Shop

A lovely little gem – being an exquisitely rendered original manuscript guide to maritime navigation by the Spanish Navy Pilot (later Captain) José Ignacio de la Sierra, a veteran of the Argentine War of Independence; of the most elegant penmanship with a pictorial watercolour title and richly embellished with geometric diagrams and statistical charts, it outlines the principles of course…

A guestbook from a renowned Munich-based Cognac distillery and liqueur factory, formerly operated by the Jewish families Macholl and Landauer until the rise of the Nazis. Small folio, 63 sheets of thick paper with signatures in various inks and pencil, 87 blank sheets, two mounted black and white photographs, inserted sheets with signatures and data about visits, inserted typed and…

A seemingly unrecorded collection of cards featuring transparent illuminations that depict demons, illusions, and portraits of Napoleon Bonaparte, accompanied by sheets containing macabre tales and other stories, created during the height of gothic novels' popularity.   11 originally coloured engravings, each 7 x 6 cm (2.7 x 2.3 inches), 9 folded green sheets, each with printed title on the front,…

A rare first edition of a children's educational book on Buddhism, authored by Thai Princess Poon Pismai Diskul. Large 8º, title, VIII, 24 pp., original wrappers with illustrated cover, minor staining and foxing, small pencil annotations on the title page, otherwise in good, seemingly unread condition).

A gigantic time chart of the world, based on Sebastian Adams’s legendary map of the history of time, printed in Guadalajara and pertinent to Mexican history.   Colour lithography, originally mounted on linen and varnished, linen stripes on the joints between segments. 70 x 682 cm (27.6 x 268.5 inches), (tiny loss of margins, varnish chipped, one of the joints…

A rare and high quality separately issued map of Hispaniola, including the French colony of Saint-Domingue (today’s Haiti) and the Spanish realm of Santo Domingo (today’s Dominican Republic), issued by William Faden, the leading British commercial cartographer, to satiate the intense public interest in the ongoing British Occupation of parts of Saint-Domingue (1793-8), an epic endeavour that was planned to…

A portrait of Jean-Baptiste Riché (1780–1847), the president of Haiti between March 1, 1846 and February 27, 1847.   Watercolours on paper, mounted on larger piece of brown paper, 23,5 x 16 cm (9.2 x 6.3 inches), German (wrong) title in black ink on the bottom (light foxing).

[Greiz, Germany: 1930s - 1940]

The first edition of the acclaimed Cape Verdean novel by the esteemed author Baltasar Lopes da Silva.   8º, 298 pp., [2 pp.], original illustrated wrappers, old bookseller’s stamp and a pasted-down book-plate of Alfredo Ribeiro dos Santos on the inner side of the front wrapper (minor foxing, mostly to the wrappers, otherwise in a good condition).

A fascinating collection of 30 early Thai Cremation Volumes in near-mint condition.

A charming notebook containing useful information for Japanese immigrants in the United States was given as a New Year’s gift to regular guests of Aki Hotel, located in Japantown, San Francisco. The hotel also served as an unofficial home for the Japanese Consulate. The owner of the hotel, Ichiro Kataoka, who immigrated from Hiroshima, was the first Japanese man in…

Memories of Giambattista Scala, the Sardinian consul in Lagos, Nigeria, along with his travelogue to Abeokuta, located north of Lagos, depict the region at the end of the slave trade. During this period, merchants with new goods, Scala among them, began to move into the area. With a dedication by the author.   8º, [4 pp.] blank and title, 243…

A detailed insight into British-Portuguese trade of Port Wine from the 18th to the early 19th century, featuring a rare second part, bound in highly decorative contemporary Morocco binding.   Two titles bound in one volume, 8º, 171 pp., 30 pp., blank, contemporary yellowish-brown Morocco binding with gold tooling, gilt edges, contemporary marbled endpapers (binding lightly sun-toned in margins and…

A letter to Pope Innocent X from Sultan Jachia, the self-proclaimed Christian leader of the Ottoman Empire, requesting papal support at the onset of the new Venetian-Ottoman conflict and another attempt to convert the entire Ottoman Empire to Christianity.   Manuscript in brown ink in Italian language on laid paper with a watermark, 20,5 x 30,5 (8.1 x 12 inches),…

A delightful unique collection featuring a manuscript on sundials and two paper instruments, all contained in a contemporary marbled paper case.

