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An incredibly rare pamphlet featuring poetry specifically for boys and young men in the Georgian language, published by the Servites of the Immaculate Conception in Istanbul.   Large 8º, 59 pp., [2 pp.] list of publications, original yellow wrappers with lettering (pages and wrappers partly loose, small tears in margins, otherwise in good condition).  

The publication contains 15 contemporary treaties and trade agreements between the Ottoman Empire and various states.   Large 8º, 11 pp., 10 pp., 30 pp., 15 pp., 4 pp., 6 pp., 9 pp., 7 pp., 5 pp., 7 pp., 3 pp., 6 pp., 4 pp., 7 pp., 8 pp., 6 pp., 18 pp., contemporary marbled paper wrappers, brown cloth spine…

This manuscript broadside is a stunning example of artistry, seamlessly blending Armenian calligraphy with its distinctive letters and rich Christian symbolism that is deeply embedded in the nation’s identity. The inclusion of a traditional labyrinth form elevates the piece, serving as a profound tool for meditation and concentration.   Drawing and manuscript in various colours on paper, 62 x 44…

Large 4º, [92 pp.] with colour illustrations, illustrated wrappers with flaps, bound in later red faux-leather binding with gold tooling and lettering on the spine.

An ephemeral Japanese map illustrating Operation Barbarossa in September 1941 highlights the complex relations between Japan, the Soviet Union, and the Axis powers during World War II. Colour lithography, 53 x 75 cm (21 x 29.8 inches) (soft folds).  

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…