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  An Ottoman pocket Bible, printed in Istanbul in 1877 under sponsorship of American missionaries 12°: [3 pp.], 621 pp., contemporary brown goat with blind tooling and gold title on the spine, gilt to all edges (spine slightly age-toned and scuffed, minor foxing, front loose endpaper detached and with light water staining, overall in a good used condition).  

  A historically important catalogue of 721 books on science, religion and other subjects, published in English and Arabic languages by the American Mission Press in Beirut.   8°, 38 pp. in English, [3 pp.] blank, 51 pp. in Arabic, with illustrations in text, original wrappers with lettering (somehow brittle, with loss of paper in the corners, but without loss…

[Sharh-i Diwan-i Hafiz-i Shirazi / Commentary on the Divan of Hafez]   A rare book in Ottoman language in three volumes, partly printed in Alexandria   3 volumes. Small 4°. 4 pp., 411 pp. Old annotations, 455 pp. (first four pages originally coloured yellow with orange detail). , 464 pp. Recent brown calf with embossed decoration (pp. 3-4 of the…

A unique pair of an Ottoman manuscript atlas and a map, made by a student of the Military Highschool in Bitola, in 1891, as a project for his final exams.

A unique late 19th century binding, made of Japanese leather wallpapers   Small 4°, XXXVII, [3 pp.], 114 pp. with illustrations in text, [2 pp.], contemporary debossed gold paper boards with hand coloured details, brown calf spine with gold lettering, marbled endpapers, composed of two different patterns (paper inside with foxing, minor rubbing to the edges of the binding).  

  A handsome, early 19th century illustrated manuscript pamphlet in French language explaining various methods of fortunetelling.   Small 8°, [96 pp.] manuscript in French with illustrations and charts in black ink, contemporary wall-paper stenciled wrappers with manuscript label in black ink pasted on the front cover, originally bound with a linen string (minor, sporadic staining to the corners of…

The Pedagogy of Families, or Education and Teaching Made Accessible to all Fathers of Families   Book on pedagogy for fathers with a stunning binding, from a library of the Belgian king Leopold II.   Small 8°, [4 pp.], VIII, 268 pp., contemporary red hard-grained morocco with gilt and blind tooling and lettering, gilt floral turn-ins, gilt edges, white moiré…

  A dedication copy of a book on perfumes and cosmetics with a calligraphic manuscript dedication by the author to Marie Henriette Anne of Austria, the Queen of Belgium, and bound in an elegant red Morocco binding by Despierres.   Large 8°, [8 pp.] with manuscript dedication page, 102 pp. [4 pp.], red hard-grained Morocco with gilt and blind tooling,…

  [A Tribute to His Royal Highness the Duke of Braband, Crown Prince of the Belgians, at the Occasion of his Eighteenth Birthday. Apr 9, 1853]   An ode in honour of the Duke of Brabant, the future Leopold II of Belgium, written for his 18th birthday. An example with a stunning watered-silk binding from the king’s personal library.  …

  12°. 172 pp., [4 pp.], original green cloth binding with white decoration and gilt lettering, original patterned endpapers (old owner’s signature on the first page, tiny cracks to the hinges of the front endpapers, otherwise in a good, read condition).  

  A fine, clean example with original dustjacket of one of the first German post-war cocktail books 8°, 167 pp. with black and white illustrations in text and interleaved colour plates, original dark-red cloth binding with silver embossed decoration on the cover and lettering on the spine, original illustrated dustjacket (dustjacket with minor sporadic scratches and tiny tears, but overall…

[The Book of Genesis [Title in Moon system on the first embossed page]. Simplified System of Exalted Letters for the Use of the Blind [Title of the introduction]]   A rare version of the Book of Genesis, printed in Dutch and embossed in Moon system for the blind   Large oblong 4°, [1 pp.] explanation in Dutch and Moon system,…

    Camocio’s separately issued map of the Greek island Milos with handsome old colouring   Originally coloured copper engraving, 20 x 14,5 cm, mounting paper: 21,5 x 19 cm (minor staining, a tiny repaired tear in the white margin, but overall in a good condition).  

  Extremely rare – an important legal proposal that advocated major reforms of the archaic Nueva Grenadian (Colombian) judicial system by dramatically expanding the role and authority of juries during criminal trials, principally authored by José Ignacio de Márquez, the former President and the nation’s foremost legal scholar, framing a major debate between the country’s emerging Liberal and Conservative political…

An early illustrated Ottoman zoology and botany book is a translation of a contemporary German book. The translation, made by a medical doctor to sultan Abdulmejid I,  Hekimbaşı Salih Efendi, during the time of the Tanzimat, was a major contribution to Ottoman understanding of the Western contemporary biology and terms, which provided the grounds for the further developing of science.…

  A rare Catholic religious book, accompanied with partly coloured aquatints, printed in Graz, Austria, in Slovenian language in Bohorič alphabet.   8°. 83 pp., aquatint frontispiece, 14 interleaved aquatint illustrations with hand coloured details in red, contemporary covers with embossed decoration and gold cross, brown calf spine with gold lines (minor traces of wear to the cover, sporadic light…

  8°. 230 pp., [2 pp.] blank, original tan wrapper with lettering (minor age-toning, otherwise a good clean almost unused condition).  

  Japan. Past. Present. Future   The first Ottoman book on Japan.   8°. [2 pp.] index on pink paper, 131 pp., double-page colour map, folding map, later wrappers (folding map with partly repaired tears, otherwise in a good condition).    

    An unusual illustrated publication on the Polish expedition to Harbin, China, which founded the city in 1898, and the Polish community in the region in the beginning of the 20th century. 8°. X, 222 with interleaved black and white images, original yellow wrappers with illustrated cover (wrappers sightly worn and dusty, but overall in a good condition).  

  [Note on the Judgement in Periods of Nations]   8°, [2 pp.], 318 pp (wrongly printed 813), [4 pp.] errata and blank, original embossed brown calf with a flap, original pasted-down endpapers with blue stenciled patterns, blank loose endpapers, hand-written title on the spine and on the foot edge (slightly age-toned with minor staining, old minor annotations on the…

  [The Expulsion of the Germans from China. An Account of the Events Based on English Shanghai Newspapers from October 1918 to April 1919]   Small 4°. Illustrated frontispiece, XI, 402 pp., bound in publisher’s green linen binding with lettering on the cover and spine (Very Good, minor age-toning to the spine).  

  Very rare – Juan Ondarza’s large and highly detailed wall map of Bolivia, the first proper survey of the republic and one of the great monuments of the 19th Century cartography of Latin America, published by J.H. Colton in New York; at the centre of an entertaining, yet bizarre, story of intrepid Andean surveying, patriotic pride, financial scandal and…

  An attractive cartographic ‘Sugoroku’ gameboard commemorating the 1925 Asahi Shinbun Trans-Eurasian flight, a major landmark of early aviation, whereby two Japanese planes flew from their homeland over 16,500 km to tour various European capitals as part of a patriotic PR tour to showcase Japan’s role as world power, printed by the mission’s sponsor, the ‘Asahi Shinbun’, a leading Japanese…