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- Africa, Maps and Prints
- ANGOLA – EARLY OIL (PETROLEUM) EXPLORATION: [Set of 2 Cyanotype Maps and 1 Line Chart of 1920s Oil Exploration in Angola].
- 1,800.00€
- A trio of very large format diagrams (2 blueprint maps, 1 line chart) made for the Companhia de Petróleo de Angola in the 1920s, when it was prospecting the Cuanza (Kwanza) Basin, one of Africa’s great petroleum deposits; the works were drafted by James J. McGowan, a larger-than-life Irish-American engineer who later became a pillar of Luanda’s business community; the…
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- Africa, Archives and Documents, Books
- ANGOLA / CONGO (DRC): SLAVERY / COMMERCIAL TRADE: Quatre Années au Congo par Charles Jeannest. 1874.
- 6,800.00€
- 1 of only 2 known surviving examples - the original issue of the French merchant Charles Jeannest’s exciting and historically valuable account of his four years (1869-73) spent in the coastal Congo (today’s Banana, DRC and Zaire Province, Angola), where he served as a factor at several trading posts, featuring authentic and highly detailed eyewitness accounts and perceptive analysis of…
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- Africa, Archives and Documents, Books, Geography
- ANGOLA: ‘Colonia de Angola / Relatório do Governador Geral de Angola A. Lopes Mateus / Primeiro Trimestre de 1935 / Luanda Abril de 1935’.
- 4,500.00€
- A foundational document of the establishment of the Estado Novo’s transformative colonial regime in Angola, being the secret typescript report on the state of the Portuguese colony written (and signed in mss.) by the military strongman and political heavyweight António Lopes Mateus, who had just been appointed as the Governor-General of Angola, submitted to the Portuguese dictator António de Oliveira Salazar; in…
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- Animals, Books, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- ANIMAL RIGHTS / OTTOMAN EMPIRE: حيوانات ايله حسن معامله حقبده. اون اكي درس [Hayvanât ile Hüsn-i Muamele Hakkında On İki Ders]
- 280.00€
- Twelve Lessons on the Friendly Treatments of Animals 8°, 63 pp., original blue wrappers with illustrated cover (paper slightly waved, wrappers with hardly noticeably foxing and old-hand-written number on the top, but otherwise in a good, clean condition).
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- Europe, Maps and Prints, Turkey
- Ankara
- 350.00€
- Colour print, 63 x 46 cm (inches) (soft folds, minor age-toning, but overall in a good condition). A decorative late art deco map showcases Ankara with its modern neighborhoods
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- Books, September 2023: 50 under 1000 EUR, Slavica
- ANTI-COMMUNISM – BERLIN IMPRINT / ART HISTORY: Художник и революция. Художник в русской революции: записки художественного деятеля
- 160.00€
- The Artist and The Revolution. An Artist in The Russian Revolution: Notes by an Artist - A text on the role of the art and artists in Russia and the changes of their roles through the revolution was written by a Russian immigrant in Berlin, Georgy Kreskentievich Lukomsky (1884–1952). 12°. 95 pp., original wrapper with lettering (wrappers with light…
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- Books, History, Newly Catalogued Items: August 2022
- ANTI-FASCIST PROPAGANDA / WORLD WAR II IN GREECE: Πολεμικη Σατυρα [Polemiki Satira / War Satire]
- 650.00€
- A rare satirical illustrated anti-Fascist-Italy pamphlet, printed for the Greek soldiers during World War II. Large 8°. [64 pp.] with black and white illustrations, original illustrated wrappers (Very Good). Evangelos BITSAXIS - Kostantinos STASINOPOULOS, editors; T. MORAITINI, A.G. POP, K. VARNALI, authors of texts - F. DIMITRIADIS, K. BEZOU, N. KASTANAKI, P. PAVLIDIS, S. POLENAKI, E. TERZOPOULOS, KYRIAZI,…
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- Americas, Caribbean, Maps and Prints
- Antigua in the West Indies America. Laid Down by actual Survey, and engraved by John Luffman, in the years 1787 and 1788. / To His Excellency Major General Sir Thomas Shirley Governor Bart. Captain General & Governor in Chief in and over all His Majestys Leeward Caribee Islands, in America. Chancellor, Vice Admiral & Ordinary of the same. This Map is Dedicated, by his obliged humble Servant, John Luffman.
- 9,500.00€
- John Luffman’s grand map of Antigua, one of the cartographic monuments of the 18th century British West Indies; predicated upon the goldsmith-cartographer’s reconnaissance of the island conducted when it was still one of the world’s leading sugar-slave economies, as well as hosting a major Royal Navy base (then commanded by the future Lord Admiral Horatio Nelson); the map served as…
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- New Acquisitions: December 2020, Slavica
- ANTISEMITISM / CROATIA / POLITICAL PROPAGANDA: O židovima [About the Jews]
- 250.00€
- A rare, unusual separately issued propaganda publication in Croatian language with an extreme anti-Semitic content, was printed in 1939, on the eve of WWII. It is a reprint of a 1906 article by an influential Croatian politician Stjepan Radić (died 1928), who later became a liberal politician and regrated his early writings. 8°: 16 pp., original green wrappers with…
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- Books, New Acquisitions: December 2020, Slavica
- ANTISEMITISM / CROATIA: Postoji li židovska opasnost. Moj proces sa Židovima [Is there a Jewish Danger? My Process with the Jews]
- 220.00€
- A rare anti-Semitic work in Croatian language was published on the eve of WWII. 8°. X, 221 pp., original wrappers with lettering (old owner's stamp on the first page, tiny tears in the wrappers, otherwise a good, uncut example).
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- Books, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- Antisemitism in the Ottoman Empire: ملت اسرايليه [Millet-i Israiliye / Nation of Israel]
- 350.00€
- The first book in Ottoman language to express anti-Semitic tendencies 12°. 78 pp. [2 pp.] blank, original illustrated purple wrappers (minor tears in margins, but overall in a good, uncut condition).
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