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  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).  

  An intriguing, large format propagandist map of Peru, devised by Eduardo Higginson, Peru’s hard-charging Consul General in Southampton, England, published on the orders of the country’s foreign minister, Eugenio Larrabure y Unánue, as a PR piece to showcase Peru’s economic and natural virtues and its maximalist (some might say ‘outrageous’) boundary claims with respect to its disputed frontiers with…

An extremely rare and highly decorative Art Nouveau era map of Peru that showcases the country’s maximalist (some might say ‘outrageous’) boundary claims with respect to its disputed frontiers with Ecuador, Brazil and Bolivia; designed by J. Boix Ferrer, the proprietor of the ‘Joya Literaria’ bookstore, with branches in Lima and Arequipa, it is predicated upon the best sources, detailing…

  A highly attractive contemporary manuscript copy of the famous map of the key port of Paita, Peru, from George Anson’s account of his Circumnavigation of the globe, during which his men attacked Paita in a dramatic piratical raid in 1741.

  A very rare broadside with Ottoman script showing the 23 days siege of Petrovaradin, Serbia, was made in the series of large separately published maps by the Turkish War Office the late Hamidian period as a part of intellectual propaganda to revive patriotic sentiment.  

  Small 4°: 10 issues in one volume (all published). [4 pp.], 175 pp. with black and white illustrations, 64 pp., contemporary boards with illustrated cover and lettering on the back, cloth spine, original pink endpapers (binding with light staining and scratches, endpapers with small holes, inside with minor staining, overall in a good condition).  

  A Slovenian translation of Heinrich Mann’s Professor Unrat, also known as The Blue Angel through its famous movie adaptation, was published in two parts in Ljubljana in 1935 with a unique photomontage cover, showcasing Marlene Dietrich and other characters from the movie.

  A pictorial map of Hyogo in Japanese and English, made during the American occupation of Japan   Colour lithograph, 76 x 54 cm (30 x 21.3 inches), verso text in blue (soft folds slightly worn, with tiny tears and holes on crossings, minor staining).  

  Small 4°. 9 issues (complete year) bound in original illustrated publisher’s binding. [4 pp.] title and index, 288 pp. with black and white illustrations, original illustrated wrappers (good clean condition, old dedication on the front lose endpaper, sporadic crosswords filled in with pencil, light discoloration to the spine).  

  Small 4°. 9 issues (complete year) bound in original illustrated publisher’s binding. [4 pp.] title and index, 288 pp. with black and white illustrations, original illustrated wrappers (good clean condition, old light stamps by a Yugoslav textile school on the title page, tiny tears in margins, light discoloration to the spine).  

  Small 4°. 9 issues (complete year) bound in original illustrated publisher’s binding. [4 pp.] title and index, 288 pp. with black and white illustrations, original illustrated wrappers (good clean condition with only minor staining, sporadic crosswords filled in with pencil, light discoloration to the spine).