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Maximilian von SONNENSTERN (1819 – 1895). Paris: Broise & Tiheffry, 1863. Lithograph with original outline hand colour, dissected into 24 sections and mounted upon original linen, contemporary map seller’s label of ‘Auguste Logerot / Paris’ to linen verso folding into forest green original patterned cloth covers with gilt title to front cover (Very Good, lovely original colours, overall clean and…

Pierre Adolphe Capelle (1775 – 1851) Paris: Capelle IX (1800-1801)   16°, original colour engraving, 144 pp. letterpress, pages with uneven margins, original brown wrappers (small folds in corners, little dusty, stamp 8. XI. 1946 in the lower margin of the last page, old tag with a title mounted n the inner side of the front wrapper, loss of paper…

Hélio Augusto Esteves FELGAS (1920 - 2008).   Carmona [today Uíge], Angola: [Privately Published by the Author], 1959.   Large 8° (16.5 x 22 cm): 188 pp. typescript, with 2 folding maps, the first, Divisão administrativa do actual Congo Belga (between pp. 36 & 37) printed on tracing paper (21 x 20 cm) and the second, Baixo e Medio Congo…

José Maria COGOLLOS Luque. Tunja (Boyacá, Colombia): Imp. por Vicente de Baños, 1840. Large 8° (21 x 14 cm): 84 pp., bound in modern half calf over marbled boards with gilt title to spine (Very Good, a lovely wide margined example with mostly uncut lower margins, overall clean and bright, just the odd light spot especially on final couple of…

میرزا علی آشتیانی Mirza Ali Mostoufi bin Yusof Ashtiani, also known as Meykadeh میکده, (1253-1322 Author; Mohammad-Mahdi al-Golpayegani; Mostafa, Illustrator. [Chahâr fasl-e Meykade / The Four Seasons of Mikdeh also meaning The Four Seasons of a Tavern] Tehran: 1307 [1889]. Large 8°, 223 pp. [1 pp.] imprint, lithographed text with 31 illustrations, later brown cloth binding (minor age-toning and staining,…

Calcutta: পুস্তকালয় হইতে | শ্রীবাণেশ্বর ঘোষ দ্বারা [Shrivaneshwar Ghosh] 1302 [1886]. Narrow 8°, [4 pp.] title with illustration followed by index, 36 pp., contemporary green paper boards and brown linen spine, brown endpapers (minor discoloration and staining to the wrappers, internally with only light staining, otherwise in a good condition, tiny chips in margins of endpapers, pp. 5-6 with a…

احمد عاصم Ahmet Asım (Mütercim Ahmed Asım Ayıntabî, 1787 – 1808) Merahü'l-maali fî şerhi'l-Emali also Merahu’l-meâlî fî şerhi’l-Emâlî Istanbul: Takvimhane-i Amire 1266 [1850]. 8°, [4 pp.] index, 222 pp., [2 pp.] blank, printed on paper of natural-colour, yellow, green and greyish-apricot paper with colour of paper changing every 8 or 16 pp., contemporary green straight-grain Morocco with gold tooling, dark…

Sürey Bey Şapşal (also Şapşaloğlu Süreyya, Seraya Shapshal, Серая Бен Мордехай Шапшал, Seraja Šapšalas; Seraj Szapszał; Серге́й Маркович Шапшал) (1873–1961). قريم قرائى توركلرى Kırım Karai Türkleri [Crimean Karai Turks] Istanbul: Yeni Matbaa 1928. Large 8°, 43 pp. in Ottoman script, [5 pp.] blank, original blue wrappers with title in Latin script, later spine (small tears in margins, water-stained in the…

[Theater in Düsseldorf, Today, Friday, April 19, 1831 the Imperial Russian court artist and professor of natural magic Carel Ivanovich von Mekold, who arrived here from St. Petersburg on his return journey from Paris. …War Goddess Minerva…] Düsseldorf: April 1831. Broadside, 35 x 21,5 cm (13.8 x 8.5 inches), (soft fold, otherwise in a good condition) (#70376). A playbill for…

Enrico BOMBIG. Gorizia [S. l., but probably area around Gorizia, possibly Farra d’Isonzo]: 1904. Papier-mâché or plaster in relief, with hand-colour, title and names of places in manuscript, 73,5 x 132 cm (29 x 52 inches), with frame 90 x 148 cm (35.4 x 58.3 inches), verso originally stabilized with wooden boards. [And:] Enrico BOMBIG. Contea Principesca di Gorizia e…

سودى نك يكى خريطه كلياتندن [SÛDÎ’NIN YENI HARITA KÜLLIYATINDAN / SUDI’S NEW CARTOGRAPHIC ESTABLISHMENT]. Istanbul: كتابحانه سودى [Kitaphane-yi Sûdî] 1927. Colour off-set print (Good, light stains mostly visiable verso, some wear along fold folds, tiny chips to the folds in the image and in the margins), 67 x 100 cm (26.5 x 39.5 inches). ‘Ana Vatan’ (Homeland) is one of…

MÜHENDIS MEKTEBI İKTISAD CEMIYETI [Ottoman Society of Engineering and Economy]. Hasan RASIM - Hüseyin HILMI - Osman NURI (ed.). VARIOUS AUTHORS. [Genç mühendis / Young Engineer] Istanbul: [Various Publishers] 1324-1330 [1909-1914] 26 issues (of 62) in one volume, 4°: Nos. 1-26, each with 8 pp., nos. 25 and 26 with 16 pp. each, contemporary faux alligator skin card binding (no.…