Archives and Documents

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°…

  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,…

  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…

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…

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…

  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…

  [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…

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…

  A receipt by an Istanbul-based architect of Italian origins from the late 19th century.

  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…