Shop

8°, 17 pp., later blue cloth binding with gilt lettering (binding lightly stained, old hand-written price in the inner side of the rear cover, otherwise in a good condition).

An impressive paring of colossal related maps, being 1) a map of North Yemen (a country that existed from 1967 and 1990, until Yemen was unified) constructed from NASA Landsat imagery, leading to the creation of 2) the first edition of the first scientific geological map of North Yemen; highly sophisticated works created by the geologists Maurice J. Grolier and…

An attractive large format sea chart of Charlotte Amalie Harbor, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, predicated upon detailed surveys made by Britain’s Royal Navy in 1851, but here updated to 1912, only five years before the Danish Virgin Islands were sold to the United States, featuring a wealth of details on the town and its environs including major public institutions, Jewish…

8°. 29-35 pp., facing pages marked with the same number, with colour lithographed plates, printed covers, stapled (tiny loss of paper in the lower corners of the last pages, light staining and foxing, otherwise in a good used condition).

8°, [10 pp.] title page, colour plate and an introduction, 239 pp. with black and white illustrations, original illustrated wrappers (slightly age-toned and stained, small chips and folds in the corners and margins, old annotations in pencil on the first and last blank paper, wrappers slightly water-stained and tiny loss of paper on the spine, inside overall in a good,…

[Finnish Islamic Magazine]    

8°. 111 pp. with black and white illustrations in text, 20th century dark brown cloth binding with lettering on the cover and spine (a tiny repaired hole in the title page, old price written in the inner side of the back cover, otherwise in a good condition ).

[Karl Marx. A Brief Biographical Sketch / Карл Маркс. Kраткий биографический очерк с изложением марксизма]   8°: 25 pp., original illustrated wrappers, stapled (very good, uncut example, wrappers slightly dusty with light chips in the corners).  

[1917. Russia. 1923. / Russia. No Fairytale, No Legend, But a Reality]   Large 4°. 31 pp. with illustrations in black and red, original illustrated wrappers, stapled (paper extremely fragile with tiny chips and tears in margins, wrappers detached, sporadic first and last leaved loose, minor age-toning, otherwise in a good condition).

8°, viii, [1] illustration (Berlin Mosque), 315 pp., original blue cloth binding with gilt lettering on the back, red edges (publisher’s stamp on the title page, old hand-written price on the inner side of the rear cover, minor staining, binding lightly scuffed on the corners).

12°. [2] title page, 27 pp., [2], original blue wrappers with printed title, stapled (wrappers with minor foxing, dents and staining, otherwise in a good condition).

A rare map of Tunisia made by Heinrich Kiepert, the great German cartographer who was the world’s foremost authority on the geography of the Arab World, published the year that France colonized the country; the map features a wealth of topographic, infrastructure, ethnographic and archaeological details, some of which were gleaned from the recent expedition of the German historian Gustav…