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- Books, Ottoman Books, Turkica
Voltaire in Ottoman: حكايه حكميه مكرومغا
- 420.00€
- [Hikâye-i Hikemiyye-i Mikromega / A Moralizing Story Micromégas] A rare Ottoman translation of Voltaite’s science fiction short story Micromégas 8°: 31 pp., original tan wrappers, later spine (wrappers with light staining and foxing, inside in a clean, partly uncut condition with hardly noticeable foxing to the last pages).
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- Arabic Books, Books
Warfare in Egypt: خواطر عن الحرب [Khawāṭir ʻan al-ḥarb / Thoughts on the War]
- 220.00€
- Thoughts on war with examples from the history by a prominent Egyptian military officer and author Ahmad Hamrush. 8°. 78 pp., [2 pp.], illustrated wrappers, later spine (rear wrapper scratched with loss of text, small chips in margins, horizontal tear on the title page, otherwise in an uncut condition).
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WARSAW UPRISING – UNDERGROUND PRINTING – WWII: Komunikat Informacyjny, 20 Issues: Nos. 19, 22, 23, 35, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 35, 36, 37, 38, 40, 41, 43, 44, 45 and 46.
- 1,800.00€
- Presented here is a set of 20 issues of the Komunikat Informacyjny, a double-sided broadside bulletin that was intended to quickly deliver news to front line soldersduring the Warsaw Uprising.
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WARSAW UPRISING NEWSPAPER: Kurier Stołeczny [Warsaw courier], Nr. 4.
- 320.00€
- A rare broadside newspaper in Polish language was published during the Warsaw Uprising in 1944 by the underground resistance.
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- Archives and Documents, Books, History
WEST INDIES – ST. CHRISTOPHER (ST. KITTS) / ARCHIVE
- 7,500.00€
- Nevis / Anguilla British Virgin Islands Original Manuscript Archive Post-Slavery Era Medical History / Legal History Political History / Natural Disasters
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WEST INDIES / ECOMOMIC HISTORY: A Letter to the Rt. Hon. Henry Goulburn M.P. Chancellor of the Exchequer, &c. &c. &c. from John Innes, Esquire on the Claims of the West India Distiller to an Equalization of the Duties on Rum and British Spirits.
- 200.00€
- A rare pamphlet written on the eve of the Abolition of Slavery, urging that the uniquely high duties on West Indies Rum be lowered and harmonized with the tariffs placed upon other hard spirits made across the British Empire, written by John Innes, a prominent merchant and lobbyist, addressed to the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
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WEST INDIES / ECOMOMIC HISTORY: A Statement of the Claims of the West India Colonies to a Protecting Duty against East India Sugar.
- 150.00€
- This anonymous pamphlet mounts a forceful defence of the beleaguered West Indies sugar industry and calls for the imposition of tariffs to protect it from the juggernaut of competition from the East Indies.
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WEST INDIES / SLAVERY: A Letter to the Governors, Legislatures, and Proprietors of Plantations, in the British West-India Islands. By the Right Reverend Beilby Porteus, D.D. Bishop of London.
- 300.00€
- A very rare rhetorical work by Beilby Porteus, the Bishop of London, urging the Crown to provide education to the slaves of the West Indies and to convert them to Christianity.
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- Arabic Books, Books, New Acquisitions: October 2020
WESTERN MEDICAL EDUCATION FOR YOUNG ARAB WOMEN / MEDICAL AND HEALTH CARE FOR BABY: تربية الطفل. تأليف الدكتور سروبيان الاختصاصي بفن التوليد وطب الاولاد وطبيب مستشفى اللادي كرومر وماجاء الاطفال المتروكين بمصر
- 680.00€
- [Child Rearing. Written by Dr. Serobyan, the specialist in obstetrics and pediatrics, the doctor of the Lady Cromer Hospital and the orphanage of abandoned children in Egypt] A rare manual in Arabic language on modern Western medical care for babies was published by the Office of the Public Education and written by a medical doctor of the Lady Cromer…
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WESTERN SAMOA: Handbook of Western Samoa.
- 120.00€
- The first edition of an attractive official guidebook to the Pacific Island territory of Western Samoa, then a mandate ruled by New Zealand, published by the Government Printer in Wellington.
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