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  [The Second Separation of Forces Agreement in Sinai 1975 (An Analytical Study)]   8°. 415 pp. with maps in text, original illustrated card wrappers (wrappers lightly rubbed and stained with soft folds, otherwise in a good condition).  

  An usual translation of a popular book Guerrilla Warfare by a Canadian author of Jewish origins printed in Arabic language in the time of the Israeli–Lebanese conflict   8°. 171 pp. with black and white illustrations in text, original illustrated wrappers (Very Good, minor wear to the wrappers, otherwise an unread uncut example).  

  Arabic translation of three texts on Oedipus by a prolific Egyptian translator Taha Hussein, accompanied with an overdramatic cover and charming mid-century clip art   Small 8°. 194 pp., original illustrated wrappers (wrappers with short tears, folds and rubbed corners, small loss of paper around the spine, inside in a good condition).  

  Perception of the Balkan Politics in the Arab Countries   An Arab pamphlet on the pact between Yugoslavia, Greece in Turkey,signed in 1953 to prevent the expansion of the Soviet influence to the Balkans   Small 4°. 49 pp., folding map, original wrappers with illustrated cover (minor tears in wrappers, otherwise a good example)  

  [M. Pasteur and His Discoveries and Especially Regarding the Preventive Method Against Rabies. Lecture Given First, in Istanbul, at the Imperial School of Medicine on March 7, and then in Péra, at the Greek Literary Sylloge on March 22, 1887].   8°: 41 pp., original front wrapper, later red cloth binding with gilt lettering (good, minor staining and age-toning,…

  A unique, original manuscript guest book of the Ottoman Imperial Vaccine Laboratory, with entries by various prominent local and international guests, praising the innovative techniques and modernity of the institution.   8°: [56 pp.] with 27 pp. in manuscript in black and blue ink and pencil by various hands and 29 pp. blank, original three quarter dark red linen…

  An illustrated summary of modern Ottoman medicine, including the first presentation of the use of X-rays in the field.   8°: [8 pp.], 420 pp., with original brown wrappers with gilt lettering (good, clean and partly uncut, wrappers with minor scratches and hand-written numbers to corners).  

  [Confidential Conversations about Sexual Life].   A rare manual on sexuality and impotence, printed in the Armenian Language in Istanbul.   8°: 223 pp., original illustrated wrappers (good, wrappers with minor staining and small tears and tiny loss of paper to spine, minor old annotation in blalck ink on the cover).  

  8°: 156 pp. with black and white images, dark green illustrated wrappers (good overall, small tears, small folds and chips to corners, wrappers slightly stained and water-stained, tiny tears and loss of paper to spine, corner of front cover repaired).  

  A charming complete set of three rare Turkish medical pamphlets on anatomy, written in the Ottoman language for students of medicine, illustrated with amazing proto-modern colour plates.   3 issues (all published), all 8°, with original printed wrappers: No. 1: 69 pp. with black and white illustrations, with 5 interleaved colour plates; No. 2: 36 pp. interleaved with 3…

  A work by a Muslim Ottoman medical doctor on issues of hygiene and health, as seen from a religious point of view.   8°: 72 pp., original blue printed wrappers, stapled (internally in a good, seemingly unread condition, wrappers with tiny tears, spine repaired, minor foxing, staples rusty).    

  A rare work on hygiene in Istanbul, written by a French engineer to prevent cholera and similar diseases, which were then spreading across Europe. 8°: [1] title, 35 pp., original pink wrappers with printed title, cover signed by the author and dedicated to Leon Sellié (wrappers slightly age-toned and stained with tiny tears to spine).