An incredibly rare pamphlet featuring poetry specifically for boys and young men in the Georgian language, published by the Servites of the Immaculate Conception in Istanbul.   Large 8º, 59 pp., [2 pp.] list of publications, original yellow wrappers with lettering (pages and wrappers partly loose, small tears in margins, otherwise in good condition).  

The publication contains 15 contemporary treaties and trade agreements between the Ottoman Empire and various states.   Large 8º, 11 pp., 10 pp., 30 pp., 15 pp., 4 pp., 6 pp., 9 pp., 7 pp., 5 pp., 7 pp., 3 pp., 6 pp., 4 pp., 7 pp., 8 pp., 6 pp., 18 pp., contemporary marbled paper wrappers, brown cloth spine…

This manuscript broadside is a stunning example of artistry, seamlessly blending Armenian calligraphy with its distinctive letters and rich Christian symbolism that is deeply embedded in the nation’s identity. The inclusion of a traditional labyrinth form elevates the piece, serving as a profound tool for meditation and concentration.   Drawing and manuscript in various colours on paper, 62 x 44…

Large 4º, [92 pp.] with colour illustrations, illustrated wrappers with flaps, bound in later red faux-leather binding with gold tooling and lettering on the spine.

An ephemeral Japanese map illustrating Operation Barbarossa in September 1941 highlights the complex relations between Japan, the Soviet Union, and the Axis powers during World War II. Colour lithography, 53 x 75 cm (21 x 29.8 inches) (soft folds).  

A great rarity of Cuban cartography, being a city plan of Santiago de Cuba, drafted and lithographed locally by Louis François Delmés, the French émigré portraitist and miniaturist who was the father of academic painting in eastern Cuba; the map, executed in the artist’s signature resplendent colour palette, portrays Cuba’s second city during the island’s last ‘sugar boom’, showcasing Santiago…

A stellar pair of original manuscript sea charts, on a single sheet, being surveys by James Langley, the Master of the ‘HMS Scamander’, showing 1) Gros Islet Bay, a critical fortified harbour near the northern point of St. Lucia that was chosen by the famed Admiral George Rodney a key base of the Royal Navy; and 2) Prince Rupert’s Bay…

A grand format original manuscript that is one of the finest and most detailed maps of St. George’s, the capital of Grenada, from the slave-plantation era, the result of a collaboration between Captain William Elliott, James Langley and James Young of the Royal Engineers; drafted shortly after the Napoleonic Wars, when the Grenada lived under the spectre of a possible…

The fourth edition of this fundamental work in classical economics.   Two volumes, both 8º, xiii, 498 pp. [8 pp.], 489 pp., [62 pp.], contemporary full calf, dark red morocco spine labels with gold lettering, speckled edges (light scuffing to the corners of the bindings, first and last leaves with light brown glue-staining from the boards in margins, collector’s rubber stamps “Ex-Libris E.…

A detailed history of India, Hyderabad, and its rulers in Urdu, authored by historian Muhammad Ghulam Imam Khan, provides valuable insights into the events of the late 18th and mid-19th centuries.   Large 4º, 10 pp., 790 pp. lithographed text, contemporary goat binding with gold tooling (binding scuffed and scratched, joints broken but not detached, first two text pages loose,…

An elaborately made manuscript travelogue to Argentina in 1891 by a teenage boy Mariano de Bary, a son of a bank and transportation mogul Heinrich Albert de Bary and a descendant of a prominent Argentinian family Saavedra.   Large 4º, blank, illustrated title page, 130 pp., [1 pp.], manuscript in blue ink, 43 original black and white photographs mounted in…

The album contains 131 photographs from the Second Boer War, as well as images depicting life in South Africa before and after the conflict. It provides valuable insights into this historic period, particularly through a collection of photographs taken in the field with a modern portable roll film camera.v   Album, oblong large 4º, 25 thick grey boards with 131…

Exceedingly rare – an almost complete collection (76 of 79 issues) of ‘Os Simples’, the first major, and reasonably enduring, labour newspaper issued in Mozambique, published in Lourenço Marques (Maputo) from February 1911 to September 1913; an unparalleled source on the rise of the white working class and unionism in Mozambique, the socialist-republican paper, published by professional typographers, featured diverse…

