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- ASTROLOGY: علم نجوم [İlm-i nücum / Astrology]
- 720.00€
- A rare book on the astrology by a pioneer and foremost authority of spiritualism and spiritism in the late Ottoman Empire Ragıp Rıfkı 8°. 56 pp., original wrappers with illustrated cover (wrappers slightly stained, minor age -toning, otherwise in a good, clean condition).
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- ASTRONOMY – GIOVANNI RIZZI-ZANNONI – ROGER BOSCOVICH – LATITUDE OF ISTANBUL
- 2,800.00€
- A unique, previously unrecorded letter by the Italian cartographer and scientist Giovanni Rizzi-Zannoni with his measurements of the latitude of Istanbul, based on the suggestions personally received from a Dalmatian geographer Roger Boscovich during his stay in Istanbul to observe the Transit of Venus in 1761.
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- Astronomy / American Scientist in Beirut: اكتشاف مسألة جديدة من الجغرافيا الرياضية اي علم هيئة الارض
- 1,500.00€
- [Observation of the New Problem of Mathematical Geography, i.e. the Science of the Earth's Sphere] An exceedingly rare treatise on the length of the day in various parts of the Earth, written by an Arab / Libyan scholar Muhammad Kamal al-Tarabulsi with an introduction of a Beirut-based American scholar Robert West 8°. 23 pp. with illustrations, printed in yellow…
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- ASTRONOMY / OTTOMAN EMPIRE: قوزموغرافيا ياخود علم احوال سما [Kozmografya yahud İlm-i Ahvâl-i Sema / Cosmography or Knowledge of Situation of the Sky. Second Edition]
- 620.00€
- An Ottoman book on astronomy, illustrated with fine black and white aquatints, was written for educational purposes and was based on the latest French popular works on astronomy, such as books by Amédée Guillemin (1826 – 1893) and Charles Briot (1817-1882). 8°. [16 pp.], 362 pp. with black and white printed and mounted illustrations in text, 17 interleaved…
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- Astronomy in the Ottoman Empire / Moon: قمر [Kamer / The Moon]
- 550.00€
- 8°, 206 pp. with black and white photos, contemporary red boards and black calf spine with gilt decoration and lettering, old small paper stamp with annotations in Ottoman on the cover (minor age-toning and foxing, old collector’s rubber stamp on the title page, otherwise a very good example in highly decorative original binding, with only slight wear to the…
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- ATATÜRK – NUTUK: Die neue Türkei 1919-1927. Die nationale Revolution, 1920-1927 [The New Turkey 1919-1927. The National Revolution, 1920-1927].
- 160.00€
- A German translation of the second part of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk’s famous marathon speech in the parliament, which lasted over 36 hours in 6 days, is preserved with an extremely rare dust jacket, decorated by a striking powerful portrait of the Turkish leader.
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- ATATÜRK / TURKISH REPUBLICANISM: انا وطن [Ana Vatan / Homeland].
- 3,200.00€
- سودى نك يكى خريطه كلياتندن [SÛDÎ’NIN YENI HARITA KÜLLIYATINDAN / SUDI’S NEW CARTOGRAPHIC ESTABLISHMENT]. Istanbul: كتابحانه سودى [Kitaphane-yi Sûdî] 1927. Colour off-set print (Good, light stains mostly visiable verso, some wear along fold folds, tiny chips to the folds in the image and in the margins), 67 x 100 cm (26.5 x 39.5 inches). ‘Ana Vatan’ (Homeland) is one of…
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- ATLANTIC CANADA: Carte Réduite des Bancs et de l’Ile de Terre Neuve avec les Côtes du Golfe de St. Laurent et de L’Acadie.
- 750.00€
- A fine example the authoritative chart used by the French Government to manage their fishing rights in Newfoundland and the Grand Banks, in part based on the magisterial surveys of Newfoundland by James Cook & Michael Lane and Samuel Holland’s survey of the Island of St. John (Prince Edward Island).
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- Africa, Books, Geography, Maps and Prints
- ATLAS – MISSIONS IN AFRICA AND CHINA: Karten über das Arbeitsfeld der Berliner Mission.
- 550.00€
- A very rare atlas made by the Berlin Missionary Society, one of the most important missionary organizations in Africa and China during the 19th and early 20th Centuries, featuring 16 original maps made by missionary cartographers, including important figures such as Alexander Merensky and Bernhard Struck, containing 14 maps of South and East Africa and 2 maps of China;…
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- Australia, Maps and Prints, Oceania
- Australia / German New Guinea: Neue Karte von Australien von Prof. Fr. Behr. Verlag von Juilus Maier in Stuttgart. 1888.
- 850.00€
- An exceedingly rare and attractive large format map of Southeast Asia, Australia and Polynesia, with a special emphasis upon the new colony of ‘Deutsch-Neuguinea’, a ‘boutiquey’ provincial production drafted by Professor Franz Behr and published in Canstatt, just outside of Stuttgart. Colour lithograph, dissected into 8 sections and mounted upon original linen with original red silk edging, folding…
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