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- Books, History, India
- Sermam de Acçam de Graças pela victoria, que alcançou O Illustrissimo e Excellentissimo Senhor Marquez de Castello Novo, Conde de Assumar,
- 1,600.00€
- 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…
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- 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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- Africa, Books, History
- SLAVERY / SLAVE TRADE / WEST AFRICA – FRENCH COLONIAL EXPANSION / THEMATIC CARTOGRAPHY: Commerce et traite des Noirs aux côtes occidentales d’Afrique. 1er janvier 1848.
- 6,500.00€
- Édouard BOUËT-WILLAUMEZ (1808 - 1871). Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1848. Large 8° (24 x 15.5 cm): vii, 230 pp., plus, 2 folding lithographed maps (the second of which has details in original hand colour), bound in original printed card wrappers (Good, text generally clean but toning along page edges and some areas of sporadic light spotting, maps with some…
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- Société des sciences physiques, naturelles et climatologiques d’Alger. 19e réunion des délégués des Société savantes à la Sorbonne. Algérie, Tunisie et Afrique centrale. Création d’un service régulier de caravanes entre Djerba et le Centre de l’Afrique
- 450.00€
- 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…
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- Books, History, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- SOKOLLU MEHMED PASHA / OTTOMAN HISTORY: صوقوللو [Sokollu]
- 480.00€
- 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).
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- Syrian 20th Century History / Political Propaganda: من أسرار الشيشكلي [Shishakli’s Secrets]
- 420.00€
- 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).
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- THAI CREMATION VOLUME – Dance: หอพระสมุด วชิรญาณ ฑะ ตำราฟ้อนรำ ฉบับเรียบเรียงในหอพระสมุดวชิรญาณสำหรับพระนคร
- 1,600.00€
- With a dedication of the author, Prince Damrong Rajanubhab, to King of Italy Victor Emmanuel III
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- THAILAND – CREMATION VOLUMES
- 23,000.00€
- A fascinating collection of 30 early Thai Cremation Volumes in near-mint condition.
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- Books, Design, History, Slavica
- The Beatles. Beatli. Avtorizirana biografija v dveh knjigah [The Beatles: The Authorised Biography]
- 120.00€
- 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…
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- The Regenerator of Aryavarta, vol. 1, nos. 1-53 inclusive [Complete Annual Run of Weekly Issues].
- 4,500.00€
- 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…
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- The Spirit of the Chinese People
- 2,200.00€
- 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…
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- Tripolitania – Libya: I Commerci di Tripoli e quelli del Sudan [The Trade of Tripoli and Sudan]
- 420.00€
- 12°, 118 pp., [² pp.] blank, original blue wrappers with lettering, later spine (minor foxing to the wrappers, otherwise in a good condition).
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