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The official narrative of proceedings in the Home Department of the Viceroy of India,
Victor Alexander Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin, 1894-1898

[INDIA]. Summary of the principal measures of the Viceroyalty of the Earl of Elgin in the Home Department, January 1894 to December 1898.
Calcutta, Office of the Superintendent of Government printing, India, 1898. Folio. With armorial vignette on the title page. Blind-stamped blue cloth, title in gold on spine, blue decorated endpapers. [2], IV, [2], 84 pp. Full description
€ 650
India & Sri Lanka Law & Politics UK - United Kingdom
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"Confidential"

[INDIA – ARMY, GENERAL STAFF BRANCH]. Operations in Waziristan 1919-1920. Confidential. Compiled by the General Staff, Army Headquarters, India, 1921.
Calcutta, Superintendent of Government Printing, 1921. 8vo. With frontispiece, 31 plates, 7 maps (3 in pocket on inside of back board), and 8 panoramas, mostly folding.Contemporary half calf, green cloth sides, gold-stamped red spine labels. X, 187, [1] pp. Full description
€ 2,800
Central Asia India & Sri Lanka Military History (20th Century) UK - United Kingdom
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Historical narrative of a voyage to India and Persia written by a surgeon of the British Royal Navy

IVES, Edward. Reize naar Oost-Indië en Persië, en de daar omliggende landen. Ondernomen langs een' ongewoonen weg.
Amsterdam, De Compagnie, 1779. 2 volumes bound as 1. 4to. With 2 engraved title-pages, 2 folding engraved maps, one of India (44 x 51 cm), the other tracking Ives's journey from Basra to Latakia (ca. 42 x 56 cm), and 9 engraved plates (including 1 large folding). Early 20th-century boards. [16], 324; [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], 379, [1] pp. Full description
€ 2,950
Arboriculture & Dendrology Central Europe City Plans, Topography & Views Eastern Europe Eastern Mediterranean & Cyprus Geography India & Sri Lanka Iran / Persia Tobacco Travel & Voyages Africa Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages Europe Travel & Voyages Middle East UK - United Kingdom West Asia
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Account of a voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, Ireland and Norway

JONG, Cornelius de, and J. OLIVIER Jz. Reizen naar de Kaap de Goede Hoop, enz. ... Voor jonge lieden bearbeid.
Amsterdam, G.J.A. Beijerinck, [1833]. 8vo. With an engraved title-page, engraved frontispiece and 7 engraved plates (including 3 folding). Contemporary half vellum. XII, 208 pp. Full description
€ 1,250
Ireland Scandinavia & Arctic Southern Africa Travel & Voyages Africa Travel & Voyages Europe
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Collection of tracts concerning the monopoly and the subsequent advantages of the Dutch herring fishery, published to establish a stronger British herring fishery

KEYMER, John; WITT, Johan de; L'ESTRANGE, Sir Roger. A small collection of valuable tracts, relating to the herring fishery; comprehending John Keymer's celebrated observations on the Dutch fisheries, in 1601. The grand pensionary John De Witt's sentiments on the same subject, and a discourse shewing the necessity, and proving the practicability, of establishing a British herring fishery, by Sir Roger L'Estrange. To which an introduction is prefixed.
London, printed for Ralph Griffiths, 1751. 4 parts in 1 volume: an introduction and three tracts relating to the herring fishery. Small 8vo. An introduction and three tracts relating to the herring fishery, published together as a single edition. 20th-century half calf. [4], xxiv; 24, “33”-“37” [=25-29], [1 blank]; [3], 34-37 pp. Full description
€ 1,650
Economic History & Trade Fishery & Whaling UK - United Kingdom
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Travels through the Middle East, India and Europe, with 34 woodcut illustrations, including several trees

LA BOULLAYE LE GOUZ, Francois de. Les voyages et observations du sieur de la Boullaye-le-Gouz gentil-homme Angevin...
Paris, Francois Clousier, 1653. 4to. With a woodcut and an engraved author's portrait, 34 woodcut illustrations in text, including several full-page, and some woodcut initals, head- and tailpieces. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine. [16], 540, [10], [2 blank] pp. Full description
€ 18,000
Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Balkan & Greece Egypt Germany India & Sri Lanka Iran / Persia Italy Netherlands North Africa Poland & Baltic Travel & Voyages Africa Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages Europe Travel & Voyages Middle East Travel & Voyages Southern Asia West Asia
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One of the most important sources of British law

[LAW - GREAT BRITAIN - John SELDEN (editor)]. Fleta, seu commentarius juris Anglicani sic nuncupatus, sub Edwardo Rege primo, seu circa annos abhinc CCCXL ab anonymo conscriptus, arque è codice veteri, autore ipso aliquantulum recentiori, nunc primum typis editus.
London, printed by S. R., for Henry Twyford, Thomas Bassett, John Place and Samuel Keble, 1685. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With a half-page engraved plate after a Medieval historiated initial on p. 462. 18th-century blind-tooled calf. [8], 452, [2 blank], 453-553 pp. Full description
€ 1,250
History / 17th Century Law & Politics UK - United Kingdom
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Lickable! Stamps designed by T. E. Lawrence for the Arab Revolt

[LAWRENCE, T. E]. [Four stamps designed by T. E. Lawrence for the Arab Revolt, with a signed handwritten note in the hand of King George V of England].
[1916 CE =] 1334 H. Folio (21.5 x 27.5 cm). With the letterhead of Mohamed El-Chafai Bomboatman, a stamp dealer in Port Said. Four stamps pasted down, and handwritten signed note. 1 p. Full description
€ 15,000
Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Law & Politics Military History (20th Century) UK - United Kingdom
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Highly interesting collection of letters by top German diplomats on the events
leading to the Dutch Republics "rampjaar" (disastrous year) 1672

[LISOLA, François Paul de; Daniel Johannes CAMPRICHT]. Le denovement des intrigues du temps par la response au livret intitué, Lettres et autres pieces curieuses sur les affaires du temps. Fait par le S.I.P.P.B.
Brussels, 1673.
With:
(2) [WICQUREFORT, Abraham de (attributed to)]. Remarques sur le discours du commandeur de Gremonville, fait au Conseil dEstat de sa Maiesté Imperiale.
The Hague, Arnout Leers, 1673.
(3) [AUBUSSON de la FEUILLADE, Georges]. Harrange en forme de panegyrique presentée au Roy par Mr. lArchevesque dAmbrun Evesque de Metz, en son passage à Metz, le 30, Juillet 1673.
Metz, Jean Antoine, 1673.
(4) [CHARLES II, King of England]. Declaration du Roy dAngleterre sur la mediation offerte par Mr. LElecteur de Mayencé, faite à Whitehal. Le 15. Feuvrier. Anno 1673.
4 works in 1 volume. 4to. Mottled calf, gold-tooled spine. [1], 1-15, 17-222, [2]; 47, [1 blank]; [8]; [4] pp. Full description
€ 3,500
France History / 17th Century Law & Politics Military History (17th Century) Netherlands Scandinavia & Arctic WIC
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