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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…

A scarce Japanese Meiji era atlas, based on Johnston’s The National Atlas of Historical, Commercial and Political Geography   4°, [1 pp.] text in red with gold decorative margins, 7 double-page colour lithographed maps, 23 pp. with imprint on the inner side of the rear pasted endpaper, original card wrappers with lettering, black cloth spine (sporadic minor foxing, world map…

An unusual multilingual work by de Cantos with a text collage, made of various languages Square 8°, 190 pp. also printed upside down(first 65 pp. not numbered), [2 pp.], one full page illustration in grey, black and red (same design as on the cover), illustrated covers with flaps (light foxing throughout the book, slightly age-toned in margins, wrappers with foxing…

A short dictionary of foreign words, as well as expressions used in Brazil and in Portuguese colonies, and correct Portuguese words with an attractive cover. Small 8°, 8 pp. on pink paper with covers printed in black and red, unbound as originally published (Very Good).

Book on the geography of Portugal, richly illustrated with de Cantos’s unusually designed maps and drawings.   Small 8°, 138 pp. with colour illustrations, 2 mounted illustrations on brown paper, pink wrappers with flaps and hand-coloured illustration on the cover (three owner’s signatures on the first page and one on the top of the cover, small paper label on the…

A pedagogical avant-garde book with data visualization, in techniques of typographic illustrations in letterpress, made by a Portuguese educator Paulo de Cantos.  

[Istanbul, 1880s or 1890s]   Large 12°. 4 pp. (without wrappers, possibly as originally published, in a good condition).   A religious pamphlet in Bulgarian language.

Nikolai Ivanovich KOTOVSCHIKOV (KOTOVSHCHIKOV, 1846-1905) [Title on Rear Wrapper:] Ординарный профессоръ Императорскаго Казанскаго Университета. Н. И. Котовщиковъ. Признаки распознаванія и лѣченія чумы. Переводъ съ русскаго. Изданіе Гайнуль Гибадъ Хасанова. Kazan: Типо-литографія Императорскаго Университета [Typo-Lithography of the Imperial University] 1911. [Ordinary professor at the Imperial Kazan University. N. I. Kotovshchikov. Signs of Recognition and Treatment of Plague. Translation from Russian. Published…

Raja Śivaprasāda or Shivaprasad (राजा शिवप्रसाद 'सितारेहिन्द,1823 – 1895) Lucknow: Newul Kishore 1889.   8°, [4 pp.] title & index, v, 91 pp., later wrappers (uneven edges with tiny tears, little stained, otherwise in a good condition) (#70612).

George Willis BOTSFORD (1862-1917). Lahore: Punjab Press, 1909.   Small 8°, title, 192 pp. lithographed text, original blue wrappers with lettering, original tan publisher’s wrappers, later spine (sporadic red lines in margins, corners slightly rubbed with small folds, title page with restored small tears and old sporadic annotations, publisher’s wrappers with annotations on the cover and partly repaired tears).