A unique and vital primary source on the history of what is today the United States Virgin Islands during the critical period of the Napoleonic Wars and the twilight of the West Indies sugar-slave economy, being the original manuscript letter book of William Manning, an English MP, tycoon, slave plantation owner and the Governor of the Bank of England, who…

Giambattista SCALA (1817-1871). [Memoirs of Giambattista Scala Consul of Her Majesty of Italy in Lagos di Guinéa about his trip to Abbeockuta, a city in the interior of Africa made in the year 1858] Sampierdarena, today a part of Genoa: Francesco Vernengo 1862. 8º, [4 pp.] blank and title, 243 pp., 5 pp., contemporary black linen boards and black goat…

Adolf HAUPT (fl. 1900 – 1933). Tsingdao [Qingdao]: Printed at the Catholic Mission Press, 1927. 8° (19 x 11.5 cm): [13 pp. advertisements, title, preliminaries], 1-48 pp., [16 pp. advertisements on coloured paper], 49-156 pp. (with 82 photographic images imbedded within text), [2 pp.], plus 2 large folding colour lithographed maps on thick paper, bound in original printed boards with…

Three early rare Thai merit-making volumes were created for the 40th anniversary of King Chulalongkorn’s reign. They include speeches based on manuscripts from the National Library, delivered at Wat Arun in Bangkok after the restoration of key structures during Thailand's Buddhist reform movement. In very good, seemingly unread condition from an European collection.

A fascinating collection of 30 early Thai Cremation Volumes in near-mint condition.

Gu HONGMING (also Ku Hung-Ming, 辜鴻銘, 1857-1928). Beijing: The Peking Daily News, 1915. 8 º , [8 pp.] blank and titles in Chinese and English, 21 pp., [3 pp.] blank and index, X, 168 pp., original green binding (binding little water-stained and rubbed, internally clean with sporadic annotations in pen and pencil). The first edition of a collection of essays…

S. l., s.d, but France, circa 1815. 11 originally coloured engravings, each 7 x 6 cm (2.7 x 2.3 inches), 9 folded green sheets, each with printed title on the front, 2 pages of miniature text in the inner side and blank verso (of probably 12 sets), housed in original slipcase with illustrated cover (slipcase soiled with folds and scratches,…

Lucien Florent Paul COFFYN (1810 - 1871). Manuscript, [Saigon, April-May 1862].   Manuscript, pen and ink and grisaille wash on paper, bearing three original manuscript signatures, being those of the author, draftsman and colonial governor, mounted upon a larger piece of 20th century paper (Good, wear along old folds with some minor loss at some fold vertices, some short closed tears…

Walter Burley GRIFFIN (1876 - 1937) [and Marion Mahony GRIFFIN (1871 - 1961)] / Charles Robert SCRIVENER (1855 - 1923). [Canberra:] Federal Capital Commission, May 1927.   Colour lithograph, mounted upon original linen and folding into original purple cloth covers bearing gilt short title to upper cover, with handstamps to inside front cover and to verso of map: ‘H. Hurry…

CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE GOBIERNO DEL DISTRITO FEDERAL. Mexico City: Compañía Litográfica y Tipográfica, S.A., 1906.   Colour lithograph on thick paper, housed in original red cloth slipcase bearing gilt short title of ‘Plano de la Ciudad de México / 1906’ to front side (Good, clean and bright, some hairline tears entering image but archivally repaired from verso with no loss,…

VARIOUS AUTHORS. Johann STRANIMARYER, Author of the Collection. Gesänge. Gesam(m)elt im heurigen Jahr, wo das Trinkgeld sehr wehlfeil war. Zur Belustigung für Jedermann. [Songs. Gathered in This Year, when the Money was Very Low [lit. when the Tips were Poor]. For Entertainment of Everyone] Mostly Austrian Empire: Vienna, Prague, Wiener Neustadt, Jihlava, Znojmo [circa 1800-1850] - Collected in Kapfenberg, Austria:…

[Austrian Citizens' Calendar for the Year 1846, a Reading Book Intended for Ongoing Use. Factual Situation and Library Book] Vienna: Pichler’s Witve [i. e. Elisabeth Pichler][1845]. 8°. Lithographed portrait of Franziska Klähr as frontispiece, guard, IV, XXX with interleaved unnumbered printed templates for book-keeping between pp. 1-16, 315 pp. with interleaved 3 lithographed portraits, [8 pp.] index and advertisements, original…

