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A rare miniature Ottoman calendar for women was published in 1916 during World War I by the first Ottoman Muslim feminist press, which also printed a newspaper under the same name, Kadınlar Dünyası (Women’s World). 7 x 5,5 cm (2.8 x 2.2 inches), [64 pp.], calendar with blank pages verso, portraits of contemporary leaders and dignitaries, original illustrated covers mounted…

An unusual work in German language by a retired professor of zoology Alexander von Brandt, searching for the explanation for the female liberation, especially sexual liberation, and feminism through the history, evolution, botanical and zoological examples.   8°. VII, 202 pp. with black and white images, [2pp.], 4 black and white plates, original orange wrappers with lettering (sporadic pages cut…

  First Ottoman book on feminism   12°, 85 pp., [3 pp.], contemporary pink wrappers (very good, wrappers with minor scratches and tiny tears).

  A complete set of rare Slovenian magazine on social issues, published between 1918 and 1919, was edited by a women's rights activist, educator and politician Alojzija Štebi.

  A superb example, handsomely bound in a fine three quarter blue morocco, probably from the library of Napoleon II.

The Pedagogy of Families, or Education and Teaching Made Accessible to all Fathers of Families   Book on pedagogy for fathers with a stunning binding, from a library of the Belgian king Leopold II.   Small 8°, [4 pp.], VIII, 268 pp., contemporary red hard-grained morocco with gilt and blind tooling and lettering, gilt floral turn-ins, gilt edges, white moiré…

  [A Tribute to His Royal Highness the Duke of Braband, Crown Prince of the Belgians, at the Occasion of his Eighteenth Birthday. Apr 9, 1853]   An ode in honour of the Duke of Brabant, the future Leopold II of Belgium, written for his 18th birthday. An example with a stunning watered-silk binding from the king’s personal library.  …

A religious work in a fine binding from the Fürstenberg library at the Castle Donaueschingen.   Small 8°, [2 pp.] blank, XXIV, 246 pp., [4 pp.], blank, full green calf with blind and gold tooling, spine with raised bands and gold lettering and tooling, original dark red endpapers, gilt edges  (old tiny sporadic annotations in text and drawings (map and…

A beautifully executed manuscript diploma for Duke of Brabant, the future Belgian king Leopold II, the honorary president of the Philharmonic Society of Wavre, Belgium.   Small Folio (35,7 x 22,6 cm), [8 pp.] blank, 2 pages with manuscript recto, blank, contemporary red hard-grained morocco with gold and blind tooling and lettering, gilt floral turn-ins, gilt edges, white moiré paper…

  A thesis on the first autopsy ever conducted in the Ottoman Empire, performed by Karl Ambros Bernard in 1841, at the Austrian Hospital in Istanbul, written by Hayrullah Efendi, a future Ottoman diplomat and prolific author   8°: [4 pp., index], 149 pp., 6 folding charts, contemporary marbled boards, restored calf spine, old paste down tile to cover bearing…

Very rare and historically significant – “the first Brazilian pharmacological handbook”, published in Rio de Janeiro, and authored by José Maria Bomtempo, the chief physician to the Portuguese-Brazilian royal court and an internationally-renowned authority on tropical medicine; the fascinating and surprisingly readable work was intended to educate military doctors working in the field in Brazil on how to identify flora,…

The probably first separately published forensic map showcases the location of a well-publicized early 19th century femicide, followed by a famous court case, which brought changes to English legal history. The author was Rowland Hill (1795-1879), an English social reformer and inventor. He is mostly famous as the inventor of the first adhesive pre-paid postal stamp, the Penny Black, in…