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- Africa, Africa, Books, Madagscar, Maps and Prints
- ‘Madagascar’ [Atlas Factice of Madagascar]
- 2,600.00€
- administrator or military officer to be employed while making a reconnaissance of the island in the tense period leading up to World War I; featuring 26 colour photolithographed maps and 1 legend sheet all published in Antananarivo by the colonial military press, the ‘Service géographique de l’Etat Major du groupe de l’Afrique Orientale’, including 19 provincial maps and 6 large-format, sophisticated…
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- Archives and Documents
- ‘The Japanese Plans for the Defense of Kyushu’.
- 8,500.00€
- WWII SECRET JAPANESE DEFENSE PLAN FOR KYŪSHŪ - ‘OPERATION KETSUGŌ’ / ‘OPERATION OLYMPIC’ / COUNTERFACTUALISM: U.S. ARMY, HEADQUARTERS SIXTH ARMY, OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT CHIEF OF STAFF, G-2 [MILITARY INTELLIGENCE STAFF] / COLONEL HORTON VAIL WHITE (1901 – 1963). [San Francisco, California:] Headquarters Sixth Army, Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff, G-2, December 31, 1945. The original…
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- Maps and Prints
- [BULGARIA – BORDER PATROL MAP:] Карта на България. Мѣрка 1:800,000. (Разположение на Българскитѣ Погранични Постове.) [Map of Bulgaria. Scale 1:800,000. (Location of the Bulgarian Frontier Posts.)].
- 300.00€
- An extremely rare, large-format separately-issued map of Bulgaria that specifically details the nation’s international boundaries and border patrol infrastructure, printed in 1904 in Sofia for official use, during a tense period leading to major warfare in the region.
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- Armenian Books, Maps and Prints, Posters
- [ISTANBUL OPERA BROADSIDE / ARMENIAN-OTTOMAN PRINTING:] Teatro Naum in Pera in Costantinopoli / Per la sera di Mercoledì 16 Maggio 1855 / Serata Straordinaria Devoluta a totale Beneficio. Del primo Buffo Comico Assoluto. Vincenzo Galli prima rappresentazi
- 7,700.00€
- An amazing survivor – an early Istanbul opera broadside advertising the 1855 single-show performance of Gaetano Donizetti’s ‘Don Pasquale’ at the famous Naum Theatre in Pera (Beyoğlu), Constantinople, headlined by the legendary basso buffo singer Vincenzo Galli, published locally in Italian, Ottoman Turkish, Greek, Armenian and Armenian printed in the Ottoman Alphabet!
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- India, Maps and Prints
- [Srinagar] Kashmīr & Jammu. / 1:63.360. / Kashmir North (Bāramūla), Kashmir South (Anantnāg) / No. 43 J16.
- 550.00€
- Srinagar, Kashmir, India / Indian Urbanism / Calcutta Imprint An extremely rare map of Srinagar and environs, the capital of Kashmir and famed as one of the most beautiful places in the world, the map full of intriguing cultural details, published in Calcutta by the Survey of India. Colour heliozincograph (Very Good, clean and bright with attractive colours,…
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- Europe, Italy, Maps and Prints, Slovenia
- 2 Raised-Relief Maps – GORIZIA / FRIAUL / ITALY / SLOVENIA: Gorizia. [and:] Contea Principesca di Gorizia e Gradisca
- 9,500.00€
- Enrico BOMBIG. Gorizia [S. l., but probably area around Gorizia, possibly Farra d’Isonzo]: 1904. Papier-mâché or plaster in relief, with hand-colour, title and names of places in manuscript, 73,5 x 132 cm (29 x 52 inches), with frame 90 x 148 cm (35.4 x 58.3 inches), verso originally stabilized with wooden boards. [And:] Enrico BOMBIG. Contea Principesca di Gorizia e…
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- Europe, Maps and Prints, Russia
- 28 LUBKI: Russia, Cossacks & Ottomans
- 5,500.00€
- A series of 28 Russian lubki showcases the main protagonists of the Caucasian war, battles with the Ottomans, and Cossacks.
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- Others
- 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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- Archives and Documents, Books, Manuscripts
- A DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL DURING WWII IN MUNICH, GERMANY: Erlebnisse aus meinem Aufenthalt im K.L.V. Lager Haus Elise
- 3,500.00€
- Two diaries, written mostly during World War II by Inge Weinbrecht from Munich, depict a life of a teenage girl from the early years of the war, when she was sent to a Nazi children’s summer camp, to her witnessing the fall of the Reich and marching of American soldiers into Munich.
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- Asia, Maps and Prints, South-East Asia
- A Geographical Sketch of the Burmese Empire Compiled at the Office of the Surveyor General of India And published with Permission of Government At the Asiatic Lithographic Press / Calcutta 1825.