Rare and Important – the first proper geological map of Turkey; a large, separately published work created by the professors Damat Kenan and Ahmet Malik Sayar, issued by the imperial printer in 1920 during the twilight of the Ottoman Empire, forming the foundation for scientific and commercial discovery during the upcoming Turkish Republican Era; printed in Ottoman Turkish text with…

  [Kamus-ı Tıbbî / Medical Dictionary].   An encyclopedic Ottoman work on medicine, written in Cairo by the physician and public intellectual Şerefeddin Mağmûmî, an invaluable resource for the study of the Ottoman language regarding the field of medicine.   2 volumes-in-1, 8°: vii, 1064 pp., continuous pagination, with title page for the second volume after the page 600, original…

  [Devil’s Daughter and Other Stories]   Short stories in Arabic language written in Cairo during WWII by an Egyptian writer Mahmud Taymur and ornated with a stunning cover design   8°. 150 pp., [2], original illustrated card wrappers (wrappers rubbed on the corners and stained on the back cover, small old annotation on the title page, in a read…

  A scarce, pioneering atlas of Africa with 18 colour plates featuring 50 maps designed by the leading Vienna map house of Freytag & Berndt, including some sophisticated works of thematic cartography and original maps showcasing the level of Western knowledge of the continent, made to capitalize upon the Africa-mania that swept the general public in the wake of the…

Very Rare – the first broadly accurate and detailed map of the course of the lower Danube River, that flowed 1,400 km from Belgrade to the Black Sea; a colossal 7-sheet work (bound in atlas form) that would measure a course approximately 420 cm (almost 14 feet!) long if joined, based on the first serious attempt to map this vital…

  A sophisticated topographical map, of charmingly crude ‘provincial’ printing style, of the strategically key district of Satara, in today’s southwestern Maharashtra, expressly made for the British colonial regime to depict the recent developments in local administration, but to also satisfy important military and infrastructure mandates; created by J.W. Windsor of the Quarter Master General’s Department (Bombay Army), and printed…

      Extremely rare – no other examples traced – the authoritative city plan of Hyderabad created in the twilight days of Mir Osman Ali Khan’s transformative rule when the city was one of India’s leaders in urban planning and industrial modernization, the result of over a generation of ultra-advanced, continuously updated surveys made under the direction of the…

  A thesis on the first autopsy ever conducted in the Ottoman Empire, performed by Karl Ambros Bernard in 1841, at the Austrian Hospital in Istanbul, written by Hayrullah Efendi, a future Ottoman diplomat and prolific author   8°: [4 pp., index], 149 pp., 6 folding charts, contemporary marbled boards, restored calf spine, old paste down tile to cover bearing…

  [Mir'at-ı Vücud-ı Beşer ve Aza-ı Dahiliye ve Hariciyeleri ve Onların Vazifeleri / View of the Human Body and Internal Organs and Extremities and Their Functions].   Small 4°: 4 pp. in French and Ottoman, composition of chromolithographed moving pieces, joined in 1 colour chromolithographed folding image mounted on the inner side of the front wrappers, original debossed boards with…

  An historically significant and beautifully rendered original manuscript map of Le Chateau de Reduit, the official residence of the Governor of Île de France (Mauritius), today the home of the President of Mauritius, depicting what was then a fortified working indigo plantation, a masterplan capturing the estate at an early stage in its development during the French colonial era,…

8°, 34 pp., [2 pp.] blank, later marbled wrappers (slightly stained, otherwise in a good condition).

  8°, 29 pp., later marbled wrappers (slightly stained, otherwise in a good condition).  

[From the Travel through America. The City of Chicago]   An Ottoman translation of Baron Edmond de Mandat-Grancey’s description of Chicago, first published in 1898   8°, 37 pp., later marbled wrappers (slightly stained, otherwise in a good condition).

[New Political Map of Greece under D. Dimitrakos] [Neos politikos khartis tes Ellados ipo D. Dimitraki]   Colour lithograph, 100 x 70 cm (39.4 x 27.6 inches) (soft folds, tiny tears in margins, otherwise in a good condition).  

