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  A manuscript travelogue of Europe with stunning illustrations, made by a female author   Oblong 8°. [5 pp.] blank, [16 pp.] manuscript in black ink with illustrations in gouache, pencil and pencil, accompanied with yellow highlights and toning, illustrated titles and initials, yellow endpapers, [15 pp.] blank, dark green washed silk binding with gold tooling and lettering, gilt edges…

[Afganistan Hükümdarlarının Memleketimizi Ziyaretleri Hatıraları / Memories of Afghan Rulers' Visit to Our Homeland]   Oblong 8°, 48 pp. with black and white images, 2 pages of text and a map, original illustrated wrappers (later spine, tiny tracks in margins, wrappers little rubbed and dusty, but overall in a good condition).  

Extremely rare – 1 of only 2 known surviving examples – an ephemeral ‘Relación’ pamphlet likely containing the earliest published firsthand account of a dramatic naval battle between Tuscan vessels commanded by the Spanish Admiral Don Pedro de Leyva and a pair of Algerian-Ottoman vessels, which occurred in the Greek Aegean on July 1, 1622, upon which after ferocious combat…

  Au Boulet Bleu. Coueille Dégraisseur de Paris, a l’honneur de prévenir la haute Noblesse et l’estimable Public de Constantinople qu’il a ouvert un magasin a Dégraissage en face du Palais de Galata-Sérail. Il enlève toutes sortes de taches de n’importe quelle étoffe que ce soit, sans altérer les couleurs; il rêmet les effets a neuf et leur donne leur…

  4 sheets, not joined, colour lithographs. Each sheet circa 95 x 111 cm (37.4 x 43.7 inches), if assembled: circa 180 x 203 cm (70.8 x 80 inches). Small tears and holes in folds and margins, tiny creases on surfaces, old repairs, partly with postal slips from 1984 in English language, and traces of tape, later annotations in the…

  [Rules and Establishments of the Cavalry [i. e. Order] of Sanctiago-del-Espada. With the History of its Origin and Fundamentals].   A superb example of a rare late 16th century regulations for the Spanish Order of Santiago, printed in red and black, with a unique binding and a prominent provenance.   Small 4°. Armorial wood-cut title page, wood-cut image of…

  A stunning, well-rounded private archive of a French engineer, businessman and bibliophile Léon Sellié, giving a detailed insight on the life of an upper-class expat in the Late Ottoman period. The archive includes over 200 documents with 27 diaries, expanding over almost 29 years and describing over 9000 days in Istanbul, photographs, an unpublished manuscript on antique monuments of…

A foundational document of the establishment of the Estado Novo’s transformative colonial regime in Angola, being the secret typescript report on the state of the Portuguese colony written (and signed in mss.) by the military strongman and political heavyweight António Lopes Mateus, who had just been appointed as the Governor-General of Angola, submitted to the Portuguese dictator António de Oliveira Salazar; in…

An early lithographed Quran of the Qajar period with striking hand-made illumination, giving the book appearance of a traditional manuscript.   [Persia:] 1267 [1850/51, 1851, commentaries, dated on the last page], 1268 [1851/52, 1852, hand-written date in red ink on the bottom of the last page, next to illuminator’s name], 1278 and 1285 [1862 and 1869, hand written dates of…

8°, 16 pp. with black and white illustrations, original illustrated wrappers, stapled (tiny tears in margins of wrappers, otherwise in a good condition) (#70348).

A collection of poems by an Iraqi author Abd al-Wahhab al-Bayati, who spent most of his life in exile due to his communist views and apposing the government   Small 8°. 96 pp. with black and white illustrations, original illustrated wrappers (wrappers slightly stained and scuffed on the edges, inside with light staining to the first and last pages, but…