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  A very rare, large-format separately issued map of the Portuguese Territory of Goa, India; being the finest general map of the colony issued during the second half of the 19th Century, with the present edition being the first major map to depict the entire completed line of the Mormugao Railway, Goa’s first railroad; predicated upon the stellar surveys of…

  [Maliye Nezareti. İhsaiyat-i Maliye. vâridât ve masarif-i umûmiyeyi muhtevîdir. 1325 birinci sene- Financial Report. Financial Statistics. The Content of General Imports and Expenses. First Year 1325 [1909]]   Large 4°, [12 pp.], 427 pp. with 3 colour folding and 4 black and white folding charts, original red cloth binding with lettering in the spine, original red endpapers (minor wear…

  A rare and highly attractive work of patriotic propaganda, being a large map of Libya celebrating Italy’s invasion of the country during the Italo-Turkish War (1911-2), created early in the conflict by the Societá editoriale milanese.   Colour print (Very Good, clean and bright, some wear along old folds, some minor marginal staining, far right margin, once bearing additional…

  A curious document on a drunken incident from 1916 offers an ephemeral insight into the life of soldiers of the Russian Caucasus Army during WWI.   Typescript with manuscript additions and a stamp on both sides, 20 x 18 cm (7,8 x 7 inches) (folds and hardly noticeable worm holes, but otherwise in a good condition).  

  An exceedingly rare book of poetry by an Ottoman Zionist activist and author Lucien Sciuto, allegedly published by the Masonic Press in Paris.   8°. 32 pp., later wrappers (slightly age-toned and with minor foxing, narrow outer margin, without loss of text).      

  8°, 48 pp., original purple wrappers with lettering (minor frying to the first pages, tiny tears on the spine, but otherwise in a good condition).  

  An uncommon Serbian translation of a controversial pamphlet by a German ambassador to London, describing the events leading to WWI, originally published privately in 1916.   Small 8°. VII, 71 pp., [2 pp.] blank, original wrappers with lettering, later spine (old signature on the top of the cover and title page, underlining and old annotations in red colour throughout…

  An extremely rare and important sea chart depicting the mouth of the Limpopo River, in southern Mozambique; for centuries the Limpopo was one of the great transport corridors into the interior of southern Africa; the chart is based upon groundbreaking scientific surveys by a team of Portuguese naval officers, led by João António Ludovice, conducted in 1893, when the…

[Protocol for the Reception of Heads of Foreign Mission at the Imperial Court]   8°, [4 pp.], original pink wrappers with lettering (wrappers with tiny folds, but overall in a good condition).   The manual in French language describes the diplomatic rules for foreign ambassadors, ministers, hereditary princes and officials at the Ottoman Imperial court.  

  8°, original cover, [2 pp.], 104 pp., folding map, later brown cloth binding with lettering (minor age-toning, old hand-written price on the inner side of the rear board, but overall in a good condition).  

  A privately published pre-WWII Slovenian manual on asparagus   Small 8°, 38 pp. with black and white illustrations, [2 pp.], original green card wrappers with lettering, stapled (small blue lines on the cover, two old school-library stamps, crossed with a book-seller’s stamp).  

  [Yavrumun Elifbası / My Child’s Primer]   8°, 63 pp. zincography with illustrations, original wrappers with colour cover (very good, minor staining, tiny tears in the spine).