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Exceedingly rare – an almost complete collection (76 of 79 issues) of ‘Os Simples’, the first major, and reasonably enduring, labour newspaper issued in Mozambique, published in Lourenço Marques (Maputo) from February 1911 to September 1913; an unparalleled source on the rise of the white working class and unionism in Mozambique, the socialist-republican paper, published by professional typographers, featured diverse…

  8°, 22 pp., [4 pp.], 13 pp., original wrappers with red lettering (minor loss of paper around the spine, otherwise in a good condition).  

  8°, [8 pp.], 64 pp., with two black and white portraits of Oscar Wilde, original illustrated wrappers, bound in a recent black linen with gilt lettering and debossed decoration, signed by the translator (minor age-toning and staining, but overall in a good condition).  

  A receipt by an Istanbul-based architect of Italian origins from the late 19th century.

[İlk ve Orta Mekteblere Mahsus Coğrafya Atlası / Geographical Atlas for Primary and Middle Schools] Istanbul: A. M. Karmi, Publisher - Leipzig: Wagner & Debes, Printer [1922]. 4°, [2 pp.] lithographed title page and index verso, 24 pp. chromolithographed maps, original green card binding with lettering and green cloth spine (good used condition with minor foxing and minor chips in…

  [Mükemmel ve Mufassal Co‎ğrafya-yı Umumi Atlası /  Complete and Detailed General Geographical Atlas]   8°, [8 pp.], 188 pp.,, [4 pp.], interleaved page between p. 28-29, 37 colour lithographed double paged maps (complete) including one plate with two maps and one folding map, original blue binding with debossed lettering and decoration (sporadic old annotations in Ottoman, one map (Asia)…

  8°, 192 pp. with black and white images, contemporary red cloth binding with gold tooling, original patterned endpapers (Sporadic offset printing, binding little scratched and bumped on the corners, hinges in the front endpapers cracked, a tiny chip in the rear loose endpaper, hardly notice foxing to sporadic pages, but overall in a good condition).  

    2 French articles on famous blind people in arts and literature, bound in a highly decorative contemporary Ottoman binding   2 titles bound in 1 volume, 8°, contemporary Ottoman red card binding with debosses surface and gilt decoration, contemporary debossed orange endpapers (minor foxing, endpapers with light scratches, binding slightly rubbed on the corners and with small worm…

احمد عاصم Ahmet Asım (Mütercim Ahmed Asım Ayıntabî, 1787 – 1808) Merahü'l-maali fî şerhi'l-Emali also Merahu’l-meâlî fî şerhi’l-Emâlî Istanbul: Takvimhane-i Amire 1266 [1850]. 8°, [4 pp.] index, 222 pp., [2 pp.] blank, printed on paper of natural-colour, yellow, green and greyish-apricot paper with colour of paper changing every 8 or 16 pp., contemporary green straight-grain Morocco with gold tooling, dark…

  The first Ottoman book on cuneiform, written by scholar and Armenian nationalist Karapet J. Basmadjian   16°: 27 pp., [5 pp.] blank, later cloth binding with debossed prnaments and gilt lettering (margins slightly age-toned and with tiny tears, otherwise in a good condition).  

  [Usûl-i Coğrafya-yı Sagir / Small Introduction to Geography]   An early Ottoman geography book with large, wonderfully originally coloured maps.   12°: 156 pp., [4 pp.] blank and errata, 3 folding plates with maps – lithographs with original colour, original green boards and green cloth spine (binding with small chips and scratches, inside in a good condition with minor…

  8°, [3 pp.] title page and introduction, 536 pp. with black and white illustrations in text, [1 pp.], 4 folding plates, contemporary grown cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, original green patterned endpapers (slightly age-toned, minor foxing and staining, tiny sporadic folds in corners, sporadic light off-set, printing mistakes on pp. 377-383 with correctly printed images over wrongly…