  [The view of the Hut Hills, where the 3rd Regiment, which was dispatched from Istanbul, which was in charge of protecting the city from the attack of the rebels, defended for 45 days until the force needed in Iskodra was replenished] [and:] [Headquarters of the 2nd Division of the Ishkodra Forces. The Rrapshë Plain]   Unique late Ottoman bird’s…

  Four large photographs with German titles depicting Aden in the late 19th century  

  A colossal composition that has the distinction of being the second ever official Japanese map of the world, with the present edition revised to epitomize the Japanese geographic conception of the globe near the beginning of the Meiji Era, when the country embarked upon a program of hyper-industrialization and international interaction; one of the iconic Japanese maps of the…

  A rare book on the theory of relativity was written by one of the first Ottoman electrical engineers Mehmed Refik and contains various experiments, which should be tested in order to confirm Einstein’s theory, published in the final form in 1916.   Large 8°. 40 pp. with black and white illustrations, original illustrated wrappers (minor foxing, wrappers slightly scratched…

    8°. 15 pp. with illustrated cover (tiny loss of paper on the spine, light water-staining in the lower corner, lower margin of the cover cut into the low part of the printing, without loss of text, otherwise in a good condition).    

  A series of a literary and science magazine The Sun (Güneş) with a rare to find original cover, representing the Sun, Saturn, Moon and Comets   8°: Nos. 2-12 (missing no. 1), 586 pp. running numeration, contemporary green cloth binding, old paper label on the spine (front endpapers with small tears in the gutter, light staining and recent inscripts,…

  [Sabāʼik al-dhahab fī maʻrifat qabāʼil al-ʻArab / The Book of Gold Bullion in the Knowledge of the Arab Tribes]   A very rare and important work of on the genealogy of the Arab tribes, as well as a sophisticated early work of lithography from the Arab World by Muhammad Amin Suwaydi’, a revised and expanded interpretation of the legendary…

  A rare, large format map depicting Greater Bombay just before World War I, when it was one of the busiest ports in the world and the ‘Gateway of India’, drafted by the office of the ‘Times of India’ and published in London by the venerable firm of Edward Stanford.   Colour lithograph, mounted upon original linen, folding, contemporary hand-stamp…

  An unusual series of drawings in different styles, depicting Satan and demons in various forms from the traditional 666 and the pentagon through monograms to Hitler and Stalin   8°: [68 pp.] with 35 drawings in colour, recto only, art nouveau black calf with debossed decoration and a clasp, later gilt decoration and manuscript title, art nouveau patterned end…

  A rare complete set of famous Ottoman Turkish and French satirical magazines Kalem, published between 1908-1911 in Istanbul, was bound in contemporary original bindings with Ottoman titles and belonged to the library of Anthony Bryer, a founder of the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies.  

  [Map of the Fire of Tokyo. Edited by the Relief Information Bureau of the Tokyo Imperial University]   A very large and impressive map chronicling how the Great Kanto Earthquake (1923) and the resulting inferno, that was the greatest urban fire to date, destroyed much of Tokyo, based upon analysis conducted by academics at the Tokyo Imperial University, it…

  A charming post war pictorial map of Barbados   Colour lithography, 63 x 50 cm (24.8 x 19.7 inches) (soft folds, minor staining, but overall in a good condition).  

  A first issue of an exceedingly rare ephemeral Ottoman magazine, with possibly largest lithographed map of the world before the appearance of the late Ottoman chromolithographed atlases.   8°, 40 pp. with lithographed black and white plates, coloured folding lithographed map, 25 x 39 cm, original green wrappers with lettering on the inner sides (repaired tear in the folding…

  A Turkish translation of Gorky’s Lenin by a medical doctor, who believed that the Communism would protect the Caucasus Muslims from Armenian and Georgian imperialism.   8°, 45 pp., [3 pp.] blank, original wrappers with illustrated cover (minor staining, tiny folds and small tears in margins, but overall in a good condition).  

