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NAVA Y ORTEGA, Henriques. Campo Atrincherado de Holguin. Documento no. 1. Memoria descriptiva.
Holguín, 1 September 1898.
With: IDEM. Campo Atrincherado de Holguin. Documento no. 2. Planos.
Holguín, 1 September 1898. 2 documents. Folio. With a double-page manuscript map, 2 full-page manuscript maps, and 4 manuscript plans on tissue paper. Ad 1: Original wrappers, side stiched through 3 holes, with the manuscript title on the front. Ad 2: unbound. [16] pp. Full description

[OTTOMAN CAPITULATIONS OF 1740]. [Kitabi-i ahdname-i hümayun-u saadet-makrun].
[Paris or Istanbul?], [1816 or 1835?]. Large 4to (31.5 x 24 cm). The text of an Ottoman-French treaty, set in the Ottoman Turkish alphabet, a version of the Arabic script. Half calf, marbled paper sides, gold-tooled spine. 45, [1 blank] pp. Full description

[PANORAMA - AMSTERDAM]. Johan Conrad GREIVE jr. (illustrator). Panorama dAmsterdam.
[Amsterdam], [printed by R. de Vries for] François Buffa & Sons, [ca. 1860]. Oblong (ca.16.4 x 24.6 cm. per leaf). The panorama is made up of 8 numbered lithographed views, printed in monochrome with beige tone block. The viewer looks southward from the IJ over the city from the Oosterdok (eastern dock) and the Oosterkerk (eastern church) along the docks and wharfs, via the recognisable towers of several churches and the view of the Royal Palace, to the Westerdok (western dock), a large factory, and the Blauwhoofd, the northwestern-most bulwark of the city. Original brown blind-stamped wave-grained cloth with the title and imprint information lettered in gold on the front board in a rococo frame, yellow endpapers. 8 numbered views folded making 24 pages. Full description

[PARADIN, Claude & Bernard SALOMON]. Quadrins Historiques de la bible. Reveus, & augmentés dun grand nombre de figures.
Lyon, Jean de Tournes, 1583.
With:
(2) [FONTAINE, Charles & Bernard SALOMON]. Figures du nouveau testament.
Lyon, Jean de Tournes, 1579. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Ad 1: with the title in an ornamental woodcut border with the printers device including two vipers, 233 half-page woodcut illustrations, and 2 woodcut vignettes. Ad 2: with the title in a historiated woodcut border (Cartier "Nains") with the same woodcut printers device (Cartier, Vipères I,1) and 96 half-page woodcut illustrations, including one repetition, arabesque headpieces, and a large woodcut on the last page (Cartier, "Lac damour). 18th- or 19th-century elaborately gold-tooled pebble-grained dark greenish-blue sheepskin, with the titles and place and year of publication for both titles lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn ins, gilt edges, marbled endpapers. [131]; [52] ll. Full description

PARDONNET, Georges de. Émigration au Kansas (États-Unis de l'Amérique du Nord). Le Kansas, ses ressources et produits, ses concessions gratuites de terres, conseils pratiques aux émigrants, la compagnie du chemin de fer du "Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway" et ses immenses possessions réputées les meilleures terres du centre des États-Unis.
Antwerp, Frédéric Tuetey [Colophon: Paris, printed by Lahure], [1874]. 8vo. Modern half calf, original blue printed wrappers preserved. 52 pp. Full description

PÉRON, François Auguste and Louis Claude de Saulses de FREYCINET. Voyage de découvertes aux Terres Australes, fait par ordre du gouvernement, sur les corvettes le Géographe, le Naturaliste et la goëlette le Casuarina, pendant les années 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803 et 1804 ...
Paris, limprimerie imperial, 1807-16.
With:
(2) IDEM. Voyage de découertes aux Terres Australes navigation et geographe.
Paris, de l'Imprimerie royale, 1815. 4 volumes. Large 4to and folio. With the plate volume, the first part contains 40 plates, including a map, 5 coloured coastal profiles, 14 ethnographic plates, of which 8 are coloured, 8 other views, one of which is coloured and 2 folding, including Lesueurs view of Sydney, 11 natural history plates, 9 coloured, 1 technical plate, and 1 engraved vignette on the title page. The second part contains 14 maps, 2 of which are double-page folding. There is also 1 text volume with a portrait of F. Péron and 2 folding tables. Uniformly bound by Bayntun in 19th-century three-quarter brown morocco, marbled boards, with the title, year, and volume number lettered in gold on the spine. [3], [1 blank], XV, [1 blank], 496, [2]; [2]; XXXI, [1 blank], 471, [1 blank] pp.; plate volume: [60] ll.; ad 2: "VXI" [= XVI], 576 pp. Full description

PERSIUS FLACCUS, Aulus; Johannes BRITANNICUS, and Bartholomaeus FONTIUS (commentators). Satyrae.
(Colophon:) Venice, Bernardinus Benalius & Matteo Capcasa, 3 August 1491. Folio. 19th-century gold- and blind-tooled half brown morocco and marbled paper sides, with the author, title, and impressum lettered in gold. [48] ll. Full description

[PHOTOGRAPHY - ENGINEERING - IRAN]. [Collection of 19 engineering photographs in Iran].
[Iran, 1307-1308 AH (= 1928-1930 CE)]. Oblong album (24.5 x 29.6 cm). With 19 black and white photographs (ca. 23.1 x 17.1 cm) on thick dark blue/black paper. Mid-19th-century bright blue faux-leather, the front board features a pictorial on-lay within a rectangular frame, the illustration depicts a young woman in traditional costume holding a large ceramic vessel. The joints are laced through onto 2 supports. [9] ll. Full description

[PHOTOGRAPHY - INDIA - SRI LANKA]. Indes (2e partie) et Ceylan.
[ca. 1870-1890]. Oblong album (ca. 31.5 x 35.5 cm). With 125 black-and-white photographic prints mounted on cardboard, accompanied by numerous handwritten annotations in French on the album pages. Near-contemporary half red velvet (spine rubbed/faded). [45] ll. Full description

PORTA, Giovanni Battista della. De hum. Physiognomonia ... De humana physiognomonia libri IIII ...
Vico Equense, Giuseppe Cacchi, 1586. Folio (32.5 x 23 cm). With a full-page engraved portrait of the author on the title page, set within an architectural frame incorporating animal and human heads, a full-page engraved portrait of the dedicatee, 85 engraved illustrations throughout, including four full-page plates, a woodcut diagram of a syllogism, and numerous woodcut historiated initials, headpieces, and tailpieces throughout. Contemporary vellum. [4], 265 (=272) pp. Full description