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A lucidly written overview of the first 140 years of Barbados history, especially valuable for its lively treatment of the internal political undercurrents that buffeted the island in the 18th century; while issued anonymously, the work is known to have been written by Henry Frere, a leading member of the plantocracy and the island’s government; published in the immediate wake…

  [Leşkergah / Lashkargāh. Historical, Literary, Artistic, Archeological Studies]   A pioneering work on the pre-Islamic history of art and archeology of a southwestern Afghan city Lashkargāh, with attached visiting card of the author   8°, 152 pp., interleaved 7 sheets, printed with photographs from both sides, original illustrated wrappers, author’s visiting card attached with a pin to the title…

An extremely rare Nazi report on the state of roads in Germany's former African colonies and the Belgian Congo, made early in World Wat II in preparation for plans for the Third Reich to regain its African empire either by diplomacy or force, being a printed copy of an original typescript labelled as 'Als Manuskript gedruckt' ('Printed as a manuscript'), issued…

  [On the Introduction of the Armenians to Algeria]   An unusual French pamphlet describing a governmental plan, to relocate a larger amount of Armenians from the Ottoman Empire to Algeria, in order to boost economy and trade of this relatively new part of France. A handsome example, from a library of Marquis de Chasseloup-Laubat, the French Colonial Minister, who…

  Extremely rare in commerce – the first edition of a work that featured the most powerful defense of slavery of the late Enlightenment era, and one of the most influential and controversial books in Brazilian and Portuguese history, written by José de Azeredo Coutinho, the Brazilian plantation owner-turned celebrated intellectual and cleric who was the (unintentional) forefather of Brazilian…

  [The Gospel of Wealth. According to the English Text of Andrew Carnegie]   A rare Greek translation of The Gospel of Wealth by an American industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, a text especially important for the history of foundation of public free libraries   8°. 75 pp. with a full page portrait, [4 pp.], original card pink wrappers with illustration…

  8°, original cover, [2 pp.], 104 pp., folding map, later brown cloth binding with lettering (minor age-toning, old hand-written price on the inner side of the rear board, but overall in a good condition).  

  A rare satirical illustrated anti-Fascist-Italy pamphlet, printed for the Greek soldiers during World War II. Large 8°. [64 pp.] with black and white illustrations, original illustrated wrappers (Very Good).   Evangelos BITSAXIS - Kostantinos STASINOPOULOS, editors; T. MORAITINI, A.G. POP, K. VARNALI, authors of texts - F. DIMITRIADIS, K. BEZOU, N. KASTANAKI, P. PAVLIDIS, S. POLENAKI, E. TERZOPOULOS, KYRIAZI,…

  [Washington in Tel Aviv or There Used to be Israel Here]   An Arab nationalistic book against Israel with an antisemitic cover design   8°. 184 pp., [8 pp.] with black and white illustrations, original illustrated card wrappers (wrappers slightly stained, corners with tiny chips and folds, spine with a small loss of material, imprint on the back cover…

  [Gazavât-ı Celile-i Peygamberî / Battles of the Glorious Prophet]   An exclusively bound Ottoman book on the glorious conquers of the Prophet Muhammad, written by a historian Ahmet Refik.   8°. 224 pp. with decorative vignettes and a small map in text, folding map, bound in dark brown goat with gold ornaments on the covers and lettering on the…

  A scarce pamphlet in French language is a translation of an Armenian text with the analysis of the current political situation of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire. It was written during WWI in Istanbul, shortly after the Armenian genocide, where over 1 million Armenians were murdered, as many more were deported or imprisoned.   8°. 70 pp., [2 pp.],…

  Small 4°, 416 pp., [2 pp.], 146 pp. with black and white photos, maps and reproductions of documents.  

  A rare book in French language, written during World War I, in the time of the Armenian genocide, analyses contemporary situation of the Armenian Church in the Ottoman Empire and in the world.   Large 12°. 96 pp., original green wrappers with lettering (good, uncut example, wrappers with minor staining and tiny tears).  

