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Second copy known of the second edition of an illustrated work
on 18th-century Central European military costumes

[MILITARY COSTUMES - CENTRAL EUROPE]. Portraits des Hongrois, des Pandoures ou Croates, des Waradins ou Esclavoniens, et des Ulans, &c. Qui sont au services de SS. MM. l'Empereur & le Roi de Prusse. ... | Afbeelding van de Hongaren, Panduuren of Croaten, Waradynen of Slavoniers, Ulanen, &c. Die in dienst zyn van Zyn Keyzerlyke Majesteit, en van Zyn Majesteit de Koning van Pruyssen. ...
[The Netherlands (The Hague?), after 1780? (1787?)]. 8vo. With 6 full-page numbered engraved plates, vividly coloured by a contemporary hand. Contemporary marbled paper wrappers. Kept in a custom burgundy cloth case with a leather label on the spine lettered in gold. 16 pp. Full description
€ 6,500
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The oldest book of prophecies in French, finely bound ca. 1745,
from the collections of William Beckford, Hyppolyte Destailleur and Stanislas de Guaita

[TELESFORO DA COSENZA]. Livre merveilleux, contenant en bref la fleur et substance de plusieurs traittez, tant des propheties & revelations, qu'anciennes croniques, faisant mention de tous les faictz de l'Eglise Universelle, co[m]me des scismes, discords & tribulations advenir en l'Eglise de Rome, & d'un temps auquel on ostera & tollira aux ge[n]s d'eglise & clergé, ...
Paris, Thibault Bessault, 1565. 8vo. With Bessault's woodcut device on the title-page. 18th-century French grained red morocco (ca. 1745?), gold-tooled spine with pointillé ornaments, each board framed with thin-thick-thin fillets with a rosette(?) stamped over their intersections at the corners, gold-tooled turn-ins, gold fillets on the board edges, gilt edges. [54] ll. Full description
€ 12,500
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Travel album with 19th-century East and Southeast Asian drawings, paintings, and prints

[TRAVEL ALBUM - CHINA - INDIA - JAPAN]. [Travel album containing Chinese, Japanese, and Indian artworks].
[Asia, ca. 1890]. Oblong album (ca. 20.5 x 26 cm). With 16 gouache paintings on pith paper framed by silk ribbons, 4 partly coloured woodcut illustrations, and 11 prints and drawings of India. Early or mid-19th-century gold- and blind-stamped beige calf, with a gold-stamped single fillet frame on the diamond-patterned boards, floral blind-stamping and the words "scrap book" lettered in gold on the spine. [1 blank], [31], [38 blank] ll. Full description
€ 4,500
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The bureaucratic and financial implications of granting enslaved people in Brazil
conditional freedom based on the Lei dos Sexagenários

[CIRCULAR - TREASURY OF SÃO PEDRO PROVINCE - Joaquim Antonio VASQUEZ]. [Drop title:] Thesouraria de Fazenda da Provincia de Sao Pedro 4 de Fevereiro de 1886.
[Province of São Pedro, Brazil], 4 February 1886. 32.5 x 21 cm. Lithographic(?) printed circular on watermarked paper ("Smith & Meynier Fiume") with the text set in a cursive script with manuscript signatures and other additions in brown ink at the head and foot of the page. [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 1,750
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