- 9,500.00€
- Extremely rare – the foundational modern map of Burma, being the first realistic general map of the country, as well as a monument of early lithography in India; the very large format work was published in Calcutta by the Asiatic Lithographic Press during the height of the First Anglo-Burmese War (1824-6), it served as an invaluable strategic aid for…
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- Archives and Documents
- A letter of Sultan Jachia to the Pope
- 2,200.00€
- A letter to Pope Innocent X from Sultan Jachia, the self-proclaimed Christian leader of the Ottoman Empire, requesting papal support at the onset of the new Venetian-Ottoman conflict and another attempt to convert the entire Ottoman Empire to Christianity. Manuscript in brown ink in Italian language on laid paper with a watermark, 20,5 x 30,5 (8.1 x 12 inches),…
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- Books, German Books
- A Pronouncing Pocket–Dictionary of British Proper Names. Taschenwörterbuch der Aussprache brittischer Eigennamen [Titles on the Cover].Taschen-Wörterbuch der Aussprache der englischen, schottischen und irländischen Eigennamen. A pocket Dictionary of the English, Scotish, Irish and Indish, as well as of the Greck, Latin and Hebrew, proper Names of Countries, Places, Mountains, Rivers and Persons etc. [Title Pages].
- 980.00€
- Johann Christian NOSSEK (1804-1856). A Pronouncing Pocket–Dictionary of British Proper Names. Taschenwörterbuch der Aussprache brittischer Eigennamen [Titles on the Cover]. Taschen-Wörterbuch der Aussprache der englischen, schottischen und irländischen Eigennamen. A pocket Dictionary of the English, Scotish, Irish and Indish, as well as of the Greck, Latin and Hebrew, proper Names of Countries, Places, Mountains, Rivers and Persons etc. [Title Pages].…
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- Armenian Books, Maps and Prints
- A rare theatre program was issued in French, Ottoman and Armenian in Istanbul circa 1910 for the matinee and evening performance of the Ottoman operetta Leblebici Horhor Ağa in the Orieantal Theater (Şark Theatre) in the Şehzadebaşı neighborhood in Istanb
- 380.00€
- A rare ephemeral program written in French, Armenian and Ottoman, was published for a for the matinée and evening performance of the Ottoman operetta Leblebici Horhor Aga, written by an Armenian author Tigran Tchoukhajian.
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- Maps and Prints
- A SET OF 8 MINIATURE EMBOSSED (RAISED RELIEF) PORTRAITS ON CARD OF BRITISH LUMINARIES
- 1,000.00€
- A finely executed set of miniature embossed portraits of British luminaries, contained within an interesting envelope, suggesting that the set was posted from India to London in 1891.
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- Books, History
- A Short History of Barbados, from its First Discovery and Settlement to the End of the Year 1767.
- 2,200.00€
- A lucidly written overview of the first 140 years of Barbados history, especially valuable for its lively treatment of the internal political undercurrents that buffeted the island in the 18th century; while issued anonymously, the work is known to have been written by Henry Frere, a leading member of the plantocracy and the island’s government; published in the immediate wake…
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- Books, Children's Books, Turkica
- ABC BOOK / TURKISH CHILDREN ON RHODES: Ilk Adim. Resimli Alfabe [First Level. Illustrated Primer]
- 180.00€
- 8°, 64 with colour and black and white images, original colour wrappers, stapled (small tears and tiny loss of paper in margins, spine renewed, minor staining, but overall in a good condition).
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- Maps and Prints
- ABSINJA I WLOCHY [Abyssinia and Italians].
- 180.00€
- A Polish political broadside showcasing the Italian occupation of the Ethiopian Empire, as a warning to the upcoming situation.
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- Avantgarde, Books
- Adagios. Maxims
- 1,400.00€
- 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…
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- Austria, Books
- ADDRESS BOOK OF VIENNA: Verzeichniß aller in der kaiserl. königl. Haupt- und Residenzstadt Wien mit ihren Vorstädten befindlichen Häuser : mit genauer Angabe der älteren, mittleren und neuesten Nummerirungen, der damahligen Eigenthümer und Schilder, der Straßen und Plätze, der Grund-Obrigkeiten, dann der Polizey- und Pfarr-Bezirke / Verfaßt und herausgegeben von Anton Behsel, Stadt Wiener Bauinspector
- 820.00€
- 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).
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- Maps and Prints, Middle East, Photography
- Aden, Yemen
- 1,500.00€
- Four large photographs with German titles depicting Aden in the late 19th century
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- Books
- AERODYNAMICS / PHYSICS / ZEPPELIN / BLIMPS: Aerodynamische Modellversuche an deutschen und ausländischen Luftschiff-Baumustern im Windkanal des Luftschiffbau Zeppelin in Friedrichshafen. [
- 4,200.00€
- 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.
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- Books, Iran
- AESOP’S FABLES / URDU LANGUAGE / MUMBAI IMPRINT: نقليات يوسف [Nakaliyat-i Yusuf]
- 880.00€
- 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).
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