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[Austrian Citizens' Calendar for the Year 1846, a Reading Book Intended for Ongoing Use. Factual Situation and Library Book] Vienna: Pichler’s Witve [i. e. Elisabeth Pichler][1845]. 8°. Lithographed portrait of Franziska Klähr as frontispiece, guard, IV, XXX with interleaved unnumbered printed templates for book-keeping between pp. 1-16, 315 pp. with interleaved 3 lithographed portraits, [8 pp.] index and advertisements, original…

Jasper NANTIAT (d. 1817), Cartographer; William FADEN (1749 – 1836), Publisher. London: William Faden, January 1, 1810. Copper engraving with full original hand colour, dissected and mounted on 4 parts of original linen, all housed in an exquisite custom-made full brown calf box (measuring 23 x 16.5 x 4.5 cm), dating from 1811-5, with elegant gilt tooling and a black…

Christian Anton GOERING (1836 - 1905). [Leipzig:] 1886. Water-colour on paper, mounted on later paper, sheet: 39 x 59 cm (15.3 x 23.2 inches), Drawing: 35 x 55 cm (13.8 x 21.6 inches), (light mat-burns to the margins, but otherwise in a good condition). An original drawing of the wildlife of the Orinoco River, made by the German explorer Christian…

Alexander Petrovich KARPINSKY [Александр Петрович КАРПИНСКИЙ] (1847 - 1936). / Sergei Nikolaevich NIKITIN (1851 - 1909). / Feodosy Nikolayevich CHERNYSHEV (1856 - 1914). / Nikolai Alekseevich SOKOLOV (1856 - 1907). / Aleksander MICHALSKI (1855 - 1904) et al. St. Peterburg: A. Ilyin’s Cartographic Establishment, 1892.   Colour lithograph printed on 6 sheets but here joined and mounted upon mid-20th century linen,…

S. GHOSE. / CALCUTTA PORT COMMISSIONERS. Calcutta: Survey of India Office, 1920.   Heliozincograph in red and black, dissected into sections and mounted upon original cloth with original marbled endpapers, mss. owner’s inscription of “Saunders 29-8-[19]21” to cloth verso (Good, some mild staining due to the natural oxidization of the glue from the cloth backing), 85 x 59.5 cm (33.5…

[Complete Map of Various Foreign Countries’ Temporarily Divided Territory Boundaries within the City of Beijing.] [China, likely Beijing, no publisher, 1900].   A very rare, attractive and intriguing map, capturing Beijing during the Boxer Rebellion (1899 - 1901), when ‘Zongli Yamen’ (Legation Quarter) of the Old City was besieged by ultra-nationalist rebels, only for the barricade to be lifted by…

Branko SUČEVIĆ (1895 - 1980), author; Ladislav NOWORYTA, cover designer. Zagreb: Noskabi 1937. 8°. 79 pp. with black and white illustrations in text, original illustrated wrappers (light foxing, otherwise in a good condition) (#70801).

Avanzâde Mehmed Süleyman (1871 – 1922). [Âile Aşçısı, 100 Türlü Çorba Pişirmek Usûlü / Family Chef. How to Cook 100 Types of Soup] Istanbul: Matbaa-i Orhaniye 1333 [1917]. 8°, 48 pp., original wrappers (small tears in margins, little age-toned and stained, wrappers with small loss of paper, loose binding as originally published) (#70786). An Ottoman cookbook with 100 soup recipes.

Raymond JANIN (1882 – 1972). Istanbul: Échos d’Orient 1920. 8°, 72 pp., index, [4 pp.] with 4 photolithographed plates, blank, original paper wrappers with lettering (good, clean condition) (# 70740). A seminal work on the history of Thrace, Greece, published in Istanbul on the eve of the Greek War of Independence.

[İlk ve Orta Mekteblere Mahsus Coğrafya Atlası / Geographical Atlas for Primary and Middle Schools] Istanbul: A. M. Karmi, Publisher - Leipzig: Wagner & Debes, Printer [1922]. 4°, [2 pp.] lithographed title page and index verso, 24 pp. chromolithographed maps, original green card binding with lettering and green cloth spine (good used condition with minor foxing and minor chips in…

Mardinizâde Ahmed Cemaleddin. Istanbul: Teşebbüs Matbaası 1340 [1924], information on the title page - Cumhuriyet Matbaası 1341 [1925] – information on the cover. 8°, 151 pp. with black and white illustrations, original illustrated wrappers, stapled (staples rusty and broken, minor staining, otherwise a good, uncut example) (# 70738). A manual on the cultivation of tobacco in Ottoman language, issued in…

[Bağcılık ve Şarapçılık / Viticulture and Wine Making. Instructions to Ottoman Viticulturists for Improving the Type of Wine They Produce] Istanbul: Düyûn-u Umûmiye-i Osmaniye Varidât-ı Muhassasa İdare-i Merkeziyesi Matbaası 1326 [1910]. 8°, 38 pp., [2 pp.] blank, folding plate, later wrappers with mounted original cover with lettering (minor foxing, age toning and tiny tears in margins, mostly to first and…