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  12°. 160 pp., contemporary red patterned boards, original cover mounted on the front board (old signature on the title page, otherwise in a good condition).

Small 8°, 96 pp. with black and white illustrations, original wrappers with black and red lettering, contemporary red linen binding with gold tooling and lettering, contemporary endpapers with a star and a crescent printed in red, bookbinder’s stamp on the inner side of the front cover (old dedication, dated 1330 Rumi (1914 Gregorian) and a stamp on the front wrapper,…

  [The Islamic Architecture of Egypt]   A detailed, richly illustrated work on the Egyptian architecture and history or art.   8°, 169 pp., [193] pages of black and white illustrations and plans, [14 pp.] German text, original white wrappers with lettering (good used example, wrappers slightly age-toned with traces of a small label).

[Taht-ı Himâye-i Mufahhame-i Hazret-i Padişahi'de Muharebe-i Ahire Evlad-ı Şüheda ve Ma'lulin-i Askeriyye İane Sergisi. İş bu sergide bulunan eşyadan boyalı olarak resim ve tab'a en ziyade elverişli olan bazı eşya-ı nefisenin resimleri havi albüm. Under the Patronage for His Imperial Majesty the Sultan. Relief Sale for the Invalides and Famileis of the Victims of the Last War]   A colourful…

[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…

[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).  

[Musical Notes for New Songs for Children. Primary School, 1 to 5 Classes]   Small 4°, 64 pp. with black and white full page illustration, illustrated wrappers, later spine (slightly age-toned, small folds and chips in the corners, tiny tears and chips in the edges, wrappers slightly soiled).  

[The History of the Berlin Police from 1945 until 1. 10. 1950 from 1945]   A typescript with major changes inside the Berlin Police, set between 1945 and 1974, mostly covering the events of the cold war   Large 4°, 55 pp. typescript numbered recto and verso or only recto, [52 pp.] typescript recto and verso or only recto, some…

An Ottoman translation of an Arabic classic work on the politics, printed in Bulaq, Cairo. 8°: 153 pp. letterpress, later European binding with marbled boards an green cloth spine with gold lettering, marbled endpapers (binding slightly rubbed on the corners, but otherwise in a good condition).    

  8°, 192 pp. with black and white images, contemporary red cloth binding with gold tooling, original patterned endpapers (Sporadic offset printing, binding little scratched and bumped on the corners, hinges in the front endpapers cracked, a tiny chip in the rear loose endpaper, hardly notice foxing to sporadic pages, but overall in a good condition).  

  An Arabic lithographed text on the refinement of logic with commentaries, architected in various geometric forms by several authors, with an excellent bibliophile provenance.   Small 4°, [124 pp.] lithographed text with interleaved small-sized sheets with lithographed text, [29 pp.] lithographed text, contemporary dark green goat and brown spine with old paper label, minor water-staining to the margins of…

  A Persian illustrated lithographed book with a charming contemporary wrappers, made of an advertisement of a Nizhny Novgorod-based firm. An example from a collection of the French orientalist and collector Charles-Henri-Auguste Schefer (1820 – 1898).   Large 8°. 87 pp. lithograph with five illustrations in text and decorated margins, contemporary blue printed wrappers, made of Russian advertisements, brown spine…

  A rare pamphlet in Pashto language, printed in Lahore, Pakistan, describes the life of a Muslim saint Tamim Al Ansari.   Small 4°, 16 pp. lithographed text with decorated title page, contemporary tan paper wrappers (slightly age-toned and stained, with small tears and chips without loss of text in margins, old annotation on the top margin of the title…

  A rare pamphlet with questions and answers regarding the Islamic law in Persian language, published in Lahore.   Small 4°, 24 pp. lithographed text with decorated title page, bound with old linen string (slightly age-toned and stained, with small tears and chips without loss of text in margins, but otherwise in a good, partly uncut condition, old script “1…

Extremely rare  - a monumental, brilliantly colour lithographed work that is by far and away the most accurate and detailed map of Hispaniola to date, and one of the great achievements of cartography of the early 20th century in the Americas, the result of a collaboration between Alexandre Poujol, a leading Haitian jurist and stateman, and Henri Thomasset, a Frenchman…

  A unique and historically important artefact, being a highly detailed and beautifully coloured original manuscript map of Sendai, then the largest city in Japan north of Edo (Tokyo), and a major commercial centre of around 50,000 residents, built just across the river form the famous Aoba Castle, labelling all streeta, outlining all major cadastral lots and noting all key…

  First Soviet historical atlas, made by one of the leading historians Konstantin Kurjashov and accompanied with an introduction by a pioneering historian of the Russian revolutionary movement Mikhail Pokrovsy, glorifying Russian economy of the past and presenting the newly founded Soviet Union as a historical self sufficient formation.   Oblong folio, 12 pp. XVIII with 58 numbered maps, printed…

  A part of an exceedingly rare, possibly first translation of Shahname to Gujarati.   Large 8°, [5 pp.], 890-1008 pp. title in Gujarati and English, text in Gujarati, mounted paper label “Presented by the Trustees of the Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy Translation Fund” on the inner side of the front board, contemporary half goat binding with gold tooling in the…

  An early lithographed book in Persian language with extracts from Rumi’s Masnavi.   8°, 119 pp. lithographed text, contemporary stenciled paper boards, brown linen spine (good used example, binding slightly rubbed and stained, minor staining in white margins).  

  A richly illustrated mystic work on the life of the Prophet Muhammad by an Ottoman author Yazıcızâde Mehmed   4°, 7 pp. [mispagination, actually 8pp.], 4 pp., 478 pp., [2 pp.], lithographed text with illustrations, 3 pages printed in gold ink, contemporary brown cloth, later spine (slightly age-toned and stained, endpapers chipped, tiny cracks in margins, binding slightly scuffed…

  Very Rare - a large format, separately issued work that is the first scientifically accurate, and by far and away the most detailed map to date of the Portuguese colony of Diu, an island strategically located just off the coast of Gujarat, that was long a great mart of trade and cross-cultural exchange, under Lisbon’s control from 1535 to…

An exceedingly rare – 1 of only 3 known examples - and historically consequential map; its contents enraged the people of Porto, helping to fuel the Republican Revolt that occurred there on January 31, 1891; the map, which embraces the midriff of Southern Africa, depicts Portugal’s premier colonies of Angola and Mozambique with greatly reduced boundaries, to the benefit of…

  A unique, large attractive and modernly architected mid 19th century map in French language, represents modern railroad system as well as geographic and political features of Europe, relevant for railway construction.   Manuscript in gouache and black ink on two thick originally joined sheets, 104 x 118 cm (40.1 x 46.5 inches), (repaired tears and tiny losses of image…

A rare and highly decorative Meiji Era World Map, an important landmark in the Japanese adoption of Western cartographic methods, as it one of the first Japanese maps to feature charts showing the comparative heights of the world’s main mountains and the lengths of its longest rivers, clearly used for pedagogic purposes, fulfilling the major Meiji changes to the Japanese…