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A great rarity of Cuban cartography, being a city plan of Santiago de Cuba, drafted and lithographed locally by Louis François Delmés, the French émigré portraitist and miniaturist who was the father of academic painting in eastern Cuba; the map, executed in the artist’s signature resplendent colour palette, portrays Cuba’s second city during the island’s last ‘sugar boom’, showcasing Santiago…

A stellar pair of original manuscript sea charts, on a single sheet, being surveys by James Langley, the Master of the ‘HMS Scamander’, showing 1) Gros Islet Bay, a critical fortified harbour near the northern point of St. Lucia that was chosen by the famed Admiral George Rodney a key base of the Royal Navy; and 2) Prince Rupert’s Bay…

A grand format original manuscript that is one of the finest and most detailed maps of St. George’s, the capital of Grenada, from the slave-plantation era, the result of a collaboration between Captain William Elliott, James Langley and James Young of the Royal Engineers; drafted shortly after the Napoleonic Wars, when the Grenada lived under the spectre of a possible…

The fourth edition of this fundamental work in classical economics.   Two volumes, both 8º, xiii, 498 pp. [8 pp.], 489 pp., [62 pp.], contemporary full calf, dark red morocco spine labels with gold lettering, speckled edges (light scuffing to the corners of the bindings, first and last leaves with light brown glue-staining from the boards in margins, collector’s rubber stamps “Ex-Libris E.…

A detailed history of India, Hyderabad, and its rulers in Urdu, authored by historian Muhammad Ghulam Imam Khan, provides valuable insights into the events of the late 18th and mid-19th centuries.   Large 4º, 10 pp., 790 pp. lithographed text, contemporary goat binding with gold tooling (binding scuffed and scratched, joints broken but not detached, first two text pages loose,…

An elaborately made manuscript travelogue to Argentina in 1891 by a teenage boy Mariano de Bary, a son of a bank and transportation mogul Heinrich Albert de Bary and a descendant of a prominent Argentinian family Saavedra.   Large 4º, blank, illustrated title page, 130 pp., [1 pp.], manuscript in blue ink, 43 original black and white photographs mounted in…

The album contains 131 photographs from the Second Boer War, as well as images depicting life in South Africa before and after the conflict. It provides valuable insights into this historic period, particularly through a collection of photographs taken in the field with a modern portable roll film camera.v   Album, oblong large 4º, 25 thick grey boards with 131…

Exceedingly rare – an almost complete collection (76 of 79 issues) of ‘Os Simples’, the first major, and reasonably enduring, labour newspaper issued in Mozambique, published in Lourenço Marques (Maputo) from February 1911 to September 1913; an unparalleled source on the rise of the white working class and unionism in Mozambique, the socialist-republican paper, published by professional typographers, featured diverse…

A unique and vital primary source on the history of what is today the United States Virgin Islands during the critical period of the Napoleonic Wars and the twilight of the West Indies sugar-slave economy, being the original manuscript letter book of William Manning, an English MP, tycoon, slave plantation owner and the Governor of the Bank of England, who…

Giambattista SCALA (1817-1871). [Memoirs of Giambattista Scala Consul of Her Majesty of Italy in Lagos di Guinéa about his trip to Abbeockuta, a city in the interior of Africa made in the year 1858] Sampierdarena, today a part of Genoa: Francesco Vernengo 1862. 8º, [4 pp.] blank and title, 243 pp., 5 pp., contemporary black linen boards and black goat…

Adolf HAUPT (fl. 1900 – 1933). Tsingdao [Qingdao]: Printed at the Catholic Mission Press, 1927. 8° (19 x 11.5 cm): [13 pp. advertisements, title, preliminaries], 1-48 pp., [16 pp. advertisements on coloured paper], 49-156 pp. (with 82 photographic images imbedded within text), [2 pp.], plus 2 large folding colour lithographed maps on thick paper, bound in original printed boards with…

Three early rare Thai merit-making volumes were created for the 40th anniversary of King Chulalongkorn’s reign. They include speeches based on manuscripts from the National Library, delivered at Wat Arun in Bangkok after the restoration of key structures during Thailand's Buddhist reform movement. In very good, seemingly unread condition from an European collection.

A fascinating collection of 30 early Thai Cremation Volumes in near-mint condition.

