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Exceedingly rare – an important report written by António Marques Pereira, the ‘Procurador dos Negócios Sinicos de Macao’ (‘Crown Attorney of the Chinese Affairs of Macau’), the ultra-powerful magistrate who oversaw all matters concerning the Chinese residents of Macau and the colony’s relations with China, including the ‘coolie trade’, the quasi-enslavement of migrant Chinese workers sent to Latin America; the…

  [Healthy Remedy against the Plague. Shape of the Cross]   A talismanic pamphlet with a cross of St. Zacharia and a prayer as a remedy against the first cholera pandemics in Portugal.   16°.8 pp. old tan wrappers with hand-hritten title on the cover (old stamp on the cover, lithographed ex-libris of Rafael Maria Rudio on the inner side…

  Very rare – the definitive report on the Central Provinces and Berar Cholera Epidemic of 1868, written by Dr. Stephen Townsend, the region’s top medical officer; this outbreak of cholera drew great attention as it occurred in the Nagpur-Jubbulpore corridor on the eve of India’s first trans-peninsular railway being completed the area, while the epidemic was unusual as it…

  A highly decorative pictorial map of Rhodes, representing the newly built Fascist urban structures, was printed by the Italian State Tourist Department.   Colour lithography, 69 x 49 cm (27.1 x 19.3 inches) verso black and white illustrations and text (soft folds, overall in a good condition).  

  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,…

  A rare tourist map of Rhodes in Arabic language was made at the occasion of the 1949 Armistice Agreements between Israel and neighboring Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, and Syria.   

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…

  One of the most important, engaging and authentic accounts of Rio de Janeiro at an exciting historical juncture, in the immediate wake of the onset of the ‘Brazilian Enlightenment’ the country’s independence; written by Ernst Ebel, a wealthy Baltic-German merchant from Riga (then in the Russian Empire), who traveled to Rio to investigate the prospects of Russo-Brazilian trade; Ebel’s…

  A rare transportation map, published in the last months of WWI in Switzerland, showcases the navigable river routes of the central Europe and the planned projects.