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Two rare lithographs depicting the funeral ceremony of Don Carlos María Isidro Benito de Borbón y Borbón-Parma, pretender to the Spanish throne, who passed away in exile in Trieste.

A remarkable manuscript map of Trieste vividly illustrates the city during its pivotal development into one of the world's largest ports.   Black ink and water colours on paper, 129 x 195 cm (50.8 x 77 inches), contemporarily dissected into 24 segments and mounted on brown linen (minimal staining, but overall good).  

  This is probably the first map of Trieste, printed in Slovenian language at the Free Territory of Trieste after WWII, after the Slovenian language was supressed by the fascists for almost three decades.    

  A highly attractive and information-packed little map of Trinidad, based on the latest official surveys, published by the controversial banknote printer Waterlow & Sons.

  8°, [2 pp.], 84 pp., interleaved 15 plates, original covers mounted on modern cloth binding, modern pink endpapers (minor foxing, small holes in inner white margin from old binding with a string, some plates loose, original covers slightly rubbed on the corners, tiny folds in corners, but overall in a good condition).  

  A very rare lithographed postcard map of the Vilayet Tripoli in Libya in Ottoman script was made in Istanbul by a Romanian born publisher Tüccarzâde İbrahim Hilmi Çığıraçan.

  12°, 118 pp., [² pp.] blank, original blue wrappers with lettering, later spine (minor foxing to the wrappers, otherwise in a good condition).  

  A rare Italian report on the travel through the North of Libya by a German explorer Gerhard Rohlfs, written by a lawyer Rizzardo Rizzetto, who in his researches emphasized the importance of Tripolitania for the Italian exploration of Africa, shows an early Italian tendency to colonize the region.   8°. [10 pp.], 125 pp., [3 pp.], original blue wrappers…

8°. 60 pp. with a map, [4 pp.], original wrappers with lettering, later spine (minor staining and foxing, but overall in a good condition).

The very rare first edition of the seminal work on yellow fever in Saint-Domingue (Haiti) and one of the most influential French tropical medicine books of the late Enlightenment, featuring perhaps the era’s most detailed and perceptive description of the symptoms of the disease, backed by twelve valuable case studies, by Antoine Poissonnier-Desperrières, a physician who was one of France’s…

  8°,  300 pp. with charts, interleaved colour folding map, contemporary black calf spine with gilt lettering and decoration with black cloth boards (two pages with tiny loss of paper in white margins, old library stamps on the title page, minor staining and foxing, small holes in the binding).  

  An original diary with poetry and accompanying photographs belonged to a German soldier, stationed in the German colony in China before WWI, during the Russo-Japanese War.   

Translation from Chinese of twelve poems and short texts featuring autumn motifs by Richard Wilhelm.

A translation of a Chinese folk tale with a decorative title page and mounted illustrations.

A rare map of Tunisia made by Heinrich Kiepert, the great German cartographer who was the world’s foremost authority on the geography of the Arab World, published the year that France colonized the country; the map features a wealth of topographic, infrastructure, ethnographic and archaeological details, some of which were gleaned from the recent expedition of the German historian Gustav…

A unique manuscript French translation of an unpublished Turkish text with valuable information on Janissaries in the 16th century in Turkey, was written by a French Orentalist and translator Jean-Baptiste Adanson.

  A book on the Ottoman Empire and its relations with Russia, France and the Balkans was written in the year of breakout of a Russo-Turkish war in 1788, and is based on the personal notes of a orientalist Constantin François Volney, later accused by John Adams' administration in the United States of being a French spy. Bound in a decorative contemporary…

  A rare pamphlet in Spanish language represents the latest events of the Russo-Turkish War between 1736-1739, as reported from the Viennese court.

