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A collection of patriotic stories by popular Brazilian writers Olavo Bilac (1865 – 1918) and Coelho Netto (1864 -  1934).   Small 8°, 283 pp. with colour illustrations in text, illustrated boards, original red cloth spine (slightly bumped on the edges, light foxing, internally with minor age-toning).

Regulations for the navigation of the Suez Martime Canal   Large 4°. 13 pp., [3 pp.] with partly colour illustrations, bound with original sting (sporadic old annotations, soft folds, tiny holes and tears in white margins, folds with tears, minor age-toning and staining, mostly to the last page, but overall in a good condition).

A delightfully designed ephemeral Turkish book catalogue with the titles of the books reflecting the impact of the uprising Fascism.   12°. 62 pp., [2 pp.], original illustrated wrappers (minor foxing, tiny scratches around the spine, otherwise in a good condition).

  A rare, stellar and very large format bilingual (Chinese, French) map of China, made by Stanislas Chevalier, the polymath Jesuit-scientist who was famously the father of meteorology in China, beautifully colour lithographed at the Imprimerie Hong-pao-tchai, a printing house located at Zi-Ka-Wei, the missionary education-science centre in the Xuhui District of Shanghai, with Chinese-style blue silk endpapers, the map is…

The first printed translation of the Bible into Ottoman language and the basics for all the later Turkish translations of the text. Printed in Paris with 17th century Arabic types, previously used in Napoleon’s Cairo press and one of the most elegant types made in the West.   Two volumes in one. 4°. [4 pp.], 7 pp., 984 pp. [2…

  A diary, composed of autobiographical songs and poems, filled with black humor and irony, was written by a young woman, imprisoned in Japanese camps Malang and Lampersari in Java, during World War II. 8°, notebook with striped paper, 32 pp. manuscript in Dutch in blue ink with illustrations in colour pencils, rest of the pages blank, original blue marbled…

  [Healthy Remedy against the Plague. Shape of the Cross]   A talismanic pamphlet with a cross of St. Zacharia and a prayer as a remedy against the first cholera pandemics in Portugal.   16°.8 pp. old tan wrappers with hand-hritten title on the cover (old stamp on the cover, lithographed ex-libris of Rafael Maria Rudio on the inner side…

  A very rare and attractive Mexican manual for instructing light infantry in the field, published shortly after Mexican Independence, with 2 charmingly crudely engraved plates depicting suggested reconnaissance formations, published in Mexico City for the Ministerio de Guerra y Marina. 12° (14.5 x 10 cm): [2], 251 pp., plus, 2 folding engraved plates (with Fig. 1 measuring 15 x…

  A pamphlet, explaining a round panorama of the Battle of Waterloo, which was exhibited in a wooden pavilion in Amsterdam.   8°, 1 pp., folding map (40 x 29 cm / 15.7 x 11.4 inches), [8 pp.] text, interleaved sheet with manuscript in brown ink recto, original card boards with illustrations on yellow paper, modern bookplate “Ex Libris van…

Very rare - the finest early general gold mining map of ‘The Guianas’ (British Guiana, Dutch Surinam and French Guiana), depicting numerous gold mining concession in the colonies’ incredibly rugged, jungle-covered interiors, resources which prospectors and government officials hoped would yield a ‘bonanza’ that would reverse the economic decline caused by the abolition of slavery; created from the best and…

A map of France from the first Ottoman lithographed atlas.   Colour Lithography, 32 x 43 cm (12.6 x 17 inches), (soft fold slightly age-toned, minor wear to the margins, but overall in a good condition).

A map of Oceania from the first Ottoman lithographed atlas.   Colour Lithography, 32 x 43 cm (12.6 x 17 inches), (soft fold slightly age-toned, minor wear to the margins, but overall in a good condition).