  [Seyahat Jurnali. İstanbul'dan Bağdat'a ve Hindistan'a. Sene 1300 ila 1304 / Travelogue. From Istanbul to Baghdad and Istanbul. From 1883-1887].   8°, 119 pp. with 12 interleaved black and white plates and one double-page plate, original yellow cloth boards with gilt and black lettering and decoration, later calf spine with gilt lettering, later marbled endpapers (minor foxing, endpapers slightly…

  8°, [8 pp.], 308 pp. lithographed text with some pages with larger folded margins with annotations, as originally published, modern green cloth boards with gilt lettering and debossed decoration, brown calf spine with raised bands and gilt lettering (light foxing, old signature and date in Ottoman on the first page, old scribbles on the last blank page, otherwise in…

  [Çanakkale Hakikatleri / The Truth About the Dardanelles]   8°. 73 pp., later (1970s) brown cloth binding (lightly stained, four pages with traces of text from other pages, sporadic white margins trimmed, old hand-written price on the inner side of the rear board, a tiny piece of paper mounted on the title page).  

  [Our Large Social Problem: Land Reform]   8°. 135 pp. with two interleaved full page black and white photographs, original illustrated wrappers (very good, old signature on the title page,  wrappers with minor staining, sporadic words underlined, but overall in a good clean condition).  

  [Binicilik Talimnâmesi. Müsvedde Halinde / Equestrian Instructions. In Sketches]   A detailed illustrated Ottoman manual on horses, dressage, military training and other equestrian sports   8°, ح, 314 pp. with black and white illustrations, [2 pp.] blank, last pages (index) printed on turquoise paper, later red cloth binding (index pages partly uncut, last two pages loose, minor staining, a…

  [Tarih-i İstikbâl. Mesaif-i Siyasiye / Reception History. Political Issues]   A charming late Ottoman binding made of Ebru – or Islamic marbled paper   8°. 208 pp., contemporary marbled paper boards with envelope flaps and brown calf spines (last 15 pages slightly age-toned and water stained, binding with minor wear, otherwise in a good condition).  

  The map showcases the region between the Sanjak of Zor to Basra, with an inset map representing the area of today’s Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Bahrain with marked Kuwait, Qatif, Manama, Najd and Al-Ahsa.   Colour lithography, 19 x 27 cm (7.5 x 10.6 inches), (slightly age-toned and stained in the margins, otherwise in a good condition).

  8°. 64 pp, original wrappers with lettering (slightly age toned, wrappers stained with small cracks and loss of paper).  

  8°, 5 pp., 488 pp. with partly colour printing, original red cloth with a flap and gilt decoration (binding with hardly noticeable staining and minor wear to the edges, but overall in a good condition).  

  35 pp., with two black and white images, original green wrappers, signature in red pen by Enver Pasha on the cover (minor staining, tiny tears in the spine and in the gutters of the pages, some repaired with small pieces of tape, pages slightly loose, overall in a good condition).  

  Lithograph: 82 x 57 cm (32.3 x 14.6 inches) (light age-toning, overall in a good condition).  

  First Turkish separately published study on the fatherhood   8°, 46 pp., [2 pp.], original illustrated wrappers (repairs on the spine, otherwise in a good condition).

  [At-Tabiqa Al-Jedyda / The New Class]   The contemporary Arabic translation of a critical work on the new elite class of the Communistic regime, written by a Serbian politician Milovan Djilas in 1957, which gained him seven years in a Yugoslav prison   8°. [8 pp.], 296 pp., original illustrated wrappers (minor staining, mostly in margins, overall in a…

  A detailed book on the early military history of the Arab World, centered on Mecca   8°, 254 pp., [2 pp.], 3 interleaved folding maps, original illustrated wrappers (wrappers with minor foxing and wear to the edges, one map split in the fold, but overall in a good condition).  

  [The Pocket Island and Other Stories]   Signed by the author   8°, 194 pp., [2 pp.], original illustrated wrappers (wrappers with a tiny chip and repairs on the spine, inside a good, uncut examples, author’s dedication and signature on the title page).  