[On a Tragedy of the National Literature and the Writers of Turkestan]   A rare publication on the contemporary Turkestani writers, published in Ottoman alphabet by an extremist nationalistic Turkestani organisation in Berlin, who immigrated after the Soviet annexed their homeland.    8°. 20 pp. with black and white illustrations, original wrappers with title in Ottoman and Latin alphabet, 20th…

  A rare publication by a leader of the extremist nationalist Turkestani movement in Berlin Mustafa Shokay, who eventually sided with the Nazis with a goal to unify Turkestan during the WWII, describes the revolutionary year 1917. 8°. 96 pp with black and white portraits, later black cloth binding with lettering on the cover and spine, pink endpapers (sporadic small…

  Poetry, accompanied with erotic images, by a Turkish artist Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu. 

  Very Rare – the first edition of an Admiralty chart that represents the first scientific survey of the port of Iasos, near Bodrum, on Turkey’s Aegean coast, site of a once great Greco-Roman port, by the esteemed hydrographer and naturalist Commander Thomas Graves.

  A very rare and fascinating separately-issued map of the Acropolis of the Pergamon, one of the greatest archaeological sites of Classical antiquity, located near modern Izmir, Turkey, based upon the pioneering excavations of the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, plus more recent observations, with text in 5 languages, compiled by the conservator Aristodème G. Sofiano. 

    Extremely Rare – a highly sophisticated statistical mining and mineralogy atlas of the newly-founded Republic of Turkey, one of the earliest ‘Kemalist’ graphic scientific publications, and the first advanced thematic atlas ever produced in the Turkic world, printed in Ottoman Script shortly before that writing system was retired.

  Steel engraved playing card, overlaid in coloured stencil, blank on verso (Very Good, minor stainng verso, a small scratch and stain on the front), 97 x 65 mm (3.8 x 2.6 inches).  

  A masterpiece of Art Deco design, being a large format separately issued map of Turkey with its railway systems, made during the height of the Kemalist Era when the republic’s railways were under the process of nationalisation and expansion, a key part of Atatürk’s political and economic agenda, published in Ankara – extremely rare.

  8°. 111 pp. with illustrations in text, original illustrated wrappers (minor traces of use, but overall in a good condition, lowe margin cut into the lettering of the cover).  

  A first edition of poetry by one of the founders of the Turkish avant-garde Nâzım Hikmet Ran, inspired by Mayakowsky’s work, accompanied with black and white illustrations by Fikret Muallâ and decorated with blue and black cover design by Ali Suavi.   8°. 116 pp. with black and white illustrations, [12], original printed wrappers, stapled (uncut and unread condition,…

  Possibly the most powerful Hikmet’s revolutionary poem on Mona Lisa falling in love with a Chinese man and starting a rebellion in China after seeing his execution tries to connect various nations in the revolution.   Small 8°. 40 pp with two full page black and white illustrations within text, original illustrated wrappers (pages slightly age-toned, light wear on…

The second edition of Nazim Hikmet’s fine avantgarde poetry book from 1929 was republished with a different cover, made by a poster and book designer Ali Suavi (1910 or 1913-1994), who was more known as an award-winning photographer Suavi Sonar.   8°. 48 pp., original illustrated wrappers (a tiny worm-hole in the outer white margin of the first half of…

Hikmet’s fierce attack on the Nazi Germany   N.B. The image of the book provided here censors out the Nazi symbol of the Swastika from the title page; this has been done pursuant to German laws on the representation of Third Reich symbols; however, such details are clearly present and uncensored on the actual book itself.   8°. 96 pp., inserted…

  A stunning early illustrated aviation magazine in Ottoman script.

  [The Bat and Six More Stories]   12°, 98 pp., [2 pp.], original illustrated wrappers (old signature on the title page, minor staining, especially to the rear wrapper, spine slightly scuffed, otherwise in a good condition).  

A charming unique collection of original drafts, collages, photographs and negatives for book covers and book advertisement, made in the late 1950s by a Turkish illustrator and designer Ayhan Başoğlu, today known for his comics and drawings of heroic figures.

  [Evlâdların Sevenlere Teberrüken Tahsis Kılınan Bebeklere Kitabdır]   8°, 52 pp. with black and white illustrations, [4 pp.], original illustrated wrappers, inserted errata on orange paper (minor staining, wrappers with light stains, soft folds, and tiny tears, a tiny loss of margins on the first pages).  

