Shop

  One of the early posters by the Polish graphic designer Roman Cieślewicz, later Paris based designer and an art director at Vogue and Elle magazines

  Chromolithograph, 51 x 34 cm (13.4 x 20 inches), (small repaired tears in the fold, sporadic light staining in white margins, but otherwise in a good condition).   Istanbul: Matbaa-I Amire [1307-1309 AH [1891-1893 AD] Atlas] – Mahmud Bey Matbaası 1309 AH [1893 AD] [date on the map].  

  [Instructions on the Form of Employment in the Pitched Battle of the Cavalry, Issued on May 26, 1918]   A rare Ottoman, seemingly unrecorded edition of a military cavalry manual, crudely printed in a military base of Konya during the Turkish War of Independence   Long 8°, 80 pp. (first four pages mispaginated, but complete). Original wrappers with lettering…

  A rare map with blank spaces, meant to be filled in by hand, was printed to showcase the drill of the military troops of the Electorate of Saxony in the area between Leipzig and Dresden.

    Camocio’s separately issued map of the Greek island Milos with handsome old colouring   Originally coloured copper engraving, 20 x 14,5 cm, mounting paper: 21,5 x 19 cm (minor staining, a tiny repaired tear in the white margin, but overall in a good condition).  

  An original pencil drawing for a modern prison, made by the most famous and prolific late Ottoman architect Mimar Kemaleddin in the time of the change of the Ottoman criminal code Pencil drawing on thick paper, 95 x 114 cm (37.4 x 44.9 inches), (slightly dusty and stained , small tears in margins, a larger repaired tear in the…

  An extremely rare issue of a first Modena newspaper, reporting on the events happening in Europe and in the Ottoman Empire in the second week of August, 1680