![Item #557 [Caption title:] Déclaration du Roi, Sur la Contribution en cas de Déconfiture, dans...](https://foldvaribooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/557.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1436541308)
Paris: P. G. Simon, Imprimeur du Parlement, 1777. First edition. With woodcut head piece. 4 p. Royal act regarding bankruptcy in French India (Établissements français dans l’Inde). More
![Item #555 [Caption title:] Déclaration du Roi, Sur l’Administration des Biens des Mineurs dans...](https://foldvaribooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/555.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1436540603)
Paris: P. G. Simon, Imprimeur du Parlement, 1777. First edition. With woodcut head piece. 4 p. Royal act regarding the property of the minors in French India (Établissements français dans l’Inde). More
![Item #598 [Caption title:] Loi Relative au remboursement des actions et portions d’actions de...](https://foldvaribooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/598.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1557739576)
A Rouen: De l’Imprimerie de J. J. le Boullenger, imprimeur du Déparrement de la Seine inférieure, rue du Grand-Maulévrier, 1792. First edition. Imprint from colophon. Published unbound. 3, (1) p. As a result of the decree of the National Assembly that removed all the privileges of Compagnie des Indes (French..... More
![Item #3484 Commerce du Levant. Draps de Languedoc embarqués à Marséille de 1708 à 1752. [1.]...](https://foldvaribooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3484.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1750269995)
[France, Marseille(?)]: [18th century]. Manuscript in ink on paper. Text in French, written in a neat, consistent hand. Unbound, disbound from a larger volume. [52] p. Manuscript account of Languedoc cloth exports to the Levantine markets during the first half of the 18th century, including import data and shipping returns..... More
Calcutta: Printed by Greenway and Co.; Hurkaru Press, 1812. First edition. In contemporary blue paper. (5), 4–85, (1) p. Scarce masonic book printed in Calcutta. Earl of Moire (Francis Edward Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings, 1754–1826) has been appointed as Governor-General of India in 1812. This Constitution was probably..... More
[S.l. but Madrid]: [Letter dated in Madrid on May 20, 1643. First edition. In later paper wrappers. 4 f. First edition of the scarce Spanish news letter supposedly addressed to the Spanish Governor-General of the Philippines Islands. A printed copy of an anonymously written long letter supposedly sent..... More
1967. Includes Xerox photographs of original documents, along with their translation into Hebrew and / or English. All pamphlets are in good condition, dimensions: 32X23. 1. "Jordanian color orders for the demolition of Israeli settlements and the killing of their inhabitants." Hebrew, English and Arabic. 70 pages. 2..... More
[S.l. (Spain)]: [S.n.], , [n.d., but ca. 1616?]. First edition. In modern green half leather, bound with several blank leaves. Armorial woodcut device on title page. [4] p. An extremely scarce battle report of the events related to the aftermath of the Capture of La Mamora in 1614... More
Madrid: Diego Diaz de la Carrera, 1655. First edition. In later half cloth. [4] p. Scarce contemporary report on the Battle of the Dardanelles, 1655. The Battle of the Dardanelles, on 21 June 1655, was an act of the Cretan War, the fifth Ottoman–Venetian war, that took place at the..... More
Budapest: Heckenast, 1866. In bit later half leather binding. 1t. +VI+(2)+471p.; 1t. +(4)+419+(1)p. Origianl papercover inside. Very rare, early Hungarian translation of the One Thousand and One Nights. More
[France]: [Late 18th–early 19th century]. Manuscript in French, written in brown ink with corrections and deletions, protected with a somewhat later added cover-page. 21 pages in-folio. Unpublished French account of the 1796 Russian campaign against Persia, written by a secretary of the Austrian embassy. A contemporary or near-contemporary draft..... More
[S.l.]: [S.n.], [n.d. but 1709]. First edition. In contemporary leather. Gilt spine with red title label. Edges of the panels gilt. Marbled endpapers. Tinted edges. (12), 308 p. Scarce publication related to the endgame of the Chinese Rites Controversy. Antoine Thomas (adopted the Chinese name of Ngan To..... More
