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Rare first edition of an early work by Trotsky

TROTSKY, Leon. Tuda i Obratno: vmesto predislovija. I. Ot Peterburga do Berezzova. Sovet rabočich deputatov po etapam. II. Moj pobeg. - 800 verst na olenjach. [There and back again] [text in Russian in Cyrillic type].
St. Petersburg, Shipovnik, 1907. With a lithographed device on the front cover. Original publisher's printed wrappers. 123, [1 blank], IV pp. Full description
€ 1,250
Eastern Europe Law & Politics Literature Russia (incl. Siberia)
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Autograph letters, signed, and a draft, by a leading French Republican naval officer

TRUGUET, Comte Laurent Jean François. [Autograph letters, signed, to several recipients, mostly military colleagues and government officials].
Paris, 1815-1839. 8vo (mostly ca. 19 x 13 cm). 10 signed autograph letters in French, plus a draft for another, written in ink on laid and wove paper, 3 with their red wax seals or parts of seals (2 more with traces of former seals), and 6 with recipients' addresses. [24] ll. incl. 2 blanks. Full description
€ 6,500
Autographs & Letters France Military History (19th Century)
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British land and fresh-water shells, with 12 hand-coloured plates

TURTON, William and John Edward GRAY (editor). A manual of the land and fresh-water shells of the British Islands, with figures of each of the kinds.
London, Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1840. 8vo. With 12 hand-coloured engraved plates and some small wood-engraved illustrations in text. Original publisher's gold- and blind-blocked cloth. IX, [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], 324 pp. Full description
€ 250
Shells & other Invertebrates UK - United Kingdom
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A major diplomatic victory of the Dutch over King Philips III of Spain during the Eighty-year's war

[TWELVE YEARS' TRUCE]. Copie vande aggreatie des grootmachtichsten konincx van Spangien Philippus III, ghezonden aende groot-moghende heeren der Staten generael der vereenichde Nederlanden. Mistgaders de antwoorde vande zelve Groot-moghende heeren Staten Generael op de voorsz aggreatie ghedaen.
[Amsterdam, Barent Adriaensz.?], 1608 (colophon: 4 November 1607). Small 4to. With an ornamental printer's device on the title-page, and 2 decorated woodcut decorated initials. Modern paper wrappers with a manuscript title-label on the front. [7], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 500
Broadsides & Pamphlets Law & Politics Military History (17th Century) Netherlands Spain
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A Swiss warning against Spain on the threshold of the Twelve Years' Truce

[TWELVE YEARS' TRUCE]. Generale vermaninghe aenden Switseren. Streckende tot harer behoudenisse ende besten, tegen de beroerten ende peryckelen deses jeghenwoordighen tijts.
Middelburg, for Adriaen vanden Vivre, 1608. 4to. Woodcut illustration on title: a head of a cow with a banderolle withy the coat-of-arms of the Swiss cantons braided in its horns. Disbound. [19], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 300
Broadsides & Pamphlets Law & Politics Spain Switzerland
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Richly illustrated journey of Nicholas II of Russia through Asia

UKHTOMSKY (UCHTOMSKIJ), Esper Esperovich and Hermann BRUNNHOFER (translator). Orientreise seiner kaiserlichen Hoheit des Grossfürsten-Thronfolgers Nikolaus Alexandrowitsch von Russland, 1890-1891.
Leipzig, F.A. Brockhaus, 1894-1899. 2 volumes. 4to. With engraved portrait of Nicholas, 7 photogravures, 541 wood engravings after drawings and photographs and 5 chromolithographed maps. Publisher's cloth, richly blocked in black, gold and grey, gilt edges. [4], 476; [4], 482 pp. Full description
€ 8,500
Austria Balkan & Greece Central Europe China Eastern Europe Egypt India & Sri Lanka Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Italy North Africa Russia (incl. Siberia) Southeast Asia Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages East Asia Travel & Voyages Europe Travel & Voyages Southeast Asia Travel & Voyages Southern Asia
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A banned pamphlet on Dutch colonization and trade in America

[USSELINCX, Willem]. Naerder bedenckingen, over de zee-vaerdt, coophandel ende neeringhe, als mede de versekeringhe vanden staet deser vereenichde landen, inde teghenwoordighe vrede-handelinghe met den Coninck van Spangnien ende de aerts-hertoghen.
[Amsterdam], 1608 Small 4to (18.5 x 14 cm). With a woodcut arabesque ornament on the title-page and 1 woodcut decorated initial letter. Modern pink paper wrappers. [36] pp. Full description
€ 1,250
Economic History & Trade Latin America Law & Politics Netherlands Slavery South America Spain WIC
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