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The first advanced scientific survey of Brisbane’s Harbour, the British Admiralty’s rare large-scale sea chart, based on the work of Commander Edward Parker Bedwell and Lt. Edward Connor.

  A stunning example of a separately issued de Jode map of the British Isles was coloured in the late 16th century in the style of the frescoes of the Gallery of Maps in Vatican.

  An unusual visualization of the end of the Balkan Wars and the beginning of the World War I, representing the last stages of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, connecting rotating nationalistic thoughts in a flower-shaped pattern, centralized on the word “Homeland” Colour print, 57 x 40 cm (22.4 x 15.7 inches) (minor staining, soft folds, verso proof state…

  A rare Venetian broadside forbids uncontrolled Turkish trade in the Lazaret of Split in Dalmatia as a health precaution against spreading of the plague.

  A rare Venetian broadside forbids uncontrolled Turkish trade in the Lazaret of Split in Dalmatia as a health precaution against spreading of the plague.

  A rare book in Ottoman Turkish includes photoreproductions with the locations of the Ottoman army in Bucharest in Romania, during the occupation of Romania’s capital by the Central powers between 1916-1918.

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.

  Steel engraved playing card, overlaid in coloured stencil, blank on verso (Very Good, minor stainng verso, a small scratch and stain on the front), 97 x 65 mm (3.8 x 2.6 inches).  

  A seemingly unrecorded guidebook of Buenos Aires in Croatian language with a map, was printed in the late 1920s for the Croatian immigrants, providing basic information on the city and useful addresses.

  [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…

  [Mevkufat also Mülteka tercümesi. Mevkufati or Mevkufati. Mülteka tercümesi]   The first printed edition of the most important text on the Islamic law in the Ottoman Empire   2 volumes in 1. Large 4°, 2 pp., 356 pp., 2 pp., 314 pp., original calf binding with a flap and debossed ornaments, modern black spine. Margins of the first pages…