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  A fascinating account of the German economist and ethnographer Karl Theodor Stöpel’s tour of Taiwan which occurred just after the island was taken over by Japan, during which he witnessed the island rapid’s economic-political transition and the local Chinese’s rebellion against the new regime, as well as being one of the earliest scientific missions deep into the island’s interior,…

12°. 192 pp., original brown cloth binding with debossed title (binding pale, and stained with minor scuffs to the spine, overall in a good condition).

8°. [8] pp. index, [3 pp.] introduction, 454 pp. letterpress, 24 lithographed folding plated with 337 images, contemporary dark brown morocco with gold tooling and title on the spine, contemporary marbled endpapers, marbled edges (binding slightly scuffed and rubbed with small loss of material on the spine, cracks along the hinges, small scribbles to the rear of the front loose…

A very rare, large format, separately issued map of Africa that is perhaps the last great map of the continent to be printed in Ottoman Turkish script, with attractive colours and adorned with the flags of major African states and colonies, published in Istanbul for the Kitabhane-yi Sudi bookshop.   Colour off-set print (Good, some light staining, wear and some…

  A 1923 pictorial map of the world by a Japanese manga artist Ogawa Jihei.   Colour lithograph, 78 x 110 cm (30.7 x 43.3 inches) (soft folds with small holes partly repaired with tape, tiny tears in margins, otherwise in a good condition).  

An exquisitely rendered Russian manuscript map of the Battle of Zorndorf (August 25, 1758), a critical showdown of the Seven Years’ War, and one of the most ferocious altercations of the entire conflict, during which Frederick the Great’s forces narrowly prevented the Russians from marching upon Berlin; in beautiful bright hues of watercolour and wash, and with all text in…

Highly important – the charismatic and controversial former (and future) Mexican President Antonio López de Santa Anna’s official and most detailed defense of his leadership when he oversaw the cession of Texas (1836) and the total defeat of this armies during the Mexican-American War (1846-8); the superficially persuasive but ‘creative with the truth’ narrative was written while Santa Anna was…

  A lithographed Persian text against Sufism and supporting Sharia, written by a Shah’s son Soleiman Mirza Qajar, with especially fine lithographed ornaments and an excellent provenance.   8°: [148 pp.] lithographed text with illustrated headers, contemporary brown goat, contemporary blue endpapers (old annotation on paper, mounted on the inner side of the rear board, manuscript title in black ink…

[Customs commercial arrangement concluded on September 5, 1902 between the Ottoman Empire and Persia]   4°, 4 pp., original green wrappers with lettering (tears and cracks in margins, wrappers little age-toned in margins).  

  12 °. Engraved frontispiece, 104 pp., 14 interleaved aquatint illustrations, contemporary dark brown goat with linear blind tooling in margins, small old round paper stamp in the upper corner of the front board, patterned endpapers, red edges (binding slightly worn on the edges, tiny cracks in hinges of endpapers, deaccessioned small library stamps, light water-staining in the first part…

8°. [2] title page and portrait, 125 pp., original illustrated wrappers, printed in colour on the inner side of the back cover (wrappers with minor foxing, age-toning and minimal traces of use, otherwise in a good condition).

  Small 4°, 30 pp. photolithography, original blue wrappers, brown cloth spine (staples slightly rusty, wrappers with light age-toning and staining, wrappers slightly stained and age-toned, but overall in a good and clean condition).