  8°, 96 pp., original wrappers with lettering (wrappers stained with tiny tears, inside in a good condition with minor staining to the margins).  

[Overview of Azerbaijani History, Literature and Politics]   A rare, important book with the history and current political situation of the newly founded Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, written by the Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs Adil Khan Ziatkhan, was presented at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, where the independence of the republic was confirmed internationally.    8°, 101 pp., original…

  [The Expulsion of the Germans from China. An Account of the Events Based on English Shanghai Newspapers from October 1918 to April 1919]   Small 4°. Illustrated frontispiece, XI, 402 pp., bound in publisher’s green linen binding with lettering on the cover and spine (Very Good, minor age-toning to the spine).  

Benjamin FRANKLIN (1706-1790), author; REŞAD, translator. [Tarik-i Refah. Frankli'nin Servet Hakkındaki Nasayihi ve Tercüme-i Hali / The Way to Wealth. Franklin's Commentary on Wealth and ItsTranslation] Sarajevo: Sultan Beyazıd Saadet Kütübhanesi 1326 [1910] 8°, 30 pp., [2 pp.], uncut as originally published, later marbled wrappers (uncut, unread example with minor storage wear) (#70725). A rare Ottoman translation of Franklin’s The…

  [Tarik-i Refah. Frankli'nin Servet Hakkındaki Nasayihi ve Tercüme-i Hali / The Way to Wealth. Franklin's Commentary on Wealth and ItsTranslation]   A rare Ottoman translation of Franklin’s The Way to Wealth, published in Ottoman language in Sarajevo, Bosnia, in 1910   8°, 30 pp., [2 pp.], original orange wrappers with lettering (wrappers with a light stain, otherwise in a…

[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…

  An Ottoman report on Bosnia and Herzegovina, published in the crucial year of 1908, when Austro-Hungary withdrawn from Novi Pazar in exchange for being given permanent sovereignty over Bosnia.   8°, 15 pp., original blue wrappers with lettering (minor water-staining, old annotations on the cover, wrappers with light staining, small tears in margins and old mounted paper label on…

  [Banaluka Sahrası Muharebesi / Battle of Banja Luka Field]   Small 8°, original cover with lettering, [2 pp.] title page, 17 pp., new black cloth binding with gilt lettering and debossed decoration (improvised repairs of paper loss in inner margins, light water staining in margins, sporadic old annotations in pencil, minor staining).  

Extremely rare and important, being the official Rio de Janeiro printing of the Anglo-Portuguese Convention of January 21, 1815, singed at the Congress of Vienna, whereby Britain (which in 1807 resolved to unilaterally ban the Transatlantic slave trade) agreed to compensate Portugal with £300,000 (then an enormous sum) for the having (illegally) apprehended and condemned Portuguese and Brazilian slaving vessels…

Three early rare Thai merit-making volumes were created for the 40th anniversary of King Chulalongkorn’s reign. They include speeches based on manuscripts from the National Library, delivered at Wat Arun in Bangkok after the restoration of key structures during Thailand's Buddhist reform movement. In very good, seemingly unread condition from an European collection.

  A highly important and attractive work on the Eighth Xhosa War (1850-3), a critical conflict in which the British scored a crushing defeat upon the Xhosa, so securing permanent dominance over the Eastern Frontier regions of the Cape Colony, a victory secured by the ‘scorched earth’ offensive launched by Governor George Cathcart from the spring of 1852 to the…

  8°, [8 pp.], 308 pp. lithographed text with some pages with larger folded margins with annotations, as originally published, modern green cloth boards with gilt lettering and debossed decoration, brown calf spine with raised bands and gilt lettering (light foxing, old signature and date in Ottoman on the first page, old scribbles on the last blank page, otherwise in…

[Tercüme-i Tarih-i Nevâdir-i Çin-i Maçin / Translation of the Stories of History of China and the Greater China]   8°, 70 pp. lithograph, first two pages with gilt margins, later blue cloth boards with brown cloth spine, grey printed endpapers (minor staining overall in a good condition).  

