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  A gigantic late 19th century map of the Ottoman Empire  

  An exquisite and rare example of late-Ottoman surrogate publishing, this 16-page pocket pamphlet seamlessly blends the romantic, Western-inspired aesthetic of Art Nouveau with traditional Eastern poetic tropes to market one of the era’s most famous global patent medicines: Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People. Disguised as an elegant literary guide to the coded language of flowers (Çiçeklerin Dili),…

  A handsome Ottoman lithographic edition of the Tutiname, a Middle Eastern tale in which a parrot entertains its mistress with stories, preventing her from visiting her lover during her husband’s absence.  

  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…

  A historically monumental, unrecorded field archive documenting the immediate practical, diplomatic, and economic implementation of the Treaty of Passarowitz (1718). This suite pairs the highly confidential, field-translated correspondence of the Ottoman Governor Mustafa Pasha with the exhaustive, two-part economic census of named frontier districts and Slavic estate owners ceded along the military demarcation lines of Habsburg Serbia—capturing the exact…

  Very rare in commerce – the authoritative firsthand account of the first European attempt to colonize New Guinea, written by Lieutenant Justin Modera of the expedition ship ‘Triton’, who recounts the harrowing attempt to establish Fort Du Bus and to explore the forbidding southwestern coast of New Guinea, featuring a stellar sea chart of the region from Modera’s groundbreaking…

  A fascinating, foundational work on the Brazil’s wild southern frontier during the generation following independence, being an account of Rio Grande do Sul written by Nicolào Dreys, a French merchant who lived in the province from 1818 to 1828, and published in Rio de Janeiro in 1839 during the height of the ‘Ragamuffin War’, a successionist struggle which gripped…

The foundational map of Namibia – created on the eve of the formal colonization of the region by the venerable linguist, trader, and explorer Dr. Theophilus Hahn from his extensive personal reconnaissance and indigenous interviews, this monumental cartographic achievement accurately charts the routes, European settlements and missions, water sources, as well as the tribal territories and population distribution of the…