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- Australia, Maps and Prints, Oceania
Wall Map of Australia: Specialkarte von Australien in 9 Blättern nach originalen & officiellen Quellen von A. Petermann
- 680.00€
- [Special Map of Australia in 9 Sheets, after Original and Official Sources by A. Petermann] A rare, separately issued Petermann’s map of Australia on 9 sheets with old colour, originally mounted on linen and joined together in a wall map, printed by the finest German cartographic office. Original coloured lithography, 98 x 122 cm (38.6 x 48…
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- Others
WALL-MAP OF THE CAUCASUS / TIFLIS IMPRINT: Дорожная Карта Кавказскаго Края Составлена и Литографирована въ Военно-Топографическомъ Отдѣлѣ Кавказскаго Военнагоокруга.
- 4,800.00€
- A rare detailed wall-map of the Caucasus, printed in Tiflis and drafted by Military Topographic Department of the Caucasus Military District under the leadership of the prolific surveyor Hieronymus Stebnitsky
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- 16th and early 17th Century Prints, Maps and Prints
WAPPEN / COAT OF ARMS: Kardinal aus der Familie Aldobrandini (?)
- 400.00€
- Blatt mit kardinalischem Wappen, allegorischen und heiligen Figuren, gestochen von Pieter de Jode d. Ä. nach einer Zeichnung von Francesco Vanni.
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- Books, History, September 2023: 50 under 1000 EUR
WAR OF THE SPANISH SUCCESSION (1701–1714) / BAVARICA: Relation de la Battaille qui s’est donnée le 20me de Septembre 1703 sur la plaine de Höchstet entre l’armée françoise & bavaroise…
- 420.00€
- [Report of the Battle, which Took Place on September 20, 1703 at he Plain of Höchstädt Between French and Bavarian Army…] Large 4°, [4 pp.] letterpress (Very good with uncut edges, margins little age-toned).
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- Arabic Books, Books
Warfare in Egypt: خواطر عن الحرب [Khawāṭir ʻan al-ḥarb / Thoughts on the War]
- 220.00€
- Thoughts on war with examples from the history by a prominent Egyptian military officer and author Ahmad Hamrush. 8°. 78 pp., [2 pp.], illustrated wrappers, later spine (rear wrapper scratched with loss of text, small chips in margins, horizontal tear on the title page, otherwise in an uncut condition).
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- Books, History, Slavica
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising / Judaica: Getto walczy. Udział Bundu w obronie getta warszawskiego
- 420.00€
- [The Ghetto is Fighting. Participation of the Bund in the defense of the Warsaw Ghetto] Large 12°, 67 pp., original illustrated wrappers (wrappers slightly dusty and stained with small chips and lines in ink and pencil, sporadic annotations in pencil inside).
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- Books
WARSAW UPRISING – UNDERGROUND PRINTING – WWII: Komunikat Informacyjny, 20 Issues: Nos. 19, 22, 23, 35, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 35, 36, 37, 38, 40, 41, 43, 44, 45 and 46.
- 1,800.00€
- Presented here is a set of 20 issues of the Komunikat Informacyjny, a double-sided broadside bulletin that was intended to quickly deliver news to front line soldersduring the Warsaw Uprising.
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- Maps and Prints, Newly Catalogued Items: August 2022, Posters, Slavica
WARSAW UPRISING UNDERGROUND PRINTING: Warszawa Walczy żołnierska gazeta scienna. [Warsaw Fights: Soldiers’ Wall Newspaper], Nr. 40, August 19th, 1944
- 950.00€
- A very rare issue of ‘Warszawa Walczy’ [Warsaw Fights], a large illustrated broadside ‘wall newspaper’ issued by the propaganda bureau of the ‘Armia Krajowa’ [Polish Home Army] during the Warsaw Uprising, one of the most popular works published within the barricaded city to inform both resistance fighters and local residents, an especially fine example in very good condition.
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- Maps and Prints
WARSAW, POLAND: Poczta, telegraf i telefon na terenie m. st. Warszawy [Post, Telegraph and Telephone in the Area of the City of Warsaw].
- 350.00€
- The first and only edition of a decorative Art Deco map of Warsaw shows post, telegraph and telephone stations in 1936.
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- Maps and Prints
WATER-COLOUR MINIATURE PORTRAIT: Karl Freiherr von Schrenck (1806-1884)
- 650.00€
- A unique Bidermeier hand painted miniature portrait of young Karl Freiherr von Schrenck, a later famous lawyer and Bavarian minister of Justice, fired for signing a memorandum against Lola Montez.
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- Maps and Prints, New Zealand
Wellington, New Zealand: Map of the City of Wellington and Surrounding Dist.