Extremely rare – 1 of only 2 known surviving examples – an ephemeral ‘Relación’ pamphlet likely containing the earliest published firsthand account of a dramatic naval battle between Tuscan vessels commanded by the Spanish Admiral Don Pedro de Leyva and a pair of Algerian-Ottoman vessels, which occurred in the Greek Aegean on July 1, 1622, upon which after ferocious combat…

  First Search: Venetians and Genoese Sailors Discover Islands. Second: Christopher Columbus's Discovery of America Also: Amerika kıt'asının hîn-i keşf ü istîlâsında zuhûra gelen vukūât-ı garîbenin târîhi. Bahs-i evvel, Venedik ve Cenevizli gemicilerinin keşf eylediği cezâyir ve sâniyen Kristof Kolomb'un Amerika'yı bulması beyânındadır This is an early, possibly first separately issued publication on Christopher Columbus and the discovery of America…

  An ephemeral biography of Christopher Columbus in Ottoman language was issued in the series Büyük Adamlar Serisi (Series of Important Men) with Ottoman lettering in the last year before the Atatürk’s reformation of the script in the Republic of Turkey.   8°. 15 pp. with illustrations, illustrated cover, stapled (soft folds, minor staiing, overall in a good condition).  …

  Large 8°. 48 pp., original wrappers (slightly age-toned and with light foxing, tiny tears in margins, but overall in a good condition).  

  Extremely rare – an important legal proposal that advocated major reforms of the archaic Nueva Grenadian (Colombian) judicial system by dramatically expanding the role and authority of juries during criminal trials, principally authored by José Ignacio de Márquez, the former President and the nation’s foremost legal scholar, framing a major debate between the country’s emerging Liberal and Conservative political…

  German-Ottoman / Turkish Relations Congress of Berlin  

  8°, 96 pp., advertisement, original illustrated wrappers (slightly stained, a tiny loss of image on the rear wrappers, but otherwise in a good condition).  

  A travelogue to the Holy Land through Egypt by a Croatian professor Krsto Krile, published on the eve of WWI.   8°, XI, 231 pp., interleaved photographs, two folding plates, and three folding maps (Jerusalem, Croatia, the Holy Land), original boards with decoration and lettering, original cloth spine with lettering (hardly noticeable foxing, very light wear to the corners,…

  The very rare first edition of a foundational work of Cypriology, published in Nicosia, it is the first anthology of primary historical sources on the island, featuring 35 accounts, ranging in date from 1196 AD to 1870, collected and translated from 12 different languages into English by Claude Delaval Cobham, who served as the District Commissioner of Larnaca Province…

  This rare pamphlet of the Diet of Augsburg (Reichstagsordnung) from 1582, printed under Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II, codifies essential legal and religious regulations from a pivotal period of European history.  

  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…

[Protocol for the Reception of Heads of Foreign Mission at the Imperial Court]   8°, [4 pp.], original pink wrappers with lettering (wrappers with tiny folds, but overall in a good condition).   The manual in French language describes the diplomatic rules for foreign ambassadors, ministers, hereditary princes and officials at the Ottoman Imperial court.  

  [Hitler and the National Socialism]   The first separately printed biography of Adolf Hitler in Turkish language, with a critical analysis of the National socialism and a problem of anti-Semitism, published in the year, when Hitler was elected a chancellor. Signed by the author   8°, 147 pp., with interleaved sepia photographs, contemporary green cloth binding with gilt lettering…

  A detailed book on the early military history of the Arab World, centered on Mecca   8°, 254 pp., [2 pp.], 3 interleaved folding maps, original illustrated wrappers (wrappers with minor foxing and wear to the edges, one map split in the fold, but overall in a good condition).  