Wien: In commission bei Carl Gerold’s Sohn, 1896. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed on a front cover. Text in English. In publisher’s printed wrappers. 32 p. Inscribed copy of the first edition of Stein’s report on the recently discovered travelogue of the Chinese pilgrim Ou-k’ong (Wukong; ca. 730–790), focusing on..... More
Huesca: por Pedro Cabarte, Año 1612. First Edition. In later half leather. Pag.: ff. [8] 202 158 [8]. Coll.: *8 A–Z8 2A–2Y8 ¶8. A fervent defense of the Moriscos’ expulsion from Spain, offering essential insights into their customs and the prejudices of the time. Pedro Aznar Cardona’s Expulsion justificada..... More
Budapest: Fővárosi Könyv- és Lapkiadó R.-T. [1921.]. First edition. In publisher’s ornamented wrappers, printed in red and black. 48 p. The first Hungarian monograph on Tagore. Ervin Baktay (1890–1963) was a Hungarian scholar of Oriental studies, Indologist, a pioneer in popularizing Indian culture in Hungary. More
Budapest: Grimm Gusztáv, 1880. First edition. In publisher’s printed wrappers. XIV [2] 160 p. First complete Hungarian translation of the German orientalist, Friedrich von Bodenstedt’s most important work, Die Lieder des Mirza-Schaffy (The Songs of Mirza Shafi). This extremely successful book has gone through 160 editions in Germany, and..... More
![Item #1098 [Epistle of Rabbi Samuel]; [Epistola Samuelis]; [Title from incipit:] Hic Incipit...](https://foldvaribooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1098.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1492097354)
Around the first half of the fifteen century. Manuscript in Latin. Large margins. Paper with unidentified watermark. Text in black ink, headings, initials and rubrications in red. With a note by later hand on title page, about Alfonsus: “Parisis per manum fratris Alfonciis”. In modern half vellum binding. 20 leaves..... More
Budapest: Dante, (1931). First Hungarian edition. In publisher’s red cloth. With the scarce, illustrated dust jacket, designed by Sándor Bortnyik. 248 p., and 8 plates with photographic reproductions. The book was published in the series of travelogues by the Dante publisher, and some of the dust jackets were designed by..... More
Paris: : per Gullielmum de Bossozel [Guillaume de Bossozel], 1540. First edition. In later vellum. Woodcut bird's-eye view of Jerusalem on title page. Printed signet mounted on title page with the name of Pope Honorius II and his motto. Sign.: [A]4 B-N4 O6; Pag.: ff. 58. An early and extremely..... More
[France; Egypt?]: 1860s. Original, vintage hand-drawn and colored plan. Rolled. Large format, 4 sheets mounted together. Size: ca. 235 × 70 cm. Brune’s plan of the Great Temple at Karnak is the most detailed and precise 19th-century architectural plan of the monument. This large, exhibition size plan of..... More
A Nancy: Chés R. Charlot, Et P. Deschamps; Imprimeurs ordinaires de S. A. Royale, & se vendent chez Claude Bouchard, & François Fastré Merchands Libraire à Nancy, 1707 (date of privilige]. First edition. In contemporary leather. [16] 124 [2] p. (many misnumbered), and 3 engraved plates. A highly unusual, illustrated..... More
Napoli: Dalla Stamperia de’ Fratelli Fernandes, 1818. First edition. In contemporary half leather. Spine lettered gilt. XX, 213, (3) p., and 4 engraved plates. The first overview of Kurdish region and about their customs. With four engraved plates, three show the Kurdish costumes and the fourth a wild goat which..... More
A Paris: de l’Imprimerie de Firmin Didot, Imprimeur de Roi, rue Jacob, No. 24. M DCCC XXIII [1823(–1825)]. First edition. Unbound as published. Wrapped into publisher’s, blue printed wrappers. [84] hand colored lithographs and the related text pages. Unbound. A scarce copy of Champollion’s richly illustrated, hand-colored Panthéon Égyptien... More
A Amsterdam: Aux depens d’Estienne Roger Marchand Libraire chez qui l’on trouve un assortiment general de toute sorte de Musique, M. DCC. VII [1707]. First Amsterdam edition. With Valentine de Laborde’s bookplate on inner front panel. Woodcut device on title page. Woodcut initials and tailpieces throughout. 19th century leather. Spine..... More
Paris: Geuthner, 1950. First edition. In original paper. 4 p. Inscribed. More