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Exceedingly rare – an almost complete collection (76 of 79 issues) of ‘Os Simples’, the first major, and reasonably enduring, labour newspaper issued in Mozambique, published in Lourenço Marques (Maputo) from February 1911 to September 1913; an unparalleled source on the rise of the white working class and unionism in Mozambique, the socialist-republican paper, published by professional typographers, featured diverse…

A unique and vital primary source on the history of what is today the United States Virgin Islands during the critical period of the Napoleonic Wars and the twilight of the West Indies sugar-slave economy, being the original manuscript letter book of William Manning, an English MP, tycoon, slave plantation owner and the Governor of the Bank of England, who…

Giambattista SCALA (1817-1871). [Memoirs of Giambattista Scala Consul of Her Majesty of Italy in Lagos di Guinéa about his trip to Abbeockuta, a city in the interior of Africa made in the year 1858] Sampierdarena, today a part of Genoa: Francesco Vernengo 1862. 8º, [4 pp.] blank and title, 243 pp., 5 pp., contemporary black linen boards and black goat…

Adolf HAUPT (fl. 1900 – 1933). Tsingdao [Qingdao]: Printed at the Catholic Mission Press, 1927. 8° (19 x 11.5 cm): [13 pp. advertisements, title, preliminaries], 1-48 pp., [16 pp. advertisements on coloured paper], 49-156 pp. (with 82 photographic images imbedded within text), [2 pp.], plus 2 large folding colour lithographed maps on thick paper, bound in original printed boards with…

Three early rare Thai merit-making volumes were created for the 40th anniversary of King Chulalongkorn’s reign. They include speeches based on manuscripts from the National Library, delivered at Wat Arun in Bangkok after the restoration of key structures during Thailand's Buddhist reform movement. In very good, seemingly unread condition from an European collection.

A fascinating collection of 30 early Thai Cremation Volumes in near-mint condition.

Gu HONGMING (also Ku Hung-Ming, 辜鴻銘, 1857-1928). Beijing: The Peking Daily News, 1915. 8 º , [8 pp.] blank and titles in Chinese and English, 21 pp., [3 pp.] blank and index, X, 168 pp., original green binding (binding little water-stained and rubbed, internally clean with sporadic annotations in pen and pencil). The first edition of a collection of essays…

S. l., s.d, but France, circa 1815. 11 originally coloured engravings, each 7 x 6 cm (2.7 x 2.3 inches), 9 folded green sheets, each with printed title on the front, 2 pages of miniature text in the inner side and blank verso (of probably 12 sets), housed in original slipcase with illustrated cover (slipcase soiled with folds and scratches,…

Lucien Florent Paul COFFYN (1810 - 1871). Manuscript, [Saigon, April-May 1862].   Manuscript, pen and ink and grisaille wash on paper, bearing three original manuscript signatures, being those of the author, draftsman and colonial governor, mounted upon a larger piece of 20th century paper (Good, wear along old folds with some minor loss at some fold vertices, some short closed tears…

Walter Burley GRIFFIN (1876 - 1937) [and Marion Mahony GRIFFIN (1871 - 1961)] / Charles Robert SCRIVENER (1855 - 1923). [Canberra:] Federal Capital Commission, May 1927.   Colour lithograph, mounted upon original linen and folding into original purple cloth covers bearing gilt short title to upper cover, with handstamps to inside front cover and to verso of map: ‘H. Hurry…

CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE GOBIERNO DEL DISTRITO FEDERAL. Mexico City: Compañía Litográfica y Tipográfica, S.A., 1906.   Colour lithograph on thick paper, housed in original red cloth slipcase bearing gilt short title of ‘Plano de la Ciudad de México / 1906’ to front side (Good, clean and bright, some hairline tears entering image but archivally repaired from verso with no loss,…

VARIOUS AUTHORS. Johann STRANIMARYER, Author of the Collection. Gesänge. Gesam(m)elt im heurigen Jahr, wo das Trinkgeld sehr wehlfeil war. Zur Belustigung für Jedermann. [Songs. Gathered in This Year, when the Money was Very Low [lit. when the Tips were Poor]. For Entertainment of Everyone] Mostly Austrian Empire: Vienna, Prague, Wiener Neustadt, Jihlava, Znojmo [circa 1800-1850] - Collected in Kapfenberg, Austria:…