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Mirliva Mustafa Hâmi Pasha. Istanbul: Matbaa-i Âmire 1271 [1855]. 12°, 4 pp. index, 83 pp. lithographed text, lithographed imprint un unnumbered page, original illustrated wrappers, later spine (bookseller’s stamp on blank page, margins with tiny folds, tears and light staining, wrappers little stained with tiny losses on the corners, pin size holes on inner side from binding) (#70613). First Ottoman…

Mehmet Ziya GÖKALP (1876 – 1924). [Konya Seyahati Hâtırâtından / Memories from Travel to Konya] Istanbul: Araks Matbaası 1328 [1912]. 8°, 39 pp. lithography in gold, illustrated pink wrappers, unbound as originally published (wrappers slightly dusty and stained with small tears in margins, internally with tiny worm holes in inner margins, margins little dusty with tiny tears) (#70621). A description…

S. İLHAMI. [Cumhuriyet Çocuklarına Kelime Usûliyle Son Türkçe Elifba / The Latest Turkish Elifba with a Word Learning Method for Children of the Republic, 4th edition] Istanbul: Ibrahim Hilmi - Orhaniye Matbaası 1928. 8°: 64 pp. with black and white illustrations in text, original illustrated wrappers (wrappers little stained and chipped in margins, internally clean, cracks around the spine, minor…

Ibn al-Ḥājj al-Tilimsānī al-Maghribī (ابن الحاج التلساني المغربي). [Kitab Shumūs al-anwār wa-kunūz al-asrār al-kubrá / The Book of Suns of Lights and Treasures of Great Secrets] [S.l., S. d., but probably Cairo, ca 1920].  8°, 128 p., contemporary red and black marbled boards, later spine (boards rubbed and lightly scuffed, inside slightly age-toned, with small tears and tiny loss of paper…

MADAGASCAR - ORIGINAL ARCHIVE / EARLY FRENCH PRINTING AND POLITICS IN MADACASGASCAR / ANTANANARIVO IMPRINTS: Félix LEIFFEIT (b. 1864, active until at least 1930), Compiler. / Joseph Simon GALLIENI (1849 -1916), Contributor. [Various places and dates; Core of Archive, Antananarivo 1897-1905; but other elements from France and Madagascar dating as late as 1930 – for details see below].   4°…

Anon. [S. l., S. d., but Ottoman Empire, probably Istanbul, late 19th century]. Black ink on paper, 31,5 x 21 cm (inches), (tiny tears in folds and margins light foxing).

[S. l., S. d., but probably Tehran: 1860s-1870s] A rare (unrecorded?) lithographed illustrated book in Persian language with a version of a love story of Shirin and Farhad   Small 8°, 184 pp. lithographed text with 8 illustrations and floral lithographed full-page decoration on first and last page, original brown goat with a ghost of a paper label on the…

PORTUGAL – ‘THE TÁVORA AFFAIR’ / ORIGINAL MSS. VIEW AND ACCOUNT:   Anon.   Manuscript, Lisbon, January 16, 1759. 4° (29.5 x 19.5 cm): 6 pp. manuscript, brown-black pen on 2 folded sheets of laid paper watermarked ‘M.Y.’ surmounted by a cross motif, not bound but loosely housed in modern marbled paper covers (Very Good, some, mostly light, staining and…

LA LIBRERÍA DEL MERCURIO DE VALPARAÍSO.  Valparaíso: Litografia Excelsior de R. Abrines y Ca. for La Librería del Mercurio, [circa 1893].   Colour lithograph, printed on 2 joined sheets (Very Good, overall clean with attractive, bright colours, some light marginal staining, some wear along old folds, especially in upper right corner, minor old repairs from verso along fold vertices), 55…

Isidoro OLVERA Crespo (1815 - 1859). Mexico City: Imprenta de J.M. Lara, 1851.    8° (21.5 x 13.5 cm): [4], 119, [3] pp., plus, errata leaf, bound in modern quarter calf over cloth with gilt title to spine (Very Good, overall clean and crisp, just some areas of very light toning) (#70664).   Very Rare – a fascinating and unusual treatise…

IMPRENTA DE LLERAS I COMPAÑÍA, Publisher. Bogotá: Imp. de Lleras i Comp., [1837]. 12° (16 x 11 cm): [1 f. title], 28 pp., title is comprised of contemporarily pasted down printed slip over a larger printed border, full modern tree calf with gilt upon red leather title piece to spine (Good, but some small tears to upper part of leaf…

João Manuel PEREIRA DA SILVA (1817 - 1898). Rio de Janeiro: B.L. Garnier Editor, 1870-1. 8° (21 x 14 cm) - 3 volumes: [vol 1:] [2 pp.], 1 portrait, [1 ff.], 473 pp.; [vol 2:] [2 ff.], 426 pp.; [vol 3:] [2 ff.], 391 pp.; all uniformly bound in contemporary quarter red morocco with gilt title and decoration to spines…