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  A rare broadside was printed for a controversial Lady Godiva Procession in Coventry, in the time of highly moralistic Victorian Era. 

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…

Memories of Giambattista Scala, the Sardinian consul in Lagos, Nigeria, along with his travelogue to Abeokuta, located north of Lagos, depict the region at the end of the slave trade. During this period, merchants with new goods, Scala among them, began to move into the area. With a dedication by the author.   8º, [4 pp.] blank and title, 243…

  Extremely rare – no other examples recorded – the first edition of Reverend Buckley Wood’s history of Lagos, one of the seminal sources on the city’s precolonial period, printed in Exeter in 1878.

  A rare pamphlet with questions and answers regarding the Islamic law in Persian language, published in Lahore.   Small 4°, 24 pp. lithographed text with decorated title page, bound with old linen string (slightly age-toned and stained, with small tears and chips without loss of text in margins, but otherwise in a good, partly uncut condition, old script “1…

  A rare pamphlet in Pashto language, printed in Lahore, Pakistan, describes the life of a Muslim saint Tamim Al Ansari.   Small 4°, 16 pp. lithographed text with decorated title page, contemporary tan paper wrappers (slightly age-toned and stained, with small tears and chips without loss of text in margins, old annotation on the top margin of the title…

George Willis BOTSFORD (1862-1917). Lahore: Punjab Press, 1909.   Small 8°, title, 192 pp. lithographed text, original blue wrappers with lettering, original tan publisher’s wrappers, later spine (sporadic red lines in margins, corners slightly rubbed with small folds, title page with restored small tears and old sporadic annotations, publisher’s wrappers with annotations on the cover and partly repaired tears).  

An exceedingly handsome large binding, made by a Slovenian artist and professor Davorin Volavšek during the revival of the national style in the time of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, represents lake Bled with its island and castle.   Large 4°, title, 52 unnumbered colour and black and white plates and photographs, recto only brown calf with embossed decoration, corners reinforced…

A seemingly unrecorded variant of an extremely rare, colossal ‘Headquarters Map’ of French Indochina (modern day Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos) that was the blueprint for the imminent French colonial control takeover of Laos; the map was made in the immediate wake of the Third Mission Pavie (1889-91), led by the brilliant eccentric diplomat-explorer August Pavie that secured the pathway for…

LAOS – HECTOGRAPHED PROOF EXAMPLE OF THE FIRST TRAVEL GUIDE TO LAOS:  Antonin BAUDENNE.   Vientiane: [Self-Published by the Author], [January 1911].   4° (32 x 21.5 cm): 68 ff. total all hectographed in purple and printed single-sided, including 34 numbered pp. text, 1 single f. chart and 6 multiple ff. charts each on thicker paper with mss. descriptions in…

    8°. 15 pp. with illustrated cover (tiny loss of paper on the spine, light water-staining in the lower corner, lower margin of the cover cut into the low part of the printing, without loss of text, otherwise in a good condition).    

A charming advertisement in a shape of a pear, composed of Islamic calligraphy, for the subscription of two Ottoman newspapers in Ruse, Bulgaria.   Colour lithography, 47,5 x 36 cm (18.7 x 14.2 inches), (little age-toned and stained, minor loss of white margins, overall in a good condition)