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  Colour lithography, 27 x 19 cm (10.6 x 7.5 inches), (slightly age-toned and stained in the margins, otherwise in a good condition).

  An handsome example of an early, seemingly unrecorded printed edition of a highly popular rhyming dictionary of Persian language, written by an Ottoman poet and diplomat Sünbülzâde Vehbî and issued in Bulaq, Egypt.   8°: 60 pp. letterpress, contemporary decorated paper boards an brown goat spine (old title written in ink on the first blank page, old annotations on…

  An exceptionally rare and complete early Turkish Republican data visualization poster mapping the national prison population and judicial sentence distributions.  

  Pictorial map of East and West Pakistan in German language printed in Karachi in Pakistan in 1966.     

The rare first German edition of a first-hand contemporary report on Palestine during WWI, by one of the major figures in the Zionist movement and spy in the Ottoman Army for the British, Alexander Aaronsohn, was published in Switzerland during WWI.

Very rare – a stellar example of Hüseyin Hüsnü Emir Erkilet’s map of Palestine, a large separately issued work predicated upon field surveys made by Ottoman and German military engineers during World War I, all brought to print on a single map for the first time; issued in Istanbul in 1921 by the Army Press, it was the very last…

ANON. [Palestine Drawn in Historical-Geographical-Statistical Outlines Based on Older and Modern Travel Descriptions. Along with a Map of the Holy Land] Karlsruhe – Freiburg: Herder 1830. Large 8°. Engraved frontispiece, showcasing the map and interior of the Holy Grave, [4 pp.] title and index, 148 pp., folding lithographed map, coloured in outline, contemporary marbled board and brown goat spine with…

A rare book on the palm reading by a pioneer and foremost authority of spiritualism and spiritism in the late Ottoman Empire Ragıp Rıfkı.  

  A rare large version of the Pan Am Systems map - one of the most iconic airline posters of all time, from the golden age of luxury jet travel.

  [Souvenir of the Czechoslavic Ethnographic Exhibition in Prague 1895]   Folding paper fan with a chromolithographed view on the front and poem on the back, mounted on wooden sticks, joined with a metal loop at the bottom, 35 x 64 cm (13.8 x 25.2 inches) (Very Good, with only minor wear to the folds).