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  8°, 22 pp., [4 pp.], 13 pp., original wrappers with red lettering (minor loss of paper around the spine, otherwise in a good condition).  

  Rare – one of the seminal works on early 20th century Macau, being an anthology of articles by Henrique Travassos Valdez, the liberal republican firebrand who was the incumbent Portuguese national senator for Macau, with brilliant yet controversial analyses of Macau’s place within the Portuguese Empire, its heated relations with China, its vital port and economic development, as well…

  [Albom hay nshanagreru : aṛtʻiw 1500-ameaki hay tareru giwtin ew 400-ameaki hay tpagrutʻean / Album on the Armenian Letters on the 1500th Anniversary of the Invention of the Armenian Letters and the 400th Anniversary of the Armenian Printing]   A charming ephemeral pamphlet with a series of Armenian letters, composed of portraits and images of monuments and important places…

  A large separately published detailed map of Istanbul and the Bosporus, with their contemporary infrastructure and urbanism as developed by 1911, published by the Ottoman state press   Colour lithography, 100 x 108 cm (39.4 x 42.5 inches), originally dissected in 24 segments and mounted on linen (good, used example, slightly age-toned, stained and with small ink-staining, linen with…

8°, portrait, 63 pp., folding map, originally coloured in outline, later wrappers (age-toned with light cracks in margins, portrait slightly water-stained).  

  An exceedingly rare and attractive large format map of Southeast Asia, Australia and Polynesia, with a special emphasis upon the new colony of ‘Deutsch-Neuguinea’, a ‘boutiquey’ provincial production drafted by Professor Franz Behr and published in Canstatt, just outside of Stuttgart.   Colour lithograph, dissected into 8 sections and mounted upon original linen with original red silk edging, folding…

  The first wall map of Azerbaijan SSR, made in 1925 by a pioneer of Azerbaijani map-making İbrahim Ağa Vəkilov   Colour lithography, printed on four sheets and originally mounted on linen, 100 x 135 cm (39.8 x 53.1 inches) (small tears, folds and holes with tiny loss of material, light staining).  

An exceedingly detailed, very large masterplan of Georgetown, then the capital of British Guiana (today Guyana), amazingly defining every property lot, outlining and labeling every major building, depicting all parks and recreational facilities, and delineating every street and alleyway, being one of the most ‘panoptic’ of all West Indian city maps of its era; created by the Directorate of Overseas…

The colossal, authoritative general map of Anatolia, the Levant, Lower Egypt and western Iraq made for strategic use by the French Army on the eve of World War I; these regions all being scenes of pivotal military action and espionage operations during and in the wake of the conflict, from which France played a critical (and controversial) role in the…

  [İnfilak ve Buhar Muharrikleri / Compression Ignition and Steam Engines]   A rare illustrated Ottoman mimeographed book on compression ignition and steam engines, made on the eve of WWI, possibly for the technical university.   Large 8°, 488 pp., mimeograph in two tons of purple and in black with illustrations in text, contemporary purple cloth boards, black calf spine…

  8°, [8 pp.], 26 pp., [2 pp.] blank, old tan cloth binding with pasted label with a manuscript title on the cover (Very Good, binding slightly dusty and stained).  

  A rare pioneering Ottoman work on the history of Rhodes before the Muslim Ottoman rule. Printed in Rhodes.   8°, 160 pp. with black and white illustrations, [1] full page black and white map, later black cloth binding with debossed ornaments and gilt lettering (tiny tears in margins, softs fold, map with small loss of paper in the margins,…

[Fenn-i Coğrafya İçin Yazısız Harita Defteri. Harita Tersimi Usûlünün Mebâdisi / Blank Map Book for Science of Geography. The Basics of the Map Representation Method] آفريقا [Arika / Africa]   Ottoman filled-in blank atlas of Afrika with unique and exquisite original colour   8°. 22-28 pp. facing pages marked with same numbers [altogether 16 pp.] with hand coloured lithographed maps…

  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…

  [Souvenir of the Czechoslavic Ethnographic Exhibition in Prague 1895]   Folding paper fan with a chromolithographed view on the front and poem on the back, mounted on wooden sticks, joined with a metal loop at the bottom, 35 x 64 cm (13.8 x 25.2 inches) (Very Good, with only minor wear to the folds).  

  A stellar moment of African cartography and inland hydrography, being the first atlas, or accurate, complete large-scale map, of the 1,724 km-long navigable route of the Upper Congo River from Léopoldville (Kinshasa) to Stanleyville, the only natural passage into the heart of Africa, made during World War I for the use of steamer captains by the specialist Belgian colonial…

  Circa 185 x 130 cm (72 x 50 inches), lithograph in colour, printed from two originally joined plates, originally mounted on linen with wooden rollers. With contemporary annotations in pencil and pen.   A rare gigantic wall map of Fatih in the European Part of Istanbul is the first official survey project of the city, made in the newly…

An attractive and vibrant large format map of Buenos Aires, capturing the city midway through its 50 year-long boom era, when it was one of the world’s most exciting, fast growing and cosmopolitan metropolises – an ‘Edición extraordinaria’ issued to celebrate the 1910 International Railway Exposition, a major sign of the Argentine capital’s coming of age - published by the…

  An amazing Japanese celebration of the Early Aviation Age, being a large format World map that doubles as a ‘Sugoroku’ gameboard, inviting players to explore every part of the globe by either airplane or Zeppelin airship.   Colour print (Very Good, overall clean and bright, some light wear along old folds and at edges and some tiny holes at…

  A gigantic (over 2 m) wall map of Rumelia (Northern Greece) made by the Ottoman Military Office   Colour lithography, composed of 12 plates, originally mounted on linen and varnished, with original wooden rollers, 124 x 210 cm (48.8 x 82.7 inches) (minor staining and water-staining, light scratches, small losses of image in the middle part, rollers with chipping…

  A rare Armenian almanac, issued in 1905 in Istanbul by the Armenian Hospital, including folding maps and valuable information on the Armenian minority.   8°, 512 pp. with portraits in text and interleaved 6 folding black and white maps, [20 pp.] advertisements on thin yellow paper, original blue cloth blinding with debossed black decoration and gilt lettering (title with…

  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…

  [Hitler and the National Socialism]   The first separately printed biography of Adolf Hitler in Turkish language, with a critical analysis of the National socialism and a problem of anti-Semitism, published in the year, when Hitler was elected a chancellor. Signed by the author   8°, 147 pp., with interleaved sepia photographs, contemporary green cloth binding with gilt lettering…