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The persecution of Christians in Japan

[RODRIGUES GIRÃO, João and Jean VIREAU? (translator)]. Histoire de ce qui s'est passé au royaume du Japon l'annee 1624.
Paris, Sebastien Chappelet, 1628. 8vo. With a woodcut Jesuit seal on the title page. Contemporary tanned sheepskin, blind-stamped with a fleur-de-lys. [16], 390 pp. Full description
€ 6,500
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Lovely set of a tremendously popular history of ancient Greece

ROLLIN, Charles. Histoire ancienne des Egyptiens, des Carthaginois, des Assyriens, des Babyloniens, des Medes et des Perses, de Macedoniens, des Grecs. ... Nouvelle edition.
Paris, printed for the widow of Estienne & her children and the Estienne brothers; by (the widow of) F.A. Quillau and the widow of Simon, 1748-1769. 13 volumes bound as 14. 12mo. With 3 engraved maps, 2 engraved folding plates and 1 engraved folding plan. Contemporary mottled calf, richly gold-tooled spines and binding edges; only volume 11 (bound as 2 volumes) in a different but closely matching binding. ca. 600 pp. per volume Full description
€ 1,500
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Competing proposals to gain renevue from opium farming in the Dutch East Indies

ROO, L.W.G. de. De verkoop van opium op Java. Open brief aan Dr. H.J.A.M. Schaepman lid van de Tweede Kamer der Staten-Generaal.
Including: Verklaringen van opiumschuivers uit verschillende streken der residentiën Pasoeroean, Besoeki en Rembang.Nijmegen, H.C.A. Thieme, 1892. 4to. Half green cloth, marbled paper sides, title in gold on spine. 56, 71 pp. Full description
€ 750
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Manuscript family chronicle of a branch of the Roorda family

[GENEALOGY & HERALDRY - ROORDA FAMILY]. RODA, Dirk Daniels, and others. [Manuscript family chronicle of members of the Roda, Werdolen and Bos families].
[The Netherlands, mostly written between ca. 1747 and 1798 but incorporating several pages written in the second half of the 17th century and some writing from 1829]. Oblong 8vo (ca. 10.5 x 16 cm). Manuscript on paper, written in brown and black ink in several -, 17th-, 18th- and 19th-century hands. With a full-page unidentified coat-of-arms in brown ink and a page containing 6 smaller crests of branches of the Roorda family in black ink. 18th-century gold-tooled calf, gilt edges, green cloth ties. [1 blank], [5], [3 blank], [20], [1 blank], [1], [78 blank] ll. Full description
€ 3,750
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Complete set of articles from the first ten years of the Royal Asiatic Society

[ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY]. Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland.
London, 1824-1834. 3 volumes in 8 parts. 4to. With 80 lithographed plates, including several folding plates and 2 chromolithographed plates, and some smaller illustrations in text. Contemporary blue and grey paper wrappers, kept in two modern half morocco boxes. Full description
€ 18,000
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The States General accuses Spain of breaking agreements

RUDOLF II, Holy Roman Emperor, and the STATES GENERAL. Brief des Keyserlijcke Majest. van Duytslandt, aende E. Mogende Heeren Staten vande Gheunieerde Provintien gheschreven. Op 't stuck vande Nederlantsche Vredehandeling Midtsgaders d'Antwoort vande voornoemde Heeren Staten ...
[Amsterdam?], 1608. Small 4to. With a woodcut device on the title-page. Disbound. [8] pp. Full description
€ 300
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"Of the utmost importance for the study of Brazilian life" (Borba de Moraes)

RUGENDAS, Johann Moritz. Voyage pittoresque dans le Bresil ... Traduit de l'Allemand par Mr. de Golbery.
Paris, Engelmann & Cie., 1835. 4 parts in 1 volume. Imperial folio (54 x 36 cm). With lithographed half-title and title-page showing a wide variety of decorative lettering, 100 full-page lithographed plates by V. Adam, Villeneuve, Bonnington, A. Joly and others after Rugendas, numbered in 4 parts (30, 20, 30, 20). Contemporary half red sheepskin, gold-tooled spine. [2], 48; 34; 51; 32 pp. Full description
€ 45,000
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The war on drugs in Egypt: rare illustrated and highly detailed work on drug trafficking in Egypt in the 1930s

CENTRAL NARCOTICS INTELLIGENCE BUREAU - RUSSELL, Thomas Wentworth (or RUSSELL PASHA). Annual report for the year 1932.
Cairo, Government Press, 1933. Imperial 8vo (27 x 18.5 cm). With 14 rotogravure(?) plates, printed in sepia, 1 folding facsimile letter, 2 folding graphs, a plate with 6 pie charts and 1 illustration (also in red) showing schematically a smuggling box. Original publisher's pink paper wrappers, printed letterpress. XVII, [1 blank], 170 pp. (pp. VI and XVIII blank) Full description
€ 8,500
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Very rare publication of new Russian import regulations

[RUSSIA - CUSTOMS ADMINISTRATION]. Tarif général ou table alphabétique des droits que payeront les marchandises dans tous les ports et aux douanes des frontières de l'Empire de Russie, excepté à celles d'Astracan, du gouvernement d'Oufa et de Sibérie. Composé dans la Comission de Commerce l'année 1782.
St. Petersburg, J.J. Weitbrecht, 1783. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, marbled sides, sprinkled edges. 155, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 3,000
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