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- Africa, Books, History
- Analyse sur la justice du commerce du rachat des esclaves de la côte d’Afrique.
- 6,800.00€
- 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…
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- Books, Ottoman Books, Science, Turkica
- Anatomy: تشريح [Teşrih / Anatomy] – Complete Set of 3 Pamphlets.
- 850.00€
- A charming complete set of three rare Turkish medical pamphlets on anatomy, written in the Ottoman language for students of medicine, illustrated with amazing proto-modern colour plates. 3 issues (all published), all 8°, with original printed wrappers: No. 1: 69 pp. with black and white illustrations, with 5 interleaved colour plates; No. 2: 36 pp. interleaved with 3…
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- Ottoman Books, Science, Turkica
- ANATOMY: خريطه وجود بشر [Harita-i Vücud-i Beşer / Map of the Human Body].
- 450.00€
- Large 8°: [25 pp.], title page and 12 chromolithographed illustrations, printed on one side only, verso tan paper, original cover, later binding, stapled (internally in good condition with minimal staining in margins, back cover replaced, front cover slightly stained with repaired vertical crack with tiny loss).
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- Books, History
- Andrew Carnegie: Το κρατοσ του πλουτου. Κατα-τό άγγλιχόν τού Ανδρέα Καρνέγη
- 220.00€
- [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…
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- Aneries revolutionnaires ou Balourdisiana, betisiana etc. … anecdotes de nos jours
- 200.00€
- Pierre Adolphe Capelle (1775 – 1851) Paris: Capelle IX (1800-1801) 16°, original colour engraving, 144 pp. letterpress, pages with uneven margins, original brown wrappers (small folds in corners, little dusty, stamp 8. XI. 1946 in the lower margin of the last page, old tag with a title mounted n the inner side of the front wrapper, loss of paper…
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- Books, History, Iran, Newly Catalogued Items: August 2022, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- ANGLO-IRANIAN RELATIONS: ايرانده انكليزلر [İran’da İngilizler / Englishmen in Iran]
- 460.00€
- 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).
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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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- Africa, Archives and Documents, Books, Geography
- 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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- Animals, Books, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- ANIMAL RIGHTS / OTTOMAN EMPIRE: حيوانات ايله حسن معامله حقبده. اون اكي درس [Hayvanât ile Hüsn-i Muamele Hakkında On İki Ders]
- 280.00€
- Twelve Lessons on the Friendly Treatments of Animals 8°, 63 pp., original blue wrappers with illustrated cover (paper slightly waved, wrappers with hardly noticeably foxing and old-hand-written number on the top, but otherwise in a good, clean condition).
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- Books, September 2023: 50 under 1000 EUR, Slavica
- ANTI-COMMUNISM – BERLIN IMPRINT / ART HISTORY: Художник и революция. Художник в русской революции: записки художественного деятеля
- 160.00€
- The Artist and The Revolution. An Artist in The Russian Revolution: Notes by an Artist - A text on the role of the art and artists in Russia and the changes of their roles through the revolution was written by a Russian immigrant in Berlin, Georgy Kreskentievich Lukomsky (1884–1952). 12°. 95 pp., original wrapper with lettering (wrappers with light…
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- Books, Children's Books, Slavica
- ANTI-COMMUNIST CHILDREN’S BOOK & JOZE PLECNIK SCHOOL: Prigode malega murencka. [Adventures of a Little Cricket]
- 250.00€
- An attractive children's book was printed during WWII in German occupied Ljubljana, Slovenia, and bears a strong anti Communist propaganda.
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