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MEMENTO MORI / GERMAN BAROQUE: Laudatio Funeralis In Obitum Viri Excellentissimi, Pereximii Doctissimique Domini M. Andreæ Unkepunz Poetæ Laureati, Ludimagistri Meritissimi, Et Hypodidascali Exceleberrimi In Illustri Schola Octava, quae Bopfingae Floret
680.00€
A large-format satirical pamphlet in Latin, written by German early art historian and author on scientific books on many subjects, including on the Jews in China, and Arabic and Chinese literature, Christoph Gottlieb von Murr (1733 - 1811). Folio, [8 pp.] with 2 woodcuts, unbound (soft folds, repairs to the spine, tiny tears in margins, slightly dusty, sporadic annotations…
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Mesopotamian campaign: سلمان پاك ميدان محاربه سى “قته سيفون” و زيلى
1,600.00€
A comprehensive first-hand report on the Battle of Salman Pak, located south of Baghdad, which took place during the Mesopotamian campaign, authored by Bimbashi (Major) and military historian Mehmet Emin, featuring extensive maps and charts for detailed analysis.
Mexico
150.00€
Steel engraved playing card, overlaid in coloured stencil, blank on verso (Very Good, minor stainng verso, a small scratch and stain on the front), 97 x 65 mm (3.8 x 2.6 inches).
MEXICO – MILITARY HISTORY: Instrucciones Acerca de las Obligaciones de la Infantería Ligera en Campaña: para el uso de las Tropas de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos.
1,800.00€
A very rare and attractive Mexican manual for instructing light infantry in the field, published shortly after Mexican Independence, with 2 charmingly crudely engraved plates depicting suggested reconnaissance formations, published in Mexico City for the Ministerio de Guerra y Marina. 12° (14.5 x 10 cm): [2], 251 pp., plus, 2 folding engraved plates (with Fig. 1 measuring 15 x…
MEXICO CITY IMPRINT: Apelación al buen criterio de los nacionales y estrangeros: informe que el Escmo. Sr. General de división, benemérito de la patria Antonio López de Santa-Ana, dió por acuerdo del gran jurado, sobre las acusaciones presentadas por el señor diputado Ramón Gamboa. / Acompañan á dicho informe diversos documentos de la mayor importancia para la historia, y de los cuales algunos no se habian publicado hasta hoy.
2,200.00€
Highly important – the charismatic and controversial former (and future) Mexican President Antonio López de Santa Anna’s official and most detailed defense of his leadership when he oversaw the cession of Texas (1836) and the total defeat of this armies during the Mexican-American War (1846-8); the superficially persuasive but ‘creative with the truth’ narrative was written while Santa Anna was…
![MEXICO CITY: [Ciudad de México] Carta de la Republica Mexicana, á la 100 000a. 1a. Serie. Hoja 19-I-(M).](https://pahormedia.b-cdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Novembre45-copy-265x331.jpg)
MEXICO CITY: [Ciudad de México] Carta de la Republica Mexicana, á la 100 000a. 1a. Serie. Hoja 19-I-(M).
650.00€
The rare Mexico City sheet from the famed ‘Carta de la Republica Mexicana’, the awesomely ambitious, but ultimately unfinished mega-project to map all of Mexico to a scale of 1:100 000, conducted by the Comisión Geográfico-Exploradora; importantly, this sheet was separately issued and is a complete publication in and of itself; one of the seminal maps of the Metropolitan…
MEXICO CITY: Plano oficial de la ciudad de México. Edición especial para el Consejo Superior de Gobierno del Distrito Federal, con motivo de la reunión del X Congreso Geológico Internacional. Septiembre de 1906.
2,200.00€
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,…