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  [Leşkergah / Lashkargāh. Historical, Literary, Artistic, Archeological Studies]   A pioneering work on the pre-Islamic history of art and archeology of a southwestern Afghan city Lashkargāh, with attached visiting card of the author   8°, 152 pp., interleaved 7 sheets, printed with photographs from both sides, original illustrated wrappers, author’s visiting card attached with a pin to the title…

  8°. [4 pp.], 620 pp. with black and white illustrations in text, 4 full page colour maps and one double-page map, contemporary red boards with black cloth corners and brown calf spine (minor wear to the binding, small cracks in the gutters of the endpapers, minor foxing, old pencil annotations on front endpapers, overall in a good condition).  

  8°, original illustrated front wrapper, 307 pp., contemporary marbled boards, brown cloth spine, green endpapers (binding slightly loose and scuffed on edges, title page cut with a tiny loss of lettering, endpapers partly split in gutters, otherwise in a good condition).  

  12°. original illustrated cover, 62 pp. on darker paper, [2], (cover trimmed with a small loss of lettering on the right-hand side. inside good, clean, seemingly unread condition, wrappers with light foxing and minimal wear on the edges).  

  An exceedingly rare third, enlarged edition of Mirza Akbar Sabir’s poetry, accompanied with superb colour illustrations by Azim Azimzade, was published at the occasion of the erection of the monument to the peat in Baku in 1922.  

  8°, 158 pp., later black cloth binding with debossed decoration and gilt lettering (old manuscript in colour pencil on first and last page, otherwise in a good condition).  

  The rare Mexico City sheet from the famed ‘Carta de la Republica Mexicana’, the awesomely ambitious, but ultimately unfinished mega-project to map all of Mexico to a scale of 1:100 000, conducted by the Comisión Geográfico-Exploradora; importantly, this sheet was separately issued and is a complete publication in and of itself; one of the seminal maps of the Metropolitan…

  [PEOPLE AND ARMY / INSTITUTION OF THE OFFICERS AND FIGHTERS OF S3 / NO. 1. / ATHENS 10 APR. 1944]   A rare ephemeral newspaper in Greek, printed during WWII by the resistance, the so called Mountain Government, was made for the occasion of secret elections. It was the first time in the history of Greece, that women were…

  A very rare large format work from the sequence of the first broadly accurate maps of the Gold Coast (today’s Ghana), created by the Intelligence Division of the British War Office, with exceedingly detailed coverage of travel routes into the interior and the labelling of the domains of tribal nations, the present edition was made to guide British forces,…

  A rare and important work predicated upon the latest reconnaissance that was the most advanced map of the Khartoum-Omdurman region of Sudan to date, made by the British War Office as a vital strategic aide in the immediate run up to the Battle of Omdurman (September 2, 1898), the decisive showdown of the Mahdist War, the 18-year-long contest for…

THEMATIC CARTOGRAPHY / CALCUTTA IMPRINT   Rare – the first scientific treatise on mining in the Himalayas, in this case a sophisticated analysis on how to best exploit the iron, copper and gold deposits of the Kumaon and Garhwal Districts of India (today’s Uttarakhand State) in preparation for the arrival of the Industrial Revolution and the Railway Boom on the…

  A collection of previously anonymous articles published in Paris, by a Cairo-based Ottoman medical doctor and a supporter of the Young Turks Şerefeddin Mağmûmî   8°. 301 pp., later (1970s) black cloth binding with gilt lettering (minor foxing and staining, imprint from old wrappers mounted on the inner side of endpapers, old price written on the inner side of…