  A rare collection of two titles that feature entertaining and valuable accounts of early frontier life in Patagonia, the result of separate investigative tours of the Río Negro and Chubut territories by the brothers Moritz and Theodor Alemann, prominent journalists, who endeavored to assess the regions’ suitability for Germanic immigration and to weave German immigrant ‘colonies’ in Argentina into…

  [Judhūr al-fikr al-ishtirākī wa-al-taqaddumī fī al-ʻIrāq, 1920-1934 / The roots of socialist and progressive thought in Iraq between 1920 and 1934]   8°. 320 pp., [4 pp.], original wrappers with lettering (wrappers with minor folds and staining, spine with tiny repaired tears, old annotations on first title page, otherwise a good, clean, partly uncut example).    

  Small 4°. 9 issues (complete year) bound in original illustrated publisher’s binding. [4 pp.] title and index, 288 pp. with black and white illustrations, original illustrated wrappers (good clean condition, old dedication on the front lose endpaper, sporadic crosswords filled in with pencil, light discoloration to the spine).  

  [Manifest des Kommunistischen Partei / Communist Manifesto]   A Serbian translation of the Communist Manifesto, printed by the Yugoslav partisans days before the end of WWII   8°: 64 pp., [4 pp.] blank, original tan wrappers with lettering (minor traces of use, old signature on the title page, but overall in a good condition).    

  Small 4°. 9 issues (complete year) bound in original illustrated publisher’s binding. [4 pp.] title and index, 288 pp. with black and white illustrations, original illustrated wrappers (good clean condition with only minor staining, sporadic crosswords filled in with pencil, light discoloration to the spine).    

  Copper engraving, image: 13,5 x 10 cm; sheet: 22 x 15,5 cm (margins with staining and scratches, light staining in the image).  

  A memory book of a circus artist Käthe Derrington, active in the early 20th century as one of the first female bicycle circus performers, includes many distinct entries by various famous circus and theatre artists from Europe and Asia.

    Large 8°: [25 pp.], title page and 12 chromolithographed illustrations, printed on one side only, verso tan paper, original cover, later binding, stapled (internally in good condition with minimal staining in margins, back cover replaced, front cover slightly stained with repaired vertical crack with tiny loss).  

روبرتسون نام مورف مشهورك مولفاتندن يكى دنيانلر كشفنه داتر اولان تاريخى اولوب انجمن دانشك اعضاً خارجيه سنده و باب عالى ترجمه اوطه سى خلفاسنده عبدالغفار انيس بنده لرى انكليز لسانزه ترجمه اتمشدر Histoire de la découverte du nouveau monde p. Robertson traduite p. Enis Abdoulgaffar effendi membre de l’académie turqe en 1269 de l’Hegir – cet ouvrage est traduit de…

  A fine example of an important and beautifully produced national atlas of chile, featuring 39 maps predicated upon the best scientific sources, made by Enrique Espinoza, who is credited with revolutionizing the study of geography in Chile, published by the venerable Paris firm of Erhard Frères.   Small 4° (27 x 20.5 cm): 2 pp., 39 maps (5 folding;…

  [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…

  8°. 64 pp., 20th century blue cloth binding with lettering on the cover and spine (old price written in the inner side of the back cover, slightly age-toned and stained, otherwise in a good condition).  

  8°, 77 pp., later blue cloth boards with gilt lettering (binding slightly age-toned, old hand-written price in the inner side of the rear board, otherwise in a good condition).  

  Small 4°: 10 issues in one volume (all published). [4 pp.], 175 pp. with black and white illustrations, 64 pp., contemporary boards with illustrated cover and lettering on the back, cloth spine, original pink endpapers (binding with light staining and scratches, endpapers with small holes, inside with minor staining, overall in a good condition).  