Jasper NANTIAT (d. 1817), Cartographer; William FADEN (1749 – 1836), Publisher. London: William Faden, January 1, 1810. Copper engraving with full original hand colour, dissected and mounted on 4 parts of original linen, all housed in an exquisite custom-made full brown calf box (measuring 23 x 16.5 x 4.5 cm), dating from 1811-5, with elegant gilt tooling and a black…

Christian Anton GOERING (1836 - 1905). [Leipzig:] 1886. Water-colour on paper, mounted on later paper, sheet: 39 x 59 cm (15.3 x 23.2 inches), Drawing: 35 x 55 cm (13.8 x 21.6 inches), (light mat-burns to the margins, but otherwise in a good condition). An original drawing of the wildlife of the Orinoco River, made by the German explorer Christian…

Alexander Petrovich KARPINSKY [Александр Петрович КАРПИНСКИЙ] (1847 - 1936). / Sergei Nikolaevich NIKITIN (1851 - 1909). / Feodosy Nikolayevich CHERNYSHEV (1856 - 1914). / Nikolai Alekseevich SOKOLOV (1856 - 1907). / Aleksander MICHALSKI (1855 - 1904) et al. St. Peterburg: A. Ilyin’s Cartographic Establishment, 1892.   Colour lithograph printed on 6 sheets but here joined and mounted upon mid-20th century linen,…

S. GHOSE. / CALCUTTA PORT COMMISSIONERS. Calcutta: Survey of India Office, 1920.   Heliozincograph in red and black, dissected into sections and mounted upon original cloth with original marbled endpapers, mss. owner’s inscription of “Saunders 29-8-[19]21” to cloth verso (Good, some mild staining due to the natural oxidization of the glue from the cloth backing), 85 x 59.5 cm (33.5…

[Complete Map of Various Foreign Countries’ Temporarily Divided Territory Boundaries within the City of Beijing.] [China, likely Beijing, no publisher, 1900].   A very rare, attractive and intriguing map, capturing Beijing during the Boxer Rebellion (1899 - 1901), when ‘Zongli Yamen’ (Legation Quarter) of the Old City was besieged by ultra-nationalist rebels, only for the barricade to be lifted by…

Branko SUČEVIĆ (1895 - 1980), author; Ladislav NOWORYTA, cover designer. Zagreb: Noskabi 1937. 8°. 79 pp. with black and white illustrations in text, original illustrated wrappers (light foxing, otherwise in a good condition) (#70801).

Avanzâde Mehmed Süleyman (1871 – 1922). [Âile Aşçısı, 100 Türlü Çorba Pişirmek Usûlü / Family Chef. How to Cook 100 Types of Soup] Istanbul: Matbaa-i Orhaniye 1333 [1917]. 8°, 48 pp., original wrappers (small tears in margins, little age-toned and stained, wrappers with small loss of paper, loose binding as originally published) (#70786). An Ottoman cookbook with 100 soup recipes.

Raymond JANIN (1882 – 1972). Istanbul: Échos d’Orient 1920. 8°, 72 pp., index, [4 pp.] with 4 photolithographed plates, blank, original paper wrappers with lettering (good, clean condition) (# 70740). A seminal work on the history of Thrace, Greece, published in Istanbul on the eve of the Greek War of Independence.

[İlk ve Orta Mekteblere Mahsus Coğrafya Atlası / Geographical Atlas for Primary and Middle Schools] Istanbul: A. M. Karmi, Publisher - Leipzig: Wagner & Debes, Printer [1922]. 4°, [2 pp.] lithographed title page and index verso, 24 pp. chromolithographed maps, original green card binding with lettering and green cloth spine (good used condition with minor foxing and minor chips in…

Mardinizâde Ahmed Cemaleddin. Istanbul: Teşebbüs Matbaası 1340 [1924], information on the title page - Cumhuriyet Matbaası 1341 [1925] – information on the cover. 8°, 151 pp. with black and white illustrations, original illustrated wrappers, stapled (staples rusty and broken, minor staining, otherwise a good, uncut example) (# 70738). A manual on the cultivation of tobacco in Ottoman language, issued in…

