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  Very rare – a sermon preached by the senior Jesuit diplomat and administrator Manoel de Figueiredo at Velha-Goa’s Cathedral of Bom Jesus celebrating the momentous military victory at the Siege of Alorna (May 4, 1746) scored by the Portuguese forces under the Marquez de Castello Novo aganst the Maratha Confederacy, the sermon being a key element of the elborate…

  Exceedingly rare – one of the great monuments of Late Ottoman cartography, being the only official large-format Ottoman transportation atlas, including 26 double-page maps of an original, ingenious proto-modernist design, of which 8 maps concern the Arab World, including 1 map showcasing Hejaz and 1 map depicting Mecca & Jeddah; backed by detailed text explaining numerous itineraries for the…

  With a dedication of the author, Prince Damrong Rajanubhab, to King of Italy Victor Emmanuel III  

  The very rare first edition of the foundational map of the British colonial regime in Egypt; created by the Intelligence Department of the War Office on the eve of the Anglo-Egyptian War (1882), whereby Britain forcibly made Egypt a protectorate, so gaining dominance over the Suez Canal; predicated upon the best sources, the very large four-sheet work was the…

  An apparently unrecorded guidebook to Florida, issued around 1902 by the Seaboard Air Line Railway, a critically important driver of the development of Central Florida, including of Tampa Bay and Orlando, written by John W. White, the railway’s General Industrial Agent, the work is copiously illustrated with 25 photographic images and features a custom edition of the large format colour…

  Exceedingly rare – 1 of only 3 known examples - the first edition of the first book of poetry published in Mozambique, featuring verses written by Arthur Serrano, one of Mozambique’s leading early journalists, the Deputy Mayor of Lourenço Marques (Maputo) and a protégé of José da Silva Campos de Oliveira, the colony’s ‘first poet’; printed in the Ilha…

  Very rare – the definitive report on the Central Provinces and Berar Cholera Epidemic of 1868, written by Dr. Stephen Townsend, the region’s top medical officer; this outbreak of cholera drew great attention as it occurred in the Nagpur-Jubbulpore corridor on the eve of India’s first trans-peninsular railway being completed the area, while the epidemic was unusual as it…

  Extremely rare – the foundational modern map of Burma, being the first realistic general map of the country, as well as a monument of early lithography in India; the very large format work was published in Calcutta by the Asiatic Lithographic Press during the height of the First Anglo-Burmese War (1824-6), it served as an invaluable strategic aid for…

A fine example of the first edition of a magnificent, illustrated work on time and astronomy by one of the greatest Ottoman military leaders Gazi Ahmed Muhtar Paşa, printed in Cairo by the Bulaq Press.

  A thick manual on the Islamic law by Muhammed Seid Serdarević (1882 -1918), a Müderris (teacher) at the Sultan Ahmed's Madrasa in Zenica, is one of the first such books, written in Arebica. I was written in Zenica in 1917 and published after the author’s death with an epilogue by the editor Džemaluddin Čaušević.