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A great rarity of Cuban cartography, being a city plan of Santiago de Cuba, drafted and lithographed locally by Louis François Delmés, the French émigré portraitist and miniaturist who was the father of academic painting in eastern Cuba; the map, executed in the artist’s signature resplendent colour palette, portrays Cuba’s second city during the island’s last ‘sugar boom’, showcasing Santiago…

A stellar pair of original manuscript sea charts, on a single sheet, being surveys by James Langley, the Master of the ‘HMS Scamander’, showing 1) Gros Islet Bay, a critical fortified harbour near the northern point of St. Lucia that was chosen by the famed Admiral George Rodney a key base of the Royal Navy; and 2) Prince Rupert’s Bay…

A grand format original manuscript that is one of the finest and most detailed maps of St. George’s, the capital of Grenada, from the slave-plantation era, the result of a collaboration between Captain William Elliott, James Langley and James Young of the Royal Engineers; drafted shortly after the Napoleonic Wars, when the Grenada lived under the spectre of a possible…

The fourth edition of this fundamental work in classical economics.   Two volumes, both 8º, xiii, 498 pp. [8 pp.], 489 pp., [62 pp.], contemporary full calf, dark red morocco spine labels with gold lettering, speckled edges (light scuffing to the corners of the bindings, first and last leaves with light brown glue-staining from the boards in margins, collector’s rubber stamps “Ex-Libris E.…

A detailed history of India, Hyderabad, and its rulers in Urdu, authored by historian Muhammad Ghulam Imam Khan, provides valuable insights into the events of the late 18th and mid-19th centuries.   Large 4º, 10 pp., 790 pp. lithographed text, contemporary goat binding with gold tooling (binding scuffed and scratched, joints broken but not detached, first two text pages loose,…

An elaborately made manuscript travelogue to Argentina in 1891 by a teenage boy Mariano de Bary, a son of a bank and transportation mogul Heinrich Albert de Bary and a descendant of a prominent Argentinian family Saavedra.   Large 4º, blank, illustrated title page, 130 pp., [1 pp.], manuscript in blue ink, 43 original black and white photographs mounted in…

The album contains 131 photographs from the Second Boer War, as well as images depicting life in South Africa before and after the conflict. It provides valuable insights into this historic period, particularly through a collection of photographs taken in the field with a modern portable roll film camera.v   Album, oblong large 4º, 25 thick grey boards with 131…

Exceedingly rare – an almost complete collection (76 of 79 issues) of ‘Os Simples’, the first major, and reasonably enduring, labour newspaper issued in Mozambique, published in Lourenço Marques (Maputo) from February 1911 to September 1913; an unparalleled source on the rise of the white working class and unionism in Mozambique, the socialist-republican paper, published by professional typographers, featured diverse…

A unique and vital primary source on the history of what is today the United States Virgin Islands during the critical period of the Napoleonic Wars and the twilight of the West Indies sugar-slave economy, being the original manuscript letter book of William Manning, an English MP, tycoon, slave plantation owner and the Governor of the Bank of England, who…

Giambattista SCALA (1817-1871). [Memoirs of Giambattista Scala Consul of Her Majesty of Italy in Lagos di Guinéa about his trip to Abbeockuta, a city in the interior of Africa made in the year 1858] Sampierdarena, today a part of Genoa: Francesco Vernengo 1862. 8º, [4 pp.] blank and title, 243 pp., 5 pp., contemporary black linen boards and black goat…

Adolf HAUPT (fl. 1900 – 1933). Tsingdao [Qingdao]: Printed at the Catholic Mission Press, 1927. 8° (19 x 11.5 cm): [13 pp. advertisements, title, preliminaries], 1-48 pp., [16 pp. advertisements on coloured paper], 49-156 pp. (with 82 photographic images imbedded within text), [2 pp.], plus 2 large folding colour lithographed maps on thick paper, bound in original printed boards with…

Three early rare Thai merit-making volumes were created for the 40th anniversary of King Chulalongkorn’s reign. They include speeches based on manuscripts from the National Library, delivered at Wat Arun in Bangkok after the restoration of key structures during Thailand's Buddhist reform movement. In very good, seemingly unread condition from an European collection.