  A gigantic rare Turkish poster for the memoires of the German Nazi politician Franz von Papen, which were banned in the post-war Germany, was made by a leading Turkish Female designer Gülümser Aral. This is a hand-numbered proof state with the author’s original signature in the upper left corner.  

Turkish revolutionary left-wing 1960s poetry. 8°, 63 pp., illustrated card wrappers, stapled (wrappers slightly stained on the back and around the spine, a small tear in the front upper part close to the spine, two old signatures on the tile page, old signature on the last blank page, last pages with soft folds, otherwise in a good condition).

Turkish left-wing poetry. Signed by the author. 8°, 63 pp., original illustrated card wrappers, signed by the author (minor wear to the wrappers and two light scratches on the cover, old signature on the inside of the back cover, old annotations on the last page with the list of the publications by the same author).

Turkish revolutionary left-wing poetry. 8°, 31 pp., original illustrated card wrappers, stapled (minor wear to the wrappers, small old owner’s stamp on the title page, small annotation on the back page, otherwise in a good condition).

  First Turkish separately published study on the fatherhood   8°, 46 pp., [2 pp.], original illustrated wrappers (repairs on the spine, otherwise in a good condition).

  Signed by the author.

10 issues (of 15), 8°, between 15-18 pp. with black and white illustrations, original colour wrappers (minor staining, uncut and unbound as originally published, small tears, overall in a good condition).

  The first edition of highly popular Turkish poems by Attilâ İlhan, heavily influenced by contemporary French art movement   12°, 109 pp., [3 pp.], original illustrated wrappers (Very Good, unread example with minimal wear to the spine).  

  8°, 48 pp., original purple wrappers with lettering (minor frying to the first pages, tiny tears on the spine, but otherwise in a good condition).  

Small 8°,  50 pp., 12, illustrated card wrappers, signed by the author on the first page (wrappers with a minor wear, otherwise in a good condition).

  The first edition of Turkish Avantgarde poetry by Nazim Hikmet, accompanied with powerful illustrations by a pioneer of Turkish modern art, Abidin Dino (1913-1993)   8°, 79 pp. with a full-page portrait of the author and green illustrations on first pages, original illustrated wrappers (slightly stained, tiny loss of paper on the spine, sporadic tiny tears in margins, old…

8°. 95 pp., original pictorial wrappers, staple bound (worn on the edges, otherwise in a good condition).  

  An Ottoman propaganda text on the Turkmen tribes, published during World War I, with partly invented historical texts and statistics, written by an infamous fraudster Naci Ismail under an assumed names of foreign scientists.   8°. 533 pp., [3 pp.], original wrappers with lettering (wrappers slightly dusty and soiled with small tears, partly repaired spine, title page slightly age-toned,…

[Album of Monogramms. Contaning 522 Monograms (Two Interlaced Letters) Which are Made Alphabetically in Gothic, Renaissance, 14th-15th Century, Modern and Art Nouveau Styles]   A rare book, representing monograms in 522 combinations of Armenian letters in five various fonts.   Oblong small 4°.[3 pp.] with title, introduction, index and plate with 28 coats of arms, 29 pp. with 522 monograms…

  This folding map of Tyrol was the first reduced edition of a wall map from 1823, based on the new surveys of the early 19th century. 

  Rare – a monumental wall map that represents the first scientific geological map of Tyrol, as well as an advanced economic and mineralogical map, being one of the most impressive works of thematic cartography of its era.

  8°, 146 pp., [2 pp.] blank, contemporary red goat with gilt lettering, contemporary illustrated endpapers, old Ottoman book-seller’s stamp mounted in the lower part of the front cover (binding slightly scuffed, a small chip in the lower part of the front free endpaper, otherwise in a good condition).  

  An exquisite and rare example of late-Ottoman surrogate publishing, this 16-page pocket pamphlet seamlessly blends the romantic, Western-inspired aesthetic of Art Nouveau with traditional Eastern poetic tropes to market one of the era’s most famous global patent medicines: Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People. Disguised as an elegant literary guide to the coded language of flowers (Çiçeklerin Dili),…

A rare book of the Octoechos and other hymns for Arabic-speaking members of the Greek Orthodox Church, printed early at the Patriarchal Press of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.

