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The 1844 tariffs of the Macao Custom House, shortly before Macao was declared a free port

[MACAO TRADE ADMINISTRATION]. Pauta geral dalfandega da cidade de Macao.
Macao, na Typographica Armenia, 1844. 8vo. Printed on light blue paper, in Portuguese and English. Modern half black morocco, with a red morocco title label on the spine, lettered in gold, marbled paper sides, red sprinkled edges, grey endpapers. [21], [1 blank], [18] pp. Full description
€ 4,500
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A 1723 defence of the Ostend Company against the Dutch trade monopolies of the VOC and WIC,
advocating free commerce under the Treaty of Münster (1648)

[MACNENY, Patrick]. Wederlegginge van de argumenten ...
Including:
(2) [PESTERS, Ernst]. Copie van de memorie door den Heere Pesters ...
(3) [VOC, Directors of the]. Copie van de Remonstrantie van de bewindthebberen van de Oost-Indische Compagnie der Vereenighde Nederlanden.
(4) [BASSECOUR, Johan de la; Directors of the WIC]. Copie van de Remonstrantie van de Bewindthebberen van de West-Indische Compagnie.
The Hague, Paulus & Isaac Scheltus, 1723. 4to (21 x ca. 16.5). With a woodcut printer's device on the title page, the text is primarily set in gothic type, and a large woodcut tailpiece on p. 75. 20th-century dark green morocco, signed by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, London at the bottom turn-in at the front of the work. With the title lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges. 75, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 2,500
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Detailed work on birds in India, with 13 plates

MARSHALL, Captain George Frederick Leycester. Birds nesting in India. A calendar of the breeding seasons, and a popular guide to the habits and haunts of birds.
Illustrated.
Calcutta, Calcutta Central Press Co., 1877. 8vo. With 13 full-page lithographed plates by Marshall. Original publisher's blind stamped brown buckram, with the title and author lettered in gold on the spine, a double border on both boards. [6], ii, 184 pp. Full description
€ 750
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First edition of Pieter Mortier's renowned picture bible, uniformly bound in three volumes

[MARTIN, David and Willem SEWEL (translator)]. Historie des ouden en nieuwen testaments, verrykt met meer dan vierhonderd printverbeeldingen in kooper gesneeden.
Amsterdam, Pieter Mortier, 1700. 2 parts in 3 volumes. Folio. With an engraved title page for both parts (vols. 1 and 3), a large engraved vignette on each of the 3 typographical title pages, 3 engraved headpieces (1 in vol. 1 and 2 in vol. 3), 28 engraved tailpieces is vol. 3, 2 identical engraved initials (one in vol. 1, the other in vol. 3), a total of 210 full-page engraved plates containing 2 illustrations each (64 in vol. 1; 72 in vol. 2; 74 in vol. 3), and 5 double-page engraved maps in volume 3. Contemporary gold-tooled half calf,with a green and a blue label lettered in gold on each spine, sprinkled paper sides. [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [14], 128; [1], [1 blank], 129-282 [= 154 pp.], [8]; [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [22], 154, [1 blank], [2], [2 blank], [2], [2 blank], [2], [1 blank], 155-163 [= 9 pp.], [1 blank], [11], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 9,500
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One of the foundational texts for the 1824 Mexican Constitution

[MEXICO - José María BOCANEGRA]. Discurso del diputado Bocanegra. Pronunciado el 10 de enero de 1823, y reproducido por escrito el 6 de febrero del mismo año en sesiones publicas, sobre el proyecto de reglamento politico de gobierno para el imperio Mexicano, presentado a la junta nacional instituyente por su comision especial.
Mexico City, Imprenta del Suprema Gobierno, 1823. 4to. Stitched through 3 holes. 10, [2 blank] pp. Full description
€ 2,250
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The defeat of the Ottoman corsair fleet, one of two known copies

[MURILLAS Y FEXADA, Juan Lopez de]. Relacion verdadera de las Gloriosas proezas, y Vitorias, que han hecho las invencibles Galeras de Malta en los mares de Levante, en este ano de mil y seiscientos y cincuenta y dos.
Madrid, Gregorio Rodriguez, [1652]. Folio (29 x 20.8 cm). With the Spanish Royal coat of arms on the recto of the first leaf [4] pp. Full description
€ 1,500
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From the Rothschild library: 102 extraordinary plates of the Mosque at Córdoba and the Alhambra complex

MURPHY, James Cavanah. The Arabian antiquities of Spain.
London, Cadell & Davies, 1815. Double elephant folio (500 x 675 mm). With an engraved frontispiece, an engraved part title and 103 plates (numbered 1 to 97, plates 8, 79 and 80 in 2 parts, plate 86 in 3 parts) including a folding plate (pl. 12), engraved by Porter, Turel, Roffe, Keux and others after Murphy. Contemporary red half morocco and marbled boards, raised spine bands, titled in gilt on spine. All edges gilt. [4], 21, [1] pp. Full description
€ 25,000
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Important Orangist pamphlet of the "Doelenlopersbeweging" against the Amsterdam Patriciate
and nepotism in September 1672

[ORANGIST MOVEMENT]. Dam-praetje tusschen vier Amsterdamsche Burgers: Waermondt, Geerlof, Stouthart en Heb-recht. Handelende van de oude privilegien, vryheden, en gerechtigheden van de burgery en schuttery.
[Amsterdam], voor de Doele-schutters, 1672. 4to. With a woodcut vignette on the title-page, and a woodcut initial. Modern light yellow marbled wrappers, with a printed label on the front. 16 pp. Full description
€ 425
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