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- Archives and Documents
‘The Japanese Plans for the Defense of Kyushu’.
- 8,500.00€
- WWII SECRET JAPANESE DEFENSE PLAN FOR KYŪSHŪ - ‘OPERATION KETSUGŌ’ / ‘OPERATION OLYMPIC’ / COUNTERFACTUALISM: U.S. ARMY, HEADQUARTERS SIXTH ARMY, OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT CHIEF OF STAFF, G-2 [MILITARY INTELLIGENCE STAFF] / COLONEL HORTON VAIL WHITE (1901 – 1963). [San Francisco, California:] Headquarters Sixth Army, Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff, G-2, December 31, 1945. The original…
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- Archives and Documents
AMERICAN REVOLUTION / SIEGE OF SAVANNAH, GEORGIA (1779) / ORIGINAL MSS. CORRESPONDENCE
- 850.00€
- A fascinating letter regarding the Siege of Savannah (1779), an exciting and consequential event of the American Revolutionary War, during which the Georgian capital’s British garrison withstood an assault by a much larger combined Franco-American force; here, writing in 1785, Brigadier General Augustine Prévost, who served as the British commander at Savannah, provides Reverend Thomas Shaw, a major ‘fixer’ in…
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- Africa, Archives and Documents, Books
ANGOLA / CONGO (DRC): SLAVERY / COMMERCIAL TRADE: Quatre Années au Congo par Charles Jeannest. 1874.
- 6,800.00€
- 1 of only 2 known surviving examples - the original issue of the French merchant Charles Jeannest’s exciting and historically valuable account of his four years (1869-73) spent in the coastal Congo (today’s Banana, DRC and Zaire Province, Angola), where he served as a factor at several trading posts, featuring authentic and highly detailed eyewitness accounts and perceptive analysis of…
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- Africa, Archives and Documents, Books, Geography
ANGOLA: ‘Colonia de Angola / Relatório do Governador Geral de Angola A. Lopes Mateus / Primeiro Trimestre de 1935 / Luanda Abril de 1935’.
- 4,500.00€
- A foundational document of the establishment of the Estado Novo’s transformative colonial regime in Angola, being the secret typescript report on the state of the Portuguese colony written (and signed in mss.) by the military strongman and political heavyweight António Lopes Mateus, who had just been appointed as the Governor-General of Angola, submitted to the Portuguese dictator António de Oliveira Salazar; in…
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- Archives and Documents
ANTIGUA, WEST INDIES / SLAVERY & PLANTATIONS: This Indenture… “Between… [the Proprietors:] William Maxwell… The Honorable Hastings Elwin… Samuel Athill… [and the Trustees:] Edward Ellice and William Holden… [for Placing in Trust:] Richmond Plantation… Chapman’s Plantation… Howard’s Plantation… on the Island of Antigua… [with] the said plantation’s Slaves, Hereditaments, premises…”.
- 1,400.00€
- An important original artifact of the twilight period of the sugar-slave economy in the British West Indies, being the original manuscript on vellum ‘indenture’ transferring the Richmond-Howard’s-Chapman’s Plantation complex, one of Antigua’s greatest properties, and home to over 300 Slaves, from the control of its proprietors, which included the Scottish politician William Maxwell, the prominent barrister Hastings Elwin and the…
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- Archives and Documents, Ottoman Books, Turkica
ARCHIVES – LATE OTTOMAN EMPIRE / A PERSONAL ARCHIVE OF THE DIRECTOR OF “THE WATERS OF CONSTANTINOPLE”
- 14,500.00€
- A stunning, well-rounded private archive of a French engineer, businessman and bibliophile Léon Sellié, giving a detailed insight on the life of an upper-class expat in the Late Ottoman period. The archive includes over 200 documents with 27 diaries, expanding over almost 29 years and describing over 9000 days in Istanbul, photographs, an unpublished manuscript on antique monuments of…
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- Archives and Documents, Books, Geography
ARGENTINA / TRAVELOGUE BY A TEENAGE BOY: Mein Tagebuch unserer Reise nach der argentinischen Republik 28. Juni – 24. Oktober 1891
- 5,500.00€
- An elaborately made manuscript travelogue to Argentina in 1891 by a teenage boy Mariano de Bary, a son of a bank and transportation mogul Heinrich Albert de Bary and a descendant of a prominent Argentinian family Saavedra. Large 4º, blank, illustrated title page, 130 pp., [1 pp.], manuscript in blue ink, 43 original black and white photographs mounted in…
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- Archives and Documents, New Acquisitions: September 2020
BAVARICA / MUNICH / EPHEMERA: Gasthof zum Oberpollinger. Rechnung. F. Knöpfle
- 100.00€
- Broadside with printed template, manuscript additions in black ink, taxation stamps in the upper left corner, 25 x 16,5 cm (9.9 x 6.5 inches) (soft folds, a tiny hole in the lower corner, overall in a good condition).
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- Archives and Documents, Books, History
BERLIN POLICE / COLD WAR: Geschichte der Berliner Polizei von 1945 bis zum 1. 10. 1950 ab 1945 [Cover] Zusammenstellung von Unterlagen über die Geschichte der Berliner Polizei von 1945 bis zum 1. 10. 1950 ab 1945 [Title Page].
- 650.00€
- [The History of the Berlin Police from 1945 until 1. 10. 1950 from 1945] A typescript with major changes inside the Berlin Police, set between 1945 and 1974, mostly covering the events of the cold war Large 4°, 55 pp. typescript numbered recto and verso or only recto, [52 pp.] typescript recto and verso or only recto, some…
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- Africa, Archives and Documents, Books
CONGO (BELGIAN / DRC): A Evolução Política do Congo Belga.
- 1,800.00€
- Hélio Augusto Esteves FELGAS (1920 - 2008). Carmona [today Uíge], Angola: [Privately Published by the Author], 1959. Large 8° (16.5 x 22 cm): 188 pp. typescript, with 2 folding maps, the first, Divisão administrativa do actual Congo Belga (between pp. 36 & 37) printed on tracing paper (21 x 20 cm) and the second, Baixo e Medio Congo…
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- Archives and Documents, Books
CONGO (PR & DRC) / CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC / CHAD – EXPLORATION / ETHNOGRAPHY: [Robert Hottot’s Diary of his ‘Mission ethnographique du Kanem-Chari-Logone’, March 1908 to January 1909].
- 12,500.00€
- One of the most significant manuscripts regarding exploration and ethnography in sub-Saharan Africa to appear on the market in many years, being the original diary of the French adventurer Robert Hottot complied during his groundbreaking ‘Mission ethnographique du Kanem-Chari-Logone’ (1908-9), to what is today Congo (both PRC and DRC), the Central African Republic and Chad, where he made meaningful…
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![ANTIGUA, WEST INDIES / SLAVERY & PLANTATIONS: This Indenture… “Between… [the Proprietors:] William Maxwell… The Honorable Hastings Elwin… Samuel Athill… [and the Trustees:] Edward Ellice and William Holden… [for Placing in Trust:] Richmond Plantation… Chapman’s Plantation… Howard’s Plantation… on the Island of Antigua… [with] the said plantation’s Slaves, Hereditaments, premises…”.](https://pahor.at/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Marchscan7-copy-265x331.jpg)
![BERLIN POLICE / COLD WAR: Geschichte der Berliner Polizei von 1945 bis zum 1. 10. 1950 ab 1945 [Cover] Zusammenstellung von Unterlagen über die Geschichte der Berliner Polizei von 1945 bis zum 1. 10. 1950 ab 1945 [Title Page].](https://pahor.at/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/69972-265x331.jpg)
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