[Bağcılık ve Şarapçılık / Viticulture and Wine Making. Instructions to Ottoman Viticulturists for Improving the Type of Wine They Produce] Istanbul: Düyûn-u Umûmiye-i Osmaniye Varidât-ı Muhassasa İdare-i Merkeziyesi Matbaası 1326 [1910]. 8°, 38 pp., [2 pp.] blank, folding plate, later wrappers with mounted original cover with lettering (minor foxing, age toning and tiny tears in margins, mostly to first and…

ANON. [Palestine Drawn in Historical-Geographical-Statistical Outlines Based on Older and Modern Travel Descriptions. Along with a Map of the Holy Land] Karlsruhe – Freiburg: Herder 1830. Large 8°. Engraved frontispiece, showcasing the map and interior of the Holy Grave, [4 pp.] title and index, 148 pp., folding lithographed map, coloured in outline, contemporary marbled board and brown goat spine with…

Johann Christian NOSSEK (1804-1856). A Pronouncing Pocket–Dictionary of British Proper Names. Taschenwörterbuch der Aussprache brittischer Eigennamen [Titles on the Cover]. Taschen-Wörterbuch der Aussprache der englischen, schottischen und irländischen Eigennamen. A pocket Dictionary of the English, Scotish, Irish and Indish, as well as of the Greck, Latin and Hebrew, proper Names of Countries, Places, Mountains, Rivers and Persons etc. [Title Pages].…

MOROCCO (SPANISH / NORTHERN) / RIF WAR:  CUERPO DE ESTADO MAYOR DEL EJÉRCITO.   Madrid: Talleres del Depósito de la Guerra, December 1927.   Colour photolithograph, on 6 untrimmed and un-joined sheets of thick paper, housed in decorative printed paper sleave bearing blindstamp of the ‘Depósito de la Guerra’, rolling into original crimson tube bearing title in silver lettering (Very…

BRAZIL - SÃO PAULO STATE / ITALIAN IMMIGRATION TO BRAZIL:   José C. de CARVALHO, Cartographer. / ORGANIZZATA DALLA SOCIETÀ PROMOTRICE D’IMMIGRAZIONE DI S. PAOLO, Sponsor.   Rio de Janeiro: Lith. Paulo Robin & C.a, 1886.   Colour lithograph, mounted upon modern linen, with register on verso preserving the view of the contemporary handstamp of a ‘Pietro Milanese’, a Genoa…

OBERKOMMANDO DER KRIEGSMARINE (NAZI GERMAN NAVY HIGH COMMAND). Berlin: Dietrich Reimer (Andrews & Steiner), August 27, 1942. Photolithograph on thick paper, with the h Photolithograph on thick paper, with the handstamps of the ‘Kriegsmarinewerft Wilhelmshaven Kartengruppe’ as well as classification handstamps and a pastedown label regarding the accuracy of the chart (Very Good, overall clean and bright, some wear along…

Anon. Manuscript, [no place or date, but likely Mozambique, 1842 or shortly thereafter]. 8° (19.5 x 14.5 cm): Manuscript, 9 pp. (text in black pen), plus 2 full page maps (both in black pen and grisaille wash, second map additionally with purple wash), bound in modern full brown calf with gilt title to spine (Good, text pages with professional restoration…

WWII SECRET JAPANESE DEFENSE PLAN FOR KYŪSHŪ - ‘OPERATION KETSUGŌ’ / ‘OPERATION OLYMPIC’ / COUNTERFACTUALISM:   U.S. ARMY, HEADQUARTERS SIXTH ARMY, OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT CHIEF OF STAFF, G-2 [MILITARY INTELLIGENCE STAFF] / COLONEL HORTON VAIL WHITE (1901 – 1963).    [San Francisco, California:] Headquarters Sixth Army, Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff, G-2, December 31, 1945.   The original…

Hekim Ismail Pasha (also Ismail Hakkı Pasha or Hekimbaşı İsmail Efendi, 1807–1880). Istanbul: Henry Cayol 1848. 8°, [4 pp.] lithographed title and two pages in Ottoman, 16 pp. lithographed text in Bulgarian, original yellow publishers wrappers (little stained, soft folds) (#70661). A rare book on cholera by an Ottoman medical doctor Hekim Ismail Pasha, in Bulgarian language in Early Cyrillic…

Anon. Istanbul, Fatih [S. l., S. d., but Istanbul: between 1923-1928]. Black ink and water-colours in blue, orange, green and red on tracing paper, irregular format, but at widest points 142 x 160 cm (55.9 x 63 inches), originally dissected in segments and mounted on linen (minor tears and folds to the edges of segments, but overall in a good…

