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A poem composed by Georg Friedrich Stauber, a theology student, and Christian Reinhard Steinheil (1708 – 1786), a court official for the occasion of the 8th birthday of Christian IV, the future Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld (1722 - 1775), from a line of the Bavarian imperial family Wittelsbach, at the time still known as Christian III. As he was married morganatically…

Publication for Russian refugees in Istanbul:  View of the Russian Monastery of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker "Belozerskaya" on Athos.   4°, [24 pp.] with black and white illustrations, original illustrated covers mounted over later wrappers (small tears, chips and folds , minor foxing and staining, small tears in the lower parts of rear sheets).  

[Report of the Battle, which Took Place on September 20, 1703 at he Plain of Höchstädt Between French and Bavarian Army…]   Large 4°, [4 pp.] letterpress (Very good with uncut edges, margins little age-toned).

Bulletin of the Russian Trade Committee in Constantinople.   8°. 32 pp. with two interleaved charts and one folding plate, [12 pp.] advertisements, original brown wrappers with lettering, later spine (wrappers with small chips and tears, otherwise in a good condition).  

Ottoman cookbook featuring a popular Turkish Caracter from theater plays and magazines Karagöz. Small 8°, 79 pp., later tan linen binding and green endpapers (old Ottoman signature in ink on the title page, light staining and tiny chips in white margins, tiny holes from old binding in the inner margins).

[The reasons for consideration for the spread of the contagion in the Morea, and Rumelia are becoming ever greater…] Broadside, letterpress on thin laid paper with a watermark, 28 x 19 cm (11 x 7.5 inches).  

A religious work in a fine binding from the Fürstenberg library at the Castle Donaueschingen.   Small 8°, [2 pp.] blank, XXIV, 246 pp., [4 pp.], blank, full green calf with blind and gold tooling, spine with raised bands and gold lettering and tooling, original dark red endpapers, gilt edges  (old tiny sporadic annotations in text and drawings (map and…

The authoritative chart of the harbour of Lourenço Marques (today Maputo, Mozambique), shown in the wake of World War II, showcasing what was one of Africa’s busiest and most modern ports, published by the British Admiralty.   Polychrome photolithograph on thick paper, contemporary hand-stamped price revision to title, rolled (Very Good, overall clean and bright, light wear along vertical centrefold),…

[Imperial Ottoman Loan 4% of the Baghdad Railway. Second and Third Series. Contract]   4°, 11 pp. in French, 11 pp. in Ottoman, original tan wrappers with title in French on the front and Ottoman on the rear wrappers (old library stamps, small tears and chips in edges, traces of old paper label on the spine, later spine).  

Istanbul: A. H. Boyacıyan  - American Bible House 1880. 8°. XIX, 231 pp., [6 pp.], original blue cloth binding with debossed decoration and gilt lettering on the spine, old plate mounted on the inner side of the front cover, old list mounted on the rear free endpaper, old small annotations on the title page, otherwise in a good condition).

Lithographed map with original hand colour, dissected into 18 sections and mounted upon original linen, folding into original dark green cloth covers with publisher’s pastedown label, publisher’s advertisements as front endpaper (Wrappers slightly pale with worm holes on the spine, internally clean), 51 x 70 cm (20 x 27.6 inches).

Stanford's map of West Africa.   Lithographed map with original hand colour, dissected into 21 sections and mounted upon original linen, folding into original red cloth covers with publisher’s pastedown label, publisher’s advertisements as front endpaper (Good, clean example), 52 x 77 cm (20.5 x 30.3 inches).