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  Small 4°. 531 pp., [12 pp.], original illustrated wrappers (wrappers scratched and bumped on the corners and with small tears and scratches on the surface, inside in a good, clean condition with minimal age-toning).  

  Very rare – a sermon preached by the senior Jesuit diplomat and administrator Manoel de Figueiredo at Velha-Goa’s Cathedral of Bom Jesus celebrating the momentous military victory at the Siege of Alorna (May 4, 1746) scored by the Portuguese forces under the Marquez de Castello Novo aganst the Maratha Confederacy, the sermon being a key element of the elborate…

  A good collection of 22 + 10 numbers of the Ottoman magazine Servet-i Fünun, known for its richly illustrated content, promoting international events, progress in technology, medicine and education, and a gathering point of the modern Ottoman literature.

  A part of an exceedingly rare, possibly first translation of Shahname to Gujarati.   Large 8°, [5 pp.], 890-1008 pp. title in Gujarati and English, text in Gujarati, mounted paper label “Presented by the Trustees of the Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy Translation Fund” on the inner side of the front board, contemporary half goat binding with gold tooling in the…

  8°: 71 pp., original wrappers with lettering, later spine (Ottoman annotations on the top of the title page, otherwise in a good condition).

  Large 8°. 148 pp., original wrappers with lettering, unbound as originally published (slightly age-toned and stained, but overall in a good condition).  

  8°. 230 pp., [2 pp.] blank, original tan wrapper with lettering (minor age-toning, otherwise a good clean almost unused condition).  

An exceedingly rare ephemeral music score, made by an Austrian geographer and diplomat Gustav von Kreitner for the German Club Concordia in Shanghai in 1878 to raise money for wounded Austrian soldiers in Bosnia. 32 x 25,5 cm (12.6 x 10 inches), [4 pp.] printed title and double-page music score (minor foxing, traces of glue on the spine, old signature…

Highly important and seemingly unrecorded – as best as we are aware the only complete printed cadastral masterplan of the International Settlement of Shanghai in its expanded (post-1899) form, thus including 5 separate maps, respectively showcasing the Central (The Bund), Northern (Hongkou) and Western Districts, while the Eastern District is covered by 2 of the maps; the plans were made…

  Two original drawings on one sheet showcasing SS Porto and icebreaker Mikula were made by a British, probably during a military campaign in the Black Sea or Eastern Mediterranean Sea, circa 1920.

  [The view of the Hut Hills, where the 3rd Regiment, which was dispatched from Istanbul, which was in charge of protecting the city from the attack of the rebels, defended for 45 days until the force needed in Iskodra was replenished] [and:] [Headquarters of the 2nd Division of the Ishkodra Forces. The Rrapshë Plain]   Unique late Ottoman bird’s…

[Chalma la tuplě, kam, Zoyg Chalmanere / Jalma la Double. Mysterious Stories]   A rare book in Armenian language, printed in Alexandria, Egypt, is a translation of a French orientalist novel and is accompanied with monochrome photographs from a contemporary popular French silent movie Jalma la Double.   8°. 365 pp. with 16 interleaved colour photographs, [1], newer three-quarter calf…