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…

[The Earthquake of Ljubljana and its Causes. A Lecture Held at the Conference of the Association for Natural Science for Styria in April 20th, 1895]   A rare speech on the Ljubljana earthquake of 1895, held in Graz by a geologist Rudolf Hoernes    8°. 61 pp., [2 pp.] blank, old blue wrappers (minor staining and foxing, wrappers with tiny…

  An indispensable and highly sophisticated primary account tracking the interconnected geopolitical and cultural ties of the Nile Valley, written during the complex dual governance of the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium.  

A rare and important work on Demotic script, the ‘keystone’ that linked ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphics to the medieval world, which permitted the legendary philologist Jean-François Champollion to decipher the Rosetta Stone; the present study written by his brother, the archaeologist Jacques-Joseph Champollion-Figeac, is largely based upon the late Jean-François’s work, and critically emphasized the alphabetical nature of the script and…

  [Çanakkale Hakikatleri / The Truth About the Dardanelles]   8°. 73 pp., later (1970s) brown cloth binding (lightly stained, four pages with traces of text from other pages, sporadic white margins trimmed, old hand-written price on the inner side of the rear board, a tiny piece of paper mounted on the title page).  

A poem composed by Georg Friedrich Stauber, a theology student, and Christian Reinhard Steinheil (1708 – 1786), a court official for the occasion of the 8th birthday of Christian IV, the future Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld (1722 - 1775), from a line of the Bavarian imperial family Wittelsbach, at the time still known as Christian III. As he was married morganatically…

  [al-`Urāḍa fī l-ḥikāya al-salğūqīya / The Gift from the History of the Seljuks / Das Greschenk aus der Saldschukengeschichte]   A rare first printed publication of an important 14th century historical work on the Seljuk Dynasty, written in Farsi, was a groundbreaking work of a German famous orientalist Karl Süssheim, which gained him a professorship at the University of Munich.…

[Edict of Restitution of Trade. Verified by Divine Clemency the remission of the Plague [lit. Contagious Disease] which broke out in Transylvania in October 1737…]   Broadside: 44 x 32 cm (17.3 x 12.6 inches), (soft folds, tiny tears, contemporary annotations in brown ink in the lower margins, overall in a good condition).    

  [PEOPLE AND ARMY / INSTITUTION OF THE OFFICERS AND FIGHTERS OF S3 / NO. 1. / ATHENS 10 APR. 1944]   A rare ephemeral newspaper in Greek, printed during WWII by the resistance, the so called Mountain Government, was made for the occasion of secret elections. It was the first time in the history of Greece, that women were…

  The very rare first edition of a fascinating and wonderfully eccentric treatise on the philosophical, scientific and political state of the world during the Napoleonic Wars, and the historical journey that led to those times, by the German military scientist Rühle von Lilienstern, illustrated by a large, unique and resplendently coloured World Map on an oblique double-elliptical projection, illustrating…

Raja Śivaprasāda or Shivaprasad (राजा शिवप्रसाद 'सितारेहिन्द,1823 – 1895) Lucknow: Newul Kishore 1889.   8°, [4 pp.] title & index, v, 91 pp., later wrappers (uneven edges with tiny tears, little stained, otherwise in a good condition) (#70612).

Hitler. Who was He? What did He Do? What Happened to Him?   A Turkish biography of Adolf Hitler, written three days after his death by a prominent writer and journalist Münir Süleyman Çapanoğlu.   8°, 110 pp., [2 pp.] blank, original illustrater front wrapper, contemporary brown patterned boards and brown cloth spine (tear in page 7-8, without loss of…

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…

A rare, seemingly unrecorded early illustrated pamphlet on the history of Iran in Ottoman language   8°, 79 pp. with black and white illustrations and cover printed in red, later black cloth binding with gilt lettering (tiny old repaired holes in the lower part of the cover, old hand-written price on the inner side of the rear cover, binding with…

