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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, History, Newly Catalogued Items: August 2022
- ANTI-FASCIST PROPAGANDA / WORLD WAR II IN GREECE: Πολεμικη Σατυρα [Polemiki Satira / War Satire]
- 650.00€
- 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,…
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- New Acquisitions: December 2020, Slavica
- ANTISEMITISM / CROATIA / POLITICAL PROPAGANDA: O židovima [About the Jews]
- 250.00€
- A rare, unusual separately issued propaganda publication in Croatian language with an extreme anti-Semitic content, was printed in 1939, on the eve of WWII. It is a reprint of a 1906 article by an influential Croatian politician Stjepan Radić (died 1928), who later became a liberal politician and regrated his early writings. 8°: 16 pp., original green wrappers with…
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- Books, New Acquisitions: December 2020, Slavica
- ANTISEMITISM / CROATIA: Postoji li židovska opasnost. Moj proces sa Židovima [Is there a Jewish Danger? My Process with the Jews]
- 220.00€
- A rare anti-Semitic work in Croatian language was published on the eve of WWII. 8°. X, 221 pp., original wrappers with lettering (old owner's stamp on the first page, tiny tears in the wrappers, otherwise a good, uncut example).
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- Books, Ottoman Books, Turkica
- Antisemitism in the Ottoman Empire: ملت اسرايليه [Millet-i Israiliye / Nation of Israel]
- 350.00€
- The first book in Ottoman language to express anti-Semitic tendencies 12°. 78 pp. [2 pp.] blank, original illustrated purple wrappers (minor tears in margins, but overall in a good, uncut condition).
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- Books, Geography
- Apontamentos sobre a cholera-morbus epidemica na sua invasão em Portugal / Escriptos pelo fallecido Dr. Emigdio Manoel da Victorio da Costa / Antigo lente de medicina da Universidade de Coimbra / Coordenados por seu filho o Dr. Adolpho Manoel Victorio da Costa / Director do Collegio Victorio, Ex-Director e Benemerito do Gabinete Portuguez de Leitura, Socio Honorario do de Pernambuco, da Sociedade Portugueza de Beneficencia, e Antigo Examinador de Sciencias Propedeuticas da Escola de Medicina do Rio de Janeiro, Etc. Com um Proemio em que se trata Amplamente o Genero Desta Palavra.
- 2,200.00€
- Very Rare – a remarkably astute treatise on cholera accompanied by an amazing 462 case studies of named patients written at the height of the Cholera Epidemic of 1833-4 in Portugal by the respected physician Emigdio Manoel da Victorio da Costa, who selflessly tended to infected persons on the front lines; the work remained in manuscript for many years, until…
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- Arabic Books, Books
- Arab Book Design / Literature: بنت الشيطان وقصص أخرى
- 160.00€
- [Devil’s Daughter and Other Stories] Short stories in Arabic language written in Cairo during WWII by an Egyptian writer Mahmud Taymur and ornated with a stunning cover design 8°. 150 pp., [2], original illustrated card wrappers (wrappers rubbed on the corners and stained on the back cover, small old annotation on the title page, in a read…
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- Arabic Books, Books
- Arab Book Design / Oedipus: أوديب [Oedipus]
- 320.00€
- Arabic translation of three texts on Oedipus by a prolific Egyptian translator Taha Hussein, accompanied with an overdramatic cover and charming mid-century clip art Small 8°. 194 pp., original illustrated wrappers (wrappers with short tears, folds and rubbed corners, small loss of paper around the spine, inside in a good condition).
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