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  [Diagram of Railways in European Russia published by I.F. Zauer 1914].   An extremely rare large format map depicting the railway system in European Russia as its existed on the eve of World War I, executed in an arrestingly Modernist style some years ahead of its time, drafted by the architect Ivan Fedorovich Zauer and published in St. Petersburg…

  [Muharebat-ı meşhure-i osmaniye albümü / Album of Famous Ottoman Battles]   A monumental portfolio of the famous Ottoman battles, edited by a famous military leader Ahmed Muhtar Pacha during WWI to commemorate the glorious military past of the Ottoman Empire   Folio. Title page, 33 unbound double page maps, partly printed in colours, with text, 5 single page maps,…

  Rare documentary photographs of the inaguration of the Hindiya Barrage, south of Baghdad, Iraq, in 1891 with Arabic, Ottoman and European participants of the project.   4 photographs: albumen prints, 1 image: circa 11 x 16,5 cm (4.3 x 6.5 inches), 3 images: circa 12 x 17 cm (4.7 x 6.7 inches), contemporary mounted on thick cards: 22 x…

  A set of three photographs, made in the Ottoman Empire, but distributed by a photographic studio Joseph (Papazian) from Iran, touches a little researched subject of documentary photography trade in the Middle East in the late 19th century. The motifs of the photographs concentrate on the formation of controversial Hamidiye Cavalry, which was at the time responsible for the…

The very rare first edition of the seminal work on yellow fever in Saint-Domingue (Haiti) and one of the most influential French tropical medicine books of the late Enlightenment, featuring perhaps the era’s most detailed and perceptive description of the symptoms of the disease, backed by twelve valuable case studies, by Antoine Poissonnier-Desperrières, a physician who was one of France’s…

  [Kitāb tawārīkh mukhtaṣar yunbī ʻan mamālik wa-bilād ʻadīdah wa-mā ḥadatha fīhā min qadīm al-zamān ilá ʻaṣrinā hadhā / Concise History Book, Providing Information on Numerous Realms and Countries and What has Happened in Them from Ancient Times to Our Own Era] A rare work in Arabic language, published in Malta for educational purposes of learning history   8°. 136…

8°. 85 pp., [3], original printed wrappers (uncut example, small tears and folds in the corner, wrappers slightly dusty with minor tears in the spine).

Small 4°, 89 pp., original wrapper with lettering, later spine (wrappers slightly stained, tiny ships in the edges,  inside with light age-toning, partly uncut, otherwise in a good condition).

12°. 104 pp., original black cloth wrappers with debossed title (slightly age-toned, wrappers lightly stained with light vertical cracks in the rear cover, tear in front endpapers).

Broadside, 39 x 27 cm (15. 3 x 10.6 inches), (mounted old title in the upper right corner, soft folds, partly repaired sporadic tiny holes, but overall in a good condition).

  A first edition of poetry by one of the founders of the Turkish avant-garde Nâzım Hikmet Ran, inspired by Mayakowsky’s work, accompanied with black and white illustrations by Fikret Muallâ and decorated with blue and black cover design by Ali Suavi.   8°. 116 pp. with black and white illustrations, [12], original printed wrappers, stapled (uncut and unread condition,…

    8°. 8 pp., 8 pp., with black and white illustrations, original illustrated green wrappers with French and Ottoman title, staple (wrappers with light staining, foxing and old annotations, but otherwise in a good used condition).