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عثمان نورى [Osman Nuri, Sabık Coğrafya-yı Askeri Muavini Piyade Kol Ağası / Senior Chief Military Cartographer for the Infantry]. جغرافياى عسكرى و عثمانى درسلرينه مخصوص سوريه قطعة سى [Part of Syria for Specific Military and Ottoman Geographical Operations / Lessons] Inset Map: حجاز دميريولى كذركاهى [Hicaz demiryolu güzergah / Route of the Hejaz Railway] Istanbul: مكتب حربيه مطبعه سى [Maktaba…

After World War I and the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, diplomat Fahreddin Reşad Bey (also known as Rumbeyoğlu Fahreddin Bey or Rumbeyoglu Fahr al-Din Bey, 1867–1943) and Mehmed Nâbi Bey (1868–1924), who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs beginning in October 1918, released several government publications about foreign affairs administration in former Ottoman territories and border regions at the…

  A rare and highly attractive work of patriotic propaganda, being a large map of Libya celebrating Italy’s invasion of the country during the Italo-Turkish War (1911-2), created early in the conflict by the Societá editoriale milanese.   Colour print (Very Good, clean and bright, some wear along old folds, some minor marginal staining, far right margin, once bearing additional…

The first edition of the first comprehensive, scientifically accurate geological map of Libya, a grand, bilingual (English - Arabic) separately issued production primarily made to aid the country’s burgeoning oil industry; the result of a collaboration between Louis Conant and Gus Goudarzi, two of America’s most esteemed geologists, fulfilling a joint project of the U.S. State Department and the pro-Western…

  A stunning example of a rare, separately issued map of Burgundy by Abraham Ortelius, was coloured in the late 16th century in the style of the frescoes of the Gallery of Maps in Vatican.

  Exquisitely executed painted view of Lipowa landscape, Poland, by acclaimed Polish artist Arthur Blaschnik. One of Blaschnik’s relatively few original artworks relating to his native Polish region.

  A collection of poems, partly dedicated to the author’s trip to Istanbul   12°, [2 pp.], 196 pp., [2 pp.] blank, original brown cloth binding with gilt decoration and lettering, original patterned endpapers, gilt edges (old signature in black ink on the first blank page, minimal wear, but overall in a very good condition).

  An Excellent sea chart of Lisbon Harbour, made under the direction of the British Admiralty, considered the finest and most accurate nautical map of the Mouth of the Tagus of the first half of the 19th Century.

  A rare and exceptionally fine sea chart of Lisbon Harbour and surrounding waters, predicated upon surveys made during the Peninsular War and subsequently updated by the Royal Navy.

  An elegant pamphlet in Arabic language with an elegy for Ahmad, a son of sultan of Morocco Abd al-Rahman from the Alaouite dynasty, was lithographed in gold in Istanbul.   8°. 12 pp., original wrappers with lettering, all pages lithographed in gold, elegant modern calf with debossed ornaments to contemporary style, bound with old marbled wrappers, modern yellow endpaper…

  A remarkably fine example of an Ottoman Tanzimat Era lithographed calendar scroll (ruzname), headed with an image of a clock, with original rollers and wrappers   Paper Scroll (rotulus), mounted upon an original wood roller original patterned brown paper wrappers (Very Good, a few minor tears and light staining, tears in the upper part repaired with modern tape) 205…