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A unique court record book documenting trials at the provincial court in Plateau Province, Nigeria, between 1927 and 1931. Large 4º, 257 unnumbered sheets, printed text on the left-hand side, printed template with entries in black and red ink and annotations in colour pencils on the right-hand side. two inserted sheets with typescript, reverse calf binding with linear tooling in…

  An impressive archive consisting of a stellar original photograph and sixteen manuscript documents relating to the Comte d’Escayrac’s 1856 planned expedition to find the source of the White Nile, two years before John Hanning Speke successfully accomplished said objective, from the personal papers of Gabriel Aubaret, the mission’s second-in-command and subsequently a famous diplomat and a leading figure in…

  An uncommon small map of North America was published in an Ottoman Turkish atlas at the beginning of the 20th century. 

  A very rare cartographic playing card featuring a map of Africa.

  [The Closing Arguments for Rudolf Hess at the International Military Court Nuremberg in process against Herman Göring and Others. By Dr. Iur. Alfred Seidl, Lawyer, Defender of the Sued Rudolf Hess]   Large 4°, Carbon copy of typescript, [1, title], 82 numbered pages, printed recto only, with first two pages marked as 1-2 and 2-4, and with additional pages…

A map of Oceania from the first Ottoman lithographed atlas.   Colour Lithography, 32 x 43 cm (12.6 x 17 inches), (soft fold slightly age-toned, minor wear to the margins, but overall in a good condition).

  Chromolithograph, 51 x 34 cm (13.4 x 20 inches), (small repaired tears in the fold, sporadic light staining in white margins, but otherwise in a good condition).      

  A rare broadside in Russian Cyrillic, published by the American Press Office in Saint Petersburg only weeks after the October Revolution, lists the Fourteen Points by President Woodrow Wilson, a statement of principles to end World War I peacefully, for which he was awarded the 1919 Nobel Peace Prize.

  Exceedingly rare and classified - one of the first accurate surveys of the Ahwaz area of the Arabistan region of Persia (today Khuzistan Province, Iran), importantly showcasing a great stretch of the first oil pipeline in the Middle East, completed in 1912, which connected the Masjed Soleyman Oilfield with the Anglo-Persian Oil Company’s refinery at Abadan; published in the…

[Olive Tree Cultivation, Pruning and Varieties. Ploughing and Fertilization of Olive Groves. Tools Used against Flies and Moths in Olive Groves.Olive Collection, Preservation and Production of Dishes, Olive Growing in Trade: Laws and Regulations on Olive Cultivation]