari].
- 1,800.00€
- A stellar, large format, original manuscript map of the telegraph system in the Ottoman Balkans, specifically in modern Greece, Northern Macedonia and Albania; with text entirely in Ottoman Turkish, it was drafted in 1889 seemingly as working document by the governmental administration that managed the empire’s telegraph network – an extraordinary survivor documenting a critical medium that revolutionized society during…
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- Czech Republic, Europe, Maps and Prints
- Pan-Slavism / Prague: Upomínka na Národopisnou výstavu českoslovanskou v Praze 1895
- 1,400.00€
- [Souvenir of the Czechoslavic Ethnographic Exhibition in Prague 1895] Folding paper fan with a chromolithographed view on the front and poem on the back, mounted on wooden sticks, joined with a metal loop at the bottom, 35 x 64 cm (13.8 x 25.2 inches) (Very Good, with only minor wear to the folds).
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- Africa, Maps and Prints, Spain
- PEÑÓN DE ALHUCEMAS, Spain / Morocco: Alhuzemas
- 750.00€
- A 1778 manuscript map of the Spanish fortification Peñón de Alhucemas, off the Moroccan coast, was made by a North German officer and engineer Philip Ernst Colson.
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