Gu HONGMING (also Ku Hung-Ming, 辜鴻銘, 1857-1928). Beijing: The Peking Daily News, 1915. 8 º , [8 pp.] blank and titles in Chinese and English, 21 pp., [3 pp.] blank and index, X, 168 pp., original green binding (binding little water-stained and rubbed, internally clean with sporadic annotations in pen and pencil). The first edition of a collection of essays…

S. l., s.d, but France, circa 1815. 11 originally coloured engravings, each 7 x 6 cm (2.7 x 2.3 inches), 9 folded green sheets, each with printed title on the front, 2 pages of miniature text in the inner side and blank verso (of probably 12 sets), housed in original slipcase with illustrated cover (slipcase soiled with folds and scratches,…

Lucien Florent Paul COFFYN (1810 - 1871). Manuscript, [Saigon, April-May 1862].   Manuscript, pen and ink and grisaille wash on paper, bearing three original manuscript signatures, being those of the author, draftsman and colonial governor, mounted upon a larger piece of 20th century paper (Good, wear along old folds with some minor loss at some fold vertices, some short closed tears…

Walter Burley GRIFFIN (1876 - 1937) [and Marion Mahony GRIFFIN (1871 - 1961)] / Charles Robert SCRIVENER (1855 - 1923). [Canberra:] Federal Capital Commission, May 1927.   Colour lithograph, mounted upon original linen and folding into original purple cloth covers bearing gilt short title to upper cover, with handstamps to inside front cover and to verso of map: ‘H. Hurry…

CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE GOBIERNO DEL DISTRITO FEDERAL. Mexico City: Compañía Litográfica y Tipográfica, S.A., 1906.   Colour lithograph on thick paper, housed in original red cloth slipcase bearing gilt short title of ‘Plano de la Ciudad de México / 1906’ to front side (Good, clean and bright, some hairline tears entering image but archivally repaired from verso with no loss,…

VARIOUS AUTHORS. Johann STRANIMARYER, Author of the Collection. Gesänge. Gesam(m)elt im heurigen Jahr, wo das Trinkgeld sehr wehlfeil war. Zur Belustigung für Jedermann. [Songs. Gathered in This Year, when the Money was Very Low [lit. when the Tips were Poor]. For Entertainment of Everyone] Mostly Austrian Empire: Vienna, Prague, Wiener Neustadt, Jihlava, Znojmo [circa 1800-1850] - Collected in Kapfenberg, Austria:…

[Austrian Citizens' Calendar for the Year 1846, a Reading Book Intended for Ongoing Use. Factual Situation and Library Book] Vienna: Pichler’s Witve [i. e. Elisabeth Pichler][1845]. 8°. Lithographed portrait of Franziska Klähr as frontispiece, guard, IV, XXX with interleaved unnumbered printed templates for book-keeping between pp. 1-16, 315 pp. with interleaved 3 lithographed portraits, [8 pp.] index and advertisements, original…

Jasper NANTIAT (d. 1817), Cartographer; William FADEN (1749 – 1836), Publisher. London: William Faden, January 1, 1810. Copper engraving with full original hand colour, dissected and mounted on 4 parts of original linen, all housed in an exquisite custom-made full brown calf box (measuring 23 x 16.5 x 4.5 cm), dating from 1811-5, with elegant gilt tooling and a black…

Christian Anton GOERING (1836 - 1905). [Leipzig:] 1886. Water-colour on paper, mounted on later paper, sheet: 39 x 59 cm (15.3 x 23.2 inches), Drawing: 35 x 55 cm (13.8 x 21.6 inches), (light mat-burns to the margins, but otherwise in a good condition). An original drawing of the wildlife of the Orinoco River, made by the German explorer Christian…

Alexander Petrovich KARPINSKY [Александр Петрович КАРПИНСКИЙ] (1847 - 1936). / Sergei Nikolaevich NIKITIN (1851 - 1909). / Feodosy Nikolayevich CHERNYSHEV (1856 - 1914). / Nikolai Alekseevich SOKOLOV (1856 - 1907). / Aleksander MICHALSKI (1855 - 1904) et al. St. Peterburg: A. Ilyin’s Cartographic Establishment, 1892.   Colour lithograph printed on 6 sheets but here joined and mounted upon mid-20th century linen,…

S. GHOSE. / CALCUTTA PORT COMMISSIONERS. Calcutta: Survey of India Office, 1920.   Heliozincograph in red and black, dissected into sections and mounted upon original cloth with original marbled endpapers, mss. owner’s inscription of “Saunders 29-8-[19]21” to cloth verso (Good, some mild staining due to the natural oxidization of the glue from the cloth backing), 85 x 59.5 cm (33.5…