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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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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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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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- Archives and Documents
MIMAR KEMALEDDIN: Draft for a Prison
- 1,800.00€
- An original pencil drawing for a modern prison, made by the most famous and prolific late Ottoman architect Mimar Kemaleddin in the time of the change of the Ottoman criminal code Pencil drawing on thick paper, 95 x 114 cm (37.4 x 44.9 inches), (slightly dusty and stained , small tears in margins, a larger repaired tear in the…
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- Africa, Archives and Documents, Books
MOZAMBIQUE: Missão para o Estudo da Missionologia Africana / Influências Político-Sociais do Islamismo em Moçambique (Relatório Confidencial) pelo Padre Albano Mendes Pedro.
- 3,600.00€
- MOZAMBIQUE – ISLAM / MIDDLE EAST-AFRICAN NEXUS / ORIGINS OF MILITANT ISLAMISM IN MOZAMBIQUE: Albano Mendes PEDRO (1915 - 1989). / CENTRO DE ESTUDOS POLÍTICOS E SOCIAIS DA JUNTA DE INVESTIGAÇÕES DO ULTRAMAR. Lisbon: Centro de Estudos Políticos e Sociais da Junta de Investigações do Ultramar, May 31, 1961. 4° (29 x 20.5 cm): [1 f., title], 49 ff. typescript, bound in original green…
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- Africa, Archives and Documents, Books
NIGERIA / PROVINCIAL COURTS: Court Record Book. Plateau. From 13. 3. 1927 to 18. 2. 1931
- 4,200.00€
- A unique court record book documenting trials at the provincial court in Plateau Province, Nigeria, between 1927 and 1931. Large 4º, 257 unnumbered sheets, printed text on the left-hand side, printed template with entries in black and red ink and annotations in colour pencils on the right-hand side. two inserted sheets with typescript, reverse calf binding with linear tooling in…
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- Africa, Archives and Documents, Books, Geography, Maps and Prints
NILE RIVER EXPLORATION ARCHIVE: An Archive consisting of 1 Original Photograph and 16 Manuscript Documents from the Personal Papers of Gabriel Aubaret, the Chief Scientific Officer of the Comte d’Escayrac’s 1856 Expedition that aimed to discover the Sourc
- 3,500.00€
- An impressive archive consisting of a stellar original photograph and sixteen manuscript documents relating to the Comte d’Escayrac’s 1856 planned expedition to find the source of the White Nile, two years before John Hanning Speke successfully accomplished said objective, from the personal papers of Gabriel Aubaret, the mission’s second-in-command and subsequently a famous diplomat and a leading figure in…
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- Archives and Documents, Books, History
NUREMBERG TRIALS / RUDOLF HESS: Plaedoyer fuer Rudolf Hess vor dem Internationalen Militaergerichtshof Nuernberg im Prozess gegen Hermann Goering and andere. Von Dr. jur. Alfred Seidl Rechtsanwalt. Verteidiger des Angeklagten Rudolf Hess
- 1,800.00€
- [The Closing Arguments for Rudolf Hess at the International Military Court Nuremberg in process against Herman Göring and Others. By Dr. Iur. Alfred Seidl, Lawyer, Defender of the Sued Rudolf Hess] Large 4°, Carbon copy of typescript, [1, title], 82 numbered pages, printed recto only, with first two pages marked as 1-2 and 2-4, and with additional pages…
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- Archives and Documents
Original Manuscript Invitation addressed to Joaquim José da Graça, the Governor of Macau, to attend an Audience with the Meiji Emperor at the Imperial Court, Tokyo
- 2,200.00€
- An amazing original artefact from the Japanese Imperial Court during the glorious days of the Meiji Emperor, and of Japan’s ongoing opening to the West, being the original manuscript invitation presented to Joaquim José da Graça, the Governor of Macau and the Portuguese Minister Plenipotentiary to Japan, to attend an audience with the Meiji Emperor on July 5, 1882, written…
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- Archives and Documents
OTTOMAN ARCHITECTURE: Reçu de Monsieur Aron Nigno, à valoir sur les cinq pour cent d’honoraires d’Architecte, pour les constructions don’t je me suie chargé a Pertef Pacha han depuis le Cenq Octobre 1879…
- 150.00€
- A receipt by an Istanbul-based architect of Italian origins from the late 19th century.
