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  A rare pamphlet in Pashto language, printed in Lahore, Pakistan, describes the life of a Muslim saint Tamim Al Ansari.   Small 4°, 16 pp. lithographed text with decorated title page, contemporary tan paper wrappers (slightly age-toned and stained, with small tears and chips without loss of text in margins, old annotation on the top margin of the title…

  A rare pamphlet with questions and answers regarding the Islamic law in Persian language, published in Lahore.   Small 4°, 24 pp. lithographed text with decorated title page, bound with old linen string (slightly age-toned and stained, with small tears and chips without loss of text in margins, but otherwise in a good, partly uncut condition, old script “1…

Extremely rare  - a monumental, brilliantly colour lithographed work that is by far and away the most accurate and detailed map of Hispaniola to date, and one of the great achievements of cartography of the early 20th century in the Americas, the result of a collaboration between Alexandre Poujol, a leading Haitian jurist and stateman, and Henri Thomasset, a Frenchman…

  A unique and historically important artefact, being a highly detailed and beautifully coloured original manuscript map of Sendai, then the largest city in Japan north of Edo (Tokyo), and a major commercial centre of around 50,000 residents, built just across the river form the famous Aoba Castle, labelling all streeta, outlining all major cadastral lots and noting all key…

  First Soviet historical atlas, made by one of the leading historians Konstantin Kurjashov and accompanied with an introduction by a pioneering historian of the Russian revolutionary movement Mikhail Pokrovsy, glorifying Russian economy of the past and presenting the newly founded Soviet Union as a historical self sufficient formation.   Oblong folio, 12 pp. XVIII with 58 numbered maps, printed…

  A part of an exceedingly rare, possibly first translation of Shahname to Gujarati.   Large 8°, [5 pp.], 890-1008 pp. title in Gujarati and English, text in Gujarati, mounted paper label “Presented by the Trustees of the Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy Translation Fund” on the inner side of the front board, contemporary half goat binding with gold tooling in the…

  An early lithographed book in Persian language with extracts from Rumi’s Masnavi.   8°, 119 pp. lithographed text, contemporary stenciled paper boards, brown linen spine (good used example, binding slightly rubbed and stained, minor staining in white margins).  

  A richly illustrated mystic work on the life of the Prophet Muhammad by an Ottoman author Yazıcızâde Mehmed   4°, 7 pp. [mispagination, actually 8pp.], 4 pp., 478 pp., [2 pp.], lithographed text with illustrations, 3 pages printed in gold ink, contemporary brown cloth, later spine (slightly age-toned and stained, endpapers chipped, tiny cracks in margins, binding slightly scuffed…

  Very Rare - a large format, separately issued work that is the first scientifically accurate, and by far and away the most detailed map to date of the Portuguese colony of Diu, an island strategically located just off the coast of Gujarat, that was long a great mart of trade and cross-cultural exchange, under Lisbon’s control from 1535 to…

An exceedingly rare – 1 of only 3 known examples - and historically consequential map; its contents enraged the people of Porto, helping to fuel the Republican Revolt that occurred there on January 31, 1891; the map, which embraces the midriff of Southern Africa, depicts Portugal’s premier colonies of Angola and Mozambique with greatly reduced boundaries, to the benefit of…

  A unique, large attractive and modernly architected mid 19th century map in French language, represents modern railroad system as well as geographic and political features of Europe, relevant for railway construction.   Manuscript in gouache and black ink on two thick originally joined sheets, 104 x 118 cm (40.1 x 46.5 inches), (repaired tears and tiny losses of image…

A rare and highly decorative Meiji Era World Map, an important landmark in the Japanese adoption of Western cartographic methods, as it one of the first Japanese maps to feature charts showing the comparative heights of the world’s main mountains and the lengths of its longest rivers, clearly used for pedagogic purposes, fulfilling the major Meiji changes to the Japanese…