A rare Ottoman pamphlet on the importance of the carob for the military during World War I.   Small 8°, 4 pp., original brown letters with lettering.  

  A rare Polish book on a Catholic church in Smila, at the time a part of the Russian Empire (today Ukraine), printed in Vilnius.   Small 4°, 1 toned lithographic view and 1 colour lithography, later half claf with marbled paper boards and gilt lettering and decoration on the spine, marbled edges (minor age-toning, foxing and staining, old library…

  An unusual short theatre piece by an underground Partisan theatre group, depicting the first meeting between the Slovenian Partisans and the Soviet Red Army.   8°, [1 p.] title page, 6 pp. mimeographed text, [1 p.] blank page, original paper wrappers with mimeographed cover, stapled (Very Good, tiny tears in margins, with light foxing, old owner’s remark on the…

  A rare pamphlet, printed by a Slovenian underground Partisan press, was made at the occasion of the first Allied flights over the country during WWII. 

  A rare mimeographed illustrated pamphlet, printed by a Slovenian underground Partisan press, was made at the occasion of the first Allied flights over north Yugoslavia during WWII. 

  A mimeographed pamphlet, printed by an underground Slovenian press during WWII includes four short theater plays, based on Soviet originals.

The final wartime issue of the most famous Slovenian Partisan newspaper, ‘Delo’, printed by an underground press in Italian-occupied Ljubljana, with a magnificently illustrated cover, was printed in a secret room in the building of the Fascist police station.   8°. 34 pp., original wrappers with illustrated cover printed in red, stapled (Very Good, staples slightly soiled, slightly stained, tiny…

  A 4-page pamphlet with a full page linocut, made by an underground Slovenian Partisan press, handed out to the resistance fighters on Christmas, 1944   8°, [4 pp.] with a full page linocut (tiny tears in margins, otherwise in a good condition).  

  A pair of rare maps, multiplied with a photographic procedure, were made by an underground partisan geodetic office during WWII and were carried on the field during operations.

  A rare Polish underground newspaper was published during the WWII by an underground press in Warsaw.

  A selection of original Partisan poetry was printed for the underground theatre events of the resistance.

  Lithograph with original colour: 18 x 23 cm (7 x 9 inches) (soft fold, slightly age-toned and stained, small tears in margins).

The very rare first state of J.F.W. Des Barres’s beautifully rendered chart of Plymouth Bay, Massachusetts, famously the site of the Mayflower Pilgrims’ landing at ‘Plymouth Rock’; after the first scientific mapping of the bay executed by Thomas Wheeler, as part of Samuel Holland’s General Survey of the Northern District of British North America, an epic endeavour that trigonometrically charted…

  A rare unusual large originally coloured aquatint and etching showcasing the fortress Hohentwiel on the top of a volcanic dome in the German province Baden-Württemberg, as it look like before the demolition by the Napoleonic army in 1801, is presented in an unusual perspective of hemiorama.

  A handsome clean example of an exceedingly rare first Ottoman lithographed atlas, made by a pioneer of the Ottoman modern mapmaking, Ali Şeref Paşa in the time of his schooling in Paris. Ali later became the leading Ottoman governmental cartographer and is today known for his last, unfortunately unfinished gargantuan project of wall map of Anatolia in 100 sheets,…

12°. [2] title page, 27 pp., [2], original blue wrappers with printed title, stapled (wrappers with minor foxing, dents and staining, otherwise in a good condition).

  A rare political Communist magazine, printed in Ottoman script, was issued in 1929 in Samarkand, Uzbekistan and includes articles on the industrial development of the country in the 5 years after Lenin’s death.

  Copper engraving, 50 x 67 cm (inches) (minor age-toning and staining, old stamps and inventory numbers and a stamp Erledigt (meaning ‘Deaccessioned’).  

