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Bergen op Zoom under attack in 1605

[PAMPHLET - DUTCH - BERGEN OP ZOOM]. Cort verhael ende rechte verclaringe vande entreprinse, die des Eertz hertogen Albertus volck ghedaen heeft op de stadt Bergen op den Zoom ende de wercken daer voren gelegen, op den XXIen Augusti 1605 onder t' beleyt ende conduitte van Mons d'Hericourt...
Bergen op Zoom, Jacob Canin, 1605. 4to. Woodcut printer's device on title, woodcut initial and small endpiece. Modern blue half morocco with gilt title on spine. [8] pp. Full description
€ 1,250
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The Ridderschap in the States of Holland and West-Friesland asks Amsterdam
to spent more money on the defense of the country - an old plea

[PAMPHLET - HOLLAND & WESTFRIESLAND]. Circulaire brief, van de Heeren Ridderschap en Edelen, van Hollandt en West-Vrieslant; nevens t antwoort van de Ed. Groot Achtb. Heeren Burgermeesteren en Regeerders der stadt Amsterdam, op de voorsz. Brief.
[Amsterdam,] Jan Cyprianus van der Graft [= Jacobus Hackius?], 1685. 4to. With a woodcut title vignette. Blue modern wrappers, new endpapers. 24 pp. Full description
€ 275
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Second known copy of a lithographic panorama depicting stages of the Italian War of 1859

[PANORAMA - ITALIAN WAR 1859]. Panorama de la guerre d'Italie. Magnifique album développé formé d'une série de grandes lithographies coloriées représentant les combats et les batailles qui ont immortalisé nos soldats en Italie précédé d'un compte-rendu de cette mémorable campagne.
Pont-à-Mousson (France), Élie Haguenthal (colophon: Paul Toussaint), [1860/65]. (Size of the whole when folded and closed:) 22.5 x 18 cm. Lithographed folding panorama, showing 8 different lithographed scenes, captioned in and beneath the illustrations, of the Italian War of 1859 from the French-Italian perspective. The 8 scenes (5 3-leaf scenes and 3 single leaf scenes) are assembled to make a single long foldout (as assembled with the text: 21.5 x 395 cm; image size 19 x ca. 310 cm), coloured by a contemporary hand. Half red cloth and hand coloured, lithographed paper sides. [5] ll. of letterpress text and the lithographed folding panorama. Full description
€ 3,250
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Rare first and only edition of an 1800 revision of a 1792 treaty between Russia and Prussia

PAVEL (PAUL) I, Tsar. [Title in Russian followed on the same page by:] Traité d'alliance défensive conclu entre leurs majestés, Empereur de toutes les Russies et le Roi de Prusse le 16/28 Juillet 1800.
St Petersburg, Imperial Printing Office, 1801. Folio (29.5 x 21.5 cm). Treaty between Russia and Prussia in Russian and French in 2 parallel columns in cyrillic (left) and roman (right) types. Loose bifolia (and 1 singleton leaf). [13], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 2,500
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Pen and ink wash drawing of the harbour of the Ottoman port city Edremit

[OTTOMAN PORT]. [PEETERS, Johannes (Jan) (after)]. [Ladimistri nel' archipelago].
[The Netherlands(?), ca. 1720?]. Oblong folio (19.5 x 31.5 cm). Pen and blue-black ink-wash drawing on laid paper, showing the city of Edremit, its harbour and fortifications, with an Ottoman and a Dutch(?) ship, and a lighthouse, in a brown thick-thin-thin border, signed in the border below right, but difficult to read (I. P. Sto...?, I. P. Ste...?). Framed (37 x 49 cm). Full description
€ 2,750
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A crucial moment in the history of the Russian expansion in Central Asia

[PEROVSKY, Vasily Aleksyeevic]. A narrative of the Russian military expedition to Khiva, under General Perofski in 1839.
Calcutta, Office of superintendent government printing, 1867. 8°. With 1 folding plate (plan of the camp, with the positions of the troops) and 1 folding map of the region Orenburg, Kazachstan. Original publishers green cloth; re-backed with original backstrip laid down. [2], ii, 182 pp. Full description
€ 4,750
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Moravia ruined by war, a monumental historical work printed in Prague

PEŠINA Z CECHORODU, Tomáš Jan. Mars Moravicus. Sive bella horrida et cruenta, seditiones, tumultus, praelia, turbae: & ex ijs enatae crebrae et funestae rerum mutationes, dirae calamitates, incendia, clades, agrorum depopulationes, urbium vastitates, aedium sacrarum et prophanarum ruinae, arcium et oppidorum eversiones, pagorum cineres, populorum excidia, & alia id genus mala, quae Moravia hactenus passa fuit.
Prague, Joannis Arnolti de Dobroslawina, 1677. Folio. With an engraved allegorical frontispiece by Wenceslaus Wagner after A. Lublinsky, a full-page engraved portrait of the author, and large folding engraved map of Moravia (50 x 38 cm) by Samuel Dworzak, dated Prague 1677. Further with numerous woodcut decorated initials and woodcut ornamental head- and tail-pieces. Contemporary overlapping vellum, red edges, remnants of green closing ties. [24], "958" [= 956], [16] pp. Full description
€ 6,600
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Two very rare peace treaties between Russia and the Safavid Empire

PETER II, Tsar and Shah ASHRAF. [Title in Russian followed on the same page by:] Tractat, zwischen dem russischen Reich und dem Sultan Eschref, jetzigem Besitzer des persischen Thrones zu Ispahan. Von russischer Seite ertheilet.
St. Petersburg, Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1729.
With: (2) ANNA, Tsarina and Shah TAHMASP II. [Title in Russian followed on the same page by:] Tractat, so zwischen Ihro Kayserl. Majest. von allen Reussen und des persischen Schachs Majest. in der Provintz Gilan zu Rätsche durch die von beyden Seiten bevollmächtigte Ministros am 21. Jan. 1732 geschlossen worden.St. Petersburg, Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1732. Two treaties between Russia and the Safavid Empire in Russian and German in 2 parallel columns. Small folio (27.5 x 19.5 cm). Disbound. 10; 12 pp. Full description
€ 6,500
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Dutch edition of a very popular contemporary account of the French retreat from Russia in 1812.

[PFUEL, Ernst von]. Geschiedkundig tafereel van den aftogt der Franschen uit Rusland. Vertaald naar het origineel, te Petersburg uitgegeven in 1812.
Amsterdam, Evert Maaskamp, 1813. 8vo. Sewn. [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], 32 pp. Full description
€ 750
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Remarkable insight into daily life in early 20th-century Iran and Iraq

[PHOTOGRAPHY - IRAQ AND PERSIA]. [Two photo albums of Red Sea Ports, Mesopotamia and Bushehr].
[Iran and Iraq, ca. 1917-1918]. 2 volumes. Oblong 8vo (ca. 15.5 x 20 cm). With 191 (resp. 95 and 96) gelatin silver prints (all ca. 4 x 6 cm). Contemporary cloth, one album in in red and one in grey, with 'Kodak' lettered in gold on the front board, and a black classical meander border tooled near the foot. The albums are kept together by a black ribbon. [12]; [12] ll. Full description
€ 8,500
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