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- Archives and Documents, Books, Ottoman Books, Science, Turkica
Ottoman Imperial Institute of Vaccination: The Guest Book of the Imperial Smallpox Vaccine Laboratory
- 1,200.00€
- 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…
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- Archives and Documents, Books, Ottoman Books, Turkica
Ottoman Manuscript on Shipbuilding
- 3,200.00€
- A unique Ottoman manuscript on modern shipbuilding Small 4°, [64 pp.] manuscript in black ink with annotations in pencil, drawings in pancil and water-colours, unbound (minor staining and folds in corners, some pages loose, but otherwise in a good condition).
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- Archives and Documents, Books, History
PORTUGAL – ‘THE TÁVORA AFFAIR: “Relacion del castigo efectuado en Lisboa el día 13. de Enero de 1759 contra los delinguentes del horroroso atentado cometido contra la Sacra Persona de Rey Dn. Joseph el 1°. alas lo de la noche de dia 3. de septiembre del 1758. disparara dole dos tiros de trabuco, para guítenle la vida, logue consiguieron par especial protección de Dios: pero le hirieron un brazo peligrosamte”.
- 6,500.00€
- PORTUGAL – ‘THE TÁVORA AFFAIR’ / ORIGINAL MSS. VIEW AND ACCOUNT: Anon. Manuscript, Lisbon, January 16, 1759. 4° (29.5 x 19.5 cm): 6 pp. manuscript, brown-black pen on 2 folded sheets of laid paper watermarked ‘M.Y.’ surmounted by a cross motif, not bound but loosely housed in modern marbled paper covers (Very Good, some, mostly light, staining and…
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- Archives and Documents, Books, Ottoman Books, Turkica
Red Sea Pilots / Maritime / Navigation / Saudi Arabia / Yemen / Egypt
- 32,500.00€
- A historically important and unique assemblage of three works, including Object A, being the original manuscript of the first modern Ottoman pilot guide to the Red Sea, commissioned by Sultan Abdul Hamid II, it was written by Captain Cemal Bey, who later served as the ‘Bahr-i Ahmer Komodoru’ (the Commander-in-Chief of the Ottoman Navy in the Red Sea), and…
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- Africa, Archives and Documents, Books
SARAH BAARTMAN – “HOTTENTOT VENUS” / SCIENTIFIC RACISM / AFRICANA
- 9,400.00€
- Possibly the earliest manuscript, mentioning Saartje or Sarah Baartman, known as the “Hottentot Venus” who was as a victim of contemporary scientific racism exhibited in England and Paris from 1810 to 1815 as a freak, believed to be related closer to apes than to humans. The letter was written in Cape Town in late 1809 by Alexander Dunlop, a military…
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- Archives and Documents, Books, History
SLAVERY – CUBA – AFRO-CARIBBEAN AND CHINESE SLAVERY: “Modela de Cedulas para los esclavos”.
- 14,500.00€
- The most extraordinary, extensive and data-rich manuscript on slavery we have ever encountered – being an original Cuban ‘registro’ (registry book) of ‘licensed’ slaves composed by a slave ‘registrador’s (registrar’s) office, likely either Havana or Matanzas, in 1855-56 (from December 1854 onwards, all slaves in Cuba were required to have a ‘cédula’, that acted as both a license and an…
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- Archives and Documents, Manuscripts
SLAVERY – WEST INDIES / ST. VINCENT: [Mss. Contract for the Sale of 35 Named Slaves for £1800 by Patrick Coningham of Union Island, St Vincent to Walter Coningham of the Colonarie Vale estate, St. Vincent]. “To all to whom those present shall come Patrick Coningham of the Union Island, one of the dependencies of the island of St. Vincent, Esquire…”
- 1,600.00€
- An original manuscript contract for the sale of 35 named slaves, sold for the price of £1800 by the Irishman Patrick Coningham, based in Union Island, in the Grenadines, to his brother Walter Coningham, one of St. Vincent’s preeminent sugar planters and the proprietor of he the well-known Colonarie Vale estate; the contract, which was signed sealed and witnessed in…
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- Archives and Documents, Others
SLAVERY / ABOLITIONISM SÃO TOMÉ E PRÍNCIPE – THE “SLAVE-GROWN COCOA CONTROVERSY”: “Impressos e Noticías etc, etc. da Sociedade Anti-Esclavagista Portugueza”.