عثمان نورى [Osman Nuri, Sabık Coğrafya-yı Askeri Muavini Piyade Kol Ağası / Senior Chief Military Cartographer for the Infantry]. جغرافياى عسكرى و عثمانى درسلرينه مخصوص سوريه قطعة سى [Part of Syria for Specific Military and Ottoman Geographical Operations / Lessons] Inset Map: حجاز دميريولى كذركاهى [Hicaz demiryolu güzergah / Route of the Hejaz Railway] Istanbul: مكتب حربيه مطبعه سى [Maktaba…

Gideon NYE (1812-1888). Macao: [Privately Printed] 1858. Large 8°, [24 pp.] with title, verses, preface, index, 4 blank pages, starting with p. 9 on second text page (complete), 360 pp., pp. A-D between pp. 339-340, contemporary half dark brown calf with gold tooling and lettering on the spine and marbled paper boards, a presentation copy with a dedication by the…

Nizami ARUZI نظامی عروضی (fl. 1110 - 1161). [Four Discourses] Tehran: Mohammad Baqer Qajar 1305 [1889]. 12°, 176 pp. lithographed text, contemporary marbled paper boards and brown goat spine, contemporary lithographed text pages from another book used as pasted-down endpapers, book-seller’s stamp on the top of the title, blind stamps of the Russian paper factory in margins (mispagination - without…

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…

José Maria COGOLLOS Luque. Tunja (Boyacá, Colombia): Imp. por Vicente de Baños, 1840. Large 8° (21 x 14 cm): 84 pp., bound in modern half calf over marbled boards with gilt title to spine (Very Good, a lovely wide margined example with mostly uncut lower margins, overall clean and bright, just the odd light spot especially on final couple of…

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…

[Theater in Düsseldorf, Today, Friday, April 19, 1831 the Imperial Russian court artist and professor of natural magic Carel Ivanovich von Mekold, who arrived here from St. Petersburg on his return journey from Paris. …War Goddess Minerva…] Düsseldorf: April 1831. Broadside, 35 x 21,5 cm (13.8 x 8.5 inches), (soft fold, otherwise in a good condition) (#70376). A playbill for…

Enrico BOMBIG. Gorizia [S. l., but probably area around Gorizia, possibly Farra d’Isonzo]: 1904. Papier-mâché or plaster in relief, with hand-colour, title and names of places in manuscript, 73,5 x 132 cm (29 x 52 inches), with frame 90 x 148 cm (35.4 x 58.3 inches), verso originally stabilized with wooden boards. [And:] Enrico BOMBIG. Contea Principesca di Gorizia e…

سودى نك يكى خريطه كلياتندن [SÛDÎ’NIN YENI HARITA KÜLLIYATINDAN / SUDI’S NEW CARTOGRAPHIC ESTABLISHMENT]. Istanbul: كتابحانه سودى [Kitaphane-yi Sûdî] 1927. Colour off-set print (Good, light stains mostly visiable verso, some wear along fold folds, tiny chips to the folds in the image and in the margins), 67 x 100 cm (26.5 x 39.5 inches). ‘Ana Vatan’ (Homeland) is one of…

MÜHENDIS MEKTEBI İKTISAD CEMIYETI [Ottoman Society of Engineering and Economy]. Hasan RASIM - Hüseyin HILMI - Osman NURI (ed.). VARIOUS AUTHORS. [Genç mühendis / Young Engineer] Istanbul: [Various Publishers] 1324-1330 [1909-1914] 26 issues (of 62) in one volume, 4°: Nos. 1-26, each with 8 pp., nos. 25 and 26 with 16 pp. each, contemporary faux alligator skin card binding (no.…

Mirliva Mustafa Hâmi Pasha. Istanbul: Matbaa-i Âmire 1271 [1855]. 12°, 4 pp. index, 83 pp. lithographed text, lithographed imprint un unnumbered page, original illustrated wrappers, later spine (bookseller’s stamp on blank page, margins with tiny folds, tears and light staining, wrappers little stained with tiny losses on the corners, pin size holes on inner side from binding) (#70613). First Ottoman…

