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  A collection of 4 important Portuguese royal decrees announcing sweeping legal reforms in Goa, including the ‘Alvará’ that established the state’s new code for combatting piracy in the Indian Ocean; all part of the Marquis de Pombal’s radical Enlightenment agenda for the Portuguese Empire – all the pamphlets are very rare and in stellar condition.

  A rare ephemeral program written in French, Armenian and Ottoman, was published for a for the matinée and evening performance of the Ottoman operetta Leblebici Horhor Aga, written by an Armenian author Tigran Tchoukhajian.

  A superb example, handsomely bound in a fine three quarter blue morocco, probably from the library of Napoleon II.

  A pair of fine, separately issued maps that represent the first broadly accurate general  mapping of Southern Egypt and Northern Sudan; important masterpieces of frontier military cartography printed during the Siege of Khartoum, and which served as the definitive maps used by Anglo-Egyptian forces for the remainder of the Mahdist War (1881-99), the epic contest for control of Sudan;…

  An Italian illustrated magazine on the war events on the Balkans in 1897.

  A very rare and authoritative contemporary account of how the Spanish Royal Court publicly greeted the arrival of the news of the Christian victory at the Siege of Vienna (1683), including a detailed description of the elaborate cavalcade of King Carlos II to the Royal Convent of Our Lady of Atocha and the reception of the Austrian ambassador at…

  Rare – the first great counter-argument to Colonel George de Lacy Evans’ ‘Designs of Russia’, widely considered to be the intellectual genesis of ‘The Great Game’, by the esteemed economist Thomas Tooke.

  A German translation of the second part of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk’s famous marathon speech in the parliament, which lasted over 36 hours in 6 days, is preserved with an extremely rare dust jacket, decorated by a striking powerful portrait of the Turkish leader.

  A rare political Communist magazine, printed in Ottoman script, was issued in 1929 in Samarkand, Uzbekistan and includes articles on the industrial development of the country in the 5 years after Lenin’s death.

  A series of one of the most influential Ottoman newspapers with elaborate colour printing.