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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,…