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  An original 17th century hand-drawn portrait of count Friedrich Fugger, a member of the famous banking family from Augsburg. 

  A very rare large-format survey chart of the coasts of Gabon and what is today the Republic of Congo, executed shortly before World War I by the ‘Mission hydrographique du Gabon’.

This whiteprint photographic map, with its beautiful purple signature hue, depicts Ecuador’s Galapagos Islands.  The map was made by the Instituto Geográfico Militar, the Ecuadorian military mapping institution, predicated upon the best scientific surveys.  It shows all of the islands, while the legend, located under the title, gives symbols for the main towns and administrative centres; roads; airports; volcanic craters;…

[Çanakkale Boğazı ve civarı / Dardanelles Strait and its Vicinity]   12°.  166 pp., [2 pp.] blank, original wrappers with tile on the cover and decoration on the back cover, recent black cloth binding with gilt lettering on the cover and spine and debossed decoration (slightly age-toned and stained, small cracks in the inner side of the original cover, otherwise…

Chromolithographs on thick paper. Each sheet: 11 x 15 cm (4.3 x 5.9 inches). Slightly stained, overall in a good condition

  A complete set of the richly illustrated Ottoman War Journal, issued during WWI, focusing in the large battles, such as the Gallipoli Campaign and the battles in the Middle East   Large 4°. 27 issues bound in one volume (issues 25 and 26 published together), 432 pp., later black linen boards, brown calf spine with gilt Ottoman lettering. Issue 1…

A rare ephemeral artefact from the Gallipoli Campaign of World War I, being a mimeographed map made in the field by Ottoman soldiers, depicting the theatre of the Battles of Krithia (Alçitepe), a series of four major altercations fought between British Imperial-French forces and the Turks between April and August 1915.   Mimeograph in purple (Very Good, old vertical centrefold,…

  The first edition of the prominent Turkish poet and writer İbrahim Alaaddin Gövsa’s historically important work featuring the report of the official Ottoman artists’ delegation to the active battlefield at Gallipoli in the Summer of 1915 and containing the first printing of his complete collection of his moving poems on Gallipoli; this example featuring the spectacular illustrated cover showing…

  [Çanakkale Hakikatleri / The Truth About the Dardanelles]   8°. 73 pp., later (1970s) brown cloth binding (lightly stained, four pages with traces of text from other pages, sporadic white margins trimmed, old hand-written price on the inner side of the rear board, a tiny piece of paper mounted on the title page).  

  [Bin Bir Çiçek Mağazası / Magazine of Thousand and One Flower]   Large 8°. 80 pp., [2], later red binding with mounted original front and rear wrappers, original taxation stamp on the rear wrapper (light water-staining going throughout the book, old traces of stapled in inner white margins).  

  Tulip, Daffodil and Hyacinth Growing in Istanbul   Large 8°. 16 pp. with black and white illustrations, original wrappers with lettering, original taxation stamp (light staining, stains on two pages with partial minimal damage to the text, wrappers with tiny tears and loss of paper in one corner).