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Édouard BOUËT-WILLAUMEZ (1808 - 1871).   Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1848.   Large 8° (24 x 15.5 cm): vii, 230 pp., plus, 2 folding lithographed maps (the second of which has details in original hand colour), bound in original printed card wrappers (Good, text generally clean but toning along page edges and some areas of sporadic light spotting, maps with some…

The most extraordinary, extensive and data-rich manuscript on slavery we have ever encountered – being an original Cuban ‘registro’ (registry book) of ‘licensed’ slaves composed by a slave ‘registrador’s (registrar’s) office, likely either Havana or Matanzas, in 1855-56 (from December 1854 onwards, all slaves in Cuba were required to have a ‘cédula’, that acted as both a license and an…

An original manuscript contract for the sale of 35 named slaves, sold for the price of £1800 by the Irishman Patrick Coningham, based in Union Island, in the Grenadines, to his brother Walter Coningham, one of St. Vincent’s preeminent sugar planters and the proprietor of he the well-known Colonarie Vale estate; the contract, which was signed sealed and witnessed in…

8° (22 x 14.5 cm): [2], 82 pp., bound in modern marbled paper wrappers (Very Good, uncut, overall clean, just the odd light spot, some light toning to last leaf).

  An award- winning radio play in German language by a Slovenia-born author on the absurdity of the dictatorship with a photomontage cover.

  A short novel with a Futurist cover was published in Slovenian language in Fascist Italy by one of the last persisting Slavic publishing companies, under Italian censorship, in 1933.

  A short novel with a Futurist cover was published in Slovenian language in Fascist Italy by one of the last persisting Slavic publishing companies, under Italian censorship, in 1930.

  A first edition of a novel by France Bevk was published under difficult circumstances by one of the last Slavic publishing houses persisting on the Italian Fascist territories. The text inside is Slovenian, but the main title had to be translated to Italian and the author's name has been Italianised. 

  A first edition of a novel by France Bevk was published under difficult circumstances by one of the last Slavic publishing houses persisting on the Italian Fascist territories. The cover was designed by a futurist painter Julče Božič.

An anthology of Slovenian modern poetry, concentrated around a liberal student newspaper Tribuna, between years 1965 and 1970. Small 8°, 100 pp., [2 pp.], original wrappers with lettering (minor staining and age-toning, spine slightly age-toned with small tears, but overall ina good condition).

  8°, 163 pp., original illustrated card wrappers, dedication by the author in black ink on the title page (wrappers with minor age-toning and tiny tears in margins, otherwise in a good condition).