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  Three original drawings of the destruction of Mainz after the explosion of the Pulverturm, the powder tower, were made in-situ by an English journalist.  

  Exceedingly rare – no other examples traced – a Malagasy language work on the history of the Ancient Jewish civilization, as taken from the Bible, as written by the Quaker missionary Henry E. Clark, and printed in Faravohitra (today in Antananarivo), Madagascar by the press of the Friends’ Foreign Mission Association – this being the first ‘Section’ (of two)…

  A very rare wall map of the Federation of Malaya (today’s peninsular Malaysia) made only the year after its independence from Britain, an entirely bilingual work (Chinese-English) executed by a Chinese draftsman, Li Menphy, and published in Hong Kong for the benefit of Malaya’s large Chinese population and the many Hong Kongers who had strong connections to that country…

  Scarce – the definitive official overview of the Federated Malay States at the beginning of the 20th Century, during the rubber and tin boom; richly illustrated with 5 folding maps and 7 photographic plates, by Sir H. Conway Belfield, the British Resident in Selangor.

  [Kitāb tawārīkh mukhtaṣar yunbī ʻan mamālik wa-bilād ʻadīdah wa-mā ḥadatha fīhā min qadīm al-zamān ilá ʻaṣrinā hadhā / Concise History Book, Providing Information on Numerous Realms and Countries and What has Happened in Them from Ancient Times to Our Own Era] A rare work in Arabic language, published in Malta for educational purposes of learning history   8°. 136…

  8°. 64 pp, original wrappers with lettering (slightly age toned, wrappers stained with small cracks and loss of paper).  

  Art-Deco map of Manhattan, made for the World Fair in New York in 1939. 

  Art-Deco map of Manhattan, made for the World Fair in New York in 1939. 

  Colour lithograph, 45,5 x 68 cm (18 x 26.8 inches), verso text and colour images (soft folds, otherwise in a good condition.  

ROYAUME D’EGYPTE. CABINET DU GRAND CHAMBELLAN. Cairo: Imprimerie nationale 1947. Large 8°, [4 pp.] title and introduction, 192 pp. text in French, 45 unnumbered colour illustrations, with many mounted images and one folding plate, original red cloth binding with gold lettering on the cover and spine (annotations in Arabic in blue ink on p. 7, minor corrections in pencil to…