Shop

  First Search: Venetians and Genoese Sailors Discover Islands. Second: Christopher Columbus's Discovery of America Also: Amerika kıt'asının hîn-i keşf ü istîlâsında zuhûra gelen vukūât-ı garîbenin târîhi. Bahs-i evvel, Venedik ve Cenevizli gemicilerinin keşf eylediği cezâyir ve sâniyen Kristof Kolomb'un Amerika'yı bulması beyânındadır This is an early, possibly first separately issued publication on Christopher Columbus and the discovery of America…

  An ephemeral biography of Christopher Columbus in Ottoman language was issued in the series Büyük Adamlar Serisi (Series of Important Men) with Ottoman lettering in the last year before the Atatürk’s reformation of the script in the Republic of Turkey.   8°. 15 pp. with illustrations, illustrated cover, stapled (soft folds, minor staiing, overall in a good condition).  …

  A stunningly well preserved art nouveau luxury edition of poetry by a Slovenian author Dragotin Kette with wonderful illustrations by an academic artis Maksim Gaspari, made in Munich and influenced by contemporary art nouveau. Large 12°. Portrait with a facsimile signature, XXXVI, [1 pp] text with a portrait, protected with original guard, facsimile of a letter protected with original…

  A collection of poems, partly dedicated to the author’s trip to Istanbul   12°, [2 pp.], 196 pp., [2 pp.] blank, original brown cloth binding with gilt decoration and lettering, original patterned endpapers, gilt edges (old signature in black ink on the first blank page, minimal wear, but overall in a very good condition).

  Colour lithography, 87 x 77 cm (34.2 x 30.3 cm) (tiny holes on the crossings of the folds, otherwise in a good condition).  

  Large 8°. 148 pp., original wrappers with lettering, unbound as originally published (slightly age-toned and stained, but overall in a good condition).  

  Three exceedingly rare early lithographed books in Sindhi language, bound together, include educational stories in verses and were sponsored by the British to educate the state officials   Three titles bound together in one volume. 8°, [6 pp.] with title pages in English and Sindhi and an introduction, 131 pp. lithographed text in Sindhi, 14 pp. index, 8 pp.…

  A very rare and unusually attractive large format WWII Japanese map of Australia, New Guinea and the Eastern Indonesian Archipelago, made in 1942, the year that the Japanese Air force mounted the shocking ‘Bombing of Darwin’, the largest ever attack upon Australia mounted by a foreign power, and just before the Allies endeavoured to take the offensive in New…

  An intriguing, large format propagandist map of Peru, devised by Eduardo Higginson, Peru’s hard-charging Consul General in Southampton, England, published on the orders of the country’s foreign minister, Eugenio Larrabure y Unánue, as a PR piece to showcase Peru’s economic and natural virtues and its maximalist (some might say ‘outrageous’) boundary claims with respect to its disputed frontiers with…

  An authoritative composition featuring two maps of Chicago, one centring upon the inner city and the other showcasing the fast-growing suburban areas of the future ‘Chicagoland’, by Rand, McNally & Company, the nationally important Chicago-based map house.   Bi-chrome lithograph (black and green) printed on both sides, folding into original printed tan card wrappers (Very Good, clean, bright and…

  A pair of attractive and richly composed original 19th century watercolour views of two of Batavia’s (Jakarta, Indonesia) most important colonial buildings, being the ‘Willemskerk’ and the Residence of the Commander-in-Chief of the Dutch Army in the East Indies; executed by “D. Colleart” – a rare find, as very few original manuscript views of Batavia from the era survive.#…

  A charming miniature Quran with a handsome contemporary lacquer binding, printed in Bakhchysarai, a city in central Crimea which was for decades the cultural center of the Crimean Tatars   16°, 522 pp., [2 pp.] blank, printed on thin paper, contemporary lacquer binding with dark brown goat skin spine (Very Good, minor wear to the binding, missing front lose…

  A very rare, large-format separately issued map of the Portuguese Territory of Goa, India; being the finest general map of the colony issued during the second half of the 19th Century, with the present edition being the first major map to depict the entire completed line of the Mormugao Railway, Goa’s first railroad; predicated upon the stellar surveys of…

  [Maliye Nezareti. İhsaiyat-i Maliye. vâridât ve masarif-i umûmiyeyi muhtevîdir. 1325 birinci sene- Financial Report. Financial Statistics. The Content of General Imports and Expenses. First Year 1325 [1909]]   Large 4°, [12 pp.], 427 pp. with 3 colour folding and 4 black and white folding charts, original red cloth binding with lettering in the spine, original red endpapers (minor wear…

  A rare and highly attractive work of patriotic propaganda, being a large map of Libya celebrating Italy’s invasion of the country during the Italo-Turkish War (1911-2), created early in the conflict by the Societá editoriale milanese.   Colour print (Very Good, clean and bright, some wear along old folds, some minor marginal staining, far right margin, once bearing additional…

  A curious document on a drunken incident from 1916 offers an ephemeral insight into the life of soldiers of the Russian Caucasus Army during WWI.   Typescript with manuscript additions and a stamp on both sides, 20 x 18 cm (7,8 x 7 inches) (folds and hardly noticeable worm holes, but otherwise in a good condition).  

  An exceedingly rare book of poetry by an Ottoman Zionist activist and author Lucien Sciuto, allegedly published by the Masonic Press in Paris.   8°. 32 pp., later wrappers (slightly age-toned and with minor foxing, narrow outer margin, without loss of text).      

  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).  

  An uncommon Serbian translation of a controversial pamphlet by a German ambassador to London, describing the events leading to WWI, originally published privately in 1916.   Small 8°. VII, 71 pp., [2 pp.] blank, original wrappers with lettering, later spine (old signature on the top of the cover and title page, underlining and old annotations in red colour throughout…

  An extremely rare and important sea chart depicting the mouth of the Limpopo River, in southern Mozambique; for centuries the Limpopo was one of the great transport corridors into the interior of southern Africa; the chart is based upon groundbreaking scientific surveys by a team of Portuguese naval officers, led by João António Ludovice, conducted in 1893, when the…

[Protocol for the Reception of Heads of Foreign Mission at the Imperial Court]   8°, [4 pp.], original pink wrappers with lettering (wrappers with tiny folds, but overall in a good condition).   The manual in French language describes the diplomatic rules for foreign ambassadors, ministers, hereditary princes and officials at the Ottoman Imperial court.  

  8°, original cover, [2 pp.], 104 pp., folding map, later brown cloth binding with lettering (minor age-toning, old hand-written price on the inner side of the rear board, but overall in a good condition).  

  A privately published pre-WWII Slovenian manual on asparagus   Small 8°, 38 pp. with black and white illustrations, [2 pp.], original green card wrappers with lettering, stapled (small blue lines on the cover, two old school-library stamps, crossed with a book-seller’s stamp).  

  [Yavrumun Elifbası / My Child’s Primer]   8°, 63 pp. zincography with illustrations, original wrappers with colour cover (very good, minor staining, tiny tears in the spine).