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  An extremely rare separately-issued chart of the important port of Essaouira (formerly Mogador), Morocco, issued when the city was being transformed into the country’s greatest port, by Gerard Hulst van Keulen, masterfully engraved and of an uncommonly beautiful design.

MOROCCO (SPANISH / NORTHERN) / RIF WAR:  CUERPO DE ESTADO MAYOR DEL EJÉRCITO.   Madrid: Talleres del Depósito de la Guerra, December 1927.   Colour photolithograph, on 6 untrimmed and un-joined sheets of thick paper, housed in decorative printed paper sleave bearing blindstamp of the ‘Depósito de la Guerra’, rolling into original crimson tube bearing title in silver lettering (Very…

  Colour print, printed from both sides, 43 x 60 cm (17 x 23.6 inches) (soft folds, otherwise in a good condition).  

  A rare poster map, showing the Battle of Moscow and Stalin, was published by the Higher School of Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the highest educational institution on the Soviet Union. 

  An attractive Pre-Revolution Plan of Moscow, printed in Cyrillic text.

[Bayram Hediyesi. Bedayi-i Âsâr-ı Osmaniye. / Holiday Gift. Beautiful Ottoman Antiquities]   A stellar example of a richly illustrated art-historical guide of the most famous mosques of the Ottoman Empire from Istanbul to Mecca with superb illustrations by a famous late-Ottoman painter Hüsnü Tengüz.   8°. Original colour lithographed illustrated front wrappers, 110 pp. with mispagination skipping pp. 97-98, letterpress…

A short dictionary of foreign words, as well as expressions used in Brazil and in Portuguese colonies, and correct Portuguese words with an attractive cover. Small 8°, 8 pp. on pink paper with covers printed in black and red, unbound as originally published (Very Good).

  First modern, separately printed geological map of Mount Fuji   Colour print on thin paper 95 x 75 cm (38.2 x 29.5inches) (slightly age-toned, soft folds, small holes on the crossings of the folds).  

  A rare example of a seemingly unrecorded early publication made for a drinking event of the pioneers of the Alpine mountaineering.