  [Orthodox Christian Prayer Book for the Laity]   A rare pamphlet with prayers in Russian language, printed by the Orthodox Church at the Russian Embassy in Istanbul for the immigrants fleeing the revolution from Odessa.    12°, 42 pp. with black and white illustrations, original wrappers with lettering, stapled (minimal age-toning and staining, overall in a good condition, sporadic…

  [Amelî Fenn-i Tedris, İptidaî ve Rüşdî Muallim ve Muallimelerine ve Bilhassa Darülmuallimin Talebesine Mahsûs / For Male and Female Teachers of Primary and Secondary school and Especiallyof the Students of Gymnasiums]   8°, 162 pp., [6 pp.], later marbled wrappers (unread and uncut example, lower margin slightly age-toned and brittle with small chips).  

طلب العلم فريضة على كل مسلم و مسلمة. تراژيتى ناۉقۉ دۉژان يه سواقى مۉسليمان اى مۉسليمانقا [Tražiti nauku dužan je svak musliman i muslimanka / Every Muslim Man and Woman is Obligated to Seek the Knowledge]   A Bosnian school certificate printed and written in Arebica – Bosnian language in Perso-Arabic letters   8°, [4 pp.] with printed template, manuscript…

     

  The first edition of the prominent Turkish poet and writer İbrahim Alaaddin Gövsa’s historically important work featuring the report of the official Ottoman artists’ delegation to the active battlefield at Gallipoli in the Summer of 1915 and containing the first printing of his complete collection of his moving poems on Gallipoli; this example featuring the spectacular illustrated cover showing…

  Small 4°. 9 issues (complete year) bound in original illustrated publisher’s binding. [4 pp.] title and index, 288 pp. with black and white illustrations, original illustrated wrappers (good clean condition, old light stamps by a Yugoslav textile school on the title page, tiny tears in margins, light discoloration to the spine).  

  An omnibus of Hasan Hamidulla’s early work, bound in one volume:  

  8°. 16 pp., 20th century blue cloth binding with lettering on the cover and spine (old price written in the inner side of the back cover, otherwise in a good condition).  

  2 Volumes, both 8°, 20th century green cloth binding with lettering on the cover and spine. Vol. 1: [2] frontispiece and title page printed in green and black, 94 pp. mimeographed text with black and white illustrations, [6] with a portrait, original illustrated wrappers. Vol 2: [2], 89 pp., mimeographed text with black and white illustrations, 6 illustrations printed…

  [Nashryat Kerymi: Kıtaylılar / Kerimi’s Publications: The Chinese]   8°. 24 pp., imprints and advertisements from original wrappers mounted on the first and last page, 20th century brown cloth binding with lettering on the cover and spine (light foxing, hand-written old price on the inner side of back cover, otherwise in a good condition).  

[On a Tragedy of the National Literature and the Writers of Turkestan]   A rare publication on the contemporary Turkestani writers, published in Ottoman alphabet by an extremist nationalistic Turkestani organisation in Berlin, who immigrated after the Soviet annexed their homeland.    8°. 20 pp. with black and white illustrations, original wrappers with title in Ottoman and Latin alphabet, 20th…

  [Ilham Yımislerı. 1925-1945 ınçi yıllarda yazılgan şiyırlar ciyıntıgi. Pikay. Ilahi şırlar. The Fruits of Inspiration. A Collection of Poems, Written between 1925-1945. Pikay. Ilahi şırlar]   A rare collection of poetry by a Finland-based Tatar author Hasan Hamidulla, written between 1925 and 1970, printed in Tatar language in Turkish and Ottoman alphabet in Finland. The collection was published upon…

  Copper engraving, 9,5 x 12,2 cm (3.7 x 4.8 inches).  

  German-Ottoman / Turkish Relations Congress of Berlin  

  [Banaluka Sahrası Muharebesi / Battle of Banja Luka Field]   Small 8°, original cover with lettering, [2 pp.] title page, 17 pp., new black cloth binding with gilt lettering and debossed decoration (improvised repairs of paper loss in inner margins, light water staining in margins, sporadic old annotations in pencil, minor staining).  

