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  An intriguing, and likely unique, artefact of the early era of Mozambican independence under the rule of the Socialist FRELIMO movement, being a map of the Mozambican capital Maputo (formerly Lourenço Marques), hastily published in the whiteprint method, that interestingly showcases the city with most of its major streets renamed after Socialist / Communist luminaries such Vladimir Lenin, Mao…

Marifetname or Book of Gnosis - a majestic encyclopedic work in Ottoman language, printed by the Bulaq press in Cairo.   Large 4°: 23 pp., 564 pp. letterpress with lithographed illustrations, original brown goat with a flap and blind tooling, title in thick blue colour on the lower edge (Sporadic markings of text in apricot water colour, annotations in pencil…

  A rare and excellent work on the British campaign in Martinique, Guadeloupe and St. Lucia during the French Revolutionary War, written by Reverend Cooper Williams, a participant in the expedition and a noted artist and travel writer. 

[Karl Marx. A Brief Biographical Sketch / Карл Маркс. Kраткий биографический очерк с изложением марксизма]   8°: 25 pp., original illustrated wrappers, stapled (very good, uncut example, wrappers slightly dusty with light chips in the corners).  

  The first translation of the Anti-Düring book by Friedrich Engels to Slovenian was published in 1933 to set an example how to supress all the contemporary tendencies to change or undermine the fundamental Marxist thought.

  An early lithographed book in Persian language with extracts from Rumi’s Masnavi.   8°, 119 pp. lithographed text, contemporary stenciled paper boards, brown linen spine (good used example, binding slightly rubbed and stained, minor staining in white margins).  

This is the first sea chart of the harbour of Massawa predicated upon proper scientific surveys, as well as one of the only detailed early maps of the city of Massawa as remodeled by the new Italian colonial regime.   Zincograph, with some navigation markers heightened in yellow, some contemporary manuscript navigational additions in pencil (Good, but with noticeable wear…