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  8°, 96 pp., advertisement, original illustrated wrappers (slightly stained, a tiny loss of image on the rear wrappers, but otherwise in a good condition).  

  French Colonization of Tunisia Trade with Central Africa Algiers Imprint   [Society of Physical, Natural and Climatological Sciences of Algiers. 19th meeting of Members of Scientific Society at the Sorbonne. Algeria, Tunisia and Central Africa. Creation of a Regular Caravan Service Between Djerba and Central Africa].   A rare pamphlet in French language, printed in Algiers and published in…

  A rare Italian report on the travel through the North of Libya by a German explorer Gerhard Rohlfs, written by a lawyer Rizzardo Rizzetto, who in his researches emphasized the importance of Tripolitania for the Italian exploration of Africa, shows an early Italian tendency to colonize the region.   8°. [10 pp.], 125 pp., [3 pp.], original blue wrappers…

  12°, 118 pp., [² pp.] blank, original blue wrappers with lettering, later spine (minor foxing to the wrappers, otherwise in a good condition).  

8°. 60 pp. with a map, [4 pp.], original wrappers with lettering, later spine (minor staining and foxing, but overall in a good condition).

  Official Note from the Consul Charged ad Interim of the General Consulate of France in Buenos-Aires, to the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Argentine Confederation, reclaiming on the authority of international law, that the French, who notoriously and publicly have established themselves in the republic with the same enjoyments and civil liberties as the Argentine citizens, be not…

  The very rare first edition of a fascinating and wonderfully eccentric treatise on the philosophical, scientific and political state of the world during the Napoleonic Wars, and the historical journey that led to those times, by the German military scientist Rühle von Lilienstern, illustrated by a large, unique and resplendently coloured World Map on an oblique double-elliptical projection, illustrating…

  [İlm-i Nebatât-ı Tıbbiye Defteri / Notebook on the Knowledge on Medical Botany]   A rare, seemingly unrecorded hectographed Ottoman book on medical botany, accompanied with charming illustrations and titles and based on the lectures by a veterinarian Mehmed Ali Bey the Imperial Medical School, and edited by Esat Şerefeddin Köprülü, later a famous botanist and professor   Small 4°,…

  Small 4°, 421 pp. hectographed text, contemporary brown boards with debossed decoration, brown calf spine with gilt decoration and lettering (minor age-toning and foxing, minor wear and discoloration to the binding, with a small repaired tear in the upper part of the spine).  

  A travelogue to the Holy Land through Egypt by a Croatian professor Krsto Krile, published on the eve of WWI.   8°, XI, 231 pp., interleaved photographs, two folding plates, and three folding maps (Jerusalem, Croatia, the Holy Land), original boards with decoration and lettering, original cloth spine with lettering (hardly noticeable foxing, very light wear to the corners,…

  Large 8°. 48 pp., original wrappers (slightly age-toned and with light foxing, tiny tears in margins, but overall in a good condition).