Mehmet Ziya GÖKALP (1876 – 1924). [Konya Seyahati Hâtırâtından / Memories from Travel to Konya] Istanbul: Araks Matbaası 1328 [1912]. 8°, 39 pp. lithography in gold, illustrated pink wrappers, unbound as originally published (wrappers slightly dusty and stained with small tears in margins, internally with tiny worm holes in inner margins, margins little dusty with tiny tears) (#70621). A description…

S. İLHAMI. [Cumhuriyet Çocuklarına Kelime Usûliyle Son Türkçe Elifba / The Latest Turkish Elifba with a Word Learning Method for Children of the Republic, 4th edition] Istanbul: Ibrahim Hilmi - Orhaniye Matbaası 1928. 8°: 64 pp. with black and white illustrations in text, original illustrated wrappers (wrappers little stained and chipped in margins, internally clean, cracks around the spine, minor…

Ibn al-Ḥājj al-Tilimsānī al-Maghribī (ابن الحاج التلساني المغربي). [Kitab Shumūs al-anwār wa-kunūz al-asrār al-kubrá / The Book of Suns of Lights and Treasures of Great Secrets] [S.l., S. d., but probably Cairo, ca 1920].  8°, 128 p., contemporary red and black marbled boards, later spine (boards rubbed and lightly scuffed, inside slightly age-toned, with small tears and tiny loss of paper…

MADAGASCAR - ORIGINAL ARCHIVE / EARLY FRENCH PRINTING AND POLITICS IN MADACASGASCAR / ANTANANARIVO IMPRINTS: Félix LEIFFEIT (b. 1864, active until at least 1930), Compiler. / Joseph Simon GALLIENI (1849 -1916), Contributor. [Various places and dates; Core of Archive, Antananarivo 1897-1905; but other elements from France and Madagascar dating as late as 1930 – for details see below].   4°…

Anon. [S. l., S. d., but Ottoman Empire, probably Istanbul, late 19th century]. Black ink on paper, 31,5 x 21 cm (inches), (tiny tears in folds and margins light foxing).

[S. l., S. d., but probably Tehran: 1860s-1870s] A rare (unrecorded?) lithographed illustrated book in Persian language with a version of a love story of Shirin and Farhad   Small 8°, 184 pp. lithographed text with 8 illustrations and floral lithographed full-page decoration on first and last page, original brown goat with a ghost of a paper label on the…

PORTUGAL – ‘THE TÁVORA AFFAIR’ / ORIGINAL MSS. VIEW AND ACCOUNT:   Anon.   Manuscript, Lisbon, January 16, 1759. 4° (29.5 x 19.5 cm): 6 pp. manuscript, brown-black pen on 2 folded sheets of laid paper watermarked ‘M.Y.’ surmounted by a cross motif, not bound but loosely housed in modern marbled paper covers (Very Good, some, mostly light, staining and…

LA LIBRERÍA DEL MERCURIO DE VALPARAÍSO.  Valparaíso: Litografia Excelsior de R. Abrines y Ca. for La Librería del Mercurio, [circa 1893].   Colour lithograph, printed on 2 joined sheets (Very Good, overall clean with attractive, bright colours, some light marginal staining, some wear along old folds, especially in upper right corner, minor old repairs from verso along fold vertices), 55…

Isidoro OLVERA Crespo (1815 - 1859). Mexico City: Imprenta de J.M. Lara, 1851.    8° (21.5 x 13.5 cm): [4], 119, [3] pp., plus, errata leaf, bound in modern quarter calf over cloth with gilt title to spine (Very Good, overall clean and crisp, just some areas of very light toning) (#70664).   Very Rare – a fascinating and unusual treatise…

IMPRENTA DE LLERAS I COMPAÑÍA, Publisher. Bogotá: Imp. de Lleras i Comp., [1837]. 12° (16 x 11 cm): [1 f. title], 28 pp., title is comprised of contemporarily pasted down printed slip over a larger printed border, full modern tree calf with gilt upon red leather title piece to spine (Good, but some small tears to upper part of leaf…

João Manuel PEREIRA DA SILVA (1817 - 1898). Rio de Janeiro: B.L. Garnier Editor, 1870-1. 8° (21 x 14 cm) - 3 volumes: [vol 1:] [2 pp.], 1 portrait, [1 ff.], 473 pp.; [vol 2:] [2 ff.], 426 pp.; [vol 3:] [2 ff.], 391 pp.; all uniformly bound in contemporary quarter red morocco with gilt title and decoration to spines…

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…