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…

[The reasons for consideration for the spread of the contagion in the Morea, and Rumelia are becoming ever greater…] Broadside, letterpress on thin laid paper with a watermark, 28 x 19 cm (11 x 7.5 inches).  

  A rare larger pamphlet with a poem by an Austrian nobleman of Jewish origins Leopold von Neuwall was published in Verona for the Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria.

A rare four-page pamphlet with two somehow different solutions on fighting the pandemic of rinderpest (Lues animalium) in South Germany, in 1732.   8°, 4 pp. with a wood-cut on the last page (Very Good, uncut edges with light soiling).  

  A rare pamphlet in Ottoman language, made for the 1928 Trade Fair in Vienna and printed in error in Western collation   Oblong small 8°, [8 pp.] with colour and black and white illustrations, stapled (good, used condition).  

  A colossal monument of the cartography of Indochina, being the grand ‘Headquarters Map’ of Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and eastern Siam commissioned by the French Government in anticipation of their bold designs of expansion in the region that led to the Tonkin Campaign (1883-6), the complete conquest of Vietnam; showcasing by far and away the most accurate and detailed general…

Intriguing, unique, and historically important – one of only very few surviving original manuscript plans of the archetype army bases established in key towns across French Indochina (today’s Vietnam and Cambodia) that were the foundation of colonial power in the region; the present finely rendered and highly detailed plan showcases the French army base at Tân An, a provincial capital…

A beautifully executed mid-19th century watercolor view of the foothills of Himalayas with snowed mountain range in the background.   Water-colour drawing, 34 x 49 cm (13.4 x 19.3 inches) on J Whatman wove paper, mounted on later paper (little sun-toned and with light staining and foxing, one tiny hole in the center of one of the stains, but overall…

  An uncommon map of the World with marked vulcanic lines was published to accompany a scientific article by a German researcher of antiquity and Egyptologist Friedrich Sickler in 1812.

  [Hikâye-i Hikemiyye-i Mikromega / A Moralizing Story Micromégas]   A rare Ottoman translation of Voltaite’s science fiction short story Micromégas   8°: 31 pp., original tan wrappers, later spine (wrappers with light staining and foxing, inside in a clean, partly uncut condition with hardly noticeable foxing to the last pages).  

A proof state of an exceptionally rare sea chart of Vyborg Harbour, Russia, prepared for Charles-Pierre Fleurieu’s grand atlas of the Baltic Sea.

  [Special Map of Australia in 9 Sheets, after Original and Official Sources by A. Petermann]   A rare, separately issued Petermann’s map of Australia on 9 sheets with old colour, originally mounted on linen and joined together in a wall map, printed by the finest German cartographic office.   Original coloured lithography, 98 x 122 cm (38.6 x 48…

A rare detailed wall-map of the Caucasus, printed in Tiflis and drafted by Military Topographic Department of the Caucasus Military District under the leadership of the prolific surveyor Hieronymus Stebnitsky  

  A small uncommon pocket map of Würzburg in Germany, with a highly decorative Art Nouveau cover, was made for the occasion of a Franconian Singing Festival in 1904. 

  Blatt mit kardinalischem Wappen, allegorischen und heiligen Figuren, gestochen von Pieter de Jode d. Ä. nach einer Zeichnung von Francesco Vanni.

[Report of the Battle, which Took Place on September 20, 1703 at he Plain of Höchstädt Between French and Bavarian Army…]   Large 4°, [4 pp.] letterpress (Very good with uncut edges, margins little age-toned).

  Thoughts on war with examples from the history by a prominent Egyptian military officer and author Ahmad Hamrush.   8°. 78 pp., [2 pp.], illustrated wrappers, later spine (rear wrapper scratched with loss of text, small chips in margins, horizontal tear on the title page, otherwise in an uncut condition).  

[The Ghetto is Fighting. Participation of the Bund in the defense of the Warsaw Ghetto]   Large 12°, 67 pp., original illustrated wrappers (wrappers slightly dusty and stained with small chips and lines in ink and pencil, sporadic annotations in pencil inside).