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  An uncommon Bulgarian translation of Jean-Marie Guyau’s work on female emancipation and religion, printed in Varna in 1894   8°, 32 pp., [2 pp.], original pink wrappers with lettering, unbound as originally published (slightly stained, otherwise a good, partly uncut example).      

  [Biçki Nazariyat ve Kavâidinin Tedrisat-ı İbtidaiye Kısmı / Primary Training Section of the Theory and Rules of Sewing]   A book in Ottoman language with instructions for women on dress-making and utilization of modern sewing machines, written by the first Ottoman seamstress Behire Hakkı.   Small 4°, 202 pp. with black and white illustrations, illustrated boards and black cloth…

  A very rare issue of ‘Warszawa Walczy’ [Warsaw Fights], a large illustrated broadside ‘wall newspaper’ issued by the propaganda bureau of the ‘Armia Krajowa’ [Polish Home Army] during the Warsaw Uprising, one of the most popular works published within the barricaded city to inform both resistance fighters and local residents, an especially fine example in very good condition.  

  A seemingly unique engineer’s planning map of the Cirebon-Kroya Railway, a vital link that traversed the midriff of Java, connecting the north coast and south coast rail networks, likely made in 1912-3, just before construction was commenced on the project, which was completed in 1917; the map is printed by an unusual blue-tinted photolithographic technique and features the proposed…

  A rare pamphlet in Ottoman language, made for the 1928 Trade Fair in Vienna and printed in error in Western collation   Oblong small 8°, [8 pp.] with colour and black and white illustrations, stapled (good, used condition).  

  8°,  177 pp., [5 pp.], contemporary red half calf, grey cloth boards, red patterned endpapers, red head, deckled fore-edge and tail, spine with gold lettering and raised bands (Very Good).  

  8°,  300 pp. with charts, interleaved colour folding map, contemporary black calf spine with gilt lettering and decoration with black cloth boards (two pages with tiny loss of paper in white margins, old library stamps on the title page, minor staining and foxing, small holes in the binding).  

  Small 8°, 4 full-page black and white maps, double-page black and white map, 635 pp. with black and white illustrations, original blue cloth with debossed lines on the covers and gilt lettering on the spine (minor foxing and light staining in the upper part of the edge, spine slightly age-toned with minor cracks on the side, but overall in…

  [Tarik-i Refah. Frankli'nin Servet Hakkındaki Nasayihi ve Tercüme-i Hali / The Way to Wealth. Franklin's Commentary on Wealth and ItsTranslation]   A rare Ottoman translation of Franklin’s The Way to Wealth, published in Ottoman language in Sarajevo, Bosnia, in 1910   8°, 30 pp., [2 pp.], original orange wrappers with lettering (wrappers with a light stain, otherwise in a…

  An extremely rare and attractive late 19th century Portuguese sea chart of the mouth of the Rio Tejungo (today known as the Rio Moniga), a key trading port along the north-central coast of Mozambique, the chart being the first edition of the first scientific, trigonometric survey of estuary, conducted in 1898 by Lieutenant João Carlos da Silva Nogueira of…

  Small 4°, 416 pp., [2 pp.], 146 pp. with black and white photos, maps and reproductions of documents.  

  [Psikoloji İlm-i Ahvâl-i Ruh / Psychology. The Science of the Psyche]   A late Ottoman work on the modern psychology   8°, 203 pp., [5 pp.], later wrappers (slightly age toned, but otherwise in a good condition).