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  Copper engraving, image: 13,5 x 10 cm; sheet: 22 x 15,5 cm (margins with staining and scratches, light staining in the image).  

  Copper engraving, image: 13,5 x 10 cm; sheet: 22 x 15,5 cm (margins with staining and scratches, light staining in the image).  

  Copper engraving, image: 13,5 x 10 cm; sheet: 22 x 15,5 cm (margins with staining and scratches, light staining in the image).  

  [Evlâdların Sevenlere Teberrüken Tahsis Kılınan Bebeklere Kitabdır]   8°, 52 pp. with black and white illustrations, [4 pp.], original illustrated wrappers, inserted errata on orange paper (minor staining, wrappers with light stains, soft folds, and tiny tears, a tiny loss of margins on the first pages).  

  8°, 171 pp., original tan wrappers with lettering (deaccessioned library example with sporadic notes and small stamps, minor cracks to the wrappers, otherwise a seemingly unread example).

  Colour print, folding into original printed paper wrappers (Excellent, clean and crisp with vibrant colours), 75 x 58 cm (30 x 22.8 inches).  

  Colour lithography, 96 x 63 cm (37.9 x 24.8 inches), (minor staining, tears repaired with modern tape and partly age-toned).  

[Including the Maps:] Sketch of the positions taken up before the Fort of Nowah 1819 and Plan & Sketch of the Fort of Nowah 1819.   An important issue of ‘The Calcutta Journal’, one of the highest quality, most influential and controversial newspapers in India of the first third of the 19th century, notably featuring an authoritative and detailed eyewitness…

  First modern, separately printed geological map of Mount Fuji   Colour print on thin paper 95 x 75 cm (38.2 x 29.5inches) (slightly age-toned, soft folds, small holes on the crossings of the folds).  

  One of the first etchings made by Queen Victoria and representing her niece. With original signature of the Queen, possibly given by the author to her step-sister Feodora of Leiningen   Etching on India laid paper, platemark: 12,5 x 8 cm (4.9 x 3.1 inches), sheet: 22 x 14 cm (8.7 x 5.5 inches), mounted on a 19th century…

  One of the finest general maps of China produced during the fin de siècle period, a large format, highly detailed work produced as part of map sequence for the China Inland Mission (CIM) by the world leading firm of Edward Stanford, and the first issue to be predicated upon the revolutionary cartography of the Russian sinologist Emil Bretschneider, providing…

  A highly decorative pictorial map of Rhodes, representing the newly built Fascist urban structures, was printed by the Italian State Tourist Department.   Colour lithography, 69 x 49 cm (27.1 x 19.3 inches) verso black and white illustrations and text (soft folds, overall in a good condition).  

  A charming small Quran was printed on pink paper in Bakhchysarai, a city in central Crimea which was for decades the cultural center of the Crimean Tatars    16°, 522 pp., [6 pp.] blank, printed on thin pink paper, original full calf with flap, gilt and silver decoration, gilt edges. Housed in an original calf slipcase with gilt and…

  Copper engraving, 50 x 67 cm (inches) (minor age-toning and staining, old stamps and inventory numbers and a stamp Erledigt (meaning ‘Deaccessioned’).  

  [Maps of the Moon Hemispheres]   A scarce set of 6 maps of the Lunar surface, based on the latest American explorations and the  Soviet Lunokhod programme was made by a Czech astronomer and cartographer Antonín Rükl    Book, oblong small 4°, 15 pp., stapled. 6 colour prints (each 62 x 54 cm / 24.4 x 21.3 inches), folded in…

  An exceedingly rare map of a port in the Red Sea, printed on thin paper in Italian language, was sold separately for navigational uses.   Lithograph on thin paper, each 31 x 23 cm (12.2 x 9 inches).

  An exceedingly rare map of a port in the Red Sea, printed on thin paper in Italian language, was sold separately for navigational uses.   Lithograph on thin paper, each 31 x 23 cm (12.2 x 9 inches).

  An exceedingly rare map of a port in the Red Sea, printed on thin paper in Italian language, was sold separately for navigational uses.   Lithograph on thin paper, each 31 x 23 cm (12.2 x 9 inches).

  [Avrupa'da Ne Gördüm / What did I see in Europe. [French title:] France, England, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Austria and Hungary]   A stunning travelogue of Europe by an Ottoman novelist, editor and translator of Jules Verne, Ahmed İhsan, was influenced by a novel Around the World in Eighty Days. Possibly the first travelogue to involve the Orient Express.  …

  Copper engraving, image: 13,5 x 10 cm; sheet: 22 x 15,5 cm (margins with staining and scratches, light staining in the image).  

  Copper engraving, image: 13,5 x 10 cm; sheet: 22 x 15,5 cm (margins with staining and scratches, light staining in the image).  

[Tercüme-i Tarih-i Nevâdir-i Çin-i Maçin / Translation of the Stories of History of China and the Greater China]   8°, 70 pp. lithograph, first two pages with gilt margins, later blue cloth boards with brown cloth spine, grey printed endpapers (minor staining overall in a good condition).  

  A rare first Azerbaijani newspaper to promote the new Azerbaijani alphabet with Latin characters, developed as a part of the latinisation of the Soviet Union, which would soon become an official script for all non-Slavic languages in the country.   5 issues. All folio, 4 pp. with illustrations (slightly age-toned, soft folds with tiny tears, overall in a good…

  A rare Polish edition of Animal Farm was printed in London for the Polish market, where the work was banned   8°, 94 pp., [2 pp.], original illustrated wrappers (Very Good, minor damages in the margins of the wrappers).