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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, Books, Manuscripts
A DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL DURING WWII IN MUNICH, GERMANY: Erlebnisse aus meinem Aufenthalt im K.L.V. Lager Haus Elise
- 3,500.00€
- Two diaries, written mostly during World War II by Inge Weinbrecht from Munich, depict a life of a teenage girl from the early years of the war, when she was sent to a Nazi children’s summer camp, to her witnessing the fall of the Reich and marching of American soldiers into Munich.
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- Archives and Documents
A letter of Sultan Jachia to the Pope
- 2,200.00€
- A letter to Pope Innocent X from Sultan Jachia, the self-proclaimed Christian leader of the Ottoman Empire, requesting papal support at the onset of the new Venetian-Ottoman conflict and another attempt to convert the entire Ottoman Empire to Christianity. Manuscript in brown ink in Italian language on laid paper with a watermark, 20,5 x 30,5 (8.1 x 12 inches),…
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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, 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, 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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- Archives and Documents, Books
Besuch-Buch der Deutsch-Französischen Cognac-Brennerei vormals Gebrüder Macholl. München
- 3,200.00€
- A guestbook from a renowned Munich-based Cognac distillery and liqueur factory, formerly operated by the Jewish families Macholl and Landauer until the rise of the Nazis. Small folio, 63 sheets of thick paper with signatures in various inks and pencil, 87 blank sheets, two mounted black and white photographs, inserted sheets with signatures and data about visits, inserted typed and…
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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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- Archives and Documents, Books, History
DIARY OF A YOUNG WOMAN / PRISON CAMPS MALANG & LAMPERSARI, JAVA / WORLD WAR II
- 3,600.00€
- A diary, composed of autobiographical songs and poems, filled with black humor and irony, was written by a young woman, imprisoned in Japanese camps Malang and Lampersari in Java, during World War II. 8°, notebook with striped paper, 32 pp. manuscript in Dutch in blue ink with illustrations in colour pencils, rest of the pages blank, original blue marbled…
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- Archives and Documents, Books, History, Ottoman Books, Turkica
EARLY OTTOMAN AMERICANA / CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS: 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 l’anglais
- 9,500.00€
- 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…
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- Archives and Documents, Cookbooks
GASTRONOMY / RECIPES – AUGUSTE ESCOFFIER – DÎNER D’ÉPICURE
- 4,200.00€
- Two original mimeographed recipes for world famous Fraises Sarah Bernhardt and Dodine de Canard de Chambertin, signed by their inventor, Auguste Escoffier, one of the most prolific chefs of the 20th century, and printed for the first international luxury gourmand evening Dîner d’Épicure on May 18, 1912, when recipes were sent to 37 international luxury hotels and restaurants, where 4000…
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- Archives and Documents
HEINRICH KIEPERT: [Two Postcards to Ernst Fabricius]
- 850.00€
- 2 postcards. 9 x 14 cm (3.5 x 5.5 inches). Each postcard has Fabricius’s address on the front and a manuscript in black ink on the verso. One postcard is signed H. K., the other without a signature, but a continuation of the same topic in the same handwriting.
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- Archives and Documents, Books, History
INDONESIA – DRAFT PRINTING OF THE FIRST CONSTITUTION OF INDEPENDENT INDONESIA (1949)
- 4,500.00€
- An amazing artifact of Indonesian Independence, being an original draft of the first constitution of an independent Indonesia, as ratified at the famous ‘Round Table Conference’ (August 23 to November 2, 1949) in The Hague that set the final arrangements for the county’s sovereignty which was achieved on December 27, 1949; the present crudely-made mimeograph of a typescript is one…
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- Archives and Documents, Books
JESUITS IN SOUTH AMERICA: Relazione abbreviata [A Brief Report]
- 1,200.00€
- [20 pp.], 23 x 19 cm (9 x 7.5 inches), manuscript in Italian, in dark brown ink on 10 sheets of laid paper with a post horn watermark and name of Van der Ley paper makers, and watermarks with initials GR and a crown (minor age-toning, tiny holes from binding on the spine, unbound and inserted in a later marbled…
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- Africa, Archives and Documents, Books
Jornada da Villa de Quilimane para Sena… Tette… Zumbo.
- 8,500.00€
- Anon. Manuscript, [no place or date, but likely Mozambique, 1842 or shortly thereafter]. 8° (19.5 x 14.5 cm): Manuscript, 9 pp. (text in black pen), plus 2 full page maps (both in black pen and grisaille wash, second map additionally with purple wash), bound in modern full brown calf with gilt title to spine (Good, text pages with professional restoration…
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- Africa, Archives and Documents, Books
KENYA / UGANDA: The Imperial British East Africa Company, incorporated by Royal Charter, 1888.
- 3,500.00€
- An extremely rare sammelband featuring several foundational works regarding the colonial era in what is today Kenya and Uganda, composed of various publications and ephemeral documents assembled and custom-bound in 1889 by Sir Lewis Pelly, one of the founding directors of the Imperial British East Africa Company (IBEAC), the private company that was charted in 1888 by the British government…
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- Africa, Archives and Documents, Books
LAOS – HECTOGRAPHED PROOF EXAMPLE OF THE FIRST TRAVEL GUIDE TO LAOS: ‘A travers le Laos. Guide à l’usage des voyageurs.’
- 5,500.00€
- LAOS – HECTOGRAPHED PROOF EXAMPLE OF THE FIRST TRAVEL GUIDE TO LAOS: Antonin BAUDENNE. Vientiane: [Self-Published by the Author], [January 1911]. 4° (32 x 21.5 cm): 68 ff. total all hectographed in purple and printed single-sided, including 34 numbered pp. text, 1 single f. chart and 6 multiple ff. charts each on thicker paper with mss. descriptions in…
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- Africa, Archives and Documents, Books
MADAGASCAR: ‘Imprimerie Officielle Tananarive 1897 à 1905’.
- 9,500.00€
- MADAGASCAR - ORIGINAL ARCHIVE / EARLY FRENCH PRINTING AND POLITICS IN MADACASGASCAR / ANTANANARIVO IMPRINTS: Félix LEIFFEIT (b. 1864, active until at least 1930), Compiler. / Joseph Simon GALLIENI (1849 -1916), Contributor. [Various places and dates; Core of Archive, Antananarivo 1897-1905; but other elements from France and Madagascar dating as late as 1930 – for details see below]. 4°…
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- Africa, Archives and Documents, Maps and Prints, Mauritius
MAURITIUS: “Plan De Reduit Scituée entre le Quartier de Moka et célui des Plaines De Wilheme”
- 7,500.00€
- 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,…
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![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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