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

Magdeburg. 2 volume. First editon. In contemporary half cloth. 518p. and atlas vol. (6)textp., 38 (fold.) lithogr. plates, 2 fold. Rare text volume and atlas of 38 uncoloured topographical plates after drawings by Franz Junghuhn, a German doctor, naturalist, explorer and French Foreign Legion surgeon who spent many years in..... More

Romae [Rome]: Typis & impensis Sac. Congr. de Propag. Fide, MDCXXXI [1631]. First edition. [8] 72 75 [ie. 77; nos. 71–72 repeated; 45 misnumbered as 54] [3] p. The first Malay-Latin, Latin-Malay dictionary, an important tool for the missionaries in the Malay peninsula. The “Dictionarium Malaico-Latinum et Latino-Malaicum,” published..... More

A Dijon: De l’Imprimerie de Capel, 1791. First edition. Woodcut headpiece. Contemporary manuscript certification at the end, signed by two officials of the Département de la Côte-d’Or, dated Dijon, 23 avril 1791. Unbound as issued. 3 [1 blank] p. The first formal document acknowledging fears of La Pérouse’s disappearance, in..... More

[Paris]: Hôtel Drouot, 1930. First edition. Original printed wrappers with photographically illustrated cover label. 16 p., and 1 plate of photographic reproductions. Illustrated Drouot catalogue, issued at the peak of the Paris market for arts primitifs and closely aligned with the collecting horizon of the Surrealist milieu. Around 1930..... More

Budapest: 1943. 80,5 x 58 cm. Rare 1943 Budapest edition of a remarkable ethnographic map originally created in Japan by Turanian activist Kitagawa Shikazo. The map illustrates the Pan-Turanian theory that Hungarians, Japanese, Finns, and several Central Asian peoples shared common ancestral origins. Printed by the Royal Hungarian Military Cartographic..... More

Pekin (Peking: Imprimerie de la Politique de Pékin, 1935. First edition. In publisher’s stab binding. Half title printed in red. [3] 40 [3] p. Scarce Peking imprint featuring Chinese folk songs in French translation. This publication is part of the “Collection de la Politique de Pékin,” a series produced..... More

Budapest: M. Tud. Akadémia Könyvkiadó-Hivatala, 1881. First edition. Issued as vol. IX, no. 2 of Értekezések a Nyelv- és Széptudományok Köréből (1880). In publisher’s printed paper wrappers. 35 [1] p., with 3 plates. Early scholarly account of Borobudur by Ágost Zichy, Hungarian historian of Eastern art, following his 1876 journey..... More