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1130 recipes from the rich Triestino cuisine by a former war reporter Maria Stelvio, made in the time of rationing and published during World War II in Fascist Italy.   8°, 461 pp. with black and white illustrations in text, [3 pp.], original wrappers with lettering (wrappers with tiny tears and loss of paper, mostly around the spine, little stained,…

A rare four-page pamphlet with two somehow different solutions on fighting the pandemic of rinderpest (Lues animalium) in South Germany, in 1732.   8°, 4 pp. with a wood-cut on the last page (Very Good, uncut edges with light soiling).  

The Estado Novo regime’s conservative and patronizing view towards women in Mozambique. 4°, 16 pp. blue carbon copy of a typescript on yellow paper, printed recto only, yellow front and rear wrapper, lettering on the cover, stapled (rear sheet loose, light staining and foxing) (# 70489).

A beautiful Ottoman lithographed Qur’an with hand-coloured details, imitating the appearance of traditional manuscripts.   12°, [608 pp.], margins of opening double pages with fine colouring in polychrome and gold, gold decoration in surah headings, polychrome marginal medallions, sporadic marginal annotations in red ink, original brown goat binding with a flap and gold tooling, accompanied with an original goat leather…

An unique and extraordinary artifact of the successful Dutch endeavours to gain colonial dominion over West Sumatra during the 1830s, in the wake of the Padri War (concluded 1837) and the 1832 intervention against the Aceh Sultanate, being an impressively detailed original manuscript itinerary map of West Sumatra, including it rugged Minangkabau Highlands, depicting a dense archipelago of villages and…

A rare, early Bengali novel, printed in Calcutta. 12°, [2 pp.] title page, 228 pp., original brown cloth binding, yellow endpapers (old annotation in inner side of the front board, a period binding, almost certainly Indian in origin with small scratches and worm holes around the spine with worm-holes only affecting the hinges of front endpapers, internally clean and crisp…

[The Basis for the Anatolian Turkish Antiquities and Carvings in Stone. Ankara]   An extensive illustrated work on Turkish history or art in Anatolia   2 volumes, large 4°. Vol. 1: 54 pp., blank, 41 plates printed recto in black and white and colour, original wrappers with lettering (wrappers and first pages with light foxing, later spine, last plate with…

8°, XXV, 449 pp., dedication by the author to Ernesta Stern, dated October 5, 1892, on the blank page opposite of the title page, contemporary green Morocco binding with gold initials EES on the cover and embossed title in gold on the spine, raised bands, gilt linear turn-ins, contemporary marbled endpapers (the word ninth edition on the cover crossed out…

[Dead and Living Languages in Secondary Education]   A handsome example of a pamphlet on the subject, if dead languages should still be thought at secondary schools, written by Jewish educator Benjamin Levy. From the library of Ernesta Stern with a dedication by the author.   8°, 48 pp. with dedication by the author to Ernesta Stein on the first…

  [On the Introduction of the Armenians to Algeria]   An unusual French pamphlet describing a governmental plan, to relocate a larger amount of Armenians from the Ottoman Empire to Algeria, in order to boost economy and trade of this relatively new part of France. A handsome example, from a library of Marquis de Chasseloup-Laubat, the French Colonial Minister, who…

A handsome example of an early lithographed edition of a divan, written by an Ottoman female author Leyla Hanım   8°, 110 pp. lithographed text, [2 pp.] blan, two title pages with coloured and additionally illustrated headers, gilt lines to opposite pages, contemporary embossed black boards, later spine (title page with a title in Latin alphabet in ballpoint pen and…

A rare first edition of poems and short essays on the Orient was published in French language in Istanbul by a Persian diplomat and writer Mirza Reza Khan Arfa' Al-Dawlah (1846 - 1937) and contains a hand-written dedication to an intellectual and bibliophile Ernesta Stern, a famous Jewish literary hostess and an author.   8°, [2 pp.], portrait of the…