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  A rare Persian illustrated lithographed book with a popular story Forty Parrots. Large 8°, 54 pp. lithographed text with illustrations, original card paper boards, made of papier mâché and covered with white paper (visible lettering from “Tehran Station” on other side of the paper on the wrappers), contemporary cloth spine, bookseller’s stamp in the margin of the first text…

8°, [2 pp.] blank, 8 pp. letterpress, 207 pp. lithographed text with gold and colour decoration to the first three pages, [4 pp.] blank, contemporary brown Morocco with gold tooling, contemporary embossed purple endpapers, gilt edges (bookseller’s stamp on the first lithographed page, inside in a good, clean condition, binding slightly scuffed on the corners, spine with small loss of…

  [Mehbas Ahşe-i / Splanchnology. Second Year]   Small 4°, 368 pp. hectograph with illustrations in text, later wrappers (light age-toning and staining, sporadic old annotations in pencil, small losses of paper without loss of text, title page with partly repaired loss of paper in white margins).

  8°, 48 pp., original rear pink wrapper, modern brown cloth binding (minor chips to the margins, rear wrapper with loss of paper, but internally clean).  

  8°, 198 pp., contemporary marbled paper boards and green cloth spine (pp 111, 158, 191-193 marked twice, pages misnumbered 174-177, but complete according to catch words, small folds in corners, but overall in a good condition with only minor age-toning).  

  Small 8°, 92 pp., contemporary reddish-brown goat with old paper label on the spine (good, used condition with minimal wear and age-toning tot the binding and some light staining to the paper, old owner’s signature in brown ink in the upper margin of the title page (J. Fargus ?)).  

  8°, 87 pp., 36 pp. with black and white illustrations in text, original wrapper with lettering (slightly stained, wrappers with tiny tears in margins, old Ottoman annotations on the title page, spine repaired).  

Twelve Lessons on the Friendly Treatments of Animals   8°, 63 pp., original blue wrappers with illustrated cover (paper slightly waved, wrappers with hardly noticeably foxing and old-hand-written number on the top, but otherwise in a good, clean condition).

  Large 8°, 176 pp. (some mispagination, but complete according to the catchwords in lower margins, slightly age-toned and stained, first and last sheet with tiny losses of paper in lower margins, bords with small cracks, chips and tiny loss of material, old script on the front cover, lower margins of boards reinforced with later paper, but otherwise in a…

  [Memâlik-i Osmaniye Cep Atlası / The Pocket Atlas of the Ottoman Empire]   12°: 6 pp., [2 pp.], 328 pp. text in Ottoman, 64 pp. with single- or double-page maps, lithographed in colour, original dark red cloth binding with black and gold lettering and decoration- (light foxing and staining, last page age-toned, front end-papers replaced, binding slightly rubbed, but…

  [The Closing Arguments for Rudolf Hess at the International Military Court Nuremberg in process against Herman Göring and Others. By Dr. Iur. Alfred Seidl, Lawyer, Defender of the Sued Rudolf Hess]   Large 4°, Carbon copy of typescript, [1, title], 82 numbered pages, printed recto only, with first two pages marked as 1-2 and 2-4, and with additional pages…

  The second edition of an Arabic translation of the book Communist Guerilla Warfare, describing the warfare tactics of the Soviets and also Yugoslav partisans during WWII.   Large 8°. [2 pp.], 245 pp. with illustrations in text, original illustrated wrappers (minimal age-toning to the paper and hardly noticeable wear to the wrappers, but overall in a good and clean…