  An Ottoman report on Bosnia and Herzegovina, published in the crucial year of 1908, when Austro-Hungary withdrawn from Novi Pazar in exchange for being given permanent sovereignty over Bosnia.   8°, 15 pp., original blue wrappers with lettering (minor water-staining, old annotations on the cover, wrappers with light staining, small tears in margins and old mounted paper label on…

  Small 4°. 531 pp., [12 pp.], original illustrated wrappers (wrappers scratched and bumped on the corners and with small tears and scratches on the surface, inside in a good, clean condition with minimal age-toning).  

  Large 8°, 314 pp., boards with modern marbled paper, original calf spine with gilt decoration, original marbled paper endpapers (with light foxing and staining, p. 27-28 cracked in the upper part, a tear on p 192 repaired with old transparent paper).  

  [Redd-i Renan. İslâmiyet ve Fünûn /  Answer to Renan. Islam and Arts]   12°, 76 pp., [2 pp] blank, later marbled paper wrappers with mounted original cover (one page with a sentence underlined in red ink, front cover with minor foxing, otherwise in a good condition).  

  This is a first edition of the historical propaganda theatre play by one of the prime representative of the modern Ottoman literature to include Kemal’s famous introduction, inspired by the preface of Cromwell by Victor Hugo.   8°. Portrait, ط س, 414 pp., contemporary black linen boards and black calf spine with gilt lettering (bound inn contemporary binding without…

  A rare large format Japanese map of India and Burma, ‘pirated’ from a British map by the venerable bookseller Maruzen, issued during the height of World War II, as Japan conquered Burma and before its (ultimately ill-fated) invasion of India during ‘Operation U-Go’ (1944).   Colour print, folding into original printed paper sleeve (Very Good, some toning along old…

  A rare ephemeral anti-British, anti-French, anti-Russian and anti-Cossack poster, made during WWI in Ottoman language by the Navy Society   Broadside, 51 x 18 cm (20 x 7 inches) (soft folds, tiny holes, slightly age-toned).  

  [Mükemmel ve Mufassal Co‎ğrafya-yı Umumi Atlası /  Complete and Detailed General Geographical Atlas]   8°, [8 pp.], 188 pp.,, [4 pp.], interleaved page between p. 28-29, 37 colour lithographed double paged maps (complete) including one plate with two maps and one folding map, original blue binding with debossed lettering and decoration (sporadic old annotations in Ottoman, one map (Asia)…

  An incredibly important survivor – a top-secret ‘General Headquarters Map’ made for the use of German General Liman von Sanders and his senior staff to oversee the ill-fated Ottoman-German ‘last stand’ in World War I’s Palestine Campaign at the ‘Battle of Megiddo’; composed of two joined exceedingly rare topographical maps of Central Palestine and Eastern Jordan, drafted and printed…

  Colour lithograph, folded in original paper wrappers with lettering, 41 x 64 cm (16.1 x 25.2 inches) (soft folds, otherwise in a good condition).  

  Colour lithograph, 120 x 79 cm (47.2 x 31.1 inches) (soft folds slightly age-toned with tiny, partly repaired holes, tiny tears in margins, overall in a good clean condition).  

  [The Bat and Six More Stories]   12°, 98 pp., [2 pp.], original illustrated wrappers (old signature on the title page, minor staining, especially to the rear wrapper, spine slightly scuffed, otherwise in a good condition).  

  Folding card, 15x15 cm, with illustrated cover and printed empty template (Very Good, minor staining in the inner white margins).  

  12°, 63 pp. with colour illustrations, original illustrated wrappers (minor scuffing to the spine, otherwise in a good condirion)  

  8°, 64 with colour and black and white images, original colour wrappers, stapled (small tears and tiny loss of paper in margins, spine renewed, minor staining, but overall in a good condition).