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- Bible, Books, Slavica
- BULGARIAN PRINTING IN ISTANBUL: Пьрвата книга Моисеева, битие. [First Book of Moses. Genesis]
- 320.00€
- 12°. 192 pp., original brown cloth binding with debossed title (binding pale, and stained with minor scuffs to the spine, overall in a good condition).
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- Books, Ottoman Books, September 2023: 50 under 1000 EUR, Slavica, Turkica
- BULGARIAN PRINTING IN ISTANBUL: Учебникъ по Отечествена История за III. Класъ. تاريخ وطن
- 400.00€
- [Schoolbook for History of the Homeland for 3 Class] 8°. 164 pp. with black and white illustrations in text, original green wrappers with lettering and illustrations (wrappers with light age-toning, foxing and chips, inside with minor foxing and age-toning to first pages, but otherwise a good example).
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- Books, New Acquisitions: December 2020, Slavica
- BULGARIAN PUBLICATION IN ISTANBUL: История блъгарска [Bulgaian History]
- 850.00€
- A rare, important history book in Bulgarian language, written by a prominent Bulgarian diplomat, was printed in Istanbul by a Macedonian Press 8°, [2] title page, XXI, 616 pp., [4 pp.] errata, newer marbled wrappers (uncut example, partly unbound title page with missing upper white corner, some pages lightly stained, old dried moist stains between pages 180-200, otherwise in…
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- Maps and Prints
- BULGARIAN TOBACCO ATLAS: Карти на тютюневиѣ райони вь Бьлгария [Karti na tjutjunevia rajoni v Blgarija / Maps of Tobacco Regions in Bulgaria].
- 650.00€
- A rare, seemingly unrecorded tobacco atlas of Bulgarian regions was made on the eve of WWII, in 1940, in Plovdiv. Some manuscript annotations were added up to 1944.
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- BURCKHARDT: Kleinasiatische Reise [Travels Through Anatolia].
- 220.00€
- A book on Anatolia by a historian and diplomat Carl Jacob Burckhardt was printed by a private press in Munich in 1925 and was contemporary bound in an elegant half vellum binding.
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- Maps and Prints
- BURGUNDY – Franche-Comté: Comitatus Burgundiae
- 650.00€
- A stunning example of a rare, separately issued map of Burgundy by Gerard de Jode, was coloured in the late 16th century in the style of the frescoes of the Gallery of Maps in Vatican.
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- Maps and Prints
- BURMA / NORTHEASTERN INDIA: Eastern Bengal, Assam, Burmah, and parts of China and Siam mostly adapted from the maps of the Surveyor General of India by Robert Gordon, Esq., M.I.C.E. and M.I.M.E.
- 950.00€
- A fascinating, very rare large-format map of Burma and Northeastern India composed by Robert Gordon, a prominent explorer, Ruby prospector and the principal engineer of the Irrawaddy River system, published in Calcutta by the Surveyor General of India’s Office.
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- BURMA: Bhamo Expedition. Report on the Practicability of Re-opening the Trade Route, between Burma and Western China. By Captain A. Bowers, R.N.R. Commercial Agent attached to the Expedition under Captain E.B. Sladen, British Political Agent at the Court of Mandalay.
- 8,500.00€
- Extremely rare – the earliest comprehensive published account of the ‘Bhamo Expedition’ of 1868, the ambitious official British mission to open what promised to be an exceedingly lucrative trading route between Upper Burma and Yunnan, one of China’s wealthiest yet most politically unstable provinces, written by one of the endeavour’s principals, Captain Alexander Bowers, a seasoned ‘China hand’; the work,…
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- Africa, Maps and Prints, September 2023: 50 under 1000 EUR
- CABO VERDE ISLANDS: A Collection of 10 Survey Maps of the Cabo Verde Islands
- 980.00€
- A collection of 10 maps of the Cabo Verde Archipelago, being 9 individual island maps produced between 1922 and 1930 by the special mapping team, the Missão Geográfica de Cabo Verde, being the first maps of the islands predicated upon complete systematic trigonometric surveys; plus, a 1960 official general map of the archipelago featuring extensive manuscript additions of air and…
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- Books, German Books
- CACTI: Taschenbuch für Cactusliebhaber : auf neue Erfahrungen gestützte Kultur und Übersicht der im teutschen Handel vorkommenden Cactuspflanzen
- 1,200.00€
- An early and rare German publication on cacti, featuring a handsome hand-coloured frontispiece. Small 8º, copper printed frontispiece with hand colour, X, 98 pp., contemporary simple tan paper binding, bound with contemporary string (little age-toned and stained, tiny chips and holes in white margins, binding with light staining and with abrasions on corners).
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- CAIRO IMPRINT / YOUNG TURKS / PROPAGANDA: Lettre adressée au feu sultan Abdul Aziz par le feu prince Moustapha Fazil Pacha. 1866.
- 160.00€
- A first separately printed publication of a letter written by the Egyptian prince Mustafa Fazil Pasa to Sultan Abdul Aziz, today considered one of the greatest documents of Turkish liberty, was made in Cairo under the British rule, to support the Young Turks movement in the time of their formation.
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- Books, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- CAIRO IMPRINT / YOUNG TURKS: پاريس دن يازدكلرم Paris’den Yazdıklarım [My Writings from Paris]
- 420.00€
- A collection of previously anonymous articles published in Paris, by a Cairo-based Ottoman medical doctor and a supporter of the Young Turks Şerefeddin Mağmûmî 8°. 301 pp., later (1970s) black cloth binding with gilt lettering (minor foxing and staining, imprint from old wrappers mounted on the inner side of endpapers, old price written on the inner side of…
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