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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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![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…”](https://pahor.at/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/82061-265x331.jpg)
![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…]](https://pahor.at/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Handschriftlicher-Text_2022-07-27_123043-265x331.jpg)
![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].](https://pahor.at/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/su0-265x331.jpg)