- 2,800.00€
- An extremely rare, large format work that is the first edition one of the seminal maps of Wellington, depicting the New Zealand capital when it was one of the fastest growing cities in the British Empire, with a wealth of finely executed and intriguing details, granting a peerless record of the city as it was, as well as prefiguring…
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- Americas, Caribbean, Maps and Prints
WEST INDIES – HISPANIOLA – HAITI – DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Carte physique et politique de l’Ile d’Haïti / Dressée par Mr. A. Poujol, Ancien Chargé d’Affaires d’Haïti á Santo Domingo et Ancien Membre des Commission mixte de délimitation de 1899 et 1901 et Mr. H. Thomasset, Ingénieur de l’Ecole Centrale de Paris, Officier de la Légion d’Honneur. Publiée sous le Ministère de Mr. T. Laleu, Sécretaire d’Etat aux Départments de l’Instrucion Publique et de la Justice, Port-au-Prince, 1908. / Nouvelle édition rectifiée 1912.
- 4,800.00€
- Extremely rare - a monumental, brilliantly colour lithographed work that is by far and away the most accurate and detailed map of Hispaniola to date, and one of the great achievements of cartography of the early 20th century in the Americas, the result of a collaboration between Alexandre Poujol, a leading Haitian jurist and stateman, and Henri Thomasset, a Frenchman…
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- Archives and Documents, Books, Geography, History
WEST INDIES – ST. CROIX, DANISH (TODAY U.S.) VIRGIN ISLANDS BRITISH OCCUPATION DURING NAPOLEONIC WARS (1807 – 1815) DIPLOMACY/ TRADE / FINANCE / SLAVERY:
- 7,500.00€
- 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…
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- Maps and Prints
WEST INDIES – TRINIDAD / JUDICIAL MURDER & SORCERY / RACE RELATIONS / CELEBRITY TRIALS / PROPAGANDA WARS / SCOTTISH PROVINCIAL IMPRINT: [A Letter:] To Field Marshal, H.R.H. The Duke of York, Air, Scotland, 15th June, 1807.
- 980.00€
- Seemingly unrecorded - a content-rich Scottish broadside, being on open letter written by Colonel William Fullarton, a prominent liberal statesman, addressed to the Duke of York, the Commander-in-Chief of the British Army; created as part of the former’s legal and propaganda war against General Thomas Picton (later famous for his final act at the Battle of Waterloo), who had…
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- Books
WEST INDIES / ECOMOMIC HISTORY: A Letter to the Rt. Hon. Henry Goulburn M.P. Chancellor of the Exchequer, &c. &c. &c. from John Innes, Esquire on the Claims of the West India Distiller to an Equalization of the Duties on Rum and British Spirits.
- 200.00€
- A rare pamphlet written on the eve of the Abolition of Slavery, urging that the uniquely high duties on West Indies Rum be lowered and harmonized with the tariffs placed upon other hard spirits made across the British Empire, written by John Innes, a prominent merchant and lobbyist, addressed to the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
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- Books
WEST INDIES / ECOMOMIC HISTORY: A Statement of the Claims of the West India Colonies to a Protecting Duty against East India Sugar.
- 150.00€
- This anonymous pamphlet mounts a forceful defence of the beleaguered West Indies sugar industry and calls for the imposition of tariffs to protect it from the juggernaut of competition from the East Indies.
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- Books
WEST INDIES / SLAVERY: A Letter to the Governors, Legislatures, and Proprietors of Plantations, in the British West-India Islands. By the Right Reverend Beilby Porteus, D.D. Bishop of London.
- 300.00€
- A very rare rhetorical work by Beilby Porteus, the Bishop of London, urging the Crown to provide education to the slaves of the West Indies and to convert them to Christianity.
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- Arabic Books, Books, New Acquisitions: October 2020
WESTERN MEDICAL EDUCATION FOR YOUNG ARAB WOMEN / MEDICAL AND HEALTH CARE FOR BABY: تربية الطفل. تأليف الدكتور سروبيان الاختصاصي بفن التوليد وطب الاولاد وطبيب مستشفى اللادي كرومر وماجاء الاطفال المتروكين بمصر
- 680.00€
- [Child Rearing. Written by Dr. Serobyan, the specialist in obstetrics and pediatrics, the doctor of the Lady Cromer Hospital and the orphanage of abandoned children in Egypt] A rare manual in Arabic language on modern Western medical care for babies was published by the Office of the Public Education and written by a medical doctor of the Lady Cromer…
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- Books
WESTERN SAMOA: Handbook of Western Samoa.
- 120.00€
- The first edition of an attractive official guidebook to the Pacific Island territory of Western Samoa, then a mandate ruled by New Zealand, published by the Government Printer in Wellington.
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- Books, Slavica
WHITE RUSSIAN PRINTING IN ISTANBUL: Православный Христіанскій Молитвословъ для мірянъ
- 420.00€
- [Orthodox Christian Prayer Book for the Laity] A rare pamphlet with prayers in Russian language, printed by the Orthodox Church at the Russian Embassy in Istanbul for the immigrants fleeing the revolution from Odessa. 12°, 42 pp. with black and white illustrations, original wrappers with lettering, stapled (minimal age-toning and staining, overall in a good condition, sporadic…
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