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  Colour lithograph, printed from both sides, 49 x 69 cm (27.1 x 19.3 inches) (soft folds, but otherwise in a good condition).  

  A series of one of the most influential Ottoman newspapers with elaborate colour printing.

  A set of 5 original photographs, most probably made during WWI, showcase the byzantine capitals of four different cisterns of Istanbul.

Anon. Istanbul, Fatih [S. l., S. d., but Istanbul: between 1923-1928]. Black ink and water-colours in blue, orange, green and red on tracing paper, irregular format, but at widest points 142 x 160 cm (55.9 x 63 inches), originally dissected in segments and mounted on linen (minor tears and folds to the edges of segments, but overall in a good…

  A rare large chromolithographed map of Turkey with Istanbul in the middle was published in Russian Cyrillic as a part of a detailed series of maps of European Russia, made in the late 1920s by the Soviet Military Topographic Office, under the command of the Red Army.

  A rare chromolithographed plan of Istanbul with charming wrappers, printed in Zürich and published by a German book shop in Istanbul.   Chromolithographed map, originally dissected in 15 segments and mounted on paper, 63 x 73 cm (24.8 x 28.7 inches), folded in original illustrated cromolithographed wrappers 8° (Slightly age-toned, minor chips to the edges of segments, sporadic annotations…

  A scarce first post World War II population survey of the disputed territory of Istria, published in two volumes, accompanied with statistical maps, was issued in Sušak, Croatia, in 1946.

  Rare smaller Santini's version of the map of Istria.

  A contemporary detailed report on the Fascist Italian invasion on Abyssinia by a prolific Turkish general, politician and author Kâzim Karabekir.   8°. 438 pp., [6 pp.], interleaved illustrations and maps, 2 folding black and white maps, 1 folding colour map, original wrappers with lettering, bound in recent red half-goat with gold decoration and lettering on the spine, grey…