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  An Ottoman work on indigenous peoples of the world   8°. 408 pp. with black and white illustrations, original illustrated wrappers (wrappers with minor staining and cracks on the spine, otherwise in a clean, unbound condition).

An amazing artifact of Indonesian Independence, being an original draft of the first constitution of an independent Indonesia, as ratified at the famous ‘Round Table Conference’ (August 23 to November 2, 1949) in The Hague that set the final arrangements for the county’s sovereignty which was achieved on December 27, 1949; the present crudely-made mimeograph of a typescript is one…

  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…

  Very Rare – the first broadly accurate British sea chart of the southwestern coast of Sumatra, a critical region home to the important British base of Benccoolon-Fort Marlborough (modern Bengkulu), published by William Herbert in 1758.

François Valentijn’s magnificent map of Indonesia’s Spice Islands, the finest map of the region made during the dramatic era of the Dutch East India Company’s hegemony.

  Very Rare - the first broadly accurate British sea chart of the Straits of Sunda, but also extending to include West Java (including Jakarta) and southeastern Sumatra, published by William Herbert in 1758.

An unique and extraordinary artifact of the successful Dutch endeavours to gain colonial dominion over West Sumatra during the 1830s, in the wake of the Padri War (concluded 1837) and the 1832 intervention against the Aceh Sultanate, being an impressively detailed original manuscript itinerary map of West Sumatra, including it rugged Minangkabau Highlands, depicting a dense archipelago of villages and…

  A very large and beautifully produced separately issued map of the Empire of Persia (Iran), issued during the early days of the Pahlavi Dynasty; employing Persian script, it showcases the entire country in resplendent detail, predicated upon the best official sources; published in Tabriz’s glorious bazaar by the Saadat Central Library.

  A large map of highways in Iran, printed by the Ministry of Roads, was printed in English recto and Farsi verso in 1970, in the time of the rapid development of the country under Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in the time of the White Revolution. 

A rare, seemingly unrecorded early illustrated pamphlet on the history of Iran in Ottoman language   8°, 79 pp. with black and white illustrations and cover printed in red, later black cloth binding with gilt lettering (tiny old repaired holes in the lower part of the cover, old hand-written price on the inner side of the rear cover, binding with…

  A detailed road map of Iran, with a chart of distances between the major Persian cities and an inset relief map, was made in 1960 by an Iranian cartographer Abbas Sahab.