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ROYAUME D’EGYPTE. CABINET DU GRAND CHAMBELLAN. Cairo: Imprimerie nationale 1947. Large 8°, [4 pp.] title and introduction, 192 pp. text in French, 45 unnumbered colour illustrations, with many mounted images and one folding plate, original red cloth binding with gold lettering on the cover and spine (annotations in Arabic in blue ink on p. 7, minor corrections in pencil to…

Samuel HOLLAND (1728 - 1801). London: William Faden, April 12th, 1813.   Copper engraving with original outline hand colour, dissected into 21 sections and mounted upon original linen, Faden’s printed pastedown label to verso, folding into original marbled card slipcase with printed pastedown title label to upper cover (Good, some toning and staining, slipcase worn with some old stains from…

LAOS – HECTOGRAPHED PROOF EXAMPLE OF THE FIRST TRAVEL GUIDE TO LAOS:  Antonin BAUDENNE.   Vientiane: [Self-Published by the Author], [January 1911].   4° (32 x 21.5 cm): 68 ff. total all hectographed in purple and printed single-sided, including 34 numbered pp. text, 1 single f. chart and 6 multiple ff. charts each on thicker paper with mss. descriptions in…

Édouard BOUËT-WILLAUMEZ (1808 - 1871).   Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1848.   Large 8° (24 x 15.5 cm): vii, 230 pp., plus, 2 folding lithographed maps (the second of which has details in original hand colour), bound in original printed card wrappers (Good, text generally clean but toning along page edges and some areas of sporadic light spotting, maps with some…

Thomas WINGATE (1807-1869) (att.). [S. l., S. d., but probably Pakistan or India, 1840]. A large original drawing showcasing the the Siege of Kahun in Balochistan during the First Anglo-Afghan War, probably drafted by an amateur artist and officer Thomas Wingate, later active in Australia. Watercolours on paper 28,5 x 41cm (11.2 x 16.1 inches), mounted with margins under old…

Charles George GORDON, aka “Gordon of Khartoum” (1833 - 1884).   Manuscript, [Khartoum, Autumn 1879].   An original manuscript of extraordinary quality and interest, being a report written by the legendary British soldier-adventurer Sir Charles George Gordon, aka “Gordon of Khartoum”, in his capacity as Governor-General of Sudan, in the service of the Egyptian Khedive, articulating his well-conceived plan to…

مىرزا عبد ألوهاب معتمد Mirzâ ‘Abd al-Vahhâb Mo‘tamed al-Dawle Nashât (d. 1244/1828), Author of Text; Hajji Musa, Author of Introduction and Book Catalogue; ‘Ali-Asgar Tafres (fl. 1261 - 1288 / 1844 - 1871), Scribe. Tehran: [s.n.] 1281-82 [1864-1865].   First catalogue of Persian printed and lithographed books Long 4°, [6 pp.], 344 pp., [1 pp.] lithographed text on paper with…

Two original mimeographed recipes for world famous Fraises Sarah Bernhardt and Dodine de Canard de Chambertin, signed by their inventor, Auguste Escoffier, one of the most prolific chefs of the 20th century, and printed for the first international luxury gourmand evening Dîner d’Épicure on May 18, 1912, when recipes were sent to 37 international luxury hotels and restaurants, where 4000…

Mehmet Fetgerey Şoenu, 1890-1931. [Kafkasya ve Servet Menbaları / Caucasus and Sources of Wealth]   Istanbul: A. Garoyan Matbaası  1924.   8°, blank, 136 pp., original wrappers with lettering (uncut example, little age-toned, foxed  and stained, tiny tears and chips in margins).

A pamphlet in Ottoman language on the question about the future of Circassians in the newly founded Turkish Republic, written by a prominent Circassian author Mehmet Fetgerey Şoenu. Small 8°, blank, 47 pp., [1 p.], blank, on thick paper, original thick card wrappers with lettering, bound with original string (wrappers water-stained in margins and with light foxing, rear wrapper and…

Extremely rare and important, being the official Rio de Janeiro printing of the Anglo-Portuguese Convention of January 21, 1815, singed at the Congress of Vienna, whereby Britain (which in 1807 resolved to unilaterally ban the Transatlantic slave trade) agreed to compensate Portugal with £300,000 (then an enormous sum) for the having (illegally) apprehended and condemned Portuguese and Brazilian slaving vessels…

Possibly the earliest manuscript, mentioning Saartje or Sarah Baartman, known as the “Hottentot Venus” who was as a victim of contemporary scientific racism exhibited in England and Paris from 1810 to 1815 as a freak, believed to be related closer to apes than to humans. The letter was written in Cape Town in late 1809 by Alexander Dunlop, a military…