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  Extremely rare – the complete series of the 3 maps (on 4 sheets) of the Ottoman-Persian Boundary Survey in the vicinity of the Shatt Al-Arab waterway, along today’s Iraq-Iran frontier, above the head of the Persian Gulf, as mandated by the Anglo-Turkish Declaration of July 29, 1913; this boundary settlement was surveyed by Indian Army engineers under the supervision…

  [Report on Yemen. A Statement about the Improvement of the Situation in Yemen, Presented to the Ottoman Parliament by deputy Nureddin Bey from Siverek]   8°, 48 pp., folding colour map, later brown cloth binding with mounted original wrappers (wrappers slightly age-toned and stained with tiny pieces of paper missing, inside in overall good condition).  

  A highly important and attractive work on the Eighth Xhosa War (1850-3), a critical conflict in which the British scored a crushing defeat upon the Xhosa, so securing permanent dominance over the Eastern Frontier regions of the Cape Colony, a victory secured by the ‘scorched earth’ offensive launched by Governor George Cathcart from the spring of 1852 to the…

Intriguing, unique, and historically important – one of only very few surviving original manuscript plans of the archetype army bases established in key towns across French Indochina (today’s Vietnam and Cambodia) that were the foundation of colonial power in the region; the present finely rendered and highly detailed plan showcases the French army base at Tân An, a provincial capital…

  An intriguing, and likely unique, artefact of the early era of Mozambican independence under the rule of the Socialist FRELIMO movement, being a map of the Mozambican capital Maputo (formerly Lourenço Marques), hastily published in the whiteprint method, that interestingly showcases the city with most of its major streets renamed after Socialist / Communist luminaries such Vladimir Lenin, Mao…

  A remarkably fine example of an Ottoman Tanzimat Era lithographed calendar scroll (ruzname), headed with an image of a clock, with original rollers and wrappers   Paper Scroll (rotulus), mounted upon an original wood roller original patterned brown paper wrappers (Very Good, a few minor tears and light staining, tears in the upper part repaired with modern tape) 205…

  An original pencil drawing for a modern prison, made by the most famous and prolific late Ottoman architect Mimar Kemaleddin in the time of the change of the Ottoman criminal code Pencil drawing on thick paper, 95 x 114 cm (37.4 x 44.9 inches), (slightly dusty and stained , small tears in margins, a larger repaired tear in the…

  A pair (2) of historically important original manuscript sepia views, depicting 1) the Great House and windmill of Perrins’s Estate, one of Jamaica’s leading sugar plantations, and 2) the St. Dorothy’s (or the ‘Tamarind Tree’) Church, established in 1681, which is today one of the oldest and most culturally significant churches in Jamaica; executed to an unusually high degree…

    [Nukhbat al-talim. Tabur talimi also Nuhbetü't-talim. Tabur Talimi / The Elite Education. Education for Battalions]   8°, [1] title page, 13 pp., 79 numbered lithographed plates contemporary binding with marbled boards, calf spine with gilt decoration, lettering and ornaments from original wrappers mounted on boards (binding with rubbed spots, spine with small cracks and chips, ca 10 tiny…

  One of the most significant manuscripts regarding exploration and ethnography in sub-Saharan Africa to appear on the market in many years, being the original diary of the French adventurer Robert Hottot complied during his groundbreaking ‘Mission ethnographique du Kanem-Chari-Logone’ (1908-9), to what is today Congo (both PRC and DRC), the Central African Republic and Chad, where he made meaningful…

  Folio, 42 chromolithographed double-paged maps, original chromolithographed illustrated boards, recent black cloth spine, original green endpapers (boards with minor wear, light staining, light water-staining in the lower white margin of the rear cover, tiny chips to the margins of the front cover,  spine replaced, crack in the joints repaired, a tiny tear in the Great Britain map).  

  A unique manuscript by a Belgian imperial calligrapher François Magnée, commissioned by the Archery Society at the Poeke castle and presented to Prince Leopold Duke of Brabant, future King Leopold II.   Folio (37 x 25 cm), [8 pp.] black, red, green, blue, silver and gold ink on vellum (5 pp. manuscript and 3 pp. blank), bound with a…

  A rare Persian illustrated lithographed book with a popular story Forty Parrots. Large 8°, 54 pp. lithographed text with illustrations, original card paper boards, made of papier mâché and covered with white paper (visible lettering from “Tehran Station” on other side of the paper on the wrappers), contemporary cloth spine, bookseller’s stamp in the margin of the first text…

8°, [2 pp.] blank, 8 pp. letterpress, 207 pp. lithographed text with gold and colour decoration to the first three pages, [4 pp.] blank, contemporary brown Morocco with gold tooling, contemporary embossed purple endpapers, gilt edges (bookseller’s stamp on the first lithographed page, inside in a good, clean condition, binding slightly scuffed on the corners, spine with small loss of…

  [Mehbas Ahşe-i / Splanchnology. Second Year]   Small 4°, 368 pp. hectograph with illustrations in text, later wrappers (light age-toning and staining, sporadic old annotations in pencil, small losses of paper without loss of text, title page with partly repaired loss of paper in white margins).

  8°, 48 pp., original rear pink wrapper, modern brown cloth binding (minor chips to the margins, rear wrapper with loss of paper, but internally clean).  

  8°, 198 pp., contemporary marbled paper boards and green cloth spine (pp 111, 158, 191-193 marked twice, pages misnumbered 174-177, but complete according to catch words, small folds in corners, but overall in a good condition with only minor age-toning).  

  Small 8°, 92 pp., contemporary reddish-brown goat with old paper label on the spine (good, used condition with minimal wear and age-toning tot the binding and some light staining to the paper, old owner’s signature in brown ink in the upper margin of the title page (J. Fargus ?)).  

  8°, 87 pp., 36 pp. with black and white illustrations in text, original wrapper with lettering (slightly stained, wrappers with tiny tears in margins, old Ottoman annotations on the title page, spine repaired).  

Twelve Lessons on the Friendly Treatments of Animals   8°, 63 pp., original blue wrappers with illustrated cover (paper slightly waved, wrappers with hardly noticeably foxing and old-hand-written number on the top, but otherwise in a good, clean condition).

  Large 8°, 176 pp. (some mispagination, but complete according to the catchwords in lower margins, slightly age-toned and stained, first and last sheet with tiny losses of paper in lower margins, bords with small cracks, chips and tiny loss of material, old script on the front cover, lower margins of boards reinforced with later paper, but otherwise in a…

  [Memâlik-i Osmaniye Cep Atlası / The Pocket Atlas of the Ottoman Empire]   12°: 6 pp., [2 pp.], 328 pp. text in Ottoman, 64 pp. with single- or double-page maps, lithographed in colour, original dark red cloth binding with black and gold lettering and decoration- (light foxing and staining, last page age-toned, front end-papers replaced, binding slightly rubbed, but…

  [The Closing Arguments for Rudolf Hess at the International Military Court Nuremberg in process against Herman Göring and Others. By Dr. Iur. Alfred Seidl, Lawyer, Defender of the Sued Rudolf Hess]   Large 4°, Carbon copy of typescript, [1, title], 82 numbered pages, printed recto only, with first two pages marked as 1-2 and 2-4, and with additional pages…

  The second edition of an Arabic translation of the book Communist Guerilla Warfare, describing the warfare tactics of the Soviets and also Yugoslav partisans during WWII.   Large 8°. [2 pp.], 245 pp. with illustrations in text, original illustrated wrappers (minimal age-toning to the paper and hardly noticeable wear to the wrappers, but overall in a good and clean…