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Joseph PRIESTLEY (1733-1804). London: J. Johnson, St. Paul's Church Yard, May 1, 1805 Copper engravings and lithography, originally dissected to 21 segments and mounted on linen with green silk edges, 64 x 97cm (25.2 x 38.2 inches), housed in an original green mottled papered card slipcase (slipcase slightly rubbed, little foxed and stained). A time chart, composed by one of…

MOZAMBIQUE – ISLAM / MIDDLE EAST-AFRICAN NEXUS / ORIGINS OF MILITANT ISLAMISM IN MOZAMBIQUE: Albano Mendes PEDRO (1915 - 1989). / CENTRO DE ESTUDOS POLÍTICOS E SOCIAIS DA JUNTA DE INVESTIGAÇÕES DO ULTRAMAR. Lisbon: Centro de Estudos Políticos e Sociais da Junta de Investigações do Ultramar, May 31, 1961. 4° (29 x 20.5 cm): [1 f., title], 49 ff. typescript, bound in original green…

Benjamin FRANKLIN (1706-1790), author; REŞAD, translator. [Tarik-i Refah. Frankli'nin Servet Hakkındaki Nasayihi ve Tercüme-i Hali / The Way to Wealth. Franklin's Commentary on Wealth and ItsTranslation] Sarajevo: Sultan Beyazıd Saadet Kütübhanesi 1326 [1910] 8°, 30 pp., [2 pp.], uncut as originally published, later marbled wrappers (uncut, unread example with minor storage wear) (#70725). A rare Ottoman translation of Franklin’s The…

Fahreddin Reşad Bey (Rumbeyoğlu Fahreddin Bey also Rumbeyoğlu Fahr al-Din Bey,1867–1943) - Mehmed Nâbi Bey (1868-1924). [The Problem of Irrigation and Water Supply in Mesopotamia] Istanbul: Matbaa-i Âmire 1334 [1918]. 8°, 14 pp., [2 pp.] blank, original tan wrappers with lettering on the cover (minor foxing, otherwise in a good, clean condition) (#70726). An Ottoman pamphlet on the irrigation in…

Ahmet Refik Altınay (1881-1937). [General History. Ancient History – Medieval Centuries] Istanbul: Millî Matbaa 1926. Large 8°, 627 pp. with interleaved black and white illustrations, contemporary black Morocco binding with gold tooling on covers and lettering on the spine, contemporary patterned endpapers (a tiny chip in white edges of pages 361-362 and 575-576, latter with a tiny loss of lettering,…

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…

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…