  A rare chromolithographed plan of Istanbul with charming wrappers, printed in Zürich and published by a German book shop in Istanbul.   Chromolithographed map, originally dissected in 15 segments and mounted on paper, 63 x 73 cm (24.8 x 28.7 inches), folded in original illustrated cromolithographed wrappers 8° (Slightly age-toned, minor chips to the edges of segments, sporadic annotations…

  A rare Greek manual on quick and precise map-making on the field with limited equipment.   8°,77 pp. with black and white illustrations, original illustrated wrappers, stapled(printed on thin paper with traces of printed text on reverse side, small tears in margins, wrappers slightly stained, with tiny loss of paper in margins, but overall in a good condition).  

  Large 8°, 48 pp., [8 pp.], printed in black grey and red on thick paper, with mounted portrait of Franz Kafka under grey flap and 4 original linocuts in grey and black, original printed wrappers over blank paper boards, 215 numbered example of 296 (unbound as originally published, minor foxing, binding little rubbed with light staining and age-toning).  

An early Polish book, supporting the women’s rights   8°. [4 pp.], 472 pp., contemporary three quarter grey linen binding with marbled boards, hand-written title on the spine, marbled edges (book plate of a Franciscan Library in Krakow with deaccessioned stamps on the inner side of the front board, stamps of the same library on the title page and inside…

  8°. [2 pp.], 278 pp. letterpress, contemporary dark brown Morocco binding with a flap and gold and blind tooling (old book-seller’s stamp on the first unnumbered blank page, old annotations on blank pages and inner sides of the boards, binding slightly rubbed with loss of material on the corners, sporadic margins with light water-staining and folds, but otherwise clean).…

A fascinating original manuscript letter shedding unique and valuable insights into the related wine and indigo trades in mid-19th century India, written by the leading Calcutta wine and indigo merchant James Lyall & Co., and addressed to the great ‘maison du vin’ of Clossman & Co. of Bordeaux, which details the risks involved in the generally lucrative importation of French…

A fascinating letter regarding the Siege of Savannah (1779), an exciting and consequential event of the American Revolutionary War, during which the Georgian capital’s British garrison withstood an assault by a much larger combined Franco-American force; here, writing in 1785, Brigadier General Augustine Prévost, who served as the British commander at Savannah, provides Reverend Thomas Shaw, a major ‘fixer’ in…

[Ajirņamamiñjari also Ajirna Manjari / Indigestion with Explanation and Commentary]   A rare book in Sanskrit, printed in Varanasi, India, and describing remedies for indigestion, based on the Ayurvedic medicine   Large 8°, title page, 25 pp., contemporary dark red cloth binding with gilt lettering on the cover, contemporary patterned endpapers (little age-toned, tiny tears in margins, binding and endpapers…

  Extremely rare – 1 of only 3 known examples – an ‘Edital’ (Notice) broadside issued by the exiled Portuguese royal court in Brazil that encourages the cultivation of plants that have pharmacological and industrial uses, part of Brazil’s revolutionary economic liberalization programme overseen by the ‘Real Junta do Commercio’, published in Rio de Janeiro by the Impressão Regia, Brazil’s…

  Extremely rare in commerce – the first edition of a work that featured the most powerful defense of slavery of the late Enlightenment era, and one of the most influential and controversial books in Brazilian and Portuguese history, written by José de Azeredo Coutinho, the Brazilian plantation owner-turned celebrated intellectual and cleric who was the (unintentional) forefather of Brazilian…

  Exceedingly rare and highly important – a complete, contemporarily bound annual run of 53 issues of the maiden and only full year of operation of the ‘The Regenerator of Aryavarta’, the short-lived but highly influential weekly journal published in Lahore, edited by a triumvirate of young luminaries led by the precocious 18-year-old Lala Lajpat Rai, who later gained fame…

  [Primary Atlas of the World. For use in Egyptian Schools. First Edition]   First Egyptian modern school atlas of the world, published in the year of the country’s independence, in 1922.   Square 4°. Title page, 35 pp. with full page colour lithographed maps, bound in original blue card covers with title printed on front cover (title page little…