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  An exceedingly rare mimeographed illustrated book on the economy in agriculture, made for an Ottoman school with a stunning multicolour title page showcasing a well-managed farm   8°: 422 pp., [2 pp.] index, mimeographed text with illustrations, charts and vignettes, illustrated title page, old corrections and annotations in pencil and blue ink, original blue cloth with debossed ornaments (minor…

  A uniquely well preserved example of a short novel with fragile wrappers, published by Slovenians under the censorship of the Fascist Italy   8°, 134 pp., with black and white vignettes, [2 pp.], original illustrated wrappers (old owner’s signature in black ink on the title page, tiny tears in margins, overall in a good condition).

  A rare pair of mimeographed books on agriculture printed on pink paper in Slovenian language in a DP camp in Austria after WWII   Two titles bound in one volume, 4°, mimeographed on pink paper with illustrations. 42 pp., [3 pp.,]. 42 pp., [2 pp.,]. Original black boards and cloth spine (boards slightly rubbed, otherwise in a good condition).

  A rare and until now underappreciated work on modern citrus growing, printed in Ottoman language, as a part of the program to modernize the agriculture of Crete   4°. 4 pp. [index], 172 pp. with charts and sporadic illustrations, bound with original brown wrappers, original marbled boards, new black calf spine (light staining and foxing, inner white margins with…

  One of the most important, engaging and authentic accounts of Rio de Janeiro at an exciting historical juncture, in the immediate wake of the onset of the ‘Brazilian Enlightenment’ the country’s independence; written by Ernst Ebel, a wealthy Baltic-German merchant from Riga (then in the Russian Empire), who traveled to Rio to investigate the prospects of Russo-Brazilian trade; Ebel’s…

Brazil (Eastern – Core Regions) – Rio De Janeiro, São Paulo, Minas Gerais, Bahia, Pernambuco / The ‘Brazilian Enlightenment’   Karte Von Ostbrasilien. Carte géographique de la partie orientale de l’empire du Brésil, en quatre feuilles, contenant les Provinces maritimes de Pernambuco jusqu’a Rio de Janeiro, celle de Minas Geraës, et une partie des provinces limitrophes, redigée d’apres leurs propres observations…

  Small 4°. 144 pp., 9 issues bound in one volume (complete year), contemporary red and black boards, red cloth spine (minor wear to the binding, overall in a good condition).  

  A fine example of the combination of the high-end 1980s punk lyrics and contemporary progressive book design by the IRWIN group.   4°. 29 pp. on printed brown marbled paper, original illustrated wrappers.  

  A rare separately published collection of a punk poetry by a Slovenian poet of Bosnian-Croatian origins Esad Babačić.   Long 4°. [24 pp.] copied typescript with black and white illustrations, text starting on the inner side of the wrappers, original card wrappers with illustrated covers, stapled (Very Good, wrappers with minor staining).  

  Colour lithograph, folding into original printed card covers bearing title and view on front cover and a map of the Léopoldville area on back cover (Excellent condition, Map amazingly clean, bright and crisp, seemingly barely ever opened, only the lightest marginal wear to covers), 86 x 68.5 cm (34 x 27 inches).   A very rare and early cartographic…

  8°, 146 pp., [2 pp.] blank, contemporary red goat with gilt lettering, contemporary illustrated endpapers, old Ottoman book-seller’s stamp mounted in the lower part of the front cover (binding slightly scuffed, a small chip in the lower part of the front free endpaper, otherwise in a good condition).  

  A rare first lithographed edition of a genealogy, starting with Adam, to Muhammad, Four Caliphs, Abbasid caliphs, Turkish and Mongolian rulers, Great Seljuk and finishing with the last Ottoman Sultan.   4°. 40 pp. lithographed with illustrations, recent three quarter Bordeaux calf with gilt decoration and grey cloth boards, recent printed marbled papers (miniature Ottoman annotations in red ink,…