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Very rare – the first maritime anemological atlas of the South Atlantic off the coasts of Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina, covering an area extending from the Río de la Plata up the mouth of the Amazon, charting the monthly wind patterns at all points throughout this critical sector, by the French Admiral Viscount Octave de Chabannes, featuring 50 full-page plates…

  A rare and highly attractive little Turkish thematic atlas featuring 11 World maps detailing the locations of key agricultural and mineral resources; made by Ömer Lütfi, a secondary school teacher in Adana, in the spirit of President Atatürk’s sweeping educational reforms; published in Mersin, a stellar example of provincial Anatolian printing.  

A great monument of thematic cartography, being an atlas of world maps that depict geomagnetic declination and inclination throughout the globe as it varied at different historical times, created by the eminent Norwegian physicist and astronomer Christopher Hansteen, its 15 maps, printed on 7 plates, are largely predicated upon the author’s own meticulous data collection methods and analytical skills which…

  A rare book on the theory of relativity was written by one of the first Ottoman electrical engineers Mehmed Refik and contains various experiments, which should be tested in order to confirm Einstein’s theory, published in the final form in 1916.   Large 8°. 40 pp. with black and white illustrations, original illustrated wrappers (minor foxing, wrappers slightly scratched…

Lithograph, 57 x 84 cm (22.4 x 33 inches) (soft folds with tiny tears, but overall in a good condition).