Fahreddin Reşad Bey (Rumbeyoğlu Fahreddin Bey also Rumbeyoğlu Fahr al-Din Bey,1867–1943) - Mehmed Nâbi Bey (1868-1924). [The Problem of Irrigation and Water Supply in Mesopotamia] Istanbul: Matbaa-i Âmire 1334 [1918]. 8°, 14 pp., [2 pp.] blank, original tan wrappers with lettering on the cover (minor foxing, otherwise in a good, clean condition) (#70726). An Ottoman pamphlet on the irrigation in…

[The Basis for the Anatolian Turkish Antiquities and Carvings in Stone. Ankara]   An extensive illustrated work on Turkish history or art in Anatolia   2 volumes, large 4°. Vol. 1: 54 pp., blank, 41 plates printed recto in black and white and colour, original wrappers with lettering (wrappers and first pages with light foxing, later spine, last plate with…

  [The Islamic Architecture of Egypt]   A detailed, richly illustrated work on the Egyptian architecture and history or art.   8°, 169 pp., [193] pages of black and white illustrations and plans, [14 pp.] German text, original white wrappers with lettering (good used example, wrappers slightly age-toned with traces of a small label).

  A contemporary detailed report on the Fascist Italian invasion on Abyssinia by a prolific Turkish general, politician and author Kâzim Karabekir.   8°. 438 pp., [6 pp.], interleaved illustrations and maps, 2 folding black and white maps, 1 folding colour map, original wrappers with lettering, bound in recent red half-goat with gold decoration and lettering on the spine, grey…

  A rare pamphlet in Ottoman language on the Dönme, a group of Sabbatean crypto-Jews in the Ottoman Empire, centered in Thessaloniki. 8°, 32 pp., original wrappers with lettering, later spine (light staining and small tears in margins, but otherwise in a good condition).

Raymond JANIN (1882 – 1972). Istanbul: Échos d’Orient 1920. 8°, 72 pp., index, [4 pp.] with 4 photolithographed plates, blank, original paper wrappers with lettering (good, clean condition) (# 70740). A seminal work on the history of Thrace, Greece, published in Istanbul on the eve of the Greek War of Independence.

Gideon NYE (1812-1888). Macao: [Privately Printed] 1858. Large 8°, [24 pp.] with title, verses, preface, index, 4 blank pages, starting with p. 9 on second text page (complete), 360 pp., pp. A-D between pp. 339-340, contemporary half dark brown calf with gold tooling and lettering on the spine and marbled paper boards, a presentation copy with a dedication by the…

  Exceedingly rare – no other examples traced – a Malagasy language work on the history of the Ancient Jewish civilization, as taken from the Bible, as written by the Quaker missionary Henry E. Clark, and printed in Faravohitra (today in Antananarivo), Madagascar by the press of the Friends’ Foreign Mission Association – this being the first ‘Section’ (of two)…

  8°. 64 pp, original wrappers with lettering (slightly age toned, wrappers stained with small cracks and loss of paper).  

ROYAUME D’EGYPTE. CABINET DU GRAND CHAMBELLAN. Cairo: Imprimerie nationale 1947. Large 8°, [4 pp.] title and introduction, 192 pp. text in French, 45 unnumbered colour illustrations, with many mounted images and one folding plate, original red cloth binding with gold lettering on the cover and spine (annotations in Arabic in blue ink on p. 7, minor corrections in pencil to…

  A comprehensive first-hand report on the Battle of Salman Pak, located south of Baghdad, which took place during the Mesopotamian campaign, authored by Bimbashi (Major) and military historian Mehmet Emin, featuring extensive maps and charts for detailed analysis.  

  A very rare and attractive Mexican manual for instructing light infantry in the field, published shortly after Mexican Independence, with 2 charmingly crudely engraved plates depicting suggested reconnaissance formations, published in Mexico City for the Ministerio de Guerra y Marina. 12° (14.5 x 10 cm): [2], 251 pp., plus, 2 folding engraved plates (with Fig. 1 measuring 15 x…

[A Memoir of a Terrible Murder of Her Royal Highness Queen Elisabeth on September 10th, 1898]   12°, 32 pp., original illustrated wrappers, stapled (minor foxing, cover slightly stained with a ink stain, otherwise in a good condition).  