- 4,200.00€
- A valuable and unique archive concerning the “Slave-Grown Cocoa Controversy”, a great scandal that made global headlines in the years leading up to WWI, whereupon Portugal was found to be allowing the owners of the famed cocoa plantations of the islands of São Tomé and Príncipe to literally enslave black migrant workers, mainly from Angola; the scandal embroiled the three…
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- Archives and Documents, Newly Catalogued Items: August 2022, Slavica
SLAVICA / WWI IN TURKEY / DRINKING: [A copy from the report of the 2nd district of Kars, Commandant Lieutenant Ignatiev of Dec. 15th 1916, no 29 to the Commandant of the town of Kars. Court trial on Dec. 17th…]
- 320.00€
- A curious document on a drunken incident from 1916 offers an ephemeral insight into the life of soldiers of the Russian Caucasus Army during WWI. Typescript with manuscript additions and a stamp on both sides, 20 x 18 cm (7,8 x 7 inches) (folds and hardly noticeable worm holes, but otherwise in a good condition).
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- Africa, Archives and Documents, Maps and Prints
SOUTH AFRICA – EIGHTH EUROPEAN-XHOSA WAR (1850-3): “1851 / The Outspan. in Kaffarland”.
- 3,500.00€
- An amazing survivor, being an original manuscript caricature drafted during the Eighth European-Xhosa War (1850-3), one of the century-long series of brutal conflicts between Dutch, and more recently British, forces and the formidable Xhosa nation for control over the Eastern Cape Frontier, South Africa’s ‘Wild, Wild East’; involving a very clever use of imagery and dialogue, the caricature shows two…
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- Africa, Archives and Documents, Maps and Prints
SOUTH AFRICA – CAPE TOWN FORTIFICATIONS – THE PRINCE OF WALES BLOCKHOUSE – ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT PLANS
- 3,200.00€
- A set of original, exquisitely executed manuscript plans of the blockhouse of the Prince of Wales Battery, one of the key components of the elaborate new defensive system that the British constructed around Cape Town (South Africa) during their first occupation of the colony from 1795 to 1803; drafted by Captain (later Major-General) George Bridges, the commanding Royal Engineer…
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- Africa, Archives and Documents, Books
SOUTH AFRICA / SECOND BOER WAR: Album – South Africa
- 3,800.00€
- The album contains 131 photographs from the Second Boer War, as well as images depicting life in South Africa before and after the conflict. It provides valuable insights into this historic period, particularly through a collection of photographs taken in the field with a modern portable roll film camera.v Album, oblong large 4º, 25 thick grey boards with 131…
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- Africa, Africa, Archives and Documents, Books, Maps and Prints
SUDAN / RAILWAYS: [Sudan Governor-General Sir Charles Gordon’s Original Manuscript Report submitted to the Egyptian Public Works Minister Ali Pasha Mubarak prosing a scheme to save the embattled Egypt-Khartoum Railway project, illustrated with an original Mss. Map].
