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  First Search: Venetians and Genoese Sailors Discover Islands. Second: Christopher Columbus's Discovery of America Also: Amerika kıt'asının hîn-i keşf ü istîlâsında zuhûra gelen vukūât-ı garîbenin târîhi. Bahs-i evvel, Venedik ve Cenevizli gemicilerinin keşf eylediği cezâyir ve sâniyen Kristof Kolomb'un Amerika'yı bulması beyânındadır This is an early, possibly first separately issued publication on Christopher Columbus and the discovery of America…

  An ephemeral biography of Christopher Columbus in Ottoman language was issued in the series Büyük Adamlar Serisi (Series of Important Men) with Ottoman lettering in the last year before the Atatürk’s reformation of the script in the Republic of Turkey.   8°. 15 pp. with illustrations, illustrated cover, stapled (soft folds, minor staiing, overall in a good condition).  …

  A stunningly well preserved art nouveau luxury edition of poetry by a Slovenian author Dragotin Kette with wonderful illustrations by an academic artis Maksim Gaspari, made in Munich and influenced by contemporary art nouveau. Large 12°. Portrait with a facsimile signature, XXXVI, [1 pp] text with a portrait, protected with original guard, facsimile of a letter protected with original…

  A collection of poems, partly dedicated to the author’s trip to Istanbul   12°, [2 pp.], 196 pp., [2 pp.] blank, original brown cloth binding with gilt decoration and lettering, original patterned endpapers, gilt edges (old signature in black ink on the first blank page, minimal wear, but overall in a very good condition).

  Colour lithography, 87 x 77 cm (34.2 x 30.3 cm) (tiny holes on the crossings of the folds, otherwise in a good condition).  

  Large 8°. 148 pp., original wrappers with lettering, unbound as originally published (slightly age-toned and stained, but overall in a good condition).  

  Three exceedingly rare early lithographed books in Sindhi language, bound together, include educational stories in verses and were sponsored by the British to educate the state officials   Three titles bound together in one volume. 8°, [6 pp.] with title pages in English and Sindhi and an introduction, 131 pp. lithographed text in Sindhi, 14 pp. index, 8 pp.…

  A very rare and unusually attractive large format WWII Japanese map of Australia, New Guinea and the Eastern Indonesian Archipelago, made in 1942, the year that the Japanese Air force mounted the shocking ‘Bombing of Darwin’, the largest ever attack upon Australia mounted by a foreign power, and just before the Allies endeavoured to take the offensive in New…

  An intriguing, large format propagandist map of Peru, devised by Eduardo Higginson, Peru’s hard-charging Consul General in Southampton, England, published on the orders of the country’s foreign minister, Eugenio Larrabure y Unánue, as a PR piece to showcase Peru’s economic and natural virtues and its maximalist (some might say ‘outrageous’) boundary claims with respect to its disputed frontiers with…

  An authoritative composition featuring two maps of Chicago, one centring upon the inner city and the other showcasing the fast-growing suburban areas of the future ‘Chicagoland’, by Rand, McNally & Company, the nationally important Chicago-based map house.   Bi-chrome lithograph (black and green) printed on both sides, folding into original printed tan card wrappers (Very Good, clean, bright and…

  A pair of attractive and richly composed original 19th century watercolour views of two of Batavia’s (Jakarta, Indonesia) most important colonial buildings, being the ‘Willemskerk’ and the Residence of the Commander-in-Chief of the Dutch Army in the East Indies; executed by “D. Colleart” – a rare find, as very few original manuscript views of Batavia from the era survive.#…

  A charming miniature Quran with a handsome contemporary lacquer binding, printed in Bakhchysarai, a city in central Crimea which was for decades the cultural center of the Crimean Tatars   16°, 522 pp., [2 pp.] blank, printed on thin paper, contemporary lacquer binding with dark brown goat skin spine (Very Good, minor wear to the binding, missing front lose…