  [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…

Rare - the pioneering and definitive 19th century study of Macau’s Chinese community which after three centuries under Portuguese rule had developed many distinct cultural characteristics, covering subjects such as cuisine, attire, weddings, homes and domestic habits, justice, religion, festivals, commerce (the city’s great bazaar), medicine, as well as a valuable chapter on the Chinese emigration to Cuba that flowed…

  The first Ottoman book on cuneiform, written by scholar and Armenian nationalist Karapet J. Basmadjian   16°: 27 pp., [5 pp.] blank, later cloth binding with debossed prnaments and gilt lettering (margins slightly age-toned and with tiny tears, otherwise in a good condition).  

  [Muharebat-ı meşhure-i osmaniye albümü / Album of Famous Ottoman Battles]   A monumental portfolio of the famous Ottoman battles, edited by a famous military leader Ahmed Muhtar Pacha during WWI to commemorate the glorious military past of the Ottoman Empire   Folio. Title page, 33 unbound double page maps, partly printed in colours, with text, 5 single page maps,…

ANON. [Palestine Drawn in Historical-Geographical-Statistical Outlines Based on Older and Modern Travel Descriptions. Along with a Map of the Holy Land] Karlsruhe – Freiburg: Herder 1830. Large 8°. Engraved frontispiece, showcasing the map and interior of the Holy Grave, [4 pp.] title and index, 148 pp., folding lithographed map, coloured in outline, contemporary marbled board and brown goat spine with…

  [Bergama. Rehber-i Harabe-i Bergama (Nüsha-i Türkiye) / Pergamon. Guide to the Ruins of Pergamon. Turkish Edition]   A rare pamphlet on the archeological excavations of Pergamon in Ottoman Turkish was printed by Berlin Royal Museum (now Altes Museum) at the time the artefacts were transported from the Ottoman Empire to Berlin, where they were exhibited in a new museum.…

  Rare – one of the seminal works on early 20th century Macau, being an anthology of articles by Henrique Travassos Valdez, the liberal republican firebrand who was the incumbent Portuguese national senator for Macau, with brilliant yet controversial analyses of Macau’s place within the Portuguese Empire, its heated relations with China, its vital port and economic development, as well…

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…

8°, viii, [1] illustration (Berlin Mosque), 315 pp., original blue cloth binding with gilt lettering on the back, red edges (publisher’s stamp on the title page, old hand-written price on the inner side of the rear cover, minor staining, binding lightly scuffed on the corners).

  Exceedingly rare – a complete set of three multilingual broadside proclamations issued simultaneously by the Austrian military high command to enforce absolute martial law over the occupied capital. This severe counter-revolutionary decree famously held the Jewish populations of Buda (Ofen), Pest, and Old Buda (Alt-Ofen) collectively liable for revolutionary activities, threatening a staggering 20,000 florin silver fine against the…

  Three numbers (of 6) of an extremely rare newspaper “Africa-Post. Weekly Newspaper for the German Troops in Tunisia”, printed by the Allies in Tunisia during WWII, in German language for the German troops, in order to cause a psychological warfare.

  A rare pioneering Ottoman work on the history of Rhodes before the Muslim Ottoman rule. Printed in Rhodes.   8°, 160 pp. with black and white illustrations, [1] full page black and white map, later black cloth binding with debossed ornaments and gilt lettering (tiny tears in margins, softs fold, map with small loss of paper in the margins,…

João Manuel PEREIRA DA SILVA (1817 - 1898). Rio de Janeiro: B.L. Garnier Editor, 1870-1. 8° (21 x 14 cm) - 3 volumes: [vol 1:] [2 pp.], 1 portrait, [1 ff.], 473 pp.; [vol 2:] [2 ff.], 426 pp.; [vol 3:] [2 ff.], 391 pp.; all uniformly bound in contemporary quarter red morocco with gilt title and decoration to spines…

8°, 17 pp., later blue cloth binding with gilt lettering (binding lightly stained, old hand-written price in the inner side of the rear cover, otherwise in a good condition).