- 8,200.00€
- Charles George GORDON, aka “Gordon of Khartoum” (1833 - 1884). Manuscript, [Khartoum, Autumn 1879]. An original manuscript of extraordinary quality and interest, being a report written by the legendary British soldier-adventurer Sir Charles George Gordon, aka “Gordon of Khartoum”, in his capacity as Governor-General of Sudan, in the service of the Egyptian Khedive, articulating his well-conceived plan to…
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- Archives and Documents, New Acquisitions: September 2020
SUEZ CANAL MANUSCRIPT ARCHIVE – FERDINAND DE LESSEPS AUTOGRAPHS
- 5,500.00€
- This is a valuable manuscript archive relating to the Suez Canal, the project that utterly revolutionized global transportation, commerce and communications. It is highlighted by a detailed letter written by one of the major stakeholders in project, written from Alexandria only a few days after Sa’id Pasha, the Viceroy of Egypt, formally approved Ferdinand de Lesseps’s proposal to build…
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- Archives and Documents, Maps and Prints
THE SIEGE OF KAHUN, PAKISTAN / FIRST ANGLO-AFGHAN WAR: Nuffoosk Pass / Attempted relief of Kahun on the 31st Augt. 1840.
- 3,400.00€
- Thomas WINGATE (1807-1869) (att.). [S. l., S. d., but probably Pakistan or India, 1840]. A large original drawing showcasing the the Siege of Kahun in Balochistan during the First Anglo-Afghan War, probably drafted by an amateur artist and officer Thomas Wingate, later active in Australia. Watercolours on paper 28,5 x 41cm (11.2 x 16.1 inches), mounted with margins under old…
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- Archives and Documents, Books, History, Ottoman Books
TURCICA: Canons ou Règlements de Sultan Sélim II à son retour à Constantinople après une Victoi[re] complette sur les Allemands, concernant les Odgiaks et Casernes des Janissaires. Traduit de l’idiome Turc en idiome Français Par Jean Bapte Adanson
- 5,500.00€
- A unique manuscript French translation of an unpublished Turkish text with valuable information on Janissaries in the 16th century in Turkey, was written by a French Orentalist and translator Jean-Baptiste Adanson.
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- Archives and Documents, Books, Geography, History
WEST INDIES – ST. CROIX, DANISH (TODAY U.S.) VIRGIN ISLANDS BRITISH OCCUPATION DURING NAPOLEONIC WARS (1807 – 1815) DIPLOMACY/ TRADE / FINANCE / SLAVERY:
- 7,500.00€
- A unique and vital primary source on the history of what is today the United States Virgin Islands during the critical period of the Napoleonic Wars and the twilight of the West Indies sugar-slave economy, being the original manuscript letter book of William Manning, an English MP, tycoon, slave plantation owner and the Governor of the Bank of England, who…
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- Archives and Documents
WINE and INDIGO TRADES – INDIA
- 1,200.00€
- A fascinating original manuscript letter shedding unique and valuable insights into the related wine and indigo trades in mid-19th century India, written by the leading Calcutta wine and indigo merchant James Lyall & Co., and addressed to the great ‘maison du vin’ of Clossman & Co. of Bordeaux, which details the risks involved in the generally lucrative importation of French…
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- Archives and Documents, Books, Other
Women’s Rights / UN / Turkey: United Nations Seminar on the Status of Women and Family Planning Istanbul, turkey, 11-24 July 1972. Organized on a world-wide basis by the United Nations in co-operation with the Government of Turkey. Draft Report
- 120.00€
- 6 fascicules mimeographed text, all 4°. [1 pp.] title, 5 pp., 8 pp.; 8 pp.; 11 pp.; 7 pp.; 4 pp.; 6 pp., stapled (minor age-toning and foxing, but overall in a good condition).
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- Archives and Documents, Books
WORLD WAR II AUSTRALIA / GUERILLA WARFARE TRAINING ARCHIVE
- 3,500.00€
- A fascinating and perhaps unparalleled archive that provides highly detailed and authentic insights into Guerilla Warfare Training, which played a vital role in the ultimate Allied victory in the Southwest Pacific Theatre of World War II, a topic often mentioned by historians, but seldom revealed as here; the archive is comprised of 23 elements, mostly lesson plans for specialist courses…
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