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[Fenn-i Coğrafya İçin Yazısız Harita Defteri. Harita Tersimi Usûlünün Mebâdisi / Blank Map Book for Science of Geography. The Basics of the Map Representation Method] آفريقا [Arika / Africa]   Ottoman filled-in blank atlas of Afrika with unique and exquisite original colour   8°. 22-28 pp. facing pages marked with same numbers [altogether 16 pp.] with hand coloured lithographed maps…

  A rare Polish book on a Catholic church in Smila, at the time a part of the Russian Empire (today Ukraine), printed in Vilnius.   Small 4°, 1 toned lithographic view and 1 colour lithography, later half claf with marbled paper boards and gilt lettering and decoration on the spine, marbled edges (minor age-toning, foxing and staining, old library…

  [Souvenir of the Czechoslavic Ethnographic Exhibition in Prague 1895]   Folding paper fan with a chromolithographed view on the front and poem on the back, mounted on wooden sticks, joined with a metal loop at the bottom, 35 x 64 cm (13.8 x 25.2 inches) (Very Good, with only minor wear to the folds).  

  A stellar moment of African cartography and inland hydrography, being the first atlas, or accurate, complete large-scale map, of the 1,724 km-long navigable route of the Upper Congo River from Léopoldville (Kinshasa) to Stanleyville, the only natural passage into the heart of Africa, made during World War I for the use of steamer captains by the specialist Belgian colonial…

  Circa 185 x 130 cm (72 x 50 inches), lithograph in colour, printed from two originally joined plates, originally mounted on linen with wooden rollers. With contemporary annotations in pencil and pen.   A rare gigantic wall map of Fatih in the European Part of Istanbul is the first official survey project of the city, made in the newly…

An attractive and vibrant large format map of Buenos Aires, capturing the city midway through its 50 year-long boom era, when it was one of the world’s most exciting, fast growing and cosmopolitan metropolises – an ‘Edición extraordinaria’ issued to celebrate the 1910 International Railway Exposition, a major sign of the Argentine capital’s coming of age - published by the…

  An amazing Japanese celebration of the Early Aviation Age, being a large format World map that doubles as a ‘Sugoroku’ gameboard, inviting players to explore every part of the globe by either airplane or Zeppelin airship.   Colour print (Very Good, overall clean and bright, some light wear along old folds and at edges and some tiny holes at…

  A gigantic (over 2 m) wall map of Rumelia (Northern Greece) made by the Ottoman Military Office   Colour lithography, composed of 12 plates, originally mounted on linen and varnished, with original wooden rollers, 124 x 210 cm (48.8 x 82.7 inches) (minor staining and water-staining, light scratches, small losses of image in the middle part, rollers with chipping…

  A rare Armenian almanac, issued in 1905 in Istanbul by the Armenian Hospital, including folding maps and valuable information on the Armenian minority.   8°, 512 pp. with portraits in text and interleaved 6 folding black and white maps, [20 pp.] advertisements on thin yellow paper, original blue cloth blinding with debossed black decoration and gilt lettering (title with…

  A colossal monument of the cartography of Indochina, being the grand ‘Headquarters Map’ of Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and eastern Siam commissioned by the French Government in anticipation of their bold designs of expansion in the region that led to the Tonkin Campaign (1883-6), the complete conquest of Vietnam; showcasing by far and away the most accurate and detailed general…

  [Hitler and the National Socialism]   The first separately printed biography of Adolf Hitler in Turkish language, with a critical analysis of the National socialism and a problem of anti-Semitism, published in the year, when Hitler was elected a chancellor. Signed by the author   8°, 147 pp., with interleaved sepia photographs, contemporary green cloth binding with gilt lettering…