An unusual work by a Ukrainian medical doctor Boris Tschlenoff, based in Switzerland, discusses the future of Russia, with a hope it will develop in a democratic federal republic. 8°, 24 pp., later blue cloth binding with gilt lettering (lacking original wrappers, slightly age-toned, old hand-written numbers on the inner side of the boards, otherwise in a good condition).

     

  A rare book in Turkish language on Saudi Arabia, written by a diplomat Saleh Mustafa Islam comes from the library of Kasim Masoud Kasim Zainal Alireza (?-2016), a member of a prominent Saudi family.   8°. [8 pp.] title, 2 portraits and introduction, 223 pp. with portraits and interleaved black and white images, original illustrated wrappers, dedication (by the…

  Very rare – a sermon preached by the senior Jesuit diplomat and administrator Manoel de Figueiredo at Velha-Goa’s Cathedral of Bom Jesus celebrating the momentous military victory at the Siege of Alorna (May 4, 1746) scored by the Portuguese forces under the Marquez de Castello Novo aganst the Maratha Confederacy, the sermon being a key element of the elborate…

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…

  French Colonization of Tunisia Trade with Central Africa Algiers Imprint   [Society of Physical, Natural and Climatological Sciences of Algiers. 19th meeting of Members of Scientific Society at the Sorbonne. Algeria, Tunisia and Central Africa. Creation of a Regular Caravan Service Between Djerba and Central Africa].   A rare pamphlet in French language, printed in Algiers and published in…

8°. 334 pp., [1 p.], 20th century cloth with gilt lettering on the cover and spine (sheets with light foxing and staining, old hand-written price on the inner side of the back cover, overall in a good condition).

  A pamphlet in Arabic language with a decorative cover was made as a propaganda against the former Syrian president Adib al-Shishakli after his deposition in 1954.   Large 8°. 96 pp., original illustrated wrappers (wrappers slightly worn with tiny scratches and holes in the upper margin on the cover, but otherwise in a good condition).  

A fascinating collection of 30 early Thai Cremation Volumes in near-mint condition.

  The first Slovenian translation of the first and only authorized biography of the Beatles, made by a Slovenian musician Tomaž Domicelj with an attractive cover design   2 volumes, 8°: 310 pp. with black and white illustrations, [2 pp.]; 335 pp. Original tan cloth binding with gilt lettering on the spine, original illustrated wrappers (Good, used condition, wrappers with…

  Exceedingly rare and highly important – a complete, contemporarily bound annual run of 53 issues of the maiden and only full year of operation of the ‘The Regenerator of Aryavarta’, the short-lived but highly influential weekly journal published in Lahore, edited by a triumvirate of young luminaries led by the precocious 18-year-old Lala Lajpat Rai, who later gained fame…

Gu HONGMING (also Ku Hung-Ming, 辜鴻銘, 1857-1928). Beijing: The Peking Daily News, 1915. 8 º , [8 pp.] blank and titles in Chinese and English, 21 pp., [3 pp.] blank and index, X, 168 pp., original green binding (binding little water-stained and rubbed, internally clean with sporadic annotations in pen and pencil). The first edition of a collection of essays…

  12°, 118 pp., [² pp.] blank, original blue wrappers with lettering, later spine (minor foxing to the wrappers, otherwise in a good condition).  

  A rare Italian report on the travel through the North of Libya by a German explorer Gerhard Rohlfs, written by a lawyer Rizzardo Rizzetto, who in his researches emphasized the importance of Tripolitania for the Italian exploration of Africa, shows an early Italian tendency to colonize the region.   8°. [10 pp.], 125 pp., [3 pp.], original blue wrappers…

8°. 60 pp. with a map, [4 pp.], original wrappers with lettering, later spine (minor staining and foxing, but overall in a good condition).