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  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…

  A rare Turkish version of an award-winning text on the role of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire.

Raja Śivaprasāda or Shivaprasad (राजा शिवप्रसाद 'सितारेहिन्द,1823 – 1895) Lucknow: Newul Kishore 1889.   8°, [4 pp.] title & index, v, 91 pp., later wrappers (uneven edges with tiny tears, little stained, otherwise in a good condition) (#70612).

  [Patmutʻiwn mardkayin patuastman / History of Human Vaccination].   An exceedingly rare, detailed book on the history and importance of vaccines written by a prominent Ottoman Armenian doctor Dikran Paşa Peştemalciyan, published on the eve of the Sublime Porte’s decree on the mandatory application of the smallpox vaccine.   4°: [2 pp.], portrait, [16pp.], 237 pp., with interleaved plates…

Hitler. Who was He? What did He Do? What Happened to Him?   A Turkish biography of Adolf Hitler, written three days after his death by a prominent writer and journalist Münir Süleyman Çapanoğlu.   8°, 110 pp., [2 pp.] blank, original illustrater front wrapper, contemporary brown patterned boards and brown cloth spine (tear in page 7-8, without loss of…

  A rare, seemingly unrecorded pamphlet gives valuable details on the 1st Swiss organised pilgrimage to the Holy Land, attended by 501 people from Switzerland and South Germany, in 1903, when travel to Ottoman Palestine was still quite dangerous and difficult to arrange.

Seemingly the only known surviving example of the first printing of the first published work by the first Western-trained Chinese medical doctor, being a report on the operations of the Kum-lee Fow Hospital, a missionary medical institution located in the western suburbs of Canton (Guangzhou) that pioneered many advanced Western treatments in China; Wong Fun, a graduate of the University…

  A rare and historically important map of Honolulu made only months after the coup d’état that toppled Queen Liliuokalani. 

8°. [3 pp.], 445 pp. with black and white illustrations, original illustrated cloth binding, old taxation stamp, rubber-stamp owner’s initials on the title page, original illustrated cloth binding, original pink endpapers (light staining, age-toning and foxing, sporadic small tears in margins, overall in a good condition).

Long small folio, 167 pp. with illustrations and photographs, original black cloth with debossed decoration and lettering (minor water-staining in the lower outer edge, binging lightly scuffed on the corners, otherwise in a good condition).