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A collection of patriotic stories by popular Brazilian writers Olavo Bilac (1865 – 1918) and Coelho Netto (1864 -  1934).   Small 8°, 283 pp. with colour illustrations in text, illustrated boards, original red cloth spine (slightly bumped on the edges, light foxing, internally with minor age-toning).

Regulations for the navigation of the Suez Martime Canal   Large 4°. 13 pp., [3 pp.] with partly colour illustrations, bound with original sting (sporadic old annotations, soft folds, tiny holes and tears in white margins, folds with tears, minor age-toning and staining, mostly to the last page, but overall in a good condition).

A delightfully designed ephemeral Turkish book catalogue with the titles of the books reflecting the impact of the uprising Fascism.   12°. 62 pp., [2 pp.], original illustrated wrappers (minor foxing, tiny scratches around the spine, otherwise in a good condition).

  A rare, stellar and very large format bilingual (Chinese, French) map of China, made by Stanislas Chevalier, the polymath Jesuit-scientist who was famously the father of meteorology in China, beautifully colour lithographed at the Imprimerie Hong-pao-tchai, a printing house located at Zi-Ka-Wei, the missionary education-science centre in the Xuhui District of Shanghai, with Chinese-style blue silk endpapers, the map is…

The first printed translation of the Bible into Ottoman language and the basics for all the later Turkish translations of the text. Printed in Paris with 17th century Arabic types, previously used in Napoleon’s Cairo press and one of the most elegant types made in the West.   Two volumes in one. 4°. [4 pp.], 7 pp., 984 pp. [2…

  A diary, composed of autobiographical songs and poems, filled with black humor and irony, was written by a young woman, imprisoned in Japanese camps Malang and Lampersari in Java, during World War II. 8°, notebook with striped paper, 32 pp. manuscript in Dutch in blue ink with illustrations in colour pencils, rest of the pages blank, original blue marbled…

  [Healthy Remedy against the Plague. Shape of the Cross]   A talismanic pamphlet with a cross of St. Zacharia and a prayer as a remedy against the first cholera pandemics in Portugal.   16°.8 pp. old tan wrappers with hand-hritten title on the cover (old stamp on the cover, lithographed ex-libris of Rafael Maria Rudio on the inner side…

  A very rare and attractive Mexican manual for instructing light infantry in the field, published shortly after Mexican Independence, with 2 charmingly crudely engraved plates depicting suggested reconnaissance formations, published in Mexico City for the Ministerio de Guerra y Marina. 12° (14.5 x 10 cm): [2], 251 pp., plus, 2 folding engraved plates (with Fig. 1 measuring 15 x…

  A pamphlet, explaining a round panorama of the Battle of Waterloo, which was exhibited in a wooden pavilion in Amsterdam.   8°, 1 pp., folding map (40 x 29 cm / 15.7 x 11.4 inches), [8 pp.] text, interleaved sheet with manuscript in brown ink recto, original card boards with illustrations on yellow paper, modern bookplate “Ex Libris van…

Very rare - the finest early general gold mining map of ‘The Guianas’ (British Guiana, Dutch Surinam and French Guiana), depicting numerous gold mining concession in the colonies’ incredibly rugged, jungle-covered interiors, resources which prospectors and government officials hoped would yield a ‘bonanza’ that would reverse the economic decline caused by the abolition of slavery; created from the best and…

A map of France from the first Ottoman lithographed atlas.   Colour Lithography, 32 x 43 cm (12.6 x 17 inches), (soft fold slightly age-toned, minor wear to the margins, but overall in a good condition).

A map of Oceania from the first Ottoman lithographed atlas.   Colour Lithography, 32 x 43 cm (12.6 x 17 inches), (soft fold slightly age-toned, minor wear to the margins, but overall in a good condition).