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  RESERVED   An intriguing late colonial era map of Paramaribo, Surinam, in the form of an aerial photograph of the city tinted in green superimposed with information identifying all streets, 208 named key sites, neighborhoods, railways, and bus and ferry routes; created by the colony’s foremost geographer and geologist, Henk Dahlberg, working for the Surinam’s Central Bureau of Air…

  An Ottoman book on dog breeds by a pioneer of the Turkish cynology Cafer Fahri Dikmen (1876  - 1962).   8°, 191 pp. with black and white illustrations, original illustrated wrappers (slightly stained and aga-toned, old hand-written number on the rear cover, otherwise in a goo condition).  

  8°, 163 pp., original illustrated card wrappers, dedication by the author in black ink on the title page (wrappers with minor age-toning and tiny tears in margins, otherwise in a good condition).  

  The rare first edition of the first accurate and highly detailed topographical general map of Central and Southern Iraq, Kuwait and Khuzestan (Iran), created by the British War Office, the culmination of three generations of espionage and exploration missions, capped by late breaking discoveries; the authoritative map used by both sides during World War I’s ‘Mesopotamia Campaign’, Britain’s dramatic…

  8°, [16 pp.], partly stained with small tears, but without loss of text, sporadic small repairs with modern tape on the wrappers, small worm holes, otherwise partly uncut example)  

  8°, 16 pp., original orange wrappers with lettering (small script in black ink on one page, otherwise not filled in and in a good, clean condition).  

  [Geographical Atlas for Primary Schools. Slovenian Edition]   A rare official atlas for primary schools, issued in Slovenian language by the Fascist Italy, after its taking over the central Slovenian region in World War II in 1941.   Small 8°. 20 pp. with colour maps and black and white photographs, original wrappers with lettering (good used condition with old…

  Colour lithograph, printed from both sides, 46 x 62 cm (24.4 x 18.1 inches) (soft folds, but otherwise in a good condition).  

  Chromolithograph, 51 x 34 cm (13.4 x 20 inches), (small repaired tears in the fold, sporadic light staining in white margins, but otherwise in a good condition).   Istanbul: Matbaa-I Amire [1307-1309 AH [1891-1893 AD] Atlas] – Mahmud Bey Matbaası 1309 AH [1893 AD] [date on the map].  

  [Gazavât-ı Celile-i Peygamberî / Battles of the Glorious Prophet]   An exclusively bound Ottoman book on the glorious conquers of the Prophet Muhammad, written by a historian Ahmet Refik.   8°. 224 pp. with decorative vignettes and a small map in text, folding map, bound in dark brown goat with gold ornaments on the covers and lettering on the…

  8°. 165 pp., [7 pp.], original wrappers with lettering, dedication and signature by the author on the title page (slightly age-toned and stained, wrappers slightly stained and water-stained with pieces of old postal stamps).  

[The map was compiled and prepared for printing by the Scientific and Editorial Mapping Department of the Federal Agency for Geodesy and Cartography with the participation of researchers from the Institute of Marxism-Leninism at the Central Scientific Research Center of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Editors: E.V. Gladkova, G.V. Shadrina Scientific advisers: G.N. Golikov,…

  A fine, uncut example of the first edition of a famous Slovenian short story Kurent by one of the county’s greatest authors - Ivan Cankar.   8°, [4 pp.], 81 pp., [3 pp.], original patterned wrappers (old price, written in pencil on the cover, minor foxing to the first and last pages, tiny chips around the spine, but overall…

  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,…

  An early modern Ottoman geography school book   Small 8°, 54 pp., [2 pp.] blank, 7 colour printed double-page maps, contemporary marbled paper boards and black cloth spine (binding restored with partly repaired loss of paper, tiny holes in the folds and tiny tears in margins, minor staining, but overall in a good condition).    

  A rare pamphlet, printed in Bulgarian language in Istanbul   Large 12°. 8 pp. (old owner’s name and annotation on the cover, old owner’s small stamp with initials on the top of the title page, tiny folds, slightly dusty, small repaired loss of white inner margin on the last page).  

  A rare pamphlet, printed in Bulgarian language in Istanbul   Large 12°. 24 pp., original wrappers with lettering (slightly age-toned and stained, old Ottman and Bulgarian stamps, old annotations, wrappers, first and last page with small loss of white margins).  

  Chromolithograph, 51 x 34 cm (13.4 x 20 inches), (small repaired tears in the fold, sporadic light staining in white margins, but otherwise in a good condition).      

  Chromolithograph, 51 x 34 cm (13.4 x 20 inches), (small repaired tears in the fold, sporadic light staining in white margins, but otherwise in a good condition).  

  A second edition of the most popular early translation of Julius Caesar, made by a Croatian writer and translator August Harambašić (1861 – 1911).   12°. 114 pp., original wrappers with lettering, later spine (used condition, cover with a light scratch and a paper stamp in the corner, old owner’s signature on the title page).  

  4 volumes on modern physics in Ottoman language with one of the earliest texts on the electricity in the Ottoman Empire.   4 volumes bound-in-one, 8°, [4 pp.], 162 pp., [2 pp.] blank. 155 pp. 87 pp. 136 pp. Contemporary blue cloth boards with debossed decoration and gold crescent, original brown calf spine with gilt decoration (minor staining, spine…

  8°, 206 pp. with black and white photos, contemporary red boards and black calf spine with gilt decoration and lettering, old small paper stamp with annotations in Ottoman on the cover (minor age-toning and foxing, old collector’s rubber stamp on the title page, otherwise a very good example in highly decorative original binding, with only slight wear to the…

    [A Short History of All-Connected Communist Party (of Bolsheviks)]   A rare book on the history of Communism, printed by the Slovenian underground press during World War II, bound in dyed parachute silk   8°, 296 pp., [4 pp.], original silk binding with lettering on the cover (good, used condition with minor foxing and annotations in pencil, old…

  8°, [8 pp.], 64 pp., with two black and white portraits of Oscar Wilde, original illustrated wrappers, bound in a recent black linen with gilt lettering and debossed decoration, signed by the translator (